What is gravity really.
S D Rodrian
EL <hem...@lilac.ocn.ne.jp> wrote:
> In article <3a18...@news.sentex.net>,
> "lenny" <le...@sentex.net> wrote:
>
> > Um...just for the sake or argument, why
> > would it require ether for a wave
> > medium? EM waves don't.
> ==
> [EL]
> Why do you need hands to wave your hands?
> Why do you need a sea to make waves you can see?
> Why do you need air to make sound waves and know
> that they are there?
> Waves in nothing are not waves "of" nothing,
> but just nothing with no waves.
> We are not talking about Aether "out there"
> but right "in here".
> What you understand as the empty space in
> an atom is not empty at all.
> :-)
> Particles are waves in Aether.
> It is that simple.
Errrrr.... pardon moi, EL, but I believe the poster was
asking how come, if (Maxwell's equations) EM waves can
propagate without a medium, how come other waves can't.
It's not as simple as just merely saying that no wave
can propagate through a vacuum.
START QUOTE
In a nut-shell (no pun intended)...
Maxwell's theory is a theory of waves
in a continuous (i.e., infinitely divisible)
medium. The energy of the waves is also infinitely
divisible so that an indefinitely small amount
can be emitted or absorbed by matter. Classical
physical theories of the 19th century had predicted
that in such a system the energy in equilibrium
would be distributed so as to give an equal amount
to each mode (frequency) of vibration. Because
a continuous medium has an infinite number of modes
of vibration, and the atoms (which constitute matter)
have only a finite number, all the energy of the
universe would be transformed into waves of high
frequency. Maxwell understood this difficulty, which
was later most clearly stated in the Rayleigh-Jeans law
(after two English physicists, Lord Rayleigh and
Sir James Hopwood Jeans) of the radiation of a
blackbody (a body in which the intake and output
of energy are in equilibrium). The German physicist
Max Planck demonstrated that it is necessary to
postulate that radiant-heat energy is emitted only
in finite amounts, which are now called quanta.
At first, it was hoped to retain, without modification,
the theory of light as electromagnetic waves in free
space and to use the quantum concept only in relation
to the interaction between radiation and matter.
In 1905, however, Einstein showed that, in the
photoelectric effect, light behaves as if all the
energy were concentrated in quanta--i.e., particles
of energy now called photons. In the same year,
Einstein published the theory of relativity, which
modified the whole of physics and gave a special role
to the velocity constant c. Because light, in some
situations, behaves like waves and, in others, like
particles, it is necessary to have a theory that
predicts when and to what extent each kind of
behaviour is manifested. The main development of
the quantum mechanics, which does precisely this,
took place between 1925 and 1935.
Light from ordinary sources is emitted by atoms
the phases of which are not correlated with one
another, so that there is a random irregularity
or incoherence between the waves emitted from
different atoms. This places severe restrictions
on the conditions under which the periodicity
associated with wave theory can be observed.
In England, Lord Rayleigh appreciated this effect
and knew that, by the use of pinholes or slits and
light of a narrow range of wavelength, effectively
coherent light could be produced. For a long time,
interest in this topic lapsed. About 1935 Frits
Zernike, a Dutch physicist, and others extended
the theory of coherence to include the concept of
partial coherence. This appeared to be of practical
importance only in a few rather special applications
(e.g., in the Michelson stellar interferometer). [It is
difficult to estimate the accuracy of Michelson's 1927
and 1935 experiments, and it is no longer important
to do so in view of the more accurate measurements
made since 1945. His most important contribution to
the measurement of the velocity was the proof that
the velocity agreed with Maxwell's prediction to
better than one part in a thousand. This gave
confidence to those working on applications of the
electromagnetic theory.] A theory of stimulated
emission, attributable to the work of Einstein
and an English physicist, Paul A.M. Dirac, postulated
that under certain conditions atoms could be made to
radiate in phase so that highly coherent radiation
could be maintained indefinitely. The practical
realization of these conditions, previously thought
to be impossible, was achieved in 1960. A second major
development in the theory of light in this century is
the application of so-called Fourier transform methods
(a mathematical treatment of light waves) to a wide
range of optical problems and, especially, to the
transfer of information in optical systems. Today,
the theory of light has again reached a point at which
all known terrestrial phenomena are included in one
logical theory. The known unsolved problems concern
the transmission of light over the vast distances of
intergalactic space. Here the theory of light impinges
on the science of cosmology.
Historically the theory of electricity and magnetism
developed in the form of a number of empirical laws
each of which was a generalization based on a series
of experiments; e.g., Coulomb's law dealt with the
force between two stationary electric charges.
Maxwell replaced all these laws by a single theory
concisely stated in the form of a set of vector
equations. It has been said that Maxwell's theory is
Maxwell's equations, and indeed it is impossible to do
justice to Maxwell's achievement without use of these
equations. [You may refer to standard texts on
electromagnetic theory for the equations themselves
which are understandable to those who understand them
already, and so not useful here.] However... Electric
and magnetic fields are specified by means of the
vectors E and H with which are associated the
vectors D, B, and J (electric and magnetic induction
and density of electric current). Maxwell's equations
fall into two groups: (1) three constitutive equations
and (2) four field equations. All material bodies
contain electrons. These are negative charges circulating
around heavier nuclei that are positively charged. When
an electric field is applied to a material body, the
average positions of the negative charges relative to
the positions of the positive charges are changed.
This creates an internal electric field. Similarly
the action of a magnetic field on a material changes
the movement of the electrons and sets up an internal
magnetic field. The constitutive equations state that
effects within a material body are proportional to
the applied fields so that the resultant fields within
the body are proportional to the applied field. Certain
constants are defined: is the dielectric constant, is
the magnetic permeability, and is the electrical
conductivity. There is no general agreement, however,
concerning these constants, and therefore some
authorities use a different nomenclature.
The first of the four field equations quantifies certain
properties of the electric induction at the boundary of
a volume that contains a net positive or negative charge.
The second states that, since there are no free magnetic
poles, a certain integral of magnetic quantities is zero.
The third equation states that, when the magnetic flux
through a surface changes, electrical voltages appear on
the boundaries of the surface.
The fourth states that electrical currents in conducting
materials and changes of the electric induction in
nonconducting materials produce magnetic effects.
[When Maxwell's equations are combined, using standard
mathematical methods, a new equation is obtained. It
predicts the existence of electromagnetic waves, with
well-defined properties which says that in free space
(vacuo) electromagnetic waves are propagated with a phase
velocity c. Plane waves are propagated without attenuation.
Spherical waves have an amplitude inversely proportional
to the distance from a small source.]
The field equations (like the constitutive equations)
are linear equations: they state that certain quantities
are proportional to one another; e.g., the third equation
states that the electrical voltages are directly proportional
to the rate of change of magnetic flux. In Maxwell's
equations, electricity and magnetism are two aspects of
one thing called electromagnetism. Maxwell's theory can
indeed be stated in a way that does not mention electricity
and magnetism separately. The three constitutive equations
and the first three of the field equations are precise
formulations of known empirical laws.
In the fourth field equation Maxwell introduced a new
hypothesis--that an electrical change in a nonconductor
produces magnetic effects. This hypothesis--which can be
verified by electrical experiments--leads to the theory of
electromagnetic waves capable of being propagated through
a vacuum.
END QUOTE
As you can see... "waves through a vacuum" is a very
special interpretation of electromagnetism. While
conventionally waves require a medium to propagate
(and this led to Einstein's description of light
traveling through a vacuum NOT as a wave but as a
quantum particle, which is our dearly beloved photon).
Thank you, Einstein, for getting rid once & for all
of that goofy 19th Century delusion... the Ether!
Too bad Einstein simply replaced one myth with another
myth (namely, the delusion that Time AND space have
pertinent/critical existence... while the truth is
that Time only exists in our minds, and Space is only
the absence of anything existing there--But one can't
have everything, so I give thanks for all Einstein
gave us and ignore the usual human prejudices inherent
to the age one inhabits).
> I recommend shaving by Occam's razor, it is the best.
> EL Hemetis
ONLY when the razor is in the hands of a competent
barber (like me, for instance). In the clumsy hands
of a butcher like EL (and others in these NGs, who
shall remain unnamed by me, but who will be only too
eager to show off who/what they are)... all fine
instruments turn destructively cumbersome and crude.
