Re: [Phys-l] g & E fields

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

When matter is created from an EM field, e.g. pair production, some of 
its energy goes to creating the matters' G field too.  Can this be 
separately measured?

bc intrigued.

John Denker wrote:

> On 12/02/2007 01:41 AM, John Barrer wrote:
>  
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> > One more thing to add. The analogy is clearly not
> > perfect. There is most definitely energy stored in a
> > charged capacitor regardless of whether or not a test
> > charge is moved about. 
> >    
>
> That's emphatic.
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> > Not the case for a g field. 
> >    
>
> Really?  
>
> I assume that means to say there is no energy stored in
> the gravitational field.  
>
> How do you know that?  How sure are you?
>
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