(March 2, 2018 at 3:07 pm)Khemikal Wrote:Quote:Is it possible there is no gravitational field?No, even within the context of your proposal you're simply wondering whether or not some other x might effect that grav field...there's a grav field in that proposition all the same. Regardless of what gravity is a property of, gravity, then, would exist as a property of that x.
To demonstrate this in another context. We don't know whether or not there are gravitons, a hypothetical fundamental particle in qft that mediates the force of gravitation. We've never identified one. Suppose there aren't. There's still gravity, there are still grav fields.
If there’s a gravity field, there has to be a fundamental particle that mediates that field. Just like it to decades to find the mediator of the higgs field
However, we’re not understanding each other about the difference between a field and a property. I’m thinking of gravity as a property, not field. Just like there’s no heat field. No fundamental property that mediates heat. It’s just a property of matter to get hot when it’s energy increases. Maybe, it’s a property of massive bodies and energetic particles like light to gravitate toward other such bodies. Or maybe it’s a property of time space to warp in the vicinity of such. Then no fundamental particle is needed.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
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I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.