S D Rodrian
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S D Rodrian
herbert...@webtv.net (G=EMC^2 Glazier) wrote:
> To All going down a hole 10 miles gravity gets weaker.
> Going up 10 miles
> gravity gets weaker.
Wow! That means that if we're ten miles high [pun]
gravity gets weaker when we go down 10 miles.
And if we're 10 miles deep gravity gets weaker
if we go up 10 miles! [Of course, this seems to
contradict itself, but who cares? It's grand!]
> Man can create his own gravity.
Absolutely: If you jump off a cliff
and land on your feet... your feet
will be so heavy they'll with crack stones
(not just corns)... provided the cliff
was high enough [no pun].
> Nature uses
> gravity in every way.
Except when somebody breaks wind in
a crowded elevator--Stuff goes right up
everybody's noses like lit rockets!
> I would like to think that
> electromagnetizum was a
> form of a gravity force(no way)
Myself, I would like to think that
I have no worries in this world.
> Nature gave us free force of
> gravity.Electricity as a useful energy
> we have to produce our selves. It
> would be nice if we could plug into
> the ground instead of a wall socket.
Save that snippet (it'll make a
hell of an ad for the Earth-Soil
Power Company... E S P ).
> There is no free lunch,
There is too: But one must NOT
be able to afford it (to get it).
I wonder if you got it, Herb.
> but gravity is a free dinner. Herb
Sorry, Herb: Gravity is energy
and energy is NEVER really owned: It's
only rented... so if you stuff yourself
(this Thanksgivings) be prepared to
throw it all up... or to Go To The Can
(do not stop on GO, do not collect $200).
In any case: Happy Thanksgivings!
(And may Bush win.)
S D Rodrian
web.sdrodrian.com
wisdom.findhere.org
Dr. Rev. Chuck, M.D., P.A.
>
> Sorry, Herb: Gravity is energy
> and energy is NEVER really owned: It's
> only rented... so if you stuff yourself
> (this Thanksgivings) be prepared to
> throw it all up... or to Go To The Can
> (do not stop on GO, do not collect $200).
Gravity is a force.
> In any case: Happy Thanksgivings!
> (And may Bush win.)
He'll fuck up worse than Herbert Hoover. I personally
can't wait.
S D Rodrian
Dr. Rev. Chuck, M.D., P.A." <cdub@_REMOVETHIS_erols.com> wrote:
> S D Rodrian wrote:
> >
> > Sorry, Herb: Gravity is energy
> > and energy is NEVER really owned: It's
> > only rented... so if you stuff yourself
> > (this Thanksgivings) be prepared to
> > throw it all up... or to Go To The Can
> > (do not stop on GO, do not collect $200).
>
> Gravity is a force.
There is but one force in the universe
and that is Gravity; the only thing that
exists in the universe is motion, and that
is energy; the only energy that exists
in the universe can only be fundamentally
described as either vectored energy or
as infinite (scalar) mass: Therefore
the only force in the universe is Gravity
(the universe of matter) and, by definition:
the repelling force embodied in the universe
of energy (infinite (scalar) mass).
Gravity is energy (even if you wish
to call energy a force).
> > In any case: Happy Thanksgivings!
> > (And may Bush win.)
>
> He'll fuck up worse than
> Herbert Hoover. I personally
> can't wait.
You may be right; although, unlike
you: I sure hope he doesn't.
S D Rodrian
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EL
S D Rodrian <Rod...@mad.scientist.com> wrote:
> In article <3A1A539C.5A35@_REMOVETHIS_erols.com>,
> Dr. Rev. Chuck, M.D., P.A." <cdub@_REMOVETHIS_erols.com> wrote:
> > S D Rodrian wrote:
> Gravity is energy (even if you wish to call energy a force).
> S D Rodrian
===========
[EL]
The physics equations treat gravity as a force (LMT^-2).
While energy is work (L^2MT^-2).
Yet an ignorant Rodrian likes to drool drivel driven by Spam unforgiven.
Force to you is like when you were raped by force.
You post to humor because your search engine reported it
when you were looking for hemorrhoids
(you should have used a spelling checker first).
--
Now learn a lesson from the source.
Say after me that gravity is a force.
No need to talk, I know you're a horse.
A horse of course is a horse.
Yet some are sons of whores.
You Spam to often and run off course.
Say gravity is a force of course.
Now don't you try feel remorse.
Its all in books of course of course.
And all the fun is in the pun Up yours.
But a horse can't talk of course.
Say gravity is a force of course.
Like shaking your head
for talking instead
or kick then blow your nose.
Whip flies with your tail
while I tell you the tale.
Attention your legs should close.
Say gravity is a force of course.
But a horse can't talk of course.
You Spam to often and run off course.
Say gravity is a force
--
EL Hemetis
Dr. Rev. Chuck, M.D., P.A.
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S D Rodrian
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S D Rodrian
rry...@hotmail.com wrote:
> In article <8vdm3t$8aa$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
> S D Rodrian <Rod...@mad.scientist.com> wrote:
>
> > Gravity is energy (even if you wish
> > to call energy a force).
>
> Simple , the force of gravity . Sit and spin rodent .
> Use the energy of gravity powering your
> lightbulb , to read by
> and ponder the following .
>
> [EL]
> The physics equations treat gravity as a force (LMT^-2).
> While energy is work (L^2MT^-2).
What is a force? What is gravity? SEE:
http://www.geocities.com/absoluterelativity/ar-11.htm
Energy is motion, motion does/is work. (There:
isn't that much simpler to understand/visualize.)
Gravity is energy, energy is the force of motion.
The conservation of energy IS the conservation of
motion: A large, slow motion = a small, fast motion.
Individual motions in the universe neither come into
existence or cease to exist... rather, they transfer
their energy to other motions to slow down (Newton)
and acquire energy from other motions to speed up.
(There, now you understand the universe, and you
didn't even have to be an understanding person.)
S D Rodrian
web.sdrodrian.com
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PS. The infantile portions of the original post
do not merit a response.
> EL Hemetis
> Rod Ryker...
S D Rodrian
old...@webtv.net (Bill Sheppard) wrote:
In article <29779-3A...@storefull-131.iap.bryant.webtv.net>,
herbert...@webtv.net (G=EMC^2 Glazier) wrote:
>> Hi oc Well I'm back by popular demand.
>> SDR has his vortex gravity at other discussion groups,
>> and like you they ask him the
>> same questions, and he comes up with dogma.
>> Like Einstein said "If a
>> theory is good it can be explained in very few words".
>> He uses vortex energy because like a whirling
>> liquid pulls things toward
>> the center,to him that is the heart of his theory.
>> A vortex needs a
>> medium like air or water.
>> I think SDR should flush this theory down a
>> toilet, for that is where he got his gravity
>> theory from.
> Yeah Herb
> SDR has two things going for him.
Aren't you forgetting my manly good looks?
> He's intuited:
I also read some picture books
with lovely color illustrations
of stars and Big Bangs.
> 1. The primacy of gravity
> 2. That there is an 'Implosion' phase
> in the grand cycle of the
> universe.
> But he has latched onto the idea
> that we're presently IN the Implosion
> phase, and has built a theory around that.
Sorry Bill: That's just not the way it
developed. Many years ago, studying the
Big Bang theories from the perspective of
physics, it was obvious that the conventional
theories described only what we could see
with our eyes and did not try to explain
or even come to terms with what I always
believed to be THE crucial question--Namely,
the origin of "matter" itself. To this day
ALL the "explanations" proposed by conventional
physics boil down to some notion that matter
(subparticles) somehow "bubbled up" out of
space through some process involving the
marriage/divorce of "virtual" particles. And
this is no different than simply saying that
it "just materialized from nothingness!"
The problem seemed to be one of semantics,
actually... where, for some reason I did not
know then, the term "solid physicality" or
"material" did not seem to fit in with the nature
of a universe which seemed nowhere to be
physically solid/material. So the road begins
at the realization that the fundamentality of
"matter" is an illusion only (and thereby only
a convenient semantic fiction to keep us from
trying to come to terms with a reality which
is fundamentally nonexistent much more than
existent, if we think of "matter" as the thing
which exists fundamentally). The problem was
that conventional physics seemed to have
taken the position that matter was fundamental
(even when faced with the paradox that if
matter were fundamental... the only way it
could have come into existence would have
been by magic--i.e. the universe would have
had to evolve FROM fundamental forms of
matter, rather like proposing that life evolved
from life instead of from/out of/in "the earth").
