Natural Science Forum / Physics / Research / April 2008

Name one quantized gravitation theory that can accurately predict the
precession of Mercury's orbit and correct GPS for satellite velocity
and altitude vs. an observing base station.  Every flavor of quantized
gravitation is empirically bankrupt.  To postulate another version
that does what it must plus allows the seemingly impossible is overly
optimistic.  Prove me wrong.  Write it.

Uncle Al has asked a simple question since 1999:  Do local left and
right shoes/screws/hands vacuum free fall identically?  If
reproducibly not, gravitation is Weitzenböck spacetime torsion not
Riemann-Cartan spacetime curvature.  Since all quantized gravitations
demand either the Equivalence Principle as such or BRST invariance,
they would all be falsified on a technicality.  They don't work
because they are wrong.  Somebody should look.

If Adelberger ran a parity Eotvos experiment opposing single crystal
test masses of enantiomeric space groups P3(1)21 and P3(2)21 quartz
he'd be looking for a first order EP violation founded in orthodox
classical theory that wholly includes GR as a restricted case.  He
instead pursues (epsilon)^3 outputs:  a small effect arising from
negligible net active mass and strongly prohibited from occuring as a
first order process,

http://www.npl.washington.edu/eotwash/publications/pdf/schlamminger08.pdf
baryon number arises from an internal symmetry - no coupling to
rotation or translation.  Null output.
http://www.npl.washington.edu/eotwash/publications/pdf/prl97-021603.pdf
The vacuum is empirically inert to EM over billion lightyear paths.
Null output.

How smart is that?

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