On Geons
Sven Gelbhaar
30 November 2008
Geons are said to be gravitational waves, who confine themselves to one
region of space by their own gravitational force. (1) In this paper we
will explore if Geons can exist, if they can then what needs to be in place
to allow them to occur, and why they probably don’t.
First let us explore the concept: a wave that can sustain itself. Does
this sort of thing happen with water? No, because friction and outside
interference will eventually wear these down, and they certainly don’t stay
in one region of space as Geons are believed to. A wave is a displacement
of a coherent medium, after all, so by nature waves (as in water) will need
to travel, or they wouldn’t be waves. The same holds true for sound waves,
and even the erroneously dubbed electromagnetic waves.
Now let us examine the empirical evidence for Geons’ existence. As far as
I can tell they remain purely in the realm of theoretical physics, as a
result of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. I could not find any
substantiating studies or physical evidence. Perhaps this could be looked
into in future scientific experimentation.
Let us move on to what would need to take place if we had a self contained
gravity wave, or rather a gravity wave whose own gravity kept it in one
region of space. Gravity would have to be propagated by some sort of force
carrier who in and of themselves were attracted by gravity, which
presupposes yet another level of force carriers. Gravitons, based on
popular contemporary conjecture, are these hypothetical force carriers, but
surely they themselves couldn’t be subject to gravity, for then if you had
an object large enough, the gravitons that it would emit would never be
able to leave its own event horizon as they would be pulled back into the
body of mass from which they originate. This, again, isn’t supported by
any evidence; on the contrary the opposite is seen, for surely the black
holes currently thought to exist at the center of galaxies should be big
enough (mass-wise) to create such a gravitational sink, and yet they still
exert gravitational force on their surroundings (as the rest of the galaxy
rotates around them).
Finally, we have a better explanation for gravity than the force carrying
Graviton particles namely the phenomena described in my paper called
Atomic Theory of Gravity which you might otherwise know as London
dispersion force. This theory, which is directly derivative of
electromagnetic force, makes no such suppositions as force carriers, and as
it explains our observations much more elegantly than those theories of
gravity which stipulate the existence of gravitons, we are left with no
choice but to accept it as being the underlying mechanism of gravity until
a better theory comes along.
So, as you, dear Reader, can clearly see, there is no reason to believe
that Geons can exist, and plenty of reasons to actively disbelieve that
they can.
References
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geon_(physics ) 30 November 2008