Pushing the Standard Model

[ysabetwordsmith]

Here's a review of physics from 2021. 

I keep waiting for people to find gravitons, but honestly, I'm kind of glad they haven't.  As much damage as they've done with other scientific advances, they don't need graviton technology where fuckups can crack a planet's crust or fling a space station across the galaxy.

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[kengr]

Well electric and magnetic forces can be described as distortions of space-time too. Really.

It's just that the equations are *different* for gravity. Don't recall details, it was a long time ago, and involved stuff like tensor calculus.

The late Dr. Robert Forward described a bunch of ways we *could* play with gravity that aren't that far outside the box.

Mostly a matter of engineering problems. Mostly needing to create hyperdense matter and stabilize it. Likely doable, but a major pain.

Check out his book Indistinguishable from Magic

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> Well electric and magnetic forces can be described as distortions of space-time too. Really.<<

They're forces, but they also involve electrons. I mean, come on, a universe isn't a simple thing. A cone can look like a cone, or an oval or a parabola or a dot depending on how you slice it. Just because something looks like one thing from one angle, doesn't mean that's necessarily what it "is."

>>Check out his book Indistinguishable from Magic<<

LOL good title.