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Q

A

Gravity

vs

Magnetism

A

Chris

Starvos

Since

your

questions

are

roughly

the

same

Ill

answer

them

both

at

once

Gravity

and

magnetism

are

not

the

same

thing

In

fact

they

are

completely

separate

forces

Gravity

is

a

force

that

acts

between

any

two

objects

with

mass

No

matter

what

they

are

made

of

both

objects

get

pulled

towards

each

other

just

because

they

have

mass

The

reason

it

seems

like

gravity

only

pulls

you

towards

the

earth

is

because

the

earth

is

so

big

that

the

pull

from

you

on

it

isnt

enough

to

do

much

to

its

motion

Unlike

gravity

which

occurs

between

any

objects

magnetism

depends

on

specific

properties

of

objects

Magnetism

can

either

pull

the

two

objects

together

or

push

them

apart

depending

on

which

way

the

magnets

point

Most

importantly

it

depends

on

what

is

going

on

with

the

electrons

in

the

material

since

each

electron

is

like

a

tiny

magnet

itself

Most

materials

feel

very

little

magnetic

force

because

their

electrons

act

like

magnets

that

are

pointing

every

which

way

more

or

less

equal

numbers

pulling

or

pushing

In

some

materials

the

electrons

can

lower

their

energy

by

lining

up

magnetically

into

magnetic

domains

In

each

domain

most

of

the

electrons

pull

and

push

together

so

you

can

get

big

forces

In

some

materials

permanent

magnets

the

domains

can

all

be

lined

up

so

you

get

really

big

magnetic

forces

If

you

measure

very

carefully

however

you

find

that

there

are

small

magnetic

forces

between

magnets

and

nonmagnetic

materials

like

pieces

of

copper

or

pieces

of

wood

or

people

Some

of

those

nonmagnetic

things

are

attracted

to

magnets

and

others

are

repelled

By

the

way

only

some

ferrous

materials

are

magnets

and

only

a

few

magnetic

materials

are

ferrous

Both

magnetism

and

gravity

can

affect

objects

at

a

distance

Both

get

weaker

as

the

objects

get

farther

apart

This

is

why

you

are

affected

by

the

pull

of

gravity

from

the

earth

but

not

from

distance

planets

Its

also

why

two

magnets

may

move

together

if

you

set

them

near

each

other

but

if

you

set

them

far

apart

nothing

will

happen

However

as

two

objects

get

far

apart

the

gravity

between

them

goes

down

by

a

factor

of

four

when

you

double

the

distance

but

the

magnetic

force

goes

down

by

at

least

a

factor

of

sixteen

On

For

more

information

on

these

forces

you

can

search

this

site

Tamara

and

mike

published

on

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magnetism

and

gravity

Q

Why

is

magnetism

only

one

direction

should

there

not

be

a

third

direction

or

more

why

only

north

to

south

Does

it

have

another

dimension

Why

are

we

trying

to

explain

gravity

through

means

of

mathematics

has

maths

evolved

enough

brett

kendall

age

johannesburg

south

africa

A

Brett

Magnetic

fields

can

align

along

any

direction

We

call

the

two

poles

of

a

magnet

north

and

south

as

a

way

of

keeping

track

of

which

would

be

attracted

which

way

in

the

presence

of

the

Earths

magnetic

field

When

the

Earths

field

reverses

those

names

will

be

awkward

Math

has

certainly

evolved

enough

to

do

a

very

good

job

of

describing

gravity

For

most

purposes

Newtons

calculus

and

force

laws

more

than

years

old

work

well

For

greater

accuracy

one

needs

General

Relativity

but

even

that

uses

math

that

had

already

been

developed

before

It

may

be

that

for

extremely

small

distances

and

extreme

situations

a

new

theory

perhaps

a

string

theory

will

be

needed

and

some

new

math

will

have

to

be

developed

Mike

W

published

on

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Repulsion

of

gravity

Q

I

know

it

sounds

like

scifi

but

if

you

have

opposite

poles

to

magnetism

and

they

either

repel

or

attract

each

other

would

it

be

possible

that

the

same

is

true

for

gravity

or

am

I

talking

apples

and

oranges

here

Maybe

we

just

havent

discovered

it

yet

or

maybe

its

a

theory

that

we

just

havent

figured

out

how

to

achieve

physically

yet

Derrick

age

Lake

Charles

LA

USA

A

This

a

very

interesting

question

We

know

that

two

likesign

electrons

or

positrons

repel

each

other

whereas

an

electron

is

attracted

to

a

positron

This

is

the

nature

of

the

Coulomb

force

of

electricity

likesign

charges

repel

unlike

sign

charges

attract

The

extension

to

the

forces

between

magnets

is

straightforward

We

also

know

that

two

chunks

of

ordinary

matter

attract

each

other

You

might

ask

the

question

does

a

chunk

of

ordinary

matter

attract

or

repel

a

chunk

of

antimatter

Curiously

the

answer

is

they

still

attract

each

other

Now

the

reason

for

this

is

pretty

obscure

and

has

to

The

electromagnetic

force

is

transmitted

by

exchange

of

spin

quanta

called

photons

The

gravitation

force

is

transmitted

by

exchange

of

spin

quanta

called

gravitons

The

difference

between

spin

and

spin

makes

all

the

difference

See

for

information

on

the

graviton

If

you

dont

follow

all

of

this

dont

worry

I

had

to

go

and

ask

our

local

quantum

field

theorist

guru

for

an

explanation

a

few

years

back

when

a

similar

question

came

up

LeeH

published

on

FollowUp

graviton

and

magnetism

Q

Within

the

last

few

years

physicists

proved

the

existence

of

a

particle

that

governs

gravity

called

a

graviton

My

question

is

this

are

or

could

gravitons

be

affected

by

magnetism

and

would

supermassive

magnets

like

planets

or

stars

affecting

clouds

of

gravitons

by

way

of

magnetic

attraction

be

how

gravity

exists

as

we

know

it

And

if

this

is

all

theoretically

possible

what

would

the

ramifications

be

for

science

such

as

giving

a

possibly

viable

unified

field

theory

Sean

Brown

age

Salt

Lake

City

UT

United

States

of

America

A

The

existence

of

the

graviton

is

almost

certain

on

theoretical

grounds

but

there

is

no

experimental

evidence

for

its

existence

Nothing

much

has

happened

recently

to

change

that

The

collaboration

claimed

to

have

seen

what

looks

like

the

leftover

effects

of

the

quantum

zeropoint

spread

of

gravitational

waves

left

as

tiny

Bmode

ripples

in

the

polarization

of

the

cosmic

microwave

background

radiation

It

now

looks

like

they

really

saw

something

more

local

and

less

interesting

If

one

of

the

more

sensitive

versions

of

this

experiments

works

then

it

will

be

fair

to

say

that

a

real

quantum

gravity

effect

Meanwhile

the

energy

in

magnetic

fields

like

the

energy

in

any

other

sort

of

field

is

a

source

of

gravity

Remember

that

energy

and

mass

are

just

two

words

for

the

same

thing

However

there

is

no

special

connection

between

magnetism

and

gravity

Since

absolutely

nothing

in

physics

itself

suggests

a

special

connection

between

magnetism

and

gravity

its

interesting

to

speculate

about

why

so

many

people

have

the

impression

that

there

must

be

such

a

connection

I

guess

its

because

these

are

the

two

forces

which

we

often

notice

acting

between

objects

that

arent

in

contact

Static

electricity

does

as

well

as

you

can

see

by

charging

up

balloons

on

strings

etc

but

I

guess

that

isnt

as

familiar

Mike

W

published

on

FollowUp

gravity

and

magnetism

again

Q

With

virtual

particles

that

are

spin

one

bosons

causing

warping

of

extremely

small

chunks

of

spacetime

with

their

mass

or

effective

mass

it

would

seem

like

their

is

a

connection

between

the

energy

density

of

a

magnetic

field

and

gravity

Is

part

of

the

issue

that

there

is

a

symmetry

breaking

that

keeps

these

two

long

range

forces

from

being

synonymous

I

know

we

have

an

electroweak

model

but

why

not

an

Electrogravitational

model

as

einstein

proposed

Due

to

the

orders

of

magnitude

difference

in

their

strength

not

referring

to

Higgs

and

range

Why

are

they

so

different

in

energy

Nick

Jersey

A

This

is

very

much

the

same

question

that

has

also

come

in

in

more

classical

form

The

forces

are

