This applies to a couple other threads - so I thought I'd start a new one.
I think that the experiments are a little out of our budget right now, but this is a great reason to increase our over-all wealth and resources... so that experiments like this can be afforded. It's certainly cheaper than the equipment I've heard is needed to test String Theory (giant colliders).
In other news, the environment outside our solar system is confusing astronomers who are tracking Voyager.
Scientists at Duke and Rutgers universities have developed a mathematical framework they say will enable astronomers to test a new five-dimensional theory of gravity that competes with Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.
But do braneworld black holes really exist -- and therefore stand as evidence for the 5-D braneworld theory?
The scientists showed that it should be possible to answer this question by observing the effects that braneworld black holes would exert on electromagnetic radiation traveling to Earth from other galaxies. Any such radiation passing near a black hole will be acted upon by the object's tremendous gravitational forces -- an effect called "gravitational lensing."
I think that the experiments are a little out of our budget right now, but this is a great reason to increase our over-all wealth and resources... so that experiments like this can be afforded. It's certainly cheaper than the equipment I've heard is needed to test String Theory (giant colliders).
In other news, the environment outside our solar system is confusing astronomers who are tracking Voyager.