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whiskyriot , (edited )

From my layman perspective, yes the measured gravity would be double it’s original value if measured from the same place.

Gravity is an exponential function, so it gets weaker at an exponential rate as you move away from the source. But even if it’s a value of 1.0 at Earth’s surface and .02 at some distant point from Earth, doubling Earth’s gravity would double both values to 2.0 and .04, respectively.

Jeredin OP ,
@Jeredin@lemm.ee avatar

This was the answer I was after, thank you!

Additional question that’s related, if you’d like to try it: I’ve read about vacuum energy/zero point energy - hawking radiation exists because of those theories. From what I’ve read, vacuum energy has the potential for any form of matter but because of the uncertainty principle, less likely to produce higher forms of energy, and thus why most fluctuations produce only virtual particles. My main question then is: so no matter what, all of space ether has matter or potential for matter? If so, should a photon actually collide with a virtual particle it would actually stay in physical existence)?

Thank again

I would assume I’m not interested in any of the associated crackpot ideas some have.

FlowVoid ,

If a photon collides with a particle, virtual or not, then the particle will eventually emit another photon.

FlowVoid ,

Gravity is not exponential. It is linear with mass and inverse square with distance.

A_A ,
@A_A@lemmy.ca avatar

Hey @Jeredin

This one, @FlowVoid, has the correct answer…

So, don’t believe in the crackpot idea that it would be exponential

whiskyriot ,

Whoops! I said exponential instead of inverse squared. What a crackpot I am.

A_A , (edited )
@A_A@lemmy.ca avatar

I did make I have made many mistakes, much worse than this one and on many occasions. I would say : don’t be so hard on yourself since it’s important to forgive ourselves.

I do believe the following correction should be made again to your text though :

Gravity is an [edit: inverse squared] function, so it gets weaker at an exponential a squared rate as you move away from the source.

whiskyriot ,

Thank you for the clarification. Best way to get the right answer is to post the wrong one.

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