both

longrange

because

their

carriers

photons

and

gravitons

have

no

restmass

The

next

stage

of

force

unification

will

presumably

unify

the

electroweak

and

strong

forces

as

remnants

of

a

more

symmetrical

fundamental

law

just

as

electromagnetism

and

the

weak

force

were

unified

Including

gravity

in

the

unification

is

trickier

because

the

quantum

mechanics

of

spintwo

massless

particles

leads

to

all

sorts

of

infinities

in

a

standard

treatment

String

theory

is

an

attempt

to

construct

a

consistent

quantum

theory

that

includes

gravity

but

it

requires

an

extra

six

spatial

dimensions

The

question

about

the

enormous

range

of

strengths

of

the

different

forces

is

profound

Its

an

active

area

of

research

part

of

the

whole

unification

issue

but

over

my

head

Mike

W

published

on

FollowUp

magnetism

and

gravity

redux

Q

Magnetism

has

both

an

attractive

and

repulsive

force

This

obeys

newtons

law

stating

that

every

action

has

an

equal

and

an

opposite

reaction

Gravity

is

an

attractive

force

Is

it

not

worth

contemplating

that

perhaps

gravity

also

has

a

repulsive

force

Could

it

not

be

possible

that

gravity

and

magnetism

are

a

consequence

of

each

other

or

that

they

are

individual

parts

of

a

greater

force

not

yet

understood

or

fathomed

Joel

Brisbane

A

Theres

no

connection

between

the

ability

of

magnetism

to

either

attract

or

repel

and

Newtons

law

That

law

says

that

for

any

force

between

two

objects

the

magnitudes

of

the

force

of

one

on

the

other

and

viceversa

are

the

same

and

the

directions

are

opposite

A

repulsive

force

of

A

on

B

is

accompanied

by

a

repulsive

force

of

B

on

A

So

purely

attractive

forces

can

also

obey

Newtons

law

More

generally

it

just

states

that

momentum

is

conserved

even

in

multibody

interactions

and

that

still

doesnt

require

any

repulsive

component

As

it

happens

plain

old

gravity

as

in

General

Relativity

does

have

a

sort

of

repulsion

associated

with

it

When

the

energy

density

of

space

rather

than

its

energy

content

is

fixed

the

gravitational

law

gives

an

accelerating

expansion

Thats

actually

happening

now

and

may

well

have

happened

very

intensely

at

an

earlier

stage

Are

gravity

and

magnetism

aspects

of

some

more

unified

force

We

know

that

magnetism

is

just

an

aspect

of

electricity

It

was

sort

of

unified

by

Maxwell

in

with

the

unification

completed

by

Special

Relativity

in

More

recently

electromagnetism

has

been

unified

with

one

nuclear

force

to

give

the

electroweak

force

Its

generally

assumed

that

the

remaining

chromodynamic

force

will

also

be

integrated

into

this

framework

giving

a

Grand

Unified

Theory

GUT

Working

gravity

into

the

same

unified

structure

is

tough

Thats

what

the

string

theorists

are

trying

to

do

Maybe

they

will

succeed

If

they

do

however

Were

still

a

little

puzzled

by

the

persistent

sense

that

these

two

phenomena

have

some

special

connection

See

above

for

speculation

Mike

W

published

on

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force

mechanisms

Q

What

is

the

mechanism

that

causes

one

massive

object

to

move

toward

another

Just

saying

that

two

massive

objects

attract

each

other

does

not

explain

the

movement

There

has

to

be

some

sort

of

mechanics

or

propulsion

by

both

toward

each

other

Perhaps

the

god

particle

or

the

particle

that

gives

all

matter

its

mass

also

emits

a

particle

in

the

opposite

direction

of

other

mass

particles

and

thus

causes

the

two

masses

to

be

propelled

toward

the

each

other

Perhaps

magnets

are

individually

propelled

toward

each

other

rather

than

pulled

toward

each

other

That

would

explain

the

fact

that

Jim

Wells

age

ValparaisoIN

A

Im

not

sure

I

follow

all

of

your

question

closely

enough

to

give

a

direct

answer

and

also

Im

probably

not

knowledgeable

enough

to

give

a

complete

answer

but

some

parts

can

be

addressed

easily

The

force

between

magnets

can

be

eliminated

by

placing

a

sheet

of

conventional

superconducting

material

between

them

So

that

would

seem

to

argue

against

your

idea

about

the

origin

of

the

magnetic

force

With

regard

to

gravity

the

standard

theory

General

Relativity

describes

a

spacetime

geometry

whose

curvature

is

sensitive

to

the

local

density

of

mass

and

momentum

In

some

sense

this

curvy

space

can

be

considered

a

mechanism

for

the

interaction

However

the

quantum

mechanical

versions

of

the

same

idea

not

yet

developed

to

a

complete

consistent

form

for

gravity

do

involve

exchange

of

gravitons

which

does

sound

related

to

the

idea

you

are

thinking

about

Mike

W

published

on

FollowUp

Atomic

magnetism

and

peyote

Q

I

always

believed

they

were

different

forces

and

magnetism

did

not

work

on

anything

but

iron

etc

While

reflecting

on

Einstiens

trying

to

tie

it

all

together

I

said

Wait

a

cotton

pickin

minute

here

on

the

Atomic

level

Magnetism

IS

at

work

in

everything

and

holding

all

Atoms

together

Magnetically

via

Electrons

Protons

and

Neutrons

Perhaps

there

is

no

magical

force

called

Gravity

after

all

Hey

Al

I

think

you

were

on

to

something

Peyote

Sky

age

Youngstown

FL

Bay

Co

A

Dear

Mr

Sky

go

easy

on

that

peyote

Magnetism

plays

only

a

small

role

in

atoms

Theyre

held

together

by

simple

electrostatic

attraction

Nuclei

are

held

together

primarily

by

the

strong

chromodynamic

nuclear

force

The

electrical

force

tends

to

push

them

apart

Magnetism

is

again

relatively

minor

All

these

forces

are

kind

of

magical

when

you

think

about

them

enough

even

without

peyote

Mike

W

published

on

FollowUp

magnetism

and

gravity

are

unlike

Q

i

want

to

know

that

the

magnetic

force

and

the

gravitational

force

are

like

or

unlike

forces

if

they

are

unlike

give

me

the

clear

cut

explanation

gowtham

age

india

A

Heres

a

few

ways

magnetism

and

gravity

are

unlike

Gravity

acts

between

any

two

objects

magnetism

only

between

some

Gravity

is

always

attractive

magnetism

is

sometimes

repulsive

At

large

distances

the

gravitational

force

falls

off

inversely

with

the

distance

squared

The

magnetic

force

falls

off

at

large

distances

at

least

as

fast

as

inversely

with

the

distance

to

the

fourth

power

A

uniform

gravitational

field

is

undetectable

by

any

local

measurement

but

a

uniform

magnetic

field

is

detectable

Convinced

Mike

W

published

on

FollowUp

Magnetism

and

other

forces

Q

Sorry

but

it

seems

to

me

that

they

are

the

same

force

that

the

diferences

you

describe

are

just

levels

of

order

A

single

atom

has

week

magnetic

forces

keeping

electrons

in

orbit

around

positive

nucleus

Lump

lots

of

atoms

together

and

you

have

lots

of

attractions

in

a

large

number

of

directions

I

suspect

that

the

outer

electrons

are

shared

throughout

this

mass

and

do

not

stay

with

their

parent

Nucleus

Lump

more

atoms

together

increase

the

mass

and

overall

increase

in

attraction

to

other

masses

but

yet

it

is

still

unordered

so

overall

weak

in

any

one

direction

Dave

age

Manchester

A

As

weve

often

mentioned

here

theres

something

abut

magnetism

that

seems

to

evoke

a

high

level

of

confusion

Your

note

is

very

useful

because

it

represents

many

of

the

ideas

we

hear

Let

me

go

over

these

ideas

one

at

a

time

A

single

atom

has

week

magnetic

forces

keeping

electrons

in

orbit

around

positive

nucleus

Youre

mixing

up

the

electric

force

and

its

magnetic

aspect

To

take

the

simplest

example

the

hydrogen

atom

ground

state

the

only

magnetic

force

is

the

spinspin

interaction

between

the

proton

and

electron

Its

very

weak

around

ergs

compared

to

a

binding

energy

of

over

ergs

and

can

either

be

attractive

or

repulsive

depending

on

the

relative

sign

of

the

spins

I

suspect

that

the

outer

electrons

are

shared

throughout

this

mass

and

do

not

stay

with

their

parent

Nucleus

Theres

no

need

to

speculate

on

this

A

major

part

of

condensed

matter

physics

includes