Such self-contradictions are so egregious and self-
evident in conventional physics (astrophysics and
cosmology/astronomy) that sometimes I have my
doubts about the honesty or even the very sanity
of researchers [who propose--now pay attention
to this--who propose that the only possible
explanation for the fact that spinning galaxies
do not fly apart in spite of their observable mass
not being enough to keep them from being torn apart
by centrifugal forces is that "there must exist" some
sort of "dark matter" (up to 80+% of a galaxy's mass!)
which, although utterly invisible and impossible to
detect, yet produces enough gravity to account for the
"missing mass" --and now remember that, according
to this notion, there is 4+ times more gravity-producing
matter in the universe than heretofore proposed--
And yet, once it became impossible to deny/ignore
the fact that the so-called expansion of the universe
is actually accelerating with time... those same
researchers who proposed "dark matter" are now
proposing still even MORE "hypothetical matter" to
account for this acceleration: For they now "think"
"there must be" some sort of "dark energy" out in
space somewhere which, unlike the other forms of
lit matter/dark matter, actually produce some form
of "anti-gravity" repelling effect... "pushing" IN THE
SAME PLACE and AT THE SAME TIME that
gravity is "pulling" [sic]. [This is the "quintessence," or
Cosmological Constant, "funny energy," or lit'l pixies
they are now proposing to be countering gravity
at the same time & place!] So you now have a picture
of human beings who observe the effects of gravity
and propose gravity as a force "pulling" matter together;
and who, once they also observe that matter is flying
apart as well... propose "there must be" another force
acting WITH gravity--only ALSO acting against gravity
at the same time! Don't you think the thought might
have crossed their minds that they are basically
describing a situation of utterly mutually-excluding
circumstances in the same closed system? Nope. [It
is as our grandmothers used to tell us: Once you tell
a lie... you must then spend the rest of your life
telling bigger lies to cover it, and then even bigger
lies to cover those other lies, ad infinitum... or until
you finally face up to the truth.]
As I have said many times: The true solution is elegant
and straightforward... The universe is NOT really
"expanding" but imploding (not all that differently
from what a black hole is doing, because this is a
natural process). NONE of the forms of matter are
fundamental--ALL of them are just forms/shapes (and
therefore they never change form/shape as they shrink
INSIDE the imploding universe). The ONLY thing that
is fundamental is energy (the gravity of the universe
of matter, AND the infinite (scalar) mass of the universe
of energy). Energy is motion [the relativistic vector
motions of the universe of matter, the absolute rest
of the universe of energy... because if there is but ONE
motion in all of existence, then it becomes impossible
to describe it as "moving" (from/to) in spite of the fact
that it is still MOTION... or "energy" in every sense of
the word, because energy=motion, motion=energy].
ALL of the observable behaviors of the universe of
matter therefore can be explained from that insight
to be as follows: The universe (of matter) is imploding.
All the forms of matter in it are shrinking in TWO
unavoidable steps: FIRST they each shrink in place,
THEN they all rush (each other) filling in the gaps
left/created by their shrinking. [This explains why
it is that the galaxies are receding from each other:
There is an infinitesimal "lapse of time" between the
FIRST motion of shrinking in place, and the SECOND
motion of all the forms of matter then rushing each other
(as they could never rush each other BEFORE there
was space into which they might rush)... and while this
"lapse" is astronomically infinitesimal on the human
scale, it is astronomically magnified with astronomical
distances such as those between galaxies (so therefore
the farther two galaxies are from each other, the faster
they will be found to recede from each other). No magic
needed, and no Rube Goldberg "dark matter"/"dark energy"
totally unfounded strictly mental/mathematical constructs.]
> He fails to see the larger
> concept of a continuously-running,
> closed-loop Process in which
> Contraction, Implosion, RE-explosion
> and Expansion are all simultaneous,
> perpetual aspects of the Whole.
> Instead, he has adopted a truncated
> "oscillating" model similar to the
> "Eternal Return" idea, with the
> universe swinging pendulum-like between
> a "universe of matter" and a
> "universe of energy".
Sorry, but I must follow the laws of physics
(and of thermodynamics) where they lead, and
never where one'd prefer to lead them: Once
you understand the laws of thermodynamic, you
will understand how it can be that once ONE
absolute motion exists [and who can really say
that such a motion has not ALWAYS existed?],
or "absolute rest" (the universe of energy)... then
ANY additional/other motions AGAINST that ONE
will embody "energy" (or, eventually EVOLVE
into "matter" E=MC^2).
Now consider the consequences of that:
The primordial "singularity of energy" [or
infinite rest; or, infinite (scalar) mass;
or.. the ONE single MOTION that exists]
manifests "other" (vector) motions.
These primordial vector motions must have
been unimaginably huge/massive AND also
unimaginably slow... but, as soon as they
came into existence (the universe of matter)
it quickly turned into an universal implosion
in which these massive/slow motions evolved
into smaller/faster motions (particles/matter)...
while at once also interacting with each other.
Imagine: vortexes coming into existence AND
then losing their energy... and returning to
the stillness from which they came... and you
have the entire history of every form of matter
in our universe laid out before you.
All you have to understand is that Motion is all
that "exists" (or, "energy"). And, perhaps most
difficult of all... you must understand that IF the
ONLY MOTION that exists is but ONE SINGLE
MOTION, then it's impossible to describe it as
fast, or slow, or even as moving AT ALL. And yet
that infinite (scalar) mass [still MOTION, or
"energy," in spite of our necessity to describe it
semantically (in the human language) as "absolute
rest"] that Single Motion of Existence... is "a"
universe of unimaginably vast potential energy
which can be made to do work by the laws of
thermodynamics (and that work is "matter")
however you might wish to imagine that ONE
fundamental MOTION [against whatever may
exist "outside" (beyond) it, or even as God, who
is often described AS "first cause uncaused" in
the magical/mystical descriptions of creation].
> He tows the same line as
> conventional theory on the
> 'nothingness of space'
The semantic problem, Bill, is that
it is NOT "something" that exists (if you
think only of "matter" as "something").
Well, the day I need nothingness to
construct something... that's the day
I'll myself check out of my insane asylum
and join you normal people out there
killing each other! But, on the contrary,
I have come to realize that the universe
is a natural evolution; that... if in order to
exist Existence would have had to have "a"
beginning... it could NEVER have come
into existence; that "energy" is impossible to
describe without "motion;" and that, most
fundamentally of all: the ONLY "thing" that
"exists" is motion/energy (which has always
existed... and must always exist). In other
words... that "solid matter" is just an illusion
created over the true reality of energy/motion.
> - instead of
> seeing space as the superdense,
> primordial Matrix with matter-energy
> tagged on as superficial
> side-effects. This conventional idea
> of space-as-"vacuum" sees
> matter-energy as the PRIMARY reality,
> with space superficial and
> secondary.
Sorry, Bill, but space is only/just the
absence of matter: Any misunderstandings
that arise come from the fact that space
is an absolute term, while there are no
absolutes IN the universe (so, that what we
really mean is outer space... where there
is no "perfect vacuum," which is a MAJOR
region/part of an "imploding" universe...
eternally experiencing an unimaginable chaos
of infinitesimal motions/energy under massive
stresses). Once the universe of matter
manifested itself (and thereby imploded)
there could never again be any region/part
of it which was absolutely devoid of the same
sort of "super concentrated energy" which
describes matter as well.
> This reality-reversal is
> where SDR and contemporary
> astrophysics are stalled right now.
> (And no, this is not a revival of
> the 'ether' theory. The superdense Matrix
> is the diametric opposite of 'ether'.)
> This does not mean to imply that SDR
> and contemporaries are
> "wrong". They are merely interpreting
> reality based on sensory input and
> sense-based logic. Space is indeed
> a "vacuum" to our senses. Its
> superdensity is not rational to our
> hardwired logic. So contemprary
> physics is forced to invent "messenger
> particles" to explain propagation
> of EM radiation, and SDR if forced to
> invent a "shrinking-in-place"
> theory to satisfy his logic.
AND also sanity itself (don't forget that)
seems to demand it as well.
> A simple reversal in thinking
> - making the superdense Matrix
> the primary reality, and matter/energy
> the secondary "dust bunny" upon
> its surface, could lay the groundwork
> for the next paradigm in physics/
> cosmology.
