Talk:Physics/Essays/Fedosin/Maxwell-like gravitational equations

What is wrong with the article? Why it is in black? Fedosin 02:27, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Fixed some grammatical issues while reading this essay

Would you be ok with these slight adjustments to this article? I made these while puzzling over your equations, and I think they make more sense now with slight adjustments to the wording of your essay.

In the weak gravitational field approximation, Maxwell-like gravitational equations are a set of four partial differential equations that describe the properties of two components of gravitational field and relate them to their sources, mass density and mass current density. These equations are presented in the same form as gravitoelectromagnetism and Lorentz-invariant theory of gravitation. They are used here to show that gravitational waves determine the speed of gravity which is close to the speed of light just as speed of electromagnetic waves determine the speed of light.

History

According to McDonald, the first scientist who used Maxwell equations to describe gravitation was Oliver Heaviside. A conclusion was reached that stated, in weak gravitational fields the standard theory of gravitation could be written in the form of Maxwell equations with two gravitational constants.

In the decade of the 1980's, Maxwell-like equations were discussed in the Wald book of general relativity. During the 1990's this approach was further developed by V. de Sabbata, Lano, Sergey Fedosin.

The means by which to experimentally determine gravitational waves and their properties were developed in papers by Raymond Y. Chiao.

Field equations

Main articles: Lorentz-invariant theory of gravitation and Gravitoelectromagnetism

Field equations in Lorentz-invariant theory of gravitation and field equations in a weak gravitational field according to the Einstein field equations for general relativity have the form:

$~\nabla \cdot \mathbf {\Gamma } =-4\pi G\rho ,$

$~\nabla \times \mathbf {\Gamma } =-{\frac {\partial \mathbf {\Omega } }{\partial t}},$

$~\nabla \cdot \mathbf {\Omega } =0,$

$~\nabla \times \mathbf {\Omega } ={\frac {1}{c_{g}^{2}}}\left(-4\pi G\mathbf {J} +{\frac {\partial \mathbf {\Gamma } }{\partial t}}\right)={\frac {1}{c_{g}^{2}}}\left(-4\pi G\rho \mathbf {v} _{\rho }+{\frac {\partial \mathbf {\Gamma } }{\partial t}}\right),$

where:

• $~\mathbf {\Gamma }$ is gravitational field strength or the gravitational acceleration,
• $~G$ is the gravitational constant,
• $~\mathbf {\Omega }$ is the gravitational torsion field or simply torsion,
• $~\mathbf {J}$ – mass current density,
• $~\rho$ – the moving mass density,
• $~\mathbf {v} _{\rho }$ – speed of mass current density,
• $~c_{g}$ – speed of gravity.

From these equations the wave equations are derived:

$~\nabla ^{2}\mathbf {\Gamma } -{\frac {1}{c_{g}^{2}}}{\frac {\partial ^{2}\mathbf {\Gamma } }{\partial t^{2}}}=-4\pi G\nabla \rho -{\frac {4\pi G}{c_{g}^{2}}}{\frac {\partial \mathbf {J} }{\partial t}},$

$~\nabla ^{2}\mathbf {\Omega } -{\frac {1}{c_{g}^{2}}}{\frac {\partial ^{2}\mathbf {\Omega } }{\partial t^{2}}}={\frac {4\pi G}{c_{g}^{2}}}\nabla \times \mathbf {J} .$

These equations describing gravitoelectromagnetism are the gravitational analogs to Maxwell's equations for electromagnetism.

Gravitational constants

Main articles: Selfconsistent gravitational constants and Vacuum constants

Proceeding from the analogy of both gravitational and Maxwell's equations, the following values can be entered: $~\varepsilon _{g}={\frac {1}{4\pi G}}=1.192708\cdot 10^{9}\,\mathrm {kg\cdot s^{2}\cdot m^{-3}}$ as the gravitoelectric permittivity (like vacuum permittivity);

$~\mu _{g}={\frac {4\pi G}{c_{g}^{2}}}$ as the gravitomagnetic permeability (like vacuum permeability). If the speed of gravitation is equal to the speed of light, $~c_{g}=c,$ then $~\mu _{g}=9.328772\cdot 10^{-27}\mathrm {m/kg} ,$ and

$~{\frac {1}{\sqrt {\mu _{g}\varepsilon _{g}}}}=c=2.99792458\cdot 10^{8}\,\mathrm {m/s} .$

The gravitational characteristic impedance of free space for gravitational waves would then be defined as:

$~{\sqrt {\frac {\mu _{g}}{\varepsilon _{g}}}}=\rho _{g}={\frac {4\pi G}{c_{g}}}.$

If $~c_{g}=c,$ then the gravitational characteristic impedance of free space is equal to:

$~\rho _{g0}={\frac {4\pi G}{c}}=2.796696\cdot 10^{-18}\,\mathrm {m^{2}/(s\cdot kg)}$.