the

study

of

which

materials

have

how

many

electrons

running

around

freely

vs

localized

on

atoms

Metals

for

example

have

many

shared

electrons

Lump

more

atoms

together

increase

the

mass

and

overall

increase

in

attraction

to

other

masses

but

yet

it

is

still

unordered

so

overall

weak

in

any

one

direction

That

may

need

a

followup

since

Im

not

sure

I

follow

it

Its

also

well

understood

which

materials

are

ordered

and

which

are

disordered

You

can

tell

via

xray

scattering

for

example

Magnets

these

are

materials

in

which

the

atoms

have

been

ordered

such

that

the

majority

of

the

outer

shell

electrons

are

to

one

end

of

the

material

giving

a

directional

increased

pull

at

that

end

No

youve

again

confused

electricity

and

magnetism

Piling

up

charge

on

one

side

makes

an

electric

field

not

a

magnetic

field

Magnetism

is

made

by

aligning

spins

What

youve

described

here

is

a

ferroelectric

not

a

ferromagnet

Mike

W

published

on

FollowUp

magnetic

effects

in

rocks

Q

Sorry

to

follow

on

At

my

university

I

remember

looking

at

ageing

lake

sediments

based

on

the

effects

of

the

earths

magnetic

field

being

locked

into

the

sediments

as

they

settled

There

was

some

discussion

to

the

effects

of

fireing

of

clays

giving

a

magnetic

effect

such

that

an

application

of

energy

can

force

magnetic

effects

Electro

magnatism

and

ferrite

Magnatism

Ferrite

mags

i

understand

to

weaken

over

time

but

can

be

zapped

using

electro

magnets

to

restrengthen

them

pulling

electrons

towards

one

end

or

other

much

easier

in

materials

of

the

same

element

with

excess

electrons

in

outer

orbits

Dave

age

Manchester

A

What

was

happening

with

those

old

rocks

was

not

that

the

magnetism

had

any

major

effect

on

the

formation

of

the

minerals

It

simply

aligned

the

magnetic

domains

somewhat

in

those

materials

which

were

going

to

form

magnetic

domains

anyway

Those

electromagnets

dont

pull

electrons

toward

one

end

They

align

the

spins

of

the

electrons

like

the

earths

field

does

only

much

more

powerfully

The

sense

that

all

the

forces

are

connected

is

shared

by

most

physicists

The

efforts

to

find

a

correct

GUT

grand

unified

theory

and

beyond

that

to

a

unification

of

gravity

with

the

other

forces

string

theory

are

ongoing

I

dont

quite

follow

your

other

points

Mike

W

published

on

FollowUp

psychology

of

gravitymagnetism

Q

I

dont

know

if

I

have

a

question

per

say

rather

an

offer

of

opinion

as

to

why

people

like

myself

wonder

if

gravity

and

magnetism

are

related

Lately

I

have

been

wondering

a

lot

about

gravity

and

that

led

me

to

think

about

magnetism

mainly

due

to

them

both

being

an

invisible

but

measurable

force

I

find

I

dont

have

a

firm

grasp

on

the

whatwhy

behind

gravity

and

magnetism

still

seems

mystical

despite

the

fact

I

know

the

mechanics

of

it

Its

the

invisible

part

We

can

measure

and

describe

the

forces

through

mathematics

but

it

doesnt

really

Nate

age

Alexandria

VA

A

Thanks

for

the

thoughtful

comments

which

help

go

some

way

toward

understanding

this

psychological

puzzle

Its

interesting

that

static

electricity

also

acts

at

a

distance

and

isnt

hard

to

observe

but

it

doesnt

seem

to

get

swept

into

the

same

mental

category

as

gravity

and

magnetism

Maybe

thats

somehow

because

we

usually

have

to

do

something

active

to

generate

the

charge

separation

and

it

usually

doesnt

persist

very

long

When

you

get

a

little

deeper

all

of

physics

becomes

mathematical

expressions

The

distinction

between

describe

and

explain

fades

away

Maybe

because

gravity

and

magnetism

take

rather

simple

mathematical

forms

on

the

scale

that

we

can

see

they

offer

the

first

glimpse

of

this

beautiful

but

disconcerting

property

of

the

universe

Mike

W

published

on

FollowUp

bogged

down

in

math

Why

versus

How

Q

I

have

to

admit

that

once

explanations

are

provided

in

math

equations

I

get

lost

It

always

feels

like

the

math

explains

the

what

happens

but

not

the

how

Im

always

left

not

understanding

the

how

Like

how

does

gravity

pull

what

exactly

is

it

pulling

What

is

magnetism

actually

pushing

and

pulling

What

are

these

tiny

invisible

strings

of

the

universe

that

push

and

pull

against

everything

And

force

what

is

force

anyways

Things

are

often

described

as

a

force

but

that

seems

like

such

a

hollow

term

that

doesnt

really

tell

you

what

it

is

All

you

know

Nate

age

Alexandria

VA

A

Dear

Nate

Youre

puzzling

about

some

of

the

very

things

that

physicists

are

puzzling

about

Understanding

the

exact

mechanisms

by

which

gravity

electromagnetism

and

other

physical

phenomena

manifest

themselves

is

exactly

what

physicists

try

to

do

As

humans

we

start

from

a

high

level

concept

or

observation

for

instance

seeing

an

apple

fall

and

slowly

work

our

way

to

more

fundamental

understanding

by

studying

the

physical

phenomena

were

interested

in

in

this

case

gravity

Newton

took

more

than

a

few

steps

in

that

direction

when

he

described

the

physical

law

of

gravitational

force

However

for

centuries

people

like

you

and

me

wondered

As

Mike

said

how

and

why

describe

vs

explain

are

used

interchangeably

by

physicists

In

fact

I

would

challenge

you

to

find

a

difference

between

the

two

when

talking

about

physical

phenomena

Asking

how

a

physical

phenomenon

manifests

itself

will

inevitably

lead

to

a

more

fundamental

understanding

of

it

The

most

rigorous

specific

and

efficient

way

to

explain

the

how

is

through

mathematics

pure

symbolic

logic

The

alternative

describing

things

with

words

fails

sooner

or

later

While

in

many

cases

describing

physical

concepts

with

words

can

be

extremely

helpful

since

for

most

people

it

provides

for

a

better

intuitive

understanding

about

the

topic

at

hand

it

will

always

be

subject

to

the

ambiguity

of

the

language

and

many

times

will

produce

only

partially

accurate

analogies

In

short

there

is

no

perfect

way

to

describe

things

with

words

Mathematics

on

the

other

hand

allows

us

to

be

precise

In

fact

you

can

think

of

mathematics

as

being

analogous

to

a

language

like

English

The

reason

we

usually

prefer

things

to

be

explained

with

words

is

because

our

language

is

to

us

the

most

familiar

way

to

communicate

ideas

While

Mathematics

might

seem

like

an

unfamiliar

foreign

language

at

times

it

is

by

definition

the

most

precise

way

to

communicate

ideas

You

asked

a

few

specific

questions

about

magnetism

and

what

exactly

force

means

Lets

start

with

magnetism

What

is

magnetism

actually

pushing

and

pulling

A

magnetic

field

exerts

a

force

on

moving

electric

charges

If

you

think

of

a

loop

of

wire

with

a

current

running

through

it

the

magnetic

field

exerts

a

force

on

the

moving

charges

in

the

loop

in

a

direction

perpendicular

to

the

path

of

the

current

You

also

brought

up

a

hose

analogy

for

the

magnetic

field

Your

understandable

question

can

really

be

translated

to

this

what

exactly

is

a

magnetic

field

made

of

The

answer

to

that

question

was

given

a

few

years

ago

on

this

site

You

can

see

the

explanation

here

What

are

magnetic

fields

made

of

And

last

but

not

least

you

asked

the

question

what

is

force

Force

is

a

more

general

term

which

describes

something

that

changes

an

objects

momentum

The

physical

quantity

is

measured

by

that

change

in

momentum

divided

by

the

time

it

took

to

occur

So

kind

of

like

how

speed

measures

the

change

in

distance

over

time

force

measures

the

change

in

momentum

over

time

I

hope

that

satisfies

at

least

some

of

your

curiosities

Feel

free

to

prod

us

with

more

questions

John

H

Ill

take

a

crack

at

this

too

in

parallel

with

Johns

answer

since

these

philosophy

issues

arent

cutanddried

We

seem

to

accept

certain

types

of

interactions

strings

pulling

hands

pushing

without

much

trouble

These

are

interactions

