Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!sri-unix!mcgeer%ucbkim@Berkeley From: mcgeer%ucbkim%Berkeley@sri-unix.ARPA Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: A Queation Regarding Black Holes Message-ID: <486@sri-arpa.ARPA> Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 13:04:49 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.486 Posted: Fri Aug 9 13:04:49 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 06:19:22 EDT Lines: 14 From: mcgeer%ucbkim@Berkeley (Rick McGeer) I remember asking this same question a few years ago, and I was told by some graduate physics students at the time that either: (1) Gravitons aren't affected by a gravitic field; or (2) There are no gravitons: gravity is strictly the geometric effect of a mass on spacetime. Which of these is correct? According to my friends (and, by the way, they were solid-state guys, not relativists or field theorists), nobody knows. But one of them must be correct, because black holes are observed... Rick