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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: William H Huebl who wrote (75181)	4/9/2007 6:44:15 AM
From: Real Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

There are some black holes out there. They are former stars. Yeah, it's gravity going for them. -g- The problem is quantum gravity - if there is a field such as gravity, there must be a quantum particle associated with it. Photons are particles associated with electromagnetic field, for example. There are particles associated with other fields as well. The gravitational coupling constant is very weak, so gravitons are not easily detectable, although some folks are looking for them - since gravity is a field, they must be out there. The classical theory of gravity is Einstein's theory, and it works, of course. There was nobody smarter than Einstein in physics. But, getting quantum theory, I think, is a modern problem, although I don't work in the area, or know it well. Gravity is responsible for a lot of things in stars, black holes, galaxies, and other huge objects in the Universe. On a small distance scale that we are used to work with it's influence is negligible. It's because our planet is so large and massive that we feel gravity every day. The force of gravity is proportional to the masses of objects. Black holes are former stars, very massive, compressed to extremely high densities. So, gravitational field is very large there. EM field is the second weakest after gravity. Since we are charge-neutral, however, we don't feel it. It's force is Trillions times larger than gravity.