where

the

visible

objects

involved

touch

ie

they

are

too

close

for

us

to

see

any

gap

This

feeling

is

captured

in

your

language

tiny

invisible

stringsrunning

into

things

Probably

we

have

some

evolved

sense

of

expecting

interactions

of

that

sort

When

you

think

enough

about

it

though

such

interactions

are

no

more

or

less

mysterious

or

explained

than

other

interactions

such

as

between

the

earth

and

moon

or

between

two

magnets

On

a

small

enough

scale

all

of

our

descriptions

turn

into

patterns

of

mathematical

fields

filling

space

even

those

strings

and

hands

etc

So

our

role

here

is

in

one

way

like

what

youre

looking

for

to

eliminate

the

dualism

between

the

familiar

contact

forces

and

the

more

abstract

fieldbased

forces

Unfortunately

its

by

converting

the

former

into

the

latter

not

viceversa

Mike

W

published

on

FollowUp

gravity

and

magnetism

again

Q

If

gravity

and

magnetism

are

not

the

same

then

why

do

they

correlate

to

each

other

If

one

acts

on

the

other

and

vise

verse

then

they

must

be

connected

Gravity

is

a

force

acting

on

an

object

with

mass

magnetism

is

a

force

exerted

by

virtue

of

charged

particles

Both

are

based

on

ferrous

material

one

is

created

by

mas

the

other

by

the

movement

of

the

mass

I

suspect

gravity

is

a

direct

result

of

a

magnetic

field

If

there

is

no

atmosphere

like

on

mars

then

the

gravitational

effect

is

weakened

Also

the

larger

an

object

is

James

age

south

cairo

ny

A

James

Your

question

is

close

to

many

others

so

Ive

marked

it

as

a

followup

In

addition

to

the

original

question

you

may

be

particularly

interested

in

followups

and

Just

to

recap

some

points

Gravity

acts

on

everything

so

its

not

exactly

surprising

that

it

acts

a

little

bit

on

magnetic

fields

It

also

acts

on

things

with

absolutely

no

magnetism

Gravity

acts

on

everything

did

I

say

that

so

of

course

it

acts

on

ferrous

metals

as

it

does

on

nonferrous

metals

nonmetals

etc

There

is

no

basis

whatsoever

for

your

other

speculations

about

gravity

and

atmospheres

and

so

forth

However

you

have

many

cothinkers

Were

mystified

Mike

W

published

on

FollowUp

More

philosophical

questions

about

magnetism

Q

Sorry

to

frustrate

you

with

yet

another

repetition

of

earlier

sentiments

on

this

thread

but

you

still

have

not

convinced

me

that

magnetism

is

unrelated

to

gravity

undoubtedly

due

to

my

lack

of

scope

in

scientific

knowledge

However

why

cant

it

be

possible

that

magnetic

objects

exhibit

a

greater

amount

of

gravitational

force

than

other

objects

There

are

varying

degrees

of

magnetism

in

magnetic

bodies

and

there

are

varying

degrees

of

attraction

in

any

bodies

due

to

mass

Where

do

we

make

the

distinction

between

a

magnetic

force

and

a

gravitational

force

Gravity

is

present

whatever

the

conditions

but

what

Mike

age

Australia

A

However

why

cant

it

be

possible

that

magnetic

objects

exhibit

a

greater

amount

of

gravitational

force

than

other

objects

Thats

something

you

can

measure

and

they

just

dont

what

if

magnetism

isnt

so

much

a

force

but

rather

like

a

lens

focusing

or

manipulating

gravitational

force

I

sort

of

can

guess

what

you

mean

but

if

that

were

the

case

then

magnets

would

work

differently

when

they

were

in

regions

with

weak

gravitational

fields

say

on

distant

space

probes

but

they

dont

Im

not

irritated

at

all

Im

glad

that

youre

representing

a

very

widespread

view

Im

still

puzzled

about

the

motivation

We

have

nice

complete

theories

of

electromagnetism

and

gravity

OK

the

quantum

version

of

gravity

isnt

complete

but

for

our

purposes

here

plain

old

Newtonian

gravity

and

Maxwells

EandM

suffice

Id

love

to

hear

more

explanation

about

why

youre

seeking

a

closer

connection

between

these

two

particular

forces

and

not

say

electricity

and

gravity

or

some

other

pair

Mike

W

published

on

FollowUp

Gravity

is

NOT

magnetism

Q

Magnet

and

gravity

r

the

same

Does

a

magnet

just

have

gravity

captured

inside

it

I

have

not

read

all

of

this

yet

but

there

is

something

here

Is

gravity

created

by

spinning

something

and

the

faster

the

spin

the

more

gravity

there

is

or

resistance

on

an

object

like

a

motor

John

hudson

age

Jackson

tn

USA

A

If

you

read

the

earlier

posts

youll

see

we

say

the

opposite

gravity

and

magnetism

are

very

different

things

The

effect

of

spinning

on

gravity

is

very

small

In

fact

it

was

just

in

the

last

few

months

that

the

Gravity

Probe

B

experiment

was

able

to

measure

the

tiny

effects

of

the

Earths

spin

on

its

gravity

Mike

W

published

on

FollowUp

Hollow

earth

theory

Q

I

heard

a

crazy

and

strange

theory

that

i

have

not

been

able

to

exactly

prove

wrong

Its

called

the

Hollow

Earth

Theory

Theory

that

there

are

large

holes

at

each

pole

and

a

small

star

inside

our

planet

with

the

inside

reflecting

the

planet

outside

First

off

any

proof

against

this

i

found

are

just

photos

of

Earth

so

i

looked

up

a

photo

of

Earth

on

nasagov

and

it

looked

doctored

Could

just

be

my

eyes

but

the

ice

looks

offish

and

slightly

off

color

at

the

north

pole

where

a

giant

hole

would

be

But

secondly

i

Marc

age

Lebanon

IL

A

In

principle

if

you

had

a

very

dense

object

at

the

center

of

a

hollow

earth

with

just

the

right

size

and

mass

you

could

mimic

the

earths

gravitational

field

both

at

the

surface

and

far

away

However

using

this

model

there

is

no

decent

explanation

about

the

internal

structure

of

the

earth

that

could

explain

all

of

the

geophysical

data

that

exists

For

example

the

density

profile

of

the

interior

is

wellmeasured

by

seismological

effects

and

it

would

be

completely

inconsistent

with

this

model

See

for

example

LeeH

published

on

FollowUp

Matter

antimatter

attraction

or

repulsion

Q

You

said

antimatter

is

attracted

to

matter

but

s

it

the

same

deal

with

antimatter

to

antimatter

Also

how

is

the

gravity

of

matter

to

antimatter

tested

if

when

antielectrons

and

electrons

or

whatever

particle

collide

they

release

a

massive

amount

of

energy

equivalent

to

the

energy

that

can

be

determined

by

mass

of

the

particle

Jack

Gifford

age

Hanover

Marlyand

America

A

Hello

Jack

Your

question

touches

on

some

fundamental

aspects

of

forces

in

physics

The

four

forces

we

know

of

strong

electromagnetic

weak

and

gravitational

all

have

different

strengths

and

characteristics

The

strong

force

is

the

one

which

hold

a

nucleus

together

It

is

by

and

large

independent

of

the

signs

of

the

electrical

charges

between

them

as

well

as

matterantimatter

distinction

The

electromagnetic

force

on

the

other

hand

is

different

An

electron

will

be

repelled

by

another

electron

but

will

be

attracted

by

a

positron

Let

me

skip

the

weak

force

for

a

moment

you

can

ask

later

Now

as

to

the

gravitational

force

it

is

matterantimatter

blind

All

it

cares

about

is

the

mass

or

effective

mass

of

the

two

objects

It

is

always

attractive

In

any

situation

you

have

to

add

up

the

separate

contributions

to

find

the

total

force

So

you

have

to

design

a

careful

experiment

in

order

to

make

sure

that

one

of

the

other

forces

is

not

masking

the

effect

you

are

trying

to

measure

A

good

question

is

why

the

differences

in

attractionrepulsion

among

the

forces

I

once

posed

this

question

to

our

local

guru

on

these

matters

He

pursed

his

lips

thought

for

quite

a

while

and

then

said

Its

complicated

It

turns

out

that

there

are

some

subtle

points

in

quantum

field

theory

that

have

to

do

with

the

transmitters

of

the

force

such

as

the

photon

the

gluon

or

the

graviton

If

the

transmitter

has

even

spin

like

the

gluon

or

graviton

then

the

force

is

always

attractive

If

the

force

has

odd

spin

like

the

photon

then

the

sign

of

LeeH

published

on

FollowUp

Dark

energy

and

dark

matter

Q

Our

universe

is

expanding

at

an

