I have on several occasions wondered about the nature of "mass" myself. Surely if we can proceed as far as we have in the study of "charge", developing practical applications in electricity, electronics, and field theory, then we should be able to do the same with "mass" for gravitonics. I once approached a processional mathematician expert in electronics field theory and casually mentioned that there should be a comparable set of field equations and applications of mass as for charge. His reply was withering and condescending at once, as he stated that they were in no way alike simply because both were inverse square fields. Besides, he claimed, with gravity so small in its effect, there would be no practical applications. If he had been polite, I would have pointed out that much of electronics is based upon time variant fields rather than electrostatic charge. There is no reason why time variant mass fields should be useless..
You could produce a time variant mass field through manipulation of electric fields for charged particles, and we do it all of the time, with no remarkable effects, except possibly synchrotron radiation. Getting a grip upon neutral charge particles could be done by encapsulating them in charged particle sandwiches or buckyballs, or whatever may be appropriate. Once again, that is done all the time with neutrons bound into atomic nuclei being manipulated by using the proton charges or the atomic charge to move atoms about, nothing surprising occurs. The only thing which I am prepared to suggest which has NOT been tried (so far as I know) is the construction of millimeter sized accelerators powered by micron sized lasers run at Terahertz frequencies. Any takers? The synchrotron radiation from such a device might be interesting to observe... Lonnie Courtney Clay -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To post to this group, send email to epistemol...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to epistemology+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en.
