On 8/4/2013 5:01 PM, Mike Stay wrote:
An interesting calculation by Ashtekar showing that all the handwaving of all the theoretical physicists in the world has almost surely not generated a single graviton.
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sci.physics.research/d6iyjGe5Zo0/naMHyue5AW4...
If stuff is decohering by emitting gravitons, it's got to be terribly low-frequency gravitons.
And of course that means very long wave-length gravitons, which in turn means they don't localize things very well. That's part of the lesson of the buckyball two-slit experiment. The cooler buckyballs still emit some IR photons, but if the photon wavelength is large compared to the slit spacing then the buckyballs aren't localized enough to prevent the interference. Brent