DA Morgan degrades jjw comments:
?You've already wandered too far already. There is absolutely solid evidence and explanation for gravity as a repulsive force.
Unfortunately not nearly as repulsive as people running on about things on which they've been too lazy to read a good book or a copy of Scientific American.?
DA, where is your absolute proof. You present theories as if we found repulsive gravity in our back yard and have been using it for years. It must do serious harm to your ego to see a view point by a member that does not conform to your theories. You are advancing theories ? just theories ? and using them like a sword to get your way.
If these links do not work I have no explanation for it. I think they PRESENT THEORY.
I am willing to accept that there may be such a thing as repulsive gravity even though Einstein was hesitant about the idea. I am not willing to accept the argument that it is proven fact for a hundred years or more.
Repulsive Gravity
Repulsive Gravity & the Cosmological Constant ... Outline. Observational Evidence;
repulsive gravity in General Relativity; Inflation ...
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*Evidence for Repulsive Gravity
10.6*Evidence for Repulsive Gravity. Until recently, physicists thought they
understood gravity fairly well. Einstein had modified Newton?s theory, ...
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Christopher Hirata's E-Home
... so repulsive gravity became at least a theoretical possibility. Einstein himself
was the first to suggest that repulsive gravity actually existed. ...
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Edge: THE INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE
The basic idea behind inflation is that a repulsive form of gravity caused the
universe to expand. General relativity from its inception predicted the ...
www.edge.org/3rd_culture/guth02/guth02_print.html This last item recites in part:
?The basic idea behind inflation is that a repulsive form of gravity caused the universe to expand. General relativity from its inception predicted the possibility of repulsive gravity; in the context of general relativity you basically need a material with a negative pressure to create repulsive gravity. According to general relativity it's not just matter densities or energy densities that create gravitational fields; it's also pressures. A positive pressure creates a normal attractive gravitational field of the kind that we're accustomed to, but a negative pressure would create a repulsive kind of gravity. It also turns out that according to modern particle theories, materials with a negative pressure are easy to construct out of fields which exist according to these theories. By putting together these two ideas ? the fact that particle physics gives us states with negative pressures, and that general relativity tells us that those states cause a gravitational repulsion ? we reach the origin of the inflationary theory.?
Much the static attraction and repulsion work?
jjw