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- Lostcosmos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You heard it on Digg first: Gravity Leaking is the new Global Warning.
- bitweever, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hole in the ozone around the universe. Dang global, er, universal warming.
- teh_toaster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Gimme back my gravity!! *punch* *kick* It's mine! All for Silas!!
- Braingoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have one word "Spaceballs"
In Spaceballs 2 : The Search for more money
Darkhelmet desides planet spaceball needs gravity more than air and designs an even bigger Mega Maid that sucks gravity. - gotamd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They call it dark because they don't know what it is. My physics professor seems to believe that it's not just one force and that there are multiple, undiscovered forces out there that are influencing things. He said that they've estimated that the universe actually contains 90% more energy than we can currently account for.
- MrDiaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1we are all going to die :) dugg
- znxster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1^^ hahah.. lets see which country offers a compromise to reduce there gravity emissions..
- rk_cr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why isn't anyone applying Occam's razor?
I don't understand why we keep supporting dark energy when it makes as many problems as it solves. - antron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Isn't it obvious? Warp drive technology is destroying the space time fabric!!!
- jiub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0We can't explain it so we'll blame it on dark something....have we used dark energy yet?
Good article though. - MikeEFresh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Imagine the bunny-hopping in a warzone.
- tank_47, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's a good resume of the current thoughts on all this... I'm anxious to see the new accelerator at CERN open in 2007 !!!
Good article +digg - ziffel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"If it is, I'm sure someone will find a way to blame "W" for it."
I just blame him for pretty much anything bad these days. It's a safe bet. - Bluezdood, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Is there gas leaking from Uranus?
- simpleid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0+digg, love theoretical physics, need more articles like this.
this is ofcourse relatively old information, but still to quote from another comment... "it gets people thinking." - republicoftexas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Another theory scientist are investigating, is the one where gravity is actually leaking from another universe into ours. So in other words, we are the thief's.
This was on the Science channel several years ago. No digg for it being so old.... - lollerskates, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What idiots. Dark energy is from the gravity gun that got lost in the combine reactor when Freeman jumped into the pod =P
- DogWings, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dang. I thought I'd been losing weight.
- frositay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm missing some gravity, Hey..HEY!
Give me back my gravity, you goat bastard!
Sorry couldn't help sliding some Family Guy into my sentence :P.
But seriously though, give it back o.o - coolgeek61813, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0M theory has been saying this for a wile now
- shockme17, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0doesnt string theory and quantum physics dissolve the whole gravity "theory" ?
- thad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0good and interesting but long
- Koennie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yaaaaarrrrrnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.
- Matteos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0We would already know the answer to this and many other questions if the (stupid) members of our government didn't canacel the SSC project!
- SkeletaLlama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0No one should be listening to this "article". From their homepage they link to their other "articles", "The Quantum Hologram and ESP Experiments" where apparently they disect how ESP works using the latest in pseudo-scientific research and they also link to What the Bleep Do We Know the movie website, which is a movie funded by a cult and so far removed from science that it's ridiculous.
- chuckmo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0hahah yes. this is what comments should be like. no ones flaming anything. well, except whoever is stealing the gravity.
- Rice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0And one good story. Dugg.
- Lynxpro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0
God eats gravity. - dknighton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If it is, I'm sure someone will find a way to blame "W" for it.
When gravity leaks, the terrorists win. - Spawn9881, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Anybody know what the M in M Theory stands for anyway?
- sergiemag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i think the starship enterprise blew up and now its fusion reactor turned into a black hole, sucking all life into nothingness. old news though, star trek has been sucking the life out of me for years.
- CaptSnuffy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Can we get a summary?
I started reading it and after a while i was thinking "man, how long is this *****?". Then i scroll down and you know what, I have ***** to do. Now if this was Slashdot, i'd be able to give a lecture on the topic just based on the comments. - MacTechSteve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hmmm, I had that gravity in one of these pockets...
- MindTrigger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0
There is no such thing as "gravity". - TimmyK., on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Gravity is leaking into the nearby realms of "Heaven" and "Fairy Land".
- Bitgod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There is no gravity, the Earth sucks.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0it sounds like they just dont know whats happening out there and they are grasping at different ideas to explain
scientists like to ignore what they cant explain but they cant ignore something as big as what makes up the universe so they just guess - bmw@, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I was having a really bad day already -- then *this*. Jeez. Now I suppose we can expect to see spam like, "St0ps G|R|A|V|I|T|Y leakage ggyxxr"
- blistered, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Push gravity... Google it!!!
- shness, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0hankryan:
"So just like any sort of PHYSICAL wave loses energy as it travels through a medium, it might make sense that GRAVITY waves lose some of their "energy" as they move through space."
