In reply to Vibrator !'s message of Sat, 23 Jul 2022 13:55:04 +0100: Hi, [snip] >The issue is that a graviton would be a spin-0 gauge boson, commuting only >attractive force; a spin-1 mediator of both attractive and repulsive >forces is obvs already fulfilled by photons or virtual photons. > >Qualitatively, 'gravity' reduces to a time-constant rate of exchange of >signed momentum, or ± h-bar.
To pick nits ;) , this is actually angular momentum. h-bar doesn't have the correct dimensions for momentum. [snip] >TL;DR - you cannot introduce an effective CoM violation into an >otherwise-closed (isolated) system and not expect its net momentum to >change.. True, but are you sure that's what's happening? Consider e.g. the possibility that the craft inverts/nullifies the effect that gravity has on it. [snip] If no one clicked on ads companies would stop paying for them. :)
