I don't think the deceleration could come from directional thermal radiation. The power absorbed or produced by the probe is not constant: the power from the battery drops exponentially in time and the power absorbed from the sun drops as inverse square of distance from the sun. The probes are on different distances from the sun, are of different types and the time spent in space is different also.
There may still be some good explanations so we should not wet our pants, but still it is interesting to speculate a little about possibilities of a new physical theory or phenomenon.
One must remember, that gravity is the only physical fundamental force we have not been able to quantisize. As quantum theory has been a very good explanator and predicter for electric, optic and magnetic phenomenons, I think it could also do something to gravity also.
Gravity has been extremely difficult to quantisize, though. You may have heard of gravitons, but that is still only a name without shape. It seems gravity can not be explained with linear differential equations (like Scrödinger's or Dirac's for electromagnetism) but with nonlinear DE:s. These can not be usually calculated analytically, but only numerically.
So is this a quantum effect of gravity? Maybe we know it someday.
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Does anybody know if Nokia will provide also the linux users with a program for music/other file transfer between the 5510 and a computer?
/. was a linux geek site.
What about the other Nokia phones (especially Communicators (series 9000))? Does anybody use them with a linux computer as the desktop?
I still use a Nokia 6110 while waiting for a good phone/PDA/MP3-player to replace it. My home computers are all 100% linux.
It's odd that this question has not been posted by anybody else... I thought
There may still be some good explanations so we should not wet our pants, but still it is interesting to speculate a little about possibilities of a new physical theory or phenomenon.
One must remember, that gravity is the only physical fundamental force we have not been able to quantisize. As quantum theory has been a very good explanator and predicter for electric, optic and magnetic phenomenons, I think it could also do something to gravity also.
Gravity has been extremely difficult to quantisize, though. You may have heard of gravitons, but that is still only a name without shape. It seems gravity can not be explained with linear differential equations (like Scrödinger's or Dirac's for electromagnetism) but with nonlinear DE:s. These can not be usually calculated analytically, but only numerically.
So is this a quantum effect of gravity? Maybe we know it someday.