Timeline for Can molecules/atoms/any subatomic particle cause space time curvature?
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| Jul 3, 2016 at 1:24 | history | edited | auden | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 3, 2016 at 0:47 | comment | added | CuriousOne | This is not known. The most precise Newtonian gravity measurements can reach just below the 1mm scale. How gravity behaves below that scale is neither known, nor do theorists expect it to necessarily keep behaving according to Newtonian theory or general relativity. It would, indeed, be very valuable if it didn't behave like naive high school physics expects because that would move interesting physics well below the Planck scale. If you want to know what we really think might be happening, then look up "compact extra dimensions". | |
| Jul 3, 2016 at 0:44 | comment | added | auden | No; however, this is known. As Wikipedia says, " In Einstein's theory, energy and momentum distort spacetime..." and as E=mc^2 says, mass and energy are two forms of the same thing. A particle has mass, therefore it has energy, therefore it distorts spacetime (though by a very small amount). | |
| Jul 3, 2016 at 0:38 | comment | added | CuriousOne | You have measured the gravitational attraction between molecules? | |
| Jul 3, 2016 at 0:34 | vote | accept | Sandy Danial | ||
| Jul 3, 2016 at 0:28 | history | answered | auden | CC BY-SA 3.0 |