I think it's also sufficient legal groundwork
in a number of states for a Court to commit
one outright. (Waitaminute, I have to check with
the legal beagle on the cot next to mine...
without his biting me: Hate that.)
> You noted Einstein's comment, "A theory
> is good if it can be
> explained in very few words."
I agree, to a point: "I think, therefore I am"
seems to work, but: "I think I am God" doesn't
seem to work as well.
> Well, the superdensity-of-space and the
> 'Continuous Big Bang' theory places gravity
> seamlessly into the Unified
> Field, with the simple statement
> "The Four Forces are different
> manifestations, on different levels,
> of the Flow of Space."
If you substitute "gravity" for "the Flow
of Space" you will be closer to the truth.
And if you substitute "energy" or even "motion"
for "gravity" you'll even come closer still:
The "flow" of Gravity is always identical for
every form of matter (regardless of its "situation")
because it is everywhere always energy returning
to infinite (scalar) mass, or motion returning to
absolute rest.... the effect of Gravity, all things
being equal, is therefore everywhere always
identical (any differences coming into action only
with proximity/distance). Two bodies, if they were
the only two objects in all of existence, would
always tend to move toward each other because
energy would be flowing out of them evenly
across their entire surfaces except where they
faced each other: There they would establish
a "current" eternally seeking the path of least
resistance; and that path is always self-enhancing
unless impeded from being so by some third party
(obstacle/diversion). So too there is no place IN
the universe completely devoid of Gravity, nor
can there ever be: And all motions IN here must
be relativistic because every item IN the universe
is not just merely "pulling" other items but "pushing"
itself towards it/them as well (and the closer they get
to each other, the stronger the rope which is that
"current" (or flow of energy/gravity) tying them
together becomes. At subatomic proximities that
"current" (or, rope) must be unimagibably difficult
to break.
S D Rodrian
web.sdrodrian.com
sdrodrian.com
> oc
S D Rodrian
Tom McWilliams <mcwi...@msu.edu> wrote:
> James Hunter wrote:
> >
> > Tom McWilliams wrote:
> >
> > > S D Rodrian wrote:
> > > > that Time only exists in our minds, and Space is only
> > > > the absence of anything existing there--But one can't
> > > > have everything, so I give thanks for all Einstein
> > > > gave us and ignore the usual human prejudices inherent
> >
> > Einstein was a only temporal subgenius
> > (a Fig Newton kiss-ass as it
> > were).
> >
> > Since "spacetime" is simply a cheap imitation of space,
> > Einstonian kiss-asses are scheduled to be replaced by robots
> > in the not-to-distance future and the Big "Bang" will be
> > reclassified from a being religous site into a blasting zone.
>
> Assuming the Zeemen effect does not explain
> the red-shifts. In which
> case, the "Big-Bang" will be
> reclassified as "wrong."
> -Tm
Although it IS quite possible that scientists
may yet find some rationalization or other to
disreguard the evidence of the reh-shifts...
the fact will always remain that the galaxies ARE
receding from each other as Hubble first described
them:
Dogma may be forced upon some men, but
science will ultimately always
reassert the freedom of all men.
S D Rodrian
> >herbert...@webtv.net (G=EMC^2 Glazier) wrote:
> >> To All going down a hole 10 miles gravity gets weaker.
> >> Going up 10 miles
> >> gravity gets weaker.
> >
> >Wow! That means that if we're ten miles high [pun]
> >gravity gets weaker when we go down 10 miles.
> >And if we're 10 miles deep gravity gets weaker
> >if we go up 10 miles! [Of course, this seems to
> >contradict itself, but who cares? It's grand!]
>
> was not a contradiction. Gravity is
> theoretically strongest at the surface
> of the Earth, and would get weaker if
> you either go up in altitude or down
> into the interior of the Earth.
I'm afraid this is a common misconception with
regards to this particular case: Gravity NEVER
weakens or strengthens but, like a beam of light,
becomes dispersed (thinned out) by distance AND
by another source's gravity running counter to it:
When you go ten miles up from the surface
of the earth... the beam's concentration
becomes dispersed (thinned) into more distance
the farther up you go. So that, in the beam analogy,
the light shining on you will grow dimmer.
But when you go ten miles down in the planet
the concentration ALSO becomes dispersed, this
time by the gravitational effect of all the mass
around you and above you (it is as if the photons
of one beam of light were canceled out and neutralized
by the photons of another intersecting beam of light
with the net result being the same as before... there
are less photons available to you and therefore it all
gets just as dim as if there were only one beam of
light and you were traveling away from it):
Gravity itself can cancel out gravity just as
effectively as distance so that as you go
down farther and farther into the planet you
will weigh less and less (without being crushed
as if between two massive bodies, assuming you're
descending via some astonishingly hardened shaft)
until at the center of the planet you will "experience"
no effect of gravity at all (and you'll be able to
float down there as you would in outer space... provided
there's a great big room there for you to do it in).
This misconception plays a funny role in movies
such as, "Voyage To The Center of The Earth"
where at that "center" they find an ocean very
coolly lying on its bed while the voyagers' rings
and even gold teeth are "sucked upwards."
> <snip>
> Of course the rest of his ideas are, well, rather unique.
>
> Regards,
> Jim
S D Rodrian
he...@my.com (Chad of the huddled masses) wrote:
> In article <8v5rgq$d8n$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
> SDRo...@mad.scientist.com says...
> >
> >In article <8usfqi$s1r$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
> >EL <hem...@lilac.ocn.ne.jp> popped his lit'l head out
> >from the black hole of his imagination & wrote:
> >
> >> In article <2285-3A...@storefull-138.iap.bryant.webtv.net>,
> >> herbert...@webtv.net (G=EMC^2 Glazier) wrote:
> >> > Hi Henry Sorry Henry That theory
> >> > was tried about 1830 It is that
> >> > gravity is a push rather than a pull.
> >> > The denser the object the harder
> >> > space pushed. I can see there you came from,
> >> > for we talk of dense stars
> >> > imploding(supernova's) Space doing
> >> > the pushing creates more questions
> >> > than it can answer. Herb
> >> ==
> >> [EL]
> >> This is not true, and if Henry was saying so
> >> I would have supported him.
> >> Because gravity is neither a push nor a pull
> >> but a phenomenon of vacuum pressure.
> >
> >Lord! Won't these flat-earthers ever quit!?
> >Sir, you overlook the most basic fact of all:
> >The force of Gravity increases with proximity!
> >Where in Heaven's sake have you flat-heads ever
> >heard of ANY vacuum in which "pressure" was
> >greater in some portions of it than in others?!?!
> >
> >> Do you have any idea why vacuum sucks
> >> matter into the void to fill it?
> >
> >Definitely: As we think... matters flood into
> >our brains (except that in the case of brains
> >like yours, my dear troll, the void of your
> >vacuum is too powerful and you end up with
> >a black hole for a mind).
> >
> >> Do you know why vacuum does not
> >> redistribute matter of a
> >> planet into the void?
> >
> >Pay attention, son: Black hole mind!
> >Anything comes into your brain, truth or
> >intelligent crap... nothing comes out (not
> >even intelligent crap). See a doctor, please.
> >
> >> You see,
> >> the counterpart of gravity is vacuum
> >> negative pressure, hence, gravity MUST
> >> be vacuum positive pressure,
> >
> >And the counterpart of not sweating is vacuum
> >negative pressure, hence, sweating MUST
> >be vacuum positive pressure (so you see,
> >you're throwing away your money when you
> >buy a deodorant: ain't nothing gonna take
> >your stink away... until you get out of your
> >mental black hole, sorry).
> >
> >> which is more or less a push rather
> >> than a pull but from whose point of
> >> view or what difference does it make to
> >> call it push or pull? The
> >> significance is in the symmetry not the name.
> >
> >That's an old worn-out theory only used
> >today by a couple of "studios" teaching
> >ballroom dancing to bored and lazy people
> >who don't believe in modern calisthenics.
> >
> >> That is why I prefer
> >> explosion-implosion pair of words
> >> or expansion-contraction for the same
> >> category or emerge-collapse in other sense.
> >
> >Yes: I can see where you WOULD prefer
> >to cover both sides of the bet (as long as
> >you're not talking REAL money). Trouble os
> >that in the REAL world... they always ask
> >for cash on the barrel-head AND there isn't
> >enough money in the world to make money by
> >betting on both sides (unless you're playing
> >politics).
