[geocentrism] Earth's magnetic field 'boosts gravity'
- From: Bernard Brauer <bbrauer777@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 17:59:19 -0700 (PDT)
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2814
Earth's magnetic field 'boosts gravity' Hidden extra dimensions are causing
measurements of the strength of gravity at different locations on Earth to be
affected by the planet's magnetic field, French researchers say.
This is a controversial claim because no one has ever provided experimental
evidence to support either the existence of extra dimensions or any interaction
between gravity and electromagnetism. But lab measurements of Newton's
gravitational constant G suggest that both are real.
Newton's constant, which describes the strength of the gravitational pull
that bodies exert on each other, is the most poorly determined of the constants
of nature. The two most accurate measurements have experimental errors of 1
part in 10,000, yet their values differ by 10 times that amount. So physicists
are left with no idea of its absolute value.
Now Jean-Paul Mbelek and Marc Lachieze-Ray of the French Atomic Energy
Commission near Paris say they can resolve the contradiction by taking into
account the location of the labs where the experiments were carried out.
The pair suggest that electromagnetism and gravity influence one another
enough for gravity's pull to be noticeably affected by the Earth's magnetic
field.
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