ever

increasing

rate

This

would

imply

that

there

is

a

force

perhaps

dark

matter

that

is

pushing

everything

What

if

this

dark

matter

is

a

polar

opposite

of

the

gravity

force

Is

it

possible

that

gravity

has

poles

but

the

only

one

experience

in

our

everyday

lives

is

the

attractive

form

of

it

John

W

age

A

published

on

FollowUp

What

are

electromagnetic

facts

Q

Actually

I

know

these

facts

The

Earth

is

one

big

magnet

Electricity

is

the

movement

of

magnetism

Magnets

have

a

north

and

south

pole

because

the

force

of

magnetism

is

flowing

from

north

to

the

south

The

Earth

has

a

north

and

south

pole

named

so

because

of

the

magnetic

force

flowing

through

it

As

you

go

toward

the

north

or

south

pole

you

begin

to

enter

greater

magnetic

forces

The

reason

we

stick

to

the

ground

is

the

same

reason

why

lint

sticks

to

your

pant

legs

in

the

winter

when

you

get

static

charge

built

up

The

static

melissa

age

washington

DC

USA

A

Actually

I

know

these

facts

OK

lets

look

at

them

The

Earth

is

one

big

magnet

True

the

earth

is

a

magnet

Electricity

is

the

movement

of

magnetism

Huh

Is

this

a

reference

to

one

term

in

Maxwells

equations

Its

sure

not

anything

that

represents

a

standard

physics

description

Magnets

have

a

north

and

south

pole

because

the

force

of

magnetism

is

flowing

from

north

to

the

south

No

there

is

no

such

flow

Its

not

even

clear

what

force

youre

talking

about

The

Earth

has

a

north

and

south

pole

named

so

because

of

the

magnetic

force

flowing

through

it

See

above

As

you

go

toward

the

north

or

south

pole

you

begin

to

enter

greater

magnetic

forces

Its

true

that

the

field

gets

stronger

near

the

magnetic

poles

The

reason

we

stick

to

the

ground

is

the

same

reason

why

lint

sticks

to

your

pant

legs

in

the

winter

when

you

get

static

charge

built

up

Absolutely

false

Gravity

affects

all

objects

regardless

of

their

electrical

properties

The

static

charge

is

a

form

of

magnetism

Totally

false

and

lint

a

totally

neutral

object

sticks

to

the

pants

Also

the

pants

stick

to

your

legs

even

though

a

human

is

also

a

neutral

object

This

can

happen

due

to

redistribution

of

charge

on

the

person

but

we

generally

are

not

totally

neutral

Think

of

sparks

from

your

finger

when

you

touch

a

knob

on

a

dry

day

This

is

the

same

reason

we

stick

to

the

Earth

Nope

The

earth

has

a

great

static

charge

to

it

what

we

call

gravity

and

we

are

so

small

that

we

just

are

pulled

toward

it

If

that

were

true

it

would

repel

likecharged

things

That

doesnt

happen

Its

complete

nonsense

When

you

see

lightning

in

the

sky

this

is

visible

evidence

that

the

static

is

discharging

itself

you

can

do

the

same

thing

under

your

covers

at

night

just

rub

around

on

the

blanket

and

you

will

get

shocks

of

electricity

going

True

but

not

relevant

to

gravity

Anyways

I

guess

my

question

is

If

we

spray

a

bunch

of

static

guard

all

over

our

selves

will

we

fall

off

the

Earth

Seriously

Id

say

to

try

it

but

some

of

those

static

guards

may

have

some

toxic

chemicals

No

need

to

huff

anything

more

Mike

W

published

on

FollowUp

Gravitymagnetism

as

squidbrick

Q

How

could

gravity

and

magnetism

not

be

closely

related

if

the

Earth

itself

has

both

What

if

magnetism

is

just

an

overlysimplistic

form

of

gravity

Ed

Leedskalnin

of

Coral

Castle

claimed

all

objects

have

a

polarity

opposite

the

Earths

and

that

he

had

managed

a

way

to

reverse

the

polarities

rendering

the

coral

used

in

the

construction

weightless

and

easier

for

a

man

to

move

by

himself

legend

as

it

may

be

Not

all

science

is

fact

The

laws

of

physics

prove

themselves

wrong

especially

with

the

discovery

that

electrons

can

be

in

two

places

at

the

same

time

Anthony

DeVincent

age

Florida

A

Ive

marked

your

question

as

a

followup

to

many

similar

ones

From

the

little

Ive

read

of

Leedskalnin

he

just

rambled

incoherently

You

ask

How

could

gravity

and

magnetism

not

be

closely

related

if

the

Earth

itself

has

both

How

could

squids

and

brick

not

be

closely

related

if

the

restaurant

Im

going

to

has

a

brick

wall

and

serves

squid

the

discovery

that

electrons

can

be

in

two

places

at

the

same

time

is

just

a

confirmation

of

the

physics

that

has

been

in

use

since

about

It

would

be

shocking

if

it

werent

true

And

yes

theres

always

room

for

speculation

even

about

that

squidbrick

relation

Mike

W

published

on

FollowUp

Are

gravity

and

magnetism

connected

Q

If

Gravity

and

Magnetism

are

different

forces

then

why

does

a

magnet

come

to

rest

aligned

with

the

North

and

South

pole

of

the

earth

Has

there

been

any

study

on

magnetic

forces

between

to

magnets

under

various

gravitational

environments

Moon

Space

and

on

Earth

Sam

D

age

Bangalore

India

A

Take

any

magnet

near

a

compass

magnet

and

you

can

see

the

compass

align

with

the

field

of

the

other

magnet

The

earth

is

a

magnet

so

so

the

same

thing

happens

with

the

earth

when

no

stronger

magnets

are

near

the

compass

Yes

the

earth

also

has

gravity

as

do

all

other

things

but

that

doesnt

logically

mean

that

the

magnetism

and

gravity

are

the

same

The

earths

gravitational

field

has

about

constant

magnitude

over

the

whole

surface

and

always

points

toward

the

middle

The

magnetic

field

has

different

strengths

in

different

places

and

only

points

directly

updown

at

the

two

Mars

Rovers

etc

all

have

some

electric

motors

on

them

These

employ

magnetic

forces

to

convert

electrical

energy

to

mechanical

energy

They

work

just

the

same

in

the

lowergravity

environments

of

Mars

the

moon

etc

Mike

W

published

on

FollowUp

magnetism

and

charge

Q

This

might

seem

as

far

fetched

science

but

is

it

possible

to

super

charge

a

magnet

by

its

polarity

Say

you

were

able

to

beam

electrons

to

the

negative

side

of

the

magnet

and

shoot

protons

to

the

positive

side

of

the

magnet

Would

that

charge

it

Jay

age

Los

Angeles

CA

USA

A

Those

are

electrical

charges

that

youre

shooting

at

the

magnet

They

will

make

it

briefly

into

an

electric

dipole

with

a

plus

and

a

minus

end

There

are

no

known

magnetic

charges

The

magnetic

strength

wont

change

Mike

W

published

on

FollowUp

philosophy

of

magnets

and

gravity

Q

I

know

tis

may

be

quite

a

bit

incorrect

but

in

my

defense

my

teachers

only

tell

me

so

much

First

off

why

can

gravity

not

be

a

giant

scaled

magnetism

most

say

it

pulls

at

all

directions

where

as

magnetism

only

pulls

the

north

and

south

poles

But

what

if

our

knowledge

of

magnetism

were

wrong

and

there

was

much

more

going

on

at

a

subatomic

level

that

correlates

to

gravity

at

only

a

very

small

level

How

do

we

know

that

as

the

smaller

things

get

it

becomes

even

more

vast

than

our

universe

and

that

the

world

Caleb

age

Ohio

A

Q

Why

do

we

base

all

of

our

knowledge

over

something

that

may

not

be

true

A

What

other

choice

do

we

have

Those

are

the

rules

of

the

game

QFirst

off

why

can

gravity

not

be

a

giant

scaled

magnetism

most

say

it

pulls

at

all

directions

where

as

magnetism

only

pulls

the

north

and

south

poles

But

what

if

our

knowledge

of

magnetism

were

wrong

and

there

was

much

more

going

on

at

a

subatomic

level

that

correlates

to

gravity

at

only

a

very

small

level

A

Well

if

magnetism

were

to

mean

something

completely

different

from

the

magnetism

we

study

on

scales

from

the

size

of

the

solar

system

to

the

size

of

an

atomic

nucleus

then

sure

it

might

be

anything

you

want

it

to

be

But

since

we

have

a

huge

set

of

observations

of

what

we

call

magnetism

that

all

fit

with

an

extremely

tightly

defined

mathematical

theory

why

would

you

take

that

name

and

use

it

for

something

entirely

different

I

couldnt

quite

follow

the

other

question

Mike

W

published

on

FollowUp

GUTs

and

TOEs

Q

If

the

