# Finding the answer...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-the-answer/16926>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 2, 1999, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-the-answer/16926 "1999-11-02T16:43:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Jackamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Jackamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackamus)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 1999, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-the-answer/16926/21 "1999-11-05T03:08:00Z")

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Finding the answers to some of life’s great mysteries is one of the reasons I love reading SD.

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**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 1999, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-the-answer/16926/22 "1999-11-06T02:34:00Z")

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Monkey Boy wrote:

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> I have also heard that the graviton theory is pretty much over with, and that it is theorized that gravity may be part of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Whoa! Where did you hear _this_ hypothesis?! Got any links to physics webpages I can follow on this subject?

If gravity is, indeed, “part of the electromagnetic spectrum” – i.e. some frequency of light waves – that would mean we could cause gravity by pointing a radar dish at someone, or stop gravity by enclosing someone in a Faraday cage. (Assuming the “part” of the spectrum gravity lies in is the radio portion; we’d have to do different things if gravity were in, say, the Hard Gamma Ray portion on the spectrum.)

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Quick-N-Dirty Aviation: Trading altitude for airspeed since 1992.

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**Author:** ![Phaedrus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@Phaedrus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phaedrus)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 1999, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-the-answer/16926/23 "1999-11-09T09:56:00Z")

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Tracer: your constants are noted, but how are they constants when time isn’t?

I DO NOT understand these principles so please answer with care.

I asked the same question in a physics thread but all I got was a wave of the hand saying go away. Nobody seemed to know the answer. You are brilliant in my book, from a scientific perspective.

What oh what is the answer? Please?

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**Author:** ![Atrael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Atrael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atrael)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 1999, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-the-answer/16926/24 "1999-11-09T15:06:00Z")

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Jazz–  
Yes, I also wonder about the unknowable.  
Unlike bantmof, I wonder about the past. About Truly ancient history. I look at the technilogical advances we’ve made in the last 500-1000 years, and wonder why it took so long for pre-historic man to pick up a damn stick. (shrug) I know that none of my questions will ever be answered, but that doesn’t stop me from wondering…so yes jazzmine, there is curiosity.

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