> >
> >> So no, Henry is saying that the sky is falling,
> >> the sky is falling, and
> >> that makes me sick.
> >> EL Hemetis
> >
> >That'd be an almost sane statement
> >IF THE REASON IT MADE YOU SICK WASN'T THAT
> >YOU NOT ONLY THINK THE SKY IS FALLING, BUT
> >THAT IT'S LEVITATING UPWARDS AT THE SAME TIME!
> >
> >Always eager to help the helpless,> >sdrodrian.com
> >music.sdrodrian.com
> >
>
> Einstein witnessed a man fall from a roof onto some
> soft rubble unhurt, and when someone turned to him and
> said, "That man has fallen" he turned to them and said
> "No, the ground came up to meet him"
Duh! He was smoking "the good stuff" that day.
> Sure gravity is a push instead of a pull.
Well, I can see Gravity standing on something,
lassoing a moon or some such and then pulling in
the rope. But it's pretty hard to visualize
Gravity standing out there in space and PUSHING
so much as even a feather!!!
> How else would hydrogen escape the atmosphere?
They do so because the only thing weighing them down
are their shiny, shiny shoes, and once they shed these
it's Bye-Bye, Baby.
> Why else would super-cooled helium flow up?
Because of the same reason Jesus would walk
on water... surface tension (it's always very
unnerving to know that if you didn't walk on
the surface: the sharks'd getcha).
> Why is space curved?
So that no matter where Superman flies
he can always find his way back to the earth
(it is a substantial universe, you know).
> Why are planets round?
Because were they square day/night would
come too suddenly and folks'd live all their
lives in a jittery state of jet-lag?
> When you fall, you don't feel pulled.
> You feel weightless.
ONLY if you're inside a falling plane: Outside
and butt naked you feel pushed to the limit by
the earth's atmosphere (and then betrayed, when
it turns out that after going through all that grief
it's not really enough to keep you from hitting bottom).
Hell, even if you survive, the cops'll probably take
you in for indecent exposure.
> (and sometimes pushed :)
That's when you really feel like a sucker
yourself.
S D Rodrian
wisdom.findhere.com
web.sdrodrian.com
THOMAS STEGEN
> > When you fall, you don't feel pulled.
> > You feel weightless.
>
> ONLY if you're inside a falling plane: Outside
> and butt naked you feel pushed to the limit by
> the earth's atmosphere (and then betrayed, when
> it turns out that after going through all that grief
> it's not really enough to keep you from hitting bottom).
> Hell, even if you survive, the cops'll probably take
> you in for indecent exposure.
Hey! You guys ever heard of the general theory of relativity?
Read up on it and it might answer some of the questions you seem
to have.
Hint: the idea is that acceleration and gravitational pull (or push if you
like that better)
is the same thing ;)
Oh, and yes, you do feel weightless, but when falling in the athmosphere all
the air
rushing to meet you will distort the feeling a little.
Thomas
Lion
>
>> > When you fall, you don't feel pulled.
>> > You feel weightless.
>>
>> ONLY if you're inside a falling plane: Outside
>> and butt naked you feel pushed to the limit by
>> the earth's atmosphere (and then betrayed, when
>> it turns out that after going through all that grief
>> it's not really enough to keep you from hitting bottom).
>> Hell, even if you survive, the cops'll probably take
>> you in for indecent exposure.
>
>Read up on it and it might answer some of the questions you seem
>to have.
>
>Hint: the idea is that acceleration and gravitational pull (or push if you
>like that better)
> is the same thing ;)
So it is said, despite the fact that only one is a radial field and will
always have a different effect. For some reason.
>Oh, and yes, you do feel weightless, but when falling in the athmosphere all
>the air
>rushing to meet you will distort the feeling a little.
Yeah, but after a while you're not accelerating any more, anyway.
S D Rodrian
"tadchem" <tadche...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> "S D Rodrian" <Rod...@mad.scientist.com> wrote in message
> news:8vffsd$qav$1...@nnrp1.deja.com...
>
> > Energy is motion, motion does/is work. (There:
> > isn't that much simpler to understand/visualize.)
>
I've considered that. Have you considered
that it is you who may be wrong?
> There is no motion in chemical potential energy.
Existence itself, whether called energy or motion,
is all there is to the universe (potential energy in
the form of the universe of energy, work in the form
of the universe of matter). However, there being
such dearth of even the most basis knowledge about
the nature/definition of the term "energy" that here
follow a few very brief, but very pertinent quotes
on the matter (intended to highlight why/how energy
is motion/motion is energy). Period.
START QUOTE
1) Energy may exist in potential, kinetic, thermal,
electrical, chemical, nuclear, or other various forms.
There are, moreover, heat and work--i.e., energy in
the process of transfer from one body to another.
After it has been transferred, energy is always
designated according to its nature. Hence, heat
transferred may become thermal energy, while work done
may manifest itself in the form of mechanical energy.
All forms of energy are associated with motion. [For
example, any given body has kinetic energy if it is
in motion. A tensioned device such as a bow or spring,
though at rest, has the potential for creating motion;
it contains potential energy because of its configuration.
Similarly, nuclear energy is potential energy because it
results from the configuration of subatomic particles
in the nucleus of an atom. Energy can be converted from
one form to another in various ways. Usable mechanical
or electrical energy is, for instance, produced by many
kinds of devices, including fuel-burning heat engines,
generators, batteries, fuel cells, and magnetohydrodynamic
systems.] "Interparticle forces not only affect the
chemical and physical behaviour of substances, they
also determine to a large extent how a particle will
RESPOND to the APPROACH of a different particle. If
the two particles REACT with each other to FORM new
particles, a chemical reaction has occurred."
2) The energy of a body represents its ability to do
work, and work itself is a force acting over a distance:
Chemical systems can have both kinetic energy (energy
of motion) and potential energy (stored energy). The
kinetic energy possessed by any collection of molecules
in a solid, liquid, or gas is known as its thermal energy.
The temperature at which all molecular motion comes to
a halt is known as absolute zero. Work, in physics,
is the measure of energy transfer that occurs when
an object is moved over a distance by an external force
at least part of which is applied in the direction of
the displacement. If the force is constant, work may be
computed by multiplying the length of the path by
the component of the force acting along the path. Work
done on a body is accomplished not only by a
displacement of the body as a whole from one place
to another but also, for example, by compressing a gas,
by rotating a shaft, and even by causing invisible
motions of the particles within a body by an external
magnetic force. Work done on a body is equal to the
increase in the energy of the body, for work transfers
energy to the body. If, however, the applied force is
opposite to the motion of the object, the work is
considered to be negative, implying that energy is
taken from the object.
3) Potential energy is stored energy that depends upon
the relative position of various parts of a system. A
spring has more potential energy when it is compressed
or stretched. A steel ball has more potential energy
raised above the ground than it has after falling to
the Earth. In the raised position it is capable of
doing more work. Potential energy is a property of a
system and not of an individual body or particle; the
system composed of the Earth and the raised ball, for
example, has more potential energy as the two are farther
separated. Potential energy arises in systems with parts
that exert forces on each other of a magnitude dependent
on the configuration, or relative position, of the parts.
In the case of the Earth-ball system, the force of gravity
between the two depends only on the distance separating
them. The work done in separating them farther, or in
raising the ball, transfers additional energy to the
system, where it is stored as gravitational potential
energy. [Potential energy also includes other forms: The
energy stored between the plates of a charged capacitor
is electrical potential energy. What is commonly known
as chemical energy, the capacity of a substance to do work
or to evolve heat by undergoing a change of composition,
may be regarded as potential energy resulting from the
mutual forces among its molecules and atoms. Nuclear
energy is also a form of potential energy.] The potential
energy of a system of particles depends only on their
initial and final configurations; it is independent of
the path the particles travel. In the case of the steel
ball and the earth, if the initial position of the ball
is ground level and the final position is ten feet above
the ground, the potential energy is the same, no matter
how or by what route the ball was raised. The value of
potential energy is arbitrary and relative to the choice
of reference point. In the case given above, the system
would have twice as much potential energy if the initial
position were the bottom of a ten-foot-deep hole.
