I've been pondering this for a while, and aside from adding more mass in the form of matter, can't (until recently) imagine how it could be done. Of course, I'm a COMPLETE novice in physics, which might explain why. But recently, partly inspired by a friend of mine exploring the same problem, I came up with this idea:
I was told once (and have not verified it) that because E=mc^2, and M=e/2^2, that mass increases as speed increases, and approaches infinity as the speed of light is approached. If this is true (and PLEASE correct me if it's not), and if gravity is proportional to mass, then wouldn't it be theoretically possible for gravity to be "generated" by speeding up matter to extremely high levels? Such as in a particle accellerator?
Yes, this is a longshot, and in my mind a somewhat clumsy idea, at least in our day and age with our current level of technology. But would it work?
2007-11-27
02:29:35
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