As in electromagnetism, the characteristic impedance of free space plays the dominant role in all radiation processes. One example being, a comparison of the radiation impedance of gravitational wave antennas to the value of said impedance in order to estimate the coupling efficiency of antennas to free space. The numerical value of this impedance is extremely small, therefore it became exceedingly difficult even unto the present to construct receivers with proper impedance matching.

Applications

Wave equations in vacuum

The gravitational vacuum wave equation is a second-order partial differential equation that describes the propagation of gravitational waves through vacuum in absence of matter. The homogeneous form of the equation, written in terms of either the gravitational field strength $~\mathbf {\Gamma }$ or the gravitational torsion field $~\mathbf {\Omega }$, has the form:

$~\nabla ^{2}\mathbf {\Gamma } -{\frac {1}{c_{g}^{2}}}{\frac {\partial ^{2}\mathbf {\Gamma } }{\partial t^{2}}}=0,$

$~\nabla ^{2}\mathbf {\Omega } -{\frac {1}{c_{g}^{2}}}{\frac {\partial ^{2}\mathbf {\Omega } }{\partial t^{2}}}=0.$

For waves in one direction the general solution of the gravitational wave equation is a linear superposition of flat waves of the form

$~\mathbf {\Gamma } (\mathbf {r} ,t)=f(\phi (\mathbf {r} ,t))=f(\omega t-\mathbf {k} \cdot \mathbf {r} )$

and

$~\mathbf {\Omega } (\mathbf {r} ,t)=q(\phi (\mathbf {r} ,t))=q(\omega t-\mathbf {k} \cdot \mathbf {r} )$

for virtually any well-behaved functions $~f$ and $~q$ of dimensionless argument $~\phi ,$ where

$~\omega$ is the angular frequency (in radians per second),

$~\mathbf {k} =(k_{x},k_{y},k_{z})$ is the wave vector (in radians per meter), and $~\Gamma =c_{g}\Omega .$

Considering the following relationships between separate induction variations and the strengths of gravitational fields:

$~\mathbf {\Omega } =\mu _{g}\mathbf {H_{g}} ,\qquad \Omega ={\frac {\Gamma }{c_{g}}},$

$~\mathbf {D_{g}} =\varepsilon _{g}\mathbf {\Gamma } ,$

where $~\mathbf {D_{g}}$ is gravitational displacement field, $~\mathbf {H_{g}}$ is torsion (gravitomagnetic) field strength, we could obtain the following interconnected values:

$~{\sqrt {\mu _{g}}}H_{g}={\sqrt {\varepsilon _{g}}}\Gamma .$

This equation determines the wave impedance (gravitational characteristic impedance of free space) in a standard form similar to the case of electromagnetism:

$~\rho _{g}={\sqrt {\frac {\mu _{g}}{\varepsilon _{g}}}}=c_{g}\mu _{g}={\frac {\Gamma }{H_{g}}}.$

In practice, without exception the total dipole gravitational radiation of each system of bodies, when viewed from infinity tends to zero, due to mutual compensation of emissions of individual bodies. As a result, the main components of the emission of gravitational radiation are quadrupole and higher harmonics. With this in mind, the wave equation in Lorentz-invariant theory of gravitation, calculated in the quadrupole approximation, are sufficiently accurate approximations to the results of general relativity and covariant theory of gravitation.

If in the system of bodies, are bodies with an electric charge which radiate electromagnetically, the balance is disrupted along with some uncompensated dipole gravitational radiation.

Gravitational LC circuit

As a model of LC circuit, consider the case of motion of an ideal liquid fluid in a closed pipe under influence of gravitational and other forces. Suppose that this circuit has a tubular coil through which passes a fluid, due to its rotation creates a torsion field in the space and passes portion of its energy to the field. The tubular coil plays the role of spiral inductance in electromagnetism. In another part of the circuit is a section that accumulates the liquid. For the possibility of fluid motion in two opposite directions in this circuit, on both sides of the section are pistons with springs. This allows for periodical conversion fluid motion energy into energy of compression springs,which is approximately equated to changes in the gravitational energy of the fluid. The pistons with springs act like a capacitor in a circuit, and gravitational voltage $~V_{g}$ is then equal to the difference of gravitational potentials, and the gravitational mass current $~I_{g}$ is equivalent to the mass of liquid per unit time through a section of the pipe.