existence

of

the

graviton

is

almost

certain

why

are

there

such

intense

discussions

of

a

Grand

Unified

Theory

GUT

rather

than

just

solely

a

Theory

of

Everything

TOE

As

I

understand

it

GUTs

and

TOEs

differ

primarily

in

that

GUTs

dont

include

gravity

and

TOEs

do

Why

then

isnt

there

a

usual

way

for

incorporating

gravity

into

the

standard

model

LQG

and

String

theory

make

so

many

other

proposals

I

often

cant

tell

what

to

think

about

the

graviton

or

understand

how

it

might

relate

to

the

other

interactions

Ben

age

USA

A

The

possible

GUTs

incorporating

both

the

electroweak

interaction

and

the

chromodynamic

interaction

are

in

the

same

general

family

as

the

electroweak

theory

Its

generally

assumed

but

not

guaranteed

that

the

correct

GUT

will

be

a

quantum

field

theory

on

the

standard

spacetime

of

special

relativity

Thus

it

may

well

be

possible

to

complete

the

GUT

program

without

worrying

about

quantum

gravity

Although

gravitons

should

be

present

in

any

quantum

theory

of

gravity

they

represent

a

lowenergy

limiting

behavior

in

a

nearly

flat

patch

of

spacetime

The

heart

of

a

quantum

theory

of

gravity

would

have

to

include

the

regime

of

the

Planck

energy

scale

not

just

the

lowenergy

regime

Trying

to

cope

with

that

involves

the

theories

that

you

mention

Strings

or

Loop

Quantum

Gravity

well

beyond

the

sort

of

modifications

of

the

Standard

Model

considered

in

typical

GUTsalso

well

beyond

my

understanding

Approaches

to

quantum

gravity

via

more

familiar

methods

lead

to

all

sorts

of

infinities

Mike

W

published

on

FollowUp

has

Earths

gravity

changed

Q

with

grafity

are

we

able

to

prove

it

has

been

a

constant

for

as

long

as

the

earth

has

been

here

or

has

the

earth

sped

up

creating

more

gravity

as

a

common

thinker

it

makes

me

wonder

if

this

has

happened

within

the

last

million

years

as

dinosaurs

we

very

heavy

could

there

have

been

less

gravity

or

more

over

the

life

of

the

planet

and

has

gravity

been

increasing

or

decreasing

causing

other

changes

ken

age

canada

A

We

are

quite

sure

that

the

Earths

gravity

has

been

nearly

constant

There

are

numerous

lines

of

evidence

to

support

that

The

overall

strength

of

the

gravitational

attraction

in

the

universe

cant

have

changed

much

because

galactic

clustering

the

details

of

the

cosmic

microwave

background

etc

fit

a

model

in

which

the

strength

of

gravity

is

precisely

constant

So

the

only

way

the

Earths

gravity

would

have

changed

is

via

changing

mass

of

the

Earth

We

know

of

no

process

that

could

have

changed

the

Earths

mass

much

since

whatever

event

happened

that

formed

the

Moon

Any

event

like

that

This

raises

the

issue

of

why

some

dinosaurs

could

have

been

larger

than

any

presentday

land

animals

Maybe

one

of

our

biologist

colleagues

can

add

something

here

Mike

W

published

on

FollowUp

mass

of

magnetic

fields

Q

Does

strong

magnetic

fields

have

measurable

mass

ie

does

a

very

strong

electro

magnet

weight

more

when

its

turned

on

than

when

its

not

Are

Photons

effected

by

strong

Magnetic

fields

ie

refracted

or

bend

in

the

same

manner

that

Einstein

proved

that

the

Gravity

of

the

sun

bent

the

light

from

from

distant

stars

Anthony

Giraud

age

Kimball

A

Ive

combined

your

two

questions

and

put

them

in

a

thread

with

related

questions

The

extra

mass

of

the

magnetic

field

of

a

lab

magnet

is

very

small

For

a

powerful

and

fairly

large

superconducting

magnet

it

would

be

in

the

neighborhood

of

gm

very

small

compared

to

the

ordinary

mass

of

the

magnet

I

dont

think

anyone

has

been

able

to

measure

it

As

weve

said

before

the

field

energy

plays

the

same

role

as

any

other

mass

as

a

source

of

gravity

Mike

W

published

on

FollowUp

magnetizing

steel

Q

Using

ferrite

ring

magnetswhen

like

poles

are

placed

togetherwith

a

piece

of

mild

steel

plate

of

the

same

inside

and

outside

diameters

as

the

magnetsis

placed

between

themand

the

plate

thickness

is

of

the

right

thickness

as

to

cause

the

two

magnets

to

nearly

totally

lose

their

attractive

powerswhy

is

the

magnetic

field

mass

in

the

msteel

plate

so

very

strong

Bert

Holland

age

Cairns

Australia

A

Pure

iron

has

strongly

magnetized

domains

Some

steels

not

stainless

are

fairly

close

to

being

as

magnetic

The

reason

that

you

dont

see

permanent

magnets

made

out

of

such

iron

is

not

the

lack

of

magnetism

but

the

lack

of

permanence

I

believe

that

the

domains

in

iron

have

bigger

fields

than

those

in

the

ferrite

Its

easy

for

the

irons

magnetism

to

change

directions

Left

to

themselves

neighboring

domains

in

normalshaped

iron

samples

will

line

up

to

cancel

the

average

largescale

magnetism

because

that

lowers

the

magnetic

energy

In

the

presence

of

an

external

field

these

domains

can

line

Mike

W

published

on

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Is

gravity

due

to

spinning

Q

We

are

all

attracted

towards

the

centre

of

the

Earth

as

its

centre

of

mass

lies

there

However

are

we

attracted

to

the

centre

because

of

a

centripetal

force

caused

by

Earths

rotation

Is

gravity

the

centripetal

force

Please

do

explain

also

how

artificial

gravity

is

produced

Asher

age

India

A

No

but

there

is

a

connection

The

gravity

depends

on

different

components

The

most

important

one

is

the

force

between

two

objects

just

because

they

have

mass

This

is

proportional

to

the

mass

of

both

of

the

objects

and

was

formulated

as

early

as

century

by

Newton

Rotation

of

the

Earth

is

irrelevant

for

this

So

the

oak

trees

in

the

local

park

also

attract

you

but

this

is

force

is

very

small

for

typical

size

objects

that

most

of

the

time

they

are

unnoticable

ie

if

you

feel

a

temptation

to

go

outside

it

is

definitely

the

Now

there

is

the

inertial

property

of

mass

which

says

they

tend

to

preserve

their

state

of

motion

forever

But

the

fact

that

Earth

rotates

confuses

the

observations

made

by

us

who

rotate

by

the

Earth

The

objects

seem

to

deviate

from

their

trajectories

due

to

some

extra

forces

but

in

reality

they

do

not

feel

any

force

There

are

two

such

fictitious

forces

one

is

the

centrifugal

force

that

you

mentioned

which

pulls

the

objects

radially

outwards

from

the

rotation

axis

The

other

one

is

the

Coriolis

force

which

causes

objects

to

deviate

from

their

linear

trajectories

and

trace

An

easy

answer

for

your

third

question

should

now

be

obvious

you

could

accelerate

decelerate

the

system

linearly

to

exploit

the

inertia

in

which

case

you

will

feel

a

force

backwards

forwards

But

a

more

practical

way

is

to

rotate

around

a

point

in

which

case

the

gravity

will

be

radially

outwards

There

is

a

more

exciting

was

of

doing

this

by

magnetism

but

is

mostly

good

for

small

objects

because

it

requires

extremely

high

field

magnitudes

Tunc

published

on

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black

hole

gravity

and

magnetism

Q

This

is

not

a

question

but

more

a

statement

and

answer

to

some

of

the

curiosities

being

asked

Actually

in

a

since

there

is

a

specific

relationship

between

gravity

and

magnetism

Gravity

is

due

to

a

warp

in

the

fabric

of

space

time

This

is

a

documented

fact

of

Einsteins

theory

or

relativity

This

warp

is

what

pulls

things

in

The

greater

the

mass

the

greater

the

warp

and

greater

the

gravity

And

in

turn

the

greater

the

mass

the

greater

the

magnetism

They

are

not

the

same

but

they

work

together

I

might

also

add

that

you

do

not

Gary

age

Aberdeen

MD

USA

A

The

sort

of

black

holes

we

see

are

typically

almost

electrically

neutral

httpsenwikipediaorgwikiCharged_black_hole

and

not

spinning

all

that

much

and

thus

they

are

not

very

magnetic

The

very

strong

magnetic

effects

found

near

some

black

holes

httpblogsscientificamericancomdarkstardiariesconfirmedblackholesaremagnetismpoweredeatingmachines

