Bob_Ham wrote:Could someone please bring something to Wal's attention if you happen to meet him in person at this event? I have been trying to contact him about this, but I haven't gotten any response.
In this video, Thornhill claims that gravity is nothing more than the force between electric dipoles.
In this short 3-page paper (specifically section 4 on page 3), it is shown that this "dipole claim" for gravity does not hold up, but is in fact 75 orders of magnitude too weak. In other words, the dipole interaction would have to be 1075 times stronger to account for what is observed in nature.
It seems to me that Thornhill's model must be drastically adjusted, as it can't even account for something as simple as the orbit of the Earth around the Sun. I would like to know what he thinks about it.
Thank you.
Bob_Ham wrote:Could someone please bring something to Wal's attention if you happen to meet him in person at this event? I have been trying to contact him about this, but I haven't gotten any response.
In this video, Thornhill claims that gravity is nothing more than the force between electric dipoles.
In this short 3-page paper (specifically section 4 on page 3), it is shown that this "dipole claim" for gravity does not hold up, but is in fact 75 orders of magnitude too weak. In other words, the dipole interaction would have to be 1075 times stronger to account for what is observed in nature.
It seems to me that Thornhill's model must be drastically adjusted, as it can't even account for something as simple as the orbit of the Earth around the Sun. I would like to know what he thinks about it. Thank you.
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