Gravitational voltage on gravitational inductance $~L_{g}$ is:

$~V_{gL}=-L_{g}\cdot {\frac {dI_{gL}}{dt}}.$

Gravitational mass current through gravitational capacitance $~C_{g}$ is:

$~I_{gC}=C_{g}\cdot {\frac {dV_{gC}}{dt}}.$

Differentiating these equations with respect to the time variable, we obtain:

$~{\frac {dV_{gL}}{dt}}=-L_{g}{\frac {d^{2}I_{gL}}{dt^{2}}},\qquad {\frac {dI_{gC}}{dt}}=C_{g}{\frac {d^{2}V_{gC}}{dt^{2}}}.$

Considering the following relationships for gravitational voltages and currents:

$~V_{gL}=V_{gC}=V_{g};\qquad I_{gL}=I_{gC}=I_{g},$

we obtain the following differential equations for gravitational oscillations:

$~{\frac {d^{2}I_{g}}{dt^{2}}}+{\frac {1}{L_{g}C_{g}}}I_{g}=0,\qquad {\frac {d^{2}V_{g}}{dt^{2}}}+{\frac {1}{L_{g}C_{g}}}V_{g}=0.$

Furthermore, considering the following relationships between gravitational voltage and mass of the liquid:

$~m=C_{g}V_{g}$

and mass current with flux of torsion field:

$~\Phi =L_{g}I_{g}$

the above oscillation equation for $~V_{g}$ could be rewritten in the form:

$~{\frac {d^{2}m}{dt^{2}}}+{\frac {1}{L_{g}C_{g}}}m=0.$

This equation has the partial solution:

$~m(t)=m_{0}\sin(\omega _{g}t),$

where

$~\omega _{g}={\frac {1}{\sqrt {L_{g}C_{g}}}}$

is the resonance frequency in absence of energy loss, and

$~\rho _{LC}={\sqrt {\frac {L_{g}}{C_{g}}}}={\frac {V_{g0}}{I_{g0}}}$

then describes the gravitational characteristic impedance of LC circuit, which is equal to the ratio of the gravitational voltage amplitude to the mass current amplitude.

Gravitational induction

Main article: Gravitational induction

According to the second equation for gravitational fields, after a change in time of $~\mathbf {\Omega }$ there appears a circular field (rotor) of $~\mathbf {\Gamma }$, having the opportunity to lead in the rotation of matter:

$\nabla \times \mathbf {\Gamma } =-{\frac {\partial \mathbf {\Omega } }{\partial t}}.\qquad \qquad (1)$

If the vector field $~\mathbf {\Omega }$ crosses a certain area $~S$, then we can calculate the flux of this field through this area:

$~\Phi =\int \mathbf {\Omega } \cdot \mathbf {n} ds,\qquad \qquad (2)$

where $~\mathbf {n}$ – The normalized vector to the element area $~dS$.

To find the partial derivative in the equation $(2)$ with respect to time with a minus sign and integrate over the area, taking into account the equation $(1)$:

$~-\int {\frac {\partial \mathbf {\Omega } }{\partial t}}\cdot \mathbf {n} ds=-{\frac {\partial \Phi }{\partial t}}=\int [\nabla \times \mathbf {\Gamma } ]\cdot \mathbf {n} ds=\int \mathbf {\Gamma } {\vec {d}}\ell .\qquad \qquad (3)$

Thi integration formula used the Stokes theorem, replacing the integration of the rotor vector over the area on the integration of this vector over a closed circuit. On the right side of $(3)$ is a term, equal to the work on transfer of a unit mass of matter on a closed loop $~\ell$, covering an area $~S$. As a parallel comparison to electromagnetism, this work could be called gravitomotive force. In the middle of $(3)$ is the time derivative of flux such that$~\Phi$. According to $(3)$, gravitational induction occurs when the flux of fields through a certain area changes and is expressed in the occurrence of rotational forces acting on particles of matter. The direction of motion of the matter will be such that field $~\mathbf {\Omega }$ of the matter will be sent in the same direction as the initial torsion field which created the circulation of the matter (this is in contrast to Lenz's_law in electromagnetic theory).

See also

• Electrodynamics
• Lorentz-invariant theory of gravitation
• Gravitoelectromagnetism
• Speed of gravitation
• Gravitational characteristic impedance of free space
• Selfconsistent gravitational constants
• Gravitational induction
• Quantum Gravitational Resonator

External links

• Maxwell-like gravitational equations in Russian