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2007-08-19 08:23:51 · 2 answers · asked by curiouslyclueless 1 in Science & Mathematics Physics

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Certainly. Gravitational force is a vector. If you travel from earth to the moon, downward gravitational acceleration starts at 1g, then decreases to zero, and ends at -0.1654g.

2007-08-19 20:21:07 · answer #1 · answered by Frank N 7 · 0 0

Yes it is: first off, negative G's are experienced by accelerating toward the centre of a gravitational field faster than a free-falling object. But more interestingly, in a tiny sliver of a fraction of a second after the Big Bang (according to theory, this has never been proven experimentally) the Higgs boson created a field which was stretched into a negative-energy state. Since the Higgs particle is supposed to communicate gravitational forces, the negative-energy field was equivalent to a colossal expansion force that enlarged the universe from about the size of an atom to the size of the modern solar system in about 10^-30 seconds — far, far faster than the speed of light. This negative energy field was unstable, so it snapped back to a positive energy state and released immense amounts of energy, that condensed into matter and — poof! — there was the beginnings of the universe.

2007-08-19 15:54:14 · answer #2 · answered by poorcocoboiboi 6 · 0 0

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