come

from

the

things

that

are

getting

sucked

in

and

pulled

apart

So

there

are

cases

where

gravity

and

magnetism

are

both

strong

but

there

are

also

cases

where

theres

gravity

and

no

magnetism

or

magnetism

and

very

little

gravity

So

there

are

circumstances

where

theyre

related

as

for

more

or

less

any

two

effects

in

nature

but

no

special

relation

Mike

W

published

on

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gravitomagnetism

Q

I

have

been

following

this

thread

about

Gravity

vs

Magnetism

for

years

and

would

like

to

thank

you

for

your

efforts

in

trying

to

explain

a

complex

subject

There

have

been

numerous

question

where

people

instinctively

see

a

relationship

between

these

two

forces

but

it

has

been

repeatedly

explained

they

are

fundamentally

different

forces

with

different

characteristics

If

Gravity

and

Magnetism

specifically

Electromagnetism

are

not

the

same

force

what

purpose

of

Gravity

Probe

Bs

experiments

Gravitoelectromagnetism

GEM

and

attempts

to

unify

them

mathematically

you

in

advance

Gary

age

Los

Angeles

CA

A

Gravitomagnetism

is

like

magnetism

in

one

way

and

unlike

it

in

another

Its

like

magnetism

in

that

its

a

necessary

consequence

of

incorporating

gravity

into

a

relativistic

framework

where

distances

and

time

intervals

are

dependent

on

fthe

observers

motion

The

math

in

getting

gravitomagnetism

from

gravity

is

essentially

the

same

as

that

involved

in

deriving

magnetism

from

electrostatics

Special

Relativity

So

the

analagy

is

gravitomagnetism

is

to

gravity

as

magnetism

is

to

static

electricity

The

difference

between

gravitomagnetism

barely

detectable

here

by

delicate

measurements

and

magnetism

easily

detctable

by

anybody

flows

from

the

very

big

differences

between

gravity

and

electricity

Mike

W

published

on

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gravity

and

magnetism

again

Q

is

there

any

relation

between

gravitational

force

and

magnetic

field

hajra

age

A

No

special

relation

See

above

Mike

W

published

on

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HOME Obituaries November 11 2016 953AM PT Robert Vaughn The Man From UNCLE Star Dies at 83 By Carmel Dagan Carmel Dagan Staff Writer Carmels Most Recent Stories Harlan Ellison Provocative SciFi Writer of Star Trek A Boy and His Dog Dies at 84 Martin Bregman Scarface Producer Dies at 92 Clint Walker Star of TV Western Cheyenne Dies at 90 View All CREDIT SNAPREXShutterstock Robert Vaughn who starred as Napoleon Solo on TVs The Man From UNCLE from 196468 died Friday morning of acute leukemia his manager Matthew Sullivan told Variety He was 83 Vaughn began undergoing treatment for the illness this year on the East Coast The James Bondinfluenced The Man From UNCLE in which Vaughns Solo and David McCallums Illya Kuryakin battled the evil forces of THRUSH around the globe thanks to the glories of stock footage was quite the popculture phenomenon in the mid1960s even as the shows tone wavered from fairly serious to cartoonish and back again over its four seasons It spawned a spinoff The Girl From UNCLE starring Stefanie Powers as well as a few feature adaptations during the run of the TV series One Spy Too Many One of Our Spies Is Missing and The Karate Killers that starred Vaughn and McCallum Vaughn also guested as Napoleon Solo on sitcom Please Dont Eat the Daisies and made an uncredited appearance as Solo in the 1966 Doris Day feature The Glass Bottomed Boat he reprised the role in 1983 TV movie The Return of the Man from UNCLE The Fifteen Years Later Affair A Guy Ritchiedirected feature adaptation of The Man From UNCLE was released in August 2015 with Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer starring as Solo and Kuryakin respectively Vaughn vaulted into the public eye with his striking performance in the 1959 Paul Newman feature The Young Philadelphians for which he was Oscar nominated for best supporting actor In the film Newmans character is pursuing his Machiavellian way to the top of Philadelphias upper crust when he sees his friend played by Vaughn manipulated by said upper crust into alcoholism and an unjust murder charge The New York Times said Robert Vaughn as Newmans sick and illused friend adds a striking bit in incoherently explaining his dire predicament The next year he was one of the stars of John Sturges The Magnificent Seven a remake of Akira Kurosawas Seven Samurai along with Yul Brynner Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson The success of the Western certainly boosted the actors profile but his brand of sophisticated urbanite did not mesh well with a career in Westerns Though when the enduringly popular film was adapted into a TV series in 1998 Vaughn returned in the recurring role of Judge Oren Travis and when the material was contemporized and turned into the story of a British soccer team in a 2013 film called The Magnificent Eleven the actor duly starred as the villain a gangster named American In 1968 after appearing in the movie spinoffs from The Man From UNCLE Vaughn appeared in McQueen vehicle Bullitt as the politician whos out for the head of McQueens cop while pressure mounts from other directions as well and a lot of nifty car chases around San Francisco are offered up He did several films in a row at this point comedy If Its Tuesday This Must Be Belgium 1969 WWII drama The Bridge at Remagen in which he played the Nazi commander the New York Times said Mr Vaughn as the tense commander across the water is excellent a feature adaptation of Julius Caesar that starred John Gielgud Charlton Heston and Jason Robards and in which Vaughn played Servilius Casca the interesting scifi drama The Mind of Mr Soames in which Terence Stamp played a man in a coma since birth whos brought to consciousness by an American doctor played From 197274 he did his third stint as the star of a TV series with The Protectors playing Harry Rule one of three freelance troubleshooters who run an international crimefighting agency based in London In 1974 as the show ended he did two feature films The Man From Independence in which Vaughn played Harry S Truman and disaster movie The Towering Inferno in which he played Senator Parker who helps out once the blaze starts During the 1970s Vaughn capitalized on the era of the miniseries appearing in NBCs highly regarded 1976 entry Captains and the Kings ABCs Washington Behind Closed Doors 1977 for which he received his first Emmy nomination NBCs Backstairs at the White House in which the actor played President Woodrow Wilson for which he was also Emmy nominated NBCs Centennial in which he played the wealthy opportunistic Morgan Wendell ABCs Inside the Third Reich 1982 and CBS The Blue and the Gray 1982 Having played Woodrow Wilson he now played Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1982 HBO adaptation of the Dore Schary oneman play FDR That Man in the White House a role he reprised in the 1986 telepic Murrow starring Daniel J Travanti as Edward R Murrow and Gen Douglas MacArthur in the Australianmade PBSaired miniseries The Last Bastion in 1984 The actor was now regularly playing senators and other powerful men who were often given to scheming and nefarious motives Vaughn played one such fellow as the villain in 1983s Superman III He recurred on the series Emerald Point NAS starring Dennis Weaver in 198384 Vaughn was brought aboard the sagging NBC series The ATeam in its final season in 198687 as the network changed the flavor of the show The actor played General Hunt Stockwell a mysterious operative for the CIA for whom the team would now work often abroad in Mission Impossiblelike scenarios One episode was titled The Say UNCLE Affair He was still working in features Vaughn starred as Adolf Hitler in the obscure 1989 comedy Thats Adequate and as Lord Byron Orlock in the comedy Transylvania Twist the same year He kept busy too with guest appearances on Murder She Wrote Walker Texas Ranger and The Nanny While Law Order afforded many an actor with an opportunity to demonstrate his or her own skills Vaughn was particularly memorable in his threeepisode 199798 arc as Carl Anderton a man as powerful as he is certifiably crazy and stubborn What begins as Andertons refusal to acknowledge that mental illness excused his grandsons otherwise criminal behavior and that a propensity for paranoia may have been passed down genetically from him escalates into a campaign to remove DA Adam Schiff from office More recently he was memorable in two unrelated performances on Law Order SVU in 2015 episode December Solstice he played a celebrity author who becomes the object of a legal battle over his welfare between his new wife and his daughters from a previous marriage Vaughn brought his trademark brand of villainy to the David Zucker comedy BASEketball in 1998 and to Louis CKs comedy Pootie Tang in 2001 From 200412 Vaughn starred in the BBCAMC coproduction Hustle a stylish if derivative dramedy series about a group of London con artists who pull off elaborate stings In 2012 he did a 13episode arc on the UK soap Coronation Street in which he played Milton Fanshaw an American restaurant owner who proves a love interest for one of the main characters tempting her to come back with him to the US Robert Francis Vaughn was born in New York City to parents in show business his father a radio actor and his mother an actress on the stage He went to high school in Minneapolis and attended the University of Minnesota where he majored in journalism but quit after a year Moving to Los Angeles he studied drama at Los Angeles City College then transferred to Cal State LA and completed his Masters degree Subsequently and while having already started a busy acting career in the 1960s and into the 1970s he completed a PhD in communications at USC The subject of his thesis was the blacklisting of Hollywood entertainers during the McCarthy era and it was published in 1972 as Only Victims He made his smallscreen debut way before the days of UNCLE guesting on NBCs Richard Boone vehicle Medic in 1955 and was soon busy guesting on shows ranging from Father Knows Best to Gunsmoke and The Rifleman to Dragnet and Mike Hammer Vaughn also starred in the 196364 TV series The Lieutenant created by Gene Roddenberry Meanwhile he made his bigscreen debut in an uncredited role in Cecil B DeMilles 1956 epic The Ten Commandments and there soon followed roles in Western Hells Crossroads and No Time to Be Young a juvenile crime drama in which he starred But his performance in The Young Philadelphians and the acclaim he received for it changed everything He is survived by wife Linda Staab to whom he had been married since 1974 and two adopted children son Cassidy and daughter Caitlin Hollywood Stars and Icons Lost in 2016 Leave a Reply 6 Robert Vaughn The Magnificent Seven The Man From UNCLE Want to read more articles like this one Subscribe to Variety Today