Gravitational potential energy near the Earth's surface
may be computed by multiplying the weight of an object
by its distance above the reference point. In bound
systems, such as atoms, in which electrons are held by
the electric force of attraction to nuclei, the zero
reference for potential energy is a distance from the
nucleus so great that the electric force is not detectable.
In this case, bound electrons have negative potential
energy, and those just free of the nucleus and at rest
have zero potential energy. Potential energy may be
converted into energy of motion, called kinetic energy,
and in turn to other forms such as electrical energy.
Thus, water behind a dam flows to lower levels through
turbines that turn electric generators, producing
electric energy plus some unusable heat energy resulting
from turbulence and friction. Historically, potential
energy was included with kinetic energy as a form of
mechanical energy so that the total energy in
gravitational systems could be calculated as a constant.
Energy also may be stored in atoms or molecules as
potential energy. When protons/neutrons combine to form
the nucleus of a certain element, the reduction in
potential energy is matched by the production of a huge
quantity of kinetic energy.
[Consider, for instance, the formation of the deuterium
nucleus from one proton and one neutron. The fundamental
mass unit of the chemist is the mole, which represents
the mass, in grams, of 6.02 X 10(23 power) individual
particles, whether they be atoms or molecules. One mole
of protons has a mass of 1.007825 grams and one mole
of neutrons has a mass of 1.008665 grams. By simple
addition the mass of one mole of deuterium atoms
(ignoring the negligible mass of one mole of electrons)
should be 2.016490 grams. The measured mass is 0.00239
gram less than this. The missing mass is known as the
binding energy of the nucleus and represents the mass
equivalent of the energy released by nucleus formation.
By using Einstein's formula for the conversion of mass
to energy (E=MC^2), one can calculate the energy equi-
valent of 0.00239 gram as 2.15 X 10(8 power) kilojoules.
This is approximately 240,000 times greater than the
energy released by the combustion of one mole of methane.
Such studies of the energetics of atom formation &
interconversion are part of a specialty known as nuclear
chemistry. NOTE: The energy released by the combustion
of methane is about 900 kilojoules per mole. Although
much less than the energy released by nuclear reactions,
the energy given off by a chemical process such as
combustion is great enough to be perceived as heat and
light. Energy is released in so-called exothermic
reactions because the chemical bonds in the product
molecules, carbon dioxide and water, are stronger and
stabler than those in the reactant molecules, methane
and oxygen. The chemical potential energy of the system
has decreased, and most of the released energy appears
as heat, while some appears as radiant energy, or light.
The heat produced by such a combustion reaction will
raise the temperature of the surrounding air and, at
constant pressure, increase its volume. This expansion
of air results in work being done. In the cylinder
of an internal-combustion engine, for example, the
combustion of gasoline results in hot gases that expand
against a moving piston. The motion of the piston turns
a crankshaft, which then propels the vehicle. In this
case, chemical potential energy has been converted to
thermal energy, some of which produces useful work. This
process illustrates a statement of the conservation of
energy known as the first law of thermodynamics. This
law states that, for an exothermic reaction, the energy
released by the chemical system is equal to the heat
gained by the surroundings plus the work performed. By
measuring the heat and work quantities that accompany
chemical reactions, it is possible to ascertain the
energy differences between the reactants and the products
of various reactions. In this manner, the potential
energy stored in a variety of molecules can be determined,
and the energy changes that accompany chemical reactions
can be calculated.]
4) Kinetic energy is that form of energy that an object
or a particle has by reason of its motion. If work, which
transfers energy, is done on an object by applying a net
force, the object speeds up and thereby gains kinetic
energy. Kinetic energy is a property of a moving object
or particle and depends not only on its motion but also
on its mass. The kind of motion may be translation (or
motion along a path from one place to another), rotation
about an axis, vibration, or any combination of motions.
[The total kinetic energy of a body or a system is equal
to the sum of the kinetic energies resulting from each
type of motion.] For a rotating body, the moment of
inertia, I, corresponds to mass, and the angular velocity
(omega), w, corresponds to linear, or translational,
velocity. Accordingly, rotational kinetic energy is equal
to one-half the product of the moment of inertia and
the square of the angular velocity, or 1/2 Iw(2 power).
[In an inelastic collision the sum of internal and
external energies is conserved, but some of the external
energy of bodily motion is irretrievably transformed
into internal random motions. The conservation of energy
is expressed in the macroscopic language of the first law
of thermodynamics--namely, energy is conserved provided
that heat is taken into account. The irreversible nature
of the transfer from external energy of organized motion
to random internal energy is a manifestation of the second
law of thermodynamics. The irreversible degradation of
external energy into random internal energy also explains
the tendency of all systems to come to rest if left to
themselves. If there is a configuration in which the
potential energy is less than for any slightly different
configuration, the system may find stable equilibrium
here because there is no way in which it can lose more
external energy, either potential or kinetic. This is
an example of an extremal principle--that a state of stable
equilibrium is one in which the potential energy is a
minimum with respect to any small changes in configuration.
It may be regarded as a special case of one of the most
fundamental of physical laws, the principle of increase of
entropy, which is a statement of the second law of
thermodynamics in the form of an extremal principle--the
equilibrium state of an isolated physical system is that
in which the entropy takes the maximum possible value.
[Force, in mechanics, is any action that tends to maintain
or alter the position of a body or to distort it. The
concept of force is commonly explained in terms of Newton's
three laws of motion set forth in his Principia Mathematica
(1687). According to Newton's first principle, a body that
is at rest or moving at a uniform rate in a straight line
will remain in that state until some force is applied to
it. The second law says that when an external force acts
on a body, it produces an acceleration (change in velocity)
of the body in the direction of the force. The magnitude
of the acceleration is directly proportional to the
magnitude of the external force and inversely proportional
to the quantity of matter in the body. Newton's third law
states that when one body exerts a force on another body,
the second body exerts an equal force on the first body.
This principle of action and reaction explains why a force
tends to deform a body (i.e., change its shape) whether or
not it causes the body to move. The deformation of a body
can usually be neglected when investigating its motion.]
5) Late in the 18th century, the interrelated work of
Joseph Priestley and Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier led to
the overthrow of the "phlogiston" theory. Lavoisier saw
Priestley's discovery of oxygen in 1774 as the key to
the weight gains known to accompany the burning of sulfur
and phosphorus and the calcination of metals (oxide
formation). In his Traité élémentaire de chimie, he
clearly established that combustion consists of a chemical
combination between oxygen from the atmosphere and
combustible matter. By the end of the century, his ideas
were widely accepted and had been successfully applied
to the more complex processes of respiration and of
photosynthesis. [Reactions in which oxygen was consumed
were classified as oxidations, while those in which
oxygen was lost were termed reductions.] During the 19th
century, the evolving field of electrochemistry led to
a broadened view of oxidation. It was possible, for
instance, to produce the ferric, or iron(III), ion from
the ferrous, or iron(II), ion at the anode (positive
electrode, where electrons are absorbed from solution)
of an electrochemical cell (a device in which chemical
energy is converted to electrical energy). The similarity
of the two processes led to a precursor of the electron-
transfer explanation for redox reactions. After the
discovery of the electron, the conviction that oxidation
and reduction are accomplished through electron loss
and gain became firmly entrenched. Thus, early in the
20th century chemists tended to attribute all redox
reactions to the transfer of electrons. Later work on
chemical bonding, however, demonstrated the incorrectness
of that description. An electronegativity scale (listing
of elements in descending order of their tendency to
attract and hold bonding electrons) provided a firm basis
for the oxidation-state assignments on which oxidation-
reduction definitions have become based. [The very first
approximation of the true nature of combustion was posited
by Lavoisier, who discovered in 1772 that the products of
burned sulfur or phosphorus, in effect their ashes,
outweighed the initial substances, and postulated that
the increased weight was due to their having combined
with air. Interestingly, it was already known that metals
transformed by heat to metallic ash weighed less than
the metallic ash, but the theory was that in certain cases
phlogiston in metals had a negative weight, and upon
escaping during combustion, left the ash of the metal
heavier than it had been with the phlogiston in it. Later,
Lavoisier concluded that the "fixed" air that had combined
with the sulfur was identical to a gas obtained by
Priestley on heating the metallic ash of mercury--that is,
the "ashes" obtained when mercury was burned could be made
to release the gas with which the metal had combined. This
gas was also identical to that described by the Swedish
chemist, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, as an active fraction of air
that sustained combustion. Lavoisier called the gas "oxygen."
