| Title: | Psychic Phenomena |
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| Created: | Wed Jan 22 1986 |
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If there is a topic that already discusses this subject let me know and
I'll delete this one. A while back I read an article in either Omni or
some science magazine about the discovery of a fifth force that was
connected to gravity. This weekend I read an article in the Denver
newspaper that mentioned a sixth force. One of the these "new" forces
is supposed to enhance gravity and the other is supposed to negate
gravity. Does anyone know anything this?
Mike
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| 616.2 | The Force | 58087::ALLEN | Tue Jan 05 1988 13:30 | 7 | |
There was an article in either the Boston Globe or Middlesex News
yesterday, 1-4-88....believe it was on the front page...and
something here at Bedford, Ma...just quickly glanced at the article
will check it out tonite and bring in article...
MCA
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| 616.3 | 6th Force be with you..... | 58087::ALLEN | Wed Jan 06 1988 11:04 | 5 | |
Scientists discover a 6th force is with you....Middlesex News Monday,
January 4, 1988.....
If you'd like a copy I'll send .... send me your name and mail stop..
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| 616.4 | Short, Long, and Medium | RSTS32::WAJENBERG | Celebrated ozone dweller | Wed Jan 20 1988 11:52 | 28 |
Re .1
I don't really know much more than has been entered i the topic
already. The results of recent versions of the Eotvos experiment have
been mixed, sometimes showing additional forces, sometimes not. My
impressions is that they show the additional forces more often than
not.
Two points of information:
"Baryon number," for everyday purposes, is the number of protons and
neutrons in a given system. As I recall, the person who dusted off the
Eotvos experiment theorized that the fifth force was proportional to
the baryon number of the elements making up the gravitating body. So
ten tons of hydrogen would have much less fifth-force pull (or push)
than ten tones of carbon, which would have less than ten tons of lead.
The other interesting point is that these 5th and 6th forces, if they
exist, seem to have a range of only a few hundred yards. This is quite
unlike the four well-known forces (electromagnetic, gravitational,
strong nuclear and weak nuclear). The electromagnetic and
gravitational forces have, so far as is known, an infinite range.
There is no distance they can't reach across, though they grow steadily
weaker with distance. The two nuclear forces are essentially contact
forces -- that is, they operate across atomic-scale distances
comparable to the width of a proton.
Earl Wajenberg
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| 616.5 | recent article on 5 & 6 forces | ASIC::EDECK | Do Your Beltane Shopping Now! | Thu Apr 07 1988 16:46 | 9 |
For further reference, there's an article in this month's (April)
Scientific American on the effects of gravity on antiparticles.
Covers the fifth and sixth forces, etc.
At this time, experiments are inconclusive (some show the forces,
some don't), but further tests are proposed.
Ed E. (just passing through)
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