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On Fri, 28 Mar 1997 23:04:21 GMT, ykhan@achilles.net (Yousuf Khan)
wrote:

>>Hopefully it would work by excluding Higgs particles from the area,
>>without changing the intrinsic nature of the particles. One the
>>particles passed out of the affected area of space they would.
>>hopefully, revert to their normal behaviour.
>
>In order to stop attracting higgs bosons, you would have to take away their
>ability to generate gravitons. Gravitons would be the essential force
>carrier mechanism within matter particles to attract Higgs bosons.
>

Maybe you could just arrange for no Higgs bosons to be available.

>Personally, I like being matter, I think you like being matter too. I
>imagine it's the best state of energy to be in. I think it would suck being
>a photon. :-)
>

Since you'd be at lightspeed no time would pass for it to suck in.

>>Actually, the cannon ball stretches the surface everywhere. And thats
>>the problem.
>
>That's because the direction of the gravitons is unfocused. All you would
>need to do is focus the gravitons in a certain direction. A graviton laser
>beam of a kind. You can stretch only the directions of space you think most
>necessary. You also optimize your usage of gravitons, given such a small
>amount of mass that you will be given.
>

But normal gravity can distort space in only one sense. It can only
_increase_ the curvature. You want to be able to decrease it too.

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