Editing ParaNet BBS/All About Gravitational Waves (section)

==Sidebar: Rhysmonic Cosmology==

Ancient and Renaissance physicists postulated the existence of
an all-pervasive medium they called the _ether_.  Since the advent of
sub-atomic physics and relativity, theories of the ether have fallen
into disuse.  Rhysmonic cosmology postulates the existence of rhysmons,
which are the fundamental particles of nature, and which pervade the
universe, as does the ether.

Each rhysmon has the attributes of size, shape, position, and
velocity; rhysmons are arranged in space in a matrix structure, the
density of which varies according to position in the universe.  The
matrix structure of rhysmons in free space gives rise to the fundamental
units of length, time, velocity, mass, volume, denisty, and energy
discovered by physicist Max Planck.

Fundamental postulates of the Rhysmonic Universe can be
summarized as follows:

* The universe is finite and spherical
* Euclidean geometry is sufficient to describe Rhysmonic Space.
* The edge of the universe is a perfect reflector of energy.
* Matter forms only in the central portion of the universe.

The matrix structure of rhysmons allows the instantaneous
transmission of energy along a straight line, called an energy vector,
from the point of origin to the edge of the universe, where it would be
reflected according to laws similar those giverning spherical optics.

In Rhysmonic Cosmology, mass, inertia, and energy are treated as
they are in classical mechanics.  Mass arises, according to the author,
because "particles in rhysmonic cosmology must be the result of changes
in the `density' of the rhysmonic structure, since the universe is
nothing more than rhysmons and the void."

In a "dense" area of the universe, such as the core of a
particle, a number of rhysmons are squeezed togther.  This means that
every particle has a correlating anti-particle, or an area of
correspondingly low density.  In addition, a particle has an excess of
outward-directed energy vectors, and an anti-particle has an excess of
inward-directed energy vectors.  Those vectors are what we usually call
electric charge.

Gravity is not a force of attraction between objects; rather,
two objects are impelled towards each other by energy vectors impinging
on the surfaces of those objects that do not face each other.  Netwon's
laws of gravitation hold, although their derivation is different than in
Newton's system.

Gravitational waves arise in various ways, but, in general, a
large astronomical disturbance, such as the explosion of a supernova,
instantaneously modulates the rhysmonic energy vectors.  That modulation
might then appear, for example, superimposed on the Earth's
gravitaional-field flux -- and it would be detectable by circuits like
those described here.

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