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If a force from another body acts on that mass object it will begin to move and accelerate. As a consequence of that movement, its gravitational field will also move. However, the whole gravitational field will not move at once. A nearby forward region of the field previously at a lower intensity will now have a higher intensity pushed into it and the change will propagate through the field with a finite velocity. That change is a distortion of the field. But we have noted above that a force field resists increases to its intensity. In the case of a gravitational field, that resistance appears as a force exerted against the body, a force produced by the body?s own gravitational field.
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from the description above it seems to me that there should be a deacceleration force instead, since it is the objects velocity that is causing the deformed field, and not specifically the increase in velosity.
also, the force field would also have to resist a decrease in field strength also or else the decrease force would counteract the increase force, so therefore you would have a force pulling on the rear as well as a force pushing from the front. Unless you are arguing that it is the narrowing of the field in the front that is causing the restive force, but even then i still do not see a way around the deceration force.
gavitational fields extend on for infinity, so wouldn't you expect a rebound effect. say you turn off the motive force, this information is carred along at a finite speed along the forward vector of the gravity field, so you would expect the inertial force to slack off, in a exponetial way, instead of quitting altogether.
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<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: moving_target on 2002-08-18 04:19 ]</font>