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- From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Matt McIrvin)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: gravitons
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- Date: 24 Jan 93 20:09:33 GMT
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- mkagalen@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (michael kagalenko) writes:
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- (I wrote:)
- >>
- >>Contemplating this further, I think that this statement is a little
- >>misleading. I don't know what the graviton propagator really looks
- >>like (I haven't seen the expression recently), but if you work in
- >>Feynman gauge and examine the propagator of a *massless* spin-1
- >>boson like a photon, I think that in spacetime (rather than in
- >>momentum-energy space) it is confined to the light cone. If gravitons
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- >You're wrong here : propagator is not zero outside light-cone.
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- Okay, I was deluded again. Never mind.
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- Matt McIrvin
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