Re: Faster Than Light Travel

>> >   Actually no, or at least that's what I hear.  Gravity is probably
>> > transmitted by particles like the other forces.
>> Really?  I thought gravity was just bent space, and bending
>> space is just something mass does.
>> How's that for scientific?
>
>
>Gravity is more of a 'state' of local space, rather than
>anything that can be transmitted (basically, a measure
>of how bent space-time is by mass).
>
>You do have postulated 'gravitons' though, which are
>theoretical particles which are exchanged in gravitational
>interactions. They're thought to travel at lightspeed.
>
>Also,'gravity waves' are another postulated feature,
>these being created by fast moving (relativistic)
>massive bodies. These probably travel at lightspeed
>as well.
>
>(I've just grabbed those two from a dictionary of physics,
>so I can't give any more info!).
Just to confuse things a little further, if you actually believe
Heisenburg's Uncertainty Principle, it's entirely possible those two are
in
fact one and the same just looked at a different way..

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					Jon

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