[Combustion, with rare exceptions, is a complex chemical
process involving many steps that depend on the properties
of the combustible substance. It is initiated by external
factors such as heat, light, and sparks. The reaction sets
in as the mixture of combustibles attains the ignition
temperature, and several aspects of this step can be defined.
First, a relationship exists between the ignition temperature
and the pressure of the mixture under specific conditions.
Only one temperature corresponds to a given pressure, whereas
one or three pressures, called the explosion limits, may
correspond to one temperature. The mechanism of the reaction
determines the explosion limits: the reaction can proceed
only when the steps in the sequence of reactions occur faster
than the terminal steps. Thus, for combustion to be initiated
with light, or with a spark, the light intensity or the spark
energy must exceed certain minimal values. The complexity of
the combustion reaction mechanism and the rapidly varying
temperatures and concentrations in the mixture make it
difficult and often impossible to derive an equation that
would be useful for predicting combustion phenomena over
wide temperature and concentration ranges. Instead, use is
made of empirical expressions derived for specific reaction
conditions.]
6) Electromagnetism is the science of charge and of the forces
and fields associated with charge. Electricity and magnetism
are two aspects of electromagnetism. Electricity and magnetism
were long thought to be separate forces. It was not until the
19th century that they were finally treated as interrelated
phenomena. In 1905 Albert Einstein's special theory of
relativity established beyond a doubt that both are aspects
of one common phenomenon. At a practical level, however,
electric and magnetic forces behave quite differently and
are described by different equations. [Electric forces are
produced by electric charges either at rest or in motion.
Magnetic forces, on the other hand, are produced only by
moving charges and act solely on charges in motion.
Electric phenomena occur even in neutral matter because
the forces act on the individual charged constituents.
The electric force, in particular, is responsible for most
of the physical and chemical properties of atoms and
molecules. It is enormously strong compared with gravity.
For example, the absence of only one electron out of every
billion molecules in two 70-kilogram (154-pound) persons
standing two metres (two yards) apart would repel them with
a 30,000-ton force. On a more familiar scale, electric
phenomena are responsible for the lightning and thunder
accompanying certain storms. Electric and magnetic forces
can be detected in regions called electric and magnetic
fields. These fields are fundamental in nature and can exist
in space far from the charge or current that generated
them. Remarkably, electric fields can produce magnetic
fields and vice versa, independent of any external charge.
A changing magnetic field produces an electric field, as
the English physicist Michael Faraday discovered in work
that forms the basis of electric power generation.
Conversely, a changing electric field produces a magnetic
field, as the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell
deduced. The mathematical equations formulated by Maxwell
incorporated light and wave phenomena into electro-
magnetism. He showed that electric and magnetic fields
travel together through space as waves of electromagnetic
radiation, with the changing fields mutually sustaining
each other. Examples of electromagnetic waves traveling
through space independent of matter are radio and
television waves, microwaves, infrared rays, visible light,
ultraviolet light, X rays, and gamma rays. All of these
waves travel at the same speed--namely, the velocity of
light (roughly 300,000 kilometres, or 186,000 miles,
per second). They differ from each other only in the
frequency at which their electric and magnetic fields
oscillate. Maxwell's equations still provide a complete
and elegant description of electromagnetism down to,
but not including, the subatomic scale. The interpretation
of his work, however, was broadened in the 20th century.
Einstein's special relativity theory merged electric and
magnetic fields into one common field and limited the
velocity of all matter to the velocity of electromagnetic
radiation. During the late 1960s, physicists discovered
that other forces in nature have fields with a mathematical
structure similar to that of the electromagnetic field.
These other forces are the nuclear force, responsible for
the energy released in nuclear fusion, and the weak force,
observed in the radioactive decay of unstable atomic nuclei.
In particular, the weak and electromagnetic forces have
been combined into a common force called the electroweak
force.] Two English scientists, William Nicholson and
Anthony Carlisle, used a chemical battery to discover
electrolysis (the process in which an electric current
produces a chemical reaction) and initiate the science of
electrochemistry. In their experiment the two employed
a voltaic pile to liberate hydrogen and oxygen from water.
They attached each end of the pile to brass wires and
placed the opposite ends of the wires into salt water.
The salt made the water a conductor. Hydrogen gas
accumulated at the end of one wire; the end of the other
wire was oxidized. Nicholson and Carlisle discovered
that the amount of hydrogen and oxygen set free by the
current was proportional to the amount of current used.
By 1809 the English chemist Humphry Davy had used a
stronger battery to free for the first time several very
active metals--sodium, potassium, calcium, strontium,
barium, and magnesium--from their liquid compounds.
Faraday, who was Davy's assistant at the time, studied
electrolysis quantitatively and showed that the amount
of energy needed to separate a gram of a substance from
its compound is closely related to the atomic weight
of the substance. Electrolysis became a method of
measuring electric current; and the quantity of charge
that releases a gram atomic weight of a simple element
is now called a faraday in his honour. Once scientists
were able to produce currents with a battery, they could
study the flow of electricity quantitatively. Because of
the battery, the German physicist Georg Simon Ohm was able
experimentally in 1827 to quantify precisely a problem that
Cavendish could only investigate qualitatively some 50
years earlier--namely, the ability of a material to
conduct electricity. The result of this work--Ohm's law--
explains how the resistance to the flow of charge depends
on the type of conductor and on its length and diameter.
According to Ohm's formulation, the current flow through
a conductor is directly proportional to the potential
difference, or voltage, and inversely proportional to
the resistance--that is, i = V/R. Thus, doubling the
length of an electric wire doubles its resistance, while
doubling the cross-sectional area of the wire reduces the
resistance by a half. Ohm's law is probably the most
widely used equation in electric design.
> The fact that there definitely is stored chemical energy
> is evident every time you switch on a flashlight/torch.
Read carefully above: In a simple analogy... The potential
energy stored in a battery is in the form of "unbalanced"
negatively-charged atoms, which, given the chance to
"balance out" (against/with) other positively-charged atoms
... establishing a "flow" (exchange) of electrons.
END QUOTE
> > Gravity is energy, energy is the force of motion.
>
> Your concept of energy needs to be expanded to
> include stored energy that
> has no motion associated with it,
ONLY as a semantic convenience, remember: E=MC^2
(Or, if an atom stops "moving," does it still
remain an atom? ... Absolutely: NOT.)
> like that snow shelf that could be
> triggered by a sharp noise into collapsing
> into an avalanche.
Precisely: That snow shelf is entirely made of
matter with a definite mass (if it's just a couple
of flakes its WORK will be very slight, and if it's
a couple of thousand tons... watch out, because
it will WORK wonders downhill)... BUT all matter
(whose mass has "weight" or "inertia") is at its
most fundamental... nothing but motion (or energy,
as in "E=MC^2"), OR atoms cannot be split, my friend.
> Tom Davidson
> Brighton, CO
S D Rodrian
"Ewan Chilton" <e.ch...@bcftcs.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> premise 1
>
> > There is but one force in the universe
> > and that is Gravity;
>
>
> >The only thing that
> > exists in the universe is motion, and that
> > is energy
>
>
> conclusion
>
> > Gravity is energy (even if you wish
> > to call energy a force).
>
> of course there is no such thing as logic (or
> this post) see premise 2 :)
You logic is almost as well-ironed as mine:
Indeed, even you and I don't exist, and
are only momentary shapes in the mind (which
also doesn't exist). I say:
Enjoy it while it lasts!
S D Rodrian
web.sdrodrian.com
S D Rodrian
"Henry Haapalainen" <mon...@icon.fi> wrote:
>
> S D Rodrian kirjoitti viestissä <8vdm9r$8bd$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>...
> >In article <3A1A539C.5A35@_REMOVETHIS_erols.com>,
> >Dr. Rev. Chuck, M.D., P.A." <cdub@_REMOVETHIS_erols.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Sorry, Herb: Gravity is energy
> >> > and energy is NEVER really owned: It's
> >> > only rented... so if you stuff yourself
> >> > (this Thanksgivings) be prepared to
> >> > throw it all up... or to Go To The Can
> >> > (do not stop on GO, do not collect $200).
> >>
> >> Gravity is a force.
> >
> >exists in the universe is motion, and that
> >in the universe can only be fundamentally
> >described as either vectored energy or
> >as infinite (scalar) mass: Therefore
> >the only force in the universe is Gravity
> >(the universe of matter) and, by definition:
> >the repelling force embodied in the universe
> >of energy (infinite (scalar) mass).
