Is There a Geomagnetic Component Involved with the Determination of G?
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Abstract: We compared the small quantitative changes (range) in G over repeated measures (days) with recently improved methods of determinations and those recorded over 20 years ago. The range in the Newtonian constant of gravitation G is usually in the order of 400 ppm as reflected in experimentally-determined values. The moderate strength negative correlation between daily fluctuations in G, in the range of 3 × 10-3 of the average value, and an index of global geomagnetic activity reported by Vladimirsky and Bruns in 1998 was also found for the daily fluctuations in the angular deflection θ (in arcseconds) and geomagnetic activity within 24 hr for the Quinn et al. 2013 data. A temporal coupling between increases of geomagnetic activity in the order of 10-9 T with decreases in G in the order of 10-14 m3·kg-1·s-2 could suggest a recondite shared source of variance. The energy equivalence for this change in G and geomagnetic activity within 1 L of water is ~3 × 10-14 J.
Keywords:
Gravitational Constant Variations,
Geomagnetic Activity,
Energy Convergence,
Electromagnetic-Gravitational Interactions
Cite this paper:
Persinger, M. and St-Pierre, L. (2014) Is There a Geomagnetic Component Involved with the Determination of G?. International Journal of Geosciences, 5, 450-452. doi: 10.4236/ijg.2014.54042.
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