Things don't just lose energy. Energy must be conserved (overall). Also, to clarify, if you are talking about the creation of gravitional waves, the masses must be accelerating. It works in the same way as electricity and magnetism. In order to create a radio signal, you must accelerate electrons in the antenna.
Just to clarify, there are many different theories out there that have many predictions, but the problem is that we haven't figured out ways to test them at this point in time. These theories are not just conjured up. They are highly constrained by the basic laws of physics. Anyone can create a theory, but we must be able to look in certain limits of the theory and get real physics. If not, you go back to the black board.
I will clear up your ideas about the gravity leaking ideas. As far as we can see, we live in a four dimensional space-time (3 space, 1 time). A current theory of quantum gravity, namely string theory, says we live in ten dimensions. One aspect of string theory is the existence of branes. So, our universe would be a three dimensional brane (3 for the three spacial dimensions). The fourth dimension we see, time, lives everywhere. According to the physics, everything that makes us up (electrons, quarks ...) is constrained to live on this brane. However, when we get into the nitty gritty of the theory, we find that the graviiton (gravity) is not constrained to the brane. It is allowed to leak off the brane and travel in the extra six dimensions. This model, properly explains why the gravitational force is so much weaker than the others. This is the basic theory side. If you have any questions, let me know.
Also, there is no heating that goes on as a graviton leaks. Once off the brane gravitons can only interact with other gravitions. Heat is made up of photons (light).
As for an experiment, good luck. One way to verify this theory would be to be able to detect gravitons (LIGO). If we could do this, we would have another way to test the theory. Another way to try to verify this theory would be in collision experiments. If we could create gravitions in collisions, they could they leak off our brane and we would see a violation in the conservation of energy. Who knows, but if we saw it, it would be very big. Fo sho ... - stonebear, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's good to be down to earth, but a little levity is nice too.
- sackU, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0See! I told you so! If the US government keeps using those Flux Capacitors to bend time, we are all doomed!
Now if I can only figure out who keeps drinking my beer :) - soccerob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0come to think of it... i was able to jump a little higher today.
http://www.soccerob.com - t35t0r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0They say that the reason gravity is so weak at the quantum level is because it leaks off our dimension (according to brane theory). So is mass leaking too?
- pgm_01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Bush's fault. Cheney built a time machine and saved Bush from a horrible drinking accident (it involved 3 strippers and a balcony) so that Bush would be President in our stream of time. However that ripped a hole in the space time continuum which has caused gravity to leak out. The movie version, starring Bruce Campbell, will air on a Saturday on SciFi. :D
- gmoney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I knew it!!! I knew it!!! Thought I was going crazy for a sec.
- hankryan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Oh well, sucks to be a scientist these days, gotta make up crap as you go along."
"it sounds like they just dont know whats happening out there and they are grasping at different ideas to explain"
--> You guys just described the process of science. You make stuff up and then test it to see if it's plausible. There is nothing new about this.
The fact is that we don't know what's causing the discrepencies we're observing. Obviously there are some major holes in our theories. That's why they call this stuff "dark"... because it has yet to yeild to the light of human study/perception. Some of you guys are taking the ideas of "dark energy" and "dark matter" too literally. In all likelihood, this stuff doesn't actually exist, but from the framework of our current theories, these concepts DO exist as "holes" in our understanding. And so to make our theories more closely match our observations we poke these holes with a stick and make a lot of crazy guesses until we come up with some ***** that sticks. That's science, and quite frankly, it's the bomb diggity. Fo sho... - hankryan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow... there's a profound lack of any sort of actual discussion of this article. I think that the word "leak" makes the concept that this article is trying to put forth sound more odd than it really is.
Supposedly gravity travels around the universe in waves... as if a planet moving through the universe leaves a wake like an oil tanker moving through the ocean. Only when the gravity wave hits you, instead of just bobbing up and down, you feel the gravity of the planet.
So just like any sort of PHYSICAL wave loses energy as it travels through a medium, it might make sense that GRAVITY waves lose some of their "energy" as they move through space. This would require that our space be a medium in higher dimensional space or somethin like that I think, but it's not such a crazy idea. From a higher dimensional space this could be thought of as the elasticity of the fabric of our three dimensional space-time. But from our vantage point it would just appear that as gravity travels over long distances it "leaks" into some place we can't see. Which in fact, if this theory were right, it does... as fourth dimensional heat or something like that.
Anyway... that sort of makes sense to me, but maybe i'm misinterpreting it, any input? - metjer10, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0didnt read it but it sounds cool so +digg
- Justintt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Cool article, but this site is a little lame. Be weary of anything associated with Morphic Resonance
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