> >
> >to call energy a force).
> >
> >> > (And may Bush win.)
> >>
> >> He'll fuck up worse than
> >> Herbert Hoover. I personally
> >> can't wait.
> >
> >you: I sure hope he doesn't.
> >
> The theory of gravity of falling space (GOFS)
> www.wakkanet.fi/~fields
>
> Henry Haapalainen
Harry, this theory is misnamed. It should
be called: The Theory By Falling Brains.
S D Rodrian
S D Rodrian
EL <hem...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> In article <8vu4t1$2l1$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
> S D Rodrian <Rod...@mad.scientist.com> wrote:
>
> > > happy gravity in a yard.
> > >
> > > EL
> >
> > What can I say, EL... I love you too.
> >
> > S D Rodrian
> ==
> [EL]
> Do not love me, I am only a humble monk,
Ah! Then you get a lot of love in the ole
monastery. Lucky you.
> who is null in the universe.
> Love humanity and feel part of it.
> Love the chance of communication with
> people all around the world.
> Love the News Groups.
Hey, I said I loved you, not
that I was a freaking ho.
> Respect people who pay money to download
> the hundreds of headers you
> post when you Spam.
Spam may be very costly where you are,
but here in the goo-o-us-of-a it's
dirt cheap: That's the beauty of the
free enterprise system.
> Love yourself.
If I loved myself more
my wife'd sue me for
causing my disaffection of her!
> Stop spamming.
Wait until I run outta gas.
> Check my posting history, you shall find me
> most friendly to all, but I
> am the worst enemy of enemies.
Are you an Arab? Sounds like the sort
of stuff they used to say to the
British Army officers in old B movies.
> I never use cuss and smarmy
> unless a case is hopeless.
I never spit at ladies or
lie, cheat & steal...
unless I have to, either
> You earned it by being so
> stubborn and irritating.
I couldn't be either to you
unless I were under your skin.
(By the way: You could bathe
more often, ole boy.)
> You use words in a reckless style
Don't you remember: I am a poet!
> when you say that energy is motion is
> force is momentum is inertia is gravity
> is propagation is obvious is fart.
And you're going to stand there
with your pants deflating like that
and claim a fart has no energy?!?!
> Listen up kid, if you are grown up enough
> you should have a mind to
> reevaluate your status on posting.
I very often do. As do you: Your status
on posts like this one is very shaky.
> Why do you post at all?
To establish primacy of my ideas.
Why do you? (Thought I was going to say
for the benefit of mankind, didn't ya?)
> Why do you read posts?
To make sure my ideas are original.
(Thought I was going to say
to learn from you, didn't ya?)
> Do you need us to read you?
No. Not unless you actually tell me
that you do: What good is it for millions
to rear me, I mean "read" me if they
don't bother to tell they do. But you, EL,
on the other hand... you make me happy
every time you write me to let me know
you're still reading me. That's why eye lov U.
> Do you need to read us?
Yes: I can't have fun if you
don't say something funny first (which
you don't know is funny until I
point it out to you... that's where
I come in).
> Do you want to know or just spit out
> whatever words pop to your genius mind?
Spit.
> Are you full of it,
Yes. It's coming out of my ears
(even though the doctor claimed it
to be wax).
> thinking that you know it all?
But I do know it all. I'm a wise guy.
> Start by understanding that if your mind
> was a balloon where knowledge
> is air, then the more you know the more you don't.
That explains my soaring thoughts!
> The more knowledge you acquire
> within your mind the more you encounter
> the external by touching it
> bowing in admission saying: "I am ignorant".
I said that to one of my professors once
and it didn't work: He agreed with me.
> Do not love me, leave me.
> Do not love me, die for me.
> Do not love me, put your hand
> in my hand with sincerity.
> Do not love me, give me a hand
> to move a bench where you, me and others
> could sit and watch a game.
> Do not love me, I do not need empty words
> but I certainly need your
> straight deeds,
Doris Day sang that some years ago,
right? If not, it'd make a marvy
Country-Western ballad. (Could you
maybe toss in a dawg and a pickup?)
> STOP CROSS POSTING.
> EL
Sorry, EL: No can do: I am a Christian
and if I start STAR-OF-DAVID POSTING at
this stage... I'm gonna look like Judas. *
S D Rodrian
wisdom.findhere.org
web.sdrodrian.com
* Judas never wore glasses.
S D Rodrian
old...@webtv.net (Bill Sheppard) wrote:
> Not yet answered is the one simple question:
This is the end-game then?
> Why is there no discernable upper limit
> to the amplitude of energy that
> can be transmitted through "nothing" or vacuum?
Of a transverse or longitudinal wave? Einstein
swore that waves couldn't travel through a vacuum
and that the photon is a quantum particle. And
a wave of electric and magnetic fields propagating
at the speed of light c through empty space [electric
and magnetic fields are always perpendicular to each
another and at right angles to the direction of
propagation] still do NOT equate to a wave propagating
through vacuum: Electromagnetic radiation in vacuum
yet obeys Einstein's quantum authority. Basically
there is no limit to the number of photons you can
pitch across a vacuum (practically).
> The one caveat: no "messenger particles"
> are allowed. Such "messengers"
> are invoked when logic is stymied, and
> are the modern equivalent of the
> deities of ancient priesthoods.
> So what does pure logic say to
> the aforementioned question? "Messenger
> particles"? Or, a superdense,
> pre-existant Matrix underlying the
> superficial phenomena of matter/energy?
Bill, there is NO Aether. Period. What Einstein
accomplished was to PROVE that no Aether was EVER
needed: The idea of an "ether" was proposed ONLY
as a solution to a nonexistent problem (namely
how can waves propagate without a medium, which
originated with the wave-side theory of light).
That "aethers" are still talked about today is
about as useful as the chatter of all those folks
you hear up in the hills somewhere who are still
convinced that the earth is flat.
> (This Matrix is not to be confused with
> the 'ether'. As the
> word implies, 'ether' is tenuous and insubstantial
If it walks like a duck, Bill: [no pun]
The classical Aether HAD to be absolutely rigid
and absolutely strong (for it to be able to serve
as a medium for ultra-fast waves and ultra-heavy
masses... imagine the slowness with which an ocean
wave travels and the quickness with which a wave
travels through a pipe when you bang on it). You
may call it Matrix, or you may call it, Joe, or
you may call it Mary... but it's all the same.
> in comparison to
> matter, making 'ether' the diametric opposite
> of the Matrix of space. To
> this Matrix, the universe of matter/energy
> is the tenuous and diaphanous
> after-thought tagged on.)
A solution to a nonexistent problem. The world
of Physics (unfortunately... most especially of
all) is teeming with'em. But fret not: I'm working
on it.
> The late physicist David Bohm was one of the few
> 'mainstream' scientists to posit such a concept.
> He saw the phenomenal
> density of space itself as primal to all else
> - and the Newtonian
> universe as a great hologram within it.
> Dr. Karl Pribram, a Stanford
> neurophysiologist, was a corroborator with
> Bohm on the holographic
> nature of reality.
And Einstein proposed his goofy Cosmological
Constant (yet another solution to a nonexistent
problem) for the same reason: Even the most
brilliant minds ever can never resolve a problem
the full scope of which they are unawares...
The reason Einstein proposed the mythological
Cosmological Constant is because he did not know
that the universe is imploding... and the reason
why even now there are people resurrecting Einstein's
"greatest mistake" is because THEY too do not know
the universe is imploding. Once they find out about
the true nature of the universe [ http://web.sdrodrian.com ]
all this goofy talk about Quintessences, funny
energies, and cosmological constants will be as
embarrassing as the idea that the universe orbits
the earth. Only, Bill... please: No more talk about
"ethers," regardless of what you call them.
S D Rodrian
web.sdrodrian.com
sdrodrian.com
> Two websites worth checking out on Bohm and Pribram are -
> www.muc.de/~heuvel/bohm/
> www.crystalinks.com/holographic.html
> oc
S D Rodrian
Tom McWilliams <mcwi...@msu.edu> wrote:
> > Since "spacetime" is simply a cheap imitation of space,
> > Einstonian kiss-asses are scheduled to be replaced by robots
> > in the not-to-distance future and the Big "Bang" will be
> > reclