Originally posted by SuperCaviTationIstic
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So if simple magnetic fields - induced or otherwise, don't cause that distortion of light, and if simple electric fields also don't cause it - based on the same principle that if they did - then we'd know of this effect, then the question is what is causing it? We do know that various 'localities' can cause the same effect. We've been shown this. Perhaps, whatever condition applies to those localities may be what Dave has duplicated in his rig?
So the next question - presumably, - is what is that 'rare' combination of forces that is in this 'rig' that may account for the 'effect' and what has this got in common with the locality dependent phenomena that does similar distortions? We only know that the rig comprises simple magnetisable material that has been bent into a unique shape to generate what logically seems to be a combination of attractive and repulsive magnetic fields that somehow manage to stay 'locked' in shape. Could it be that these 'locality dependent' phenomena also have rare combinations of just such fields that have been induced inside the earth at those localities? And if so, then could it be that such combinations are able to 'bend light' in the same way that gravity is known to be able to bend light?
And then. The next question. Is this 'combination' of magnetic fields therefore the same thing as 'gravity' itself. If so, then one can perhaps propose that our earth's magnetic fields may, themselves, be the source of our gravitational fields. Again - the suggestion is not that far out. Einstein himself proposed this - and then eschewed it. I don't know why. All I know is that the liklihood of magnetism and gravity being the same thing is feasible provided only that these same magnetic fields permeate all of space. Because gravity is known to be a universal force. Personally I have no problem with this concept. But it's not a popular thought.
What would be interesting is to see where Dave's rig actually takes us. So far the evidence is that there's a distinct anomaly and that it seems to do to light what convention has determined can only be done by gravity.
Which - as always, is just my humble opinion.
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