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HOME Digital News June 21 2018 330AM PT ATT Announces Watch TV Service Lineup Details on New Wireless Plans By Janko Roettgers Janko Roettgers Senior Silicon Valley Correspondent jank0 FOLLOW Jankos Most Recent Stories Samsungs New TV Can Take Any Shape Samsung to Add iTunes Movies App to Its Smart TVs Video Services May Use Artificial Intelligence to Crack Down on Password Sharing View All CREDIT RexShutterstock ATT announced the launch of its new internet service Watch TV Thursday revealing both the TV networks included in the service as well as details on ways to get Watch TV for free The company also announced that it will give some of its wireless subscribers free access to other paid music and video streaming services Watch TV which is slated to go live next week will feature a total of 31 TV networks at launch including AMC Cartoon Network CNN HGTV TBS and TNT Some time in the near future the company plans to add BET Comedy Central MTV2 Nicktoons Teen Nick and VH1 to the Watch TV lineup Check out the full ATT Watch TV lineup below CREDIT Courtesy of ATT Watch TV subscribers will also have access to 15000 movies and TV show episodes on demand and will be able to watch the service both on mobile devices as well as desktop browsers and streaming devices Apps for Watch TV are based on DirecTV Now so you should expect the service to show up on Apple TV Roku Fire TV and Chromecast at launch or soon after ATT is making the service available at no cost to a subset of its users and is introducing two new wireless plans to do so A new base line unlimited data plan dubbed ATT Unlimited More includes free access to Watch TV ATT Unlimited More Premium comes with Watch TV access as well as an option to add one other music or video subscription service at no extra cost Services available for this offer include HBO Cinemax SHOWTIME STARZ Amazon Music Unlimited Pandora Premium and VRV the millennialfocused online video subscription bundle from Ellation a joint venture between ATT and The Chernin Company Subscribers of ATT Unlimited More can also get 15 monthly credit for a DirecTV Now subscription whereas Unlimited More Premium offers a 15 credit for either DirecTV Now DirecTV or ATT Uverse ATT Unlimited More Premium will cost subscribers 80 per month for a single line after certain credits whereas ATT Unlimited More will start at 70 per month for a single line or 40 per line for 4 lines with line 510 costing 35 each Those plans are effectively replacing ATTs existing unlimited plans for new subscribers which also means that they come with some of the same caveats The biggest one ATT Unlimited More subscribers will only be able to stream video in SD over the cellular network a restriction that also applies to Watch TV streams However streams via Wifi are exempt from those restrictions Watch TV will also be available as a standalone plan for 15 a month and ATT said that it would announce additional details at launch The company also said that it would introduce additional services as its merger with Time Warner completes ATT CEO Randall Stephenson first announced plans to launch Watch TV as he took the stand during the governments lawsuit against the merger Correction 720 am An earlier version of this story misstated the price of the ATT Unlimited More plan Leave a Reply 12 Att ATT Watch TV Want to read more articles like this one Subscribe to Variety Today Loading comments

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HOME Reviews February 20 2018 914PM PT Film Review The Housemaid An orphaned country girl finds work as a housekeeper on a haunted estate in Derek Nguyens ripe period ghost story set in 1953 Vietnam By Scott Tobias Scott Tobias scott_tobias FOLLOW Scotts Most Recent Stories Film Review Family First Film Review Divine Wind Toronto Film Review The Elephant Queen View All CREDIT Courtesy of CJ Entertainment Director Derek Nguyen With Nhung Kate JeanMichel Richaud Kim Xuan Phi Phung Kien An Rosie Fellner English Vietnamese dialogue Release Date Feb 17 2018 1 hour 44 minutes Official Site httpwwwimdbcomtitlett5860084 Perched in the brilliant green lushness of Vietnam during the First Indochinese War an old plantation estate becomes a locus point for the collision of history supernatural horror and mild eroticism in Derek Nguyen s The Housemaid a hearty but overseasoned bowl of genre pho Not to be confused with the 1960 Korean classic of the same name or its 2010 remake the film courts exploitation in summoning the real ghosts of Vietnams colonial past for gothic shocks all while teasing out a glossy wartime romance The sheer busyness of the conceit is both asset and liability whipping up a tonally calamitous mélange thats nonetheless compelling for its absence of caution Though the movie opened in its home country two years ago an IFC Midnight release in the States stands to revivify it for niche audiences especially With an antiFrench revolt raging well outside its borders the staff at the SaCat estate once a rubber plantation that thrived on slave labor has bunkered in against the forces of change When Linh Nhung Kate turns up looking for a housemaid job the stern head housekeeper Mrs Han Kim Xuan takes pity on the mysterious applicant who lost her entire family in a bombing run and walked 40 kilometers from her village in search of work and shelter While Linh is grateful for a place to live the other servants at SaCat such as her mentor Ngo Phi Phung and Mr Chau Kien An a glowering woodcutter dont live at the house because they believe its haunted Legend has it that Mistress Camille the mad wife of the estates French owner Sebastien JeanMichel Richaud strangled their infant in its crib and drowned herself in a lake out of depression and resentment over her husbands absence Film Review American Hangman TV Review Lindsay Lohans Beach Club When Sebastien returns from the war with a bullet wound Linh is tasked with nursing him back to health which leads inevitably to a lightly sensual intimacy developing between the two Just as France and Vietnam seem to be reaching an accord in the bedroom Sebastians other ex Madeleine Rosie Fellner arrives from Paris and immediately senses that Linh isnt the quiet subservient maid that she appears to be Meanwhile Camilles ghost and an army of the zombie dead are raising hell on the plantation grounds while ugly revelations about SaCats past as a sadistic labor camp are burbling into At first Nguyen compartmentalizes all the competing elements in the story isolating the various hauntings into discrete gothic set pieces while giving the burgeoning romance between Linh and Sebastian its own space Theres a solid stretch of The Housemaid that could be mistaken for a steamy colonial liaison with Jerome Leroys foreboding horror score suddenly lightening and a starcrossed affair between a French officer and Vietnamese villager gaining some heat But the film improves when it does everything at once and a crosscurrent of old grudges new passions and strange goingson converges at a frenzied tempo When its many secrets spill out in the finale The Housemaid has to cheat a little to pull off a humdinger of a twist but its enormously satisfying anyway if only for bringing the core historical conflict back to the fore As a consequence one major supernatural plot point is essentially rendered a red herring laid to rest without a persuasive explanation But Nguyens maximalist style was always bound to leave a few threads hanging in favor of keeping the action lively provocative and blissfully unpredictable Some sequences suggest an Evil Dead knockoff others a paperback bodicepopper Best just to Film Review The Housemaid Reviewed online Chicago Feb 20 2018 Running time 104 MIN Production An IFC Midnight US release of a CJ Entertainment presentation of a Happy Canvas production in association with HK Film Producers Timothy Linh Bui Yuno Choi Ha Quynh Vu Nguyen The Phong Executive producer Louie Nguyen Director writer Derek Nguyen Camera color Sam Chase Editor Stephane Gauger Music Jerome Leroy With Nhung Kate JeanMichel Richaud Kim Xuan Phi Phung Kien An Rosie Fellner English Vietnamese dialogue Leave a Reply Derek Nguyen JeanMichel Richaud Nhung Kate The Housemaid Want to read more articles like this one Subscribe to Variety Today Loading comments

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