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Unprincipled microgravity
Institution:1. Institut für Mineralogie, Westfälische-Wilhelms Universität Münster, Corrensstr. 24, 48149 Münster, Germany;2. A.P. Karpinsky Russian Geological Research Institute (VSEGEI), Centre of Isotopic Research, Sredny Prospect 74, 199106 St. Petersburg, Russia
Abstract:I argue that the key principle of microgravity is what I have called elsewhere the Lorentzian strategy. This strategy may be seen as either a reverse-engineering approach or a descent with modification approach, but however one sees if the method works neither by attempting to propound a theory that is the quantum version of either an extant or generalized gravitation theory nor by attempting to propound a theory that is the final version of quantum mechanics and finding gravity within it. Instead the method works by beginning with what we are pretty sure is a good approximation to the low-energy limit of whatever the real microprocesses are that generate what we experience as gravitation. This method is powerful, fruitful, and not committed to principles for which we have, as yet, only scant evidence; the method begins with what we do know and teases out what we can know next. The principle is methodological, not ontological.
Keywords:Microgravity  Quantum gravity  Stochastic gravity  Methodology
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