Gravitomagnetic Analogs of Electric Transformers

[DeltaV]

This belongs in the General forum, since it's not specifically Polywell related (at this time), but if I put it there it would be quickly buried under the avalanche of politicopsychosocial commentary.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.5754v1

[Aero]

So not generally, but theoretically, how would one go about locating a gravitometric material that was permeable to gravity fields, like iron to magnetic fields? Test each and every material for weight different than the sum of it's atomic parts? Or test the inertia of each and every material somehow?

[Giorgio]

That was quite an interesting paper. I am not fully convinced, but it opens very fascinating new area of research, especially using the LHC.

Should he be right we might as well place a big stone on string theory once for all.

[DeltaV]

So not generally, but theoretically, how would one go about locating a gravitometric material that was permeable to gravity fields, like iron to magnetic fields? Test each and every material for weight different than the sum of it's atomic parts? Or test the inertia of each and every material somehow?

Maybe an experimental gravitometric transformer of the sort mentioned below, with associated diagnostics, that allows different materials to be swapped in for the core material.

One can use a transformer of the kind described above (for example with pulsed electric current or particle beam in the primary and a superfluid or superconducting secondary) to measure, or at least set bounds on, the gravitational equivalent of magnetic permeability, and to search for the gravitational equivalent of ferromagnetic materials by using them as cores.

[Aero]

So not generally, but theoretically, how would one go about locating a gravitometric material that was permeable to gravity fields, like iron to magnetic fields? Test each and every material for weight different than the sum of it's atomic parts? Or test the inertia of each and every material somehow?

Maybe an experimental gravitometric transformer of the sort mentioned below, with associated diagnostics, that allows different materials to be swapped in for the core material.

One can use a transformer of the kind described above (for example with pulsed electric current or particle beam in the primary and a superfluid or superconducting secondary) to measure, or at least set bounds on, the gravitational equivalent of magnetic permeability, and to search for the gravitational equivalent of ferromagnetic materials by using them as cores.

Hmm - That should work and not even be too hard. The only draw back is that it requires the use of the LHC which might get, well, difficult, I guess is the word. Not so much expensive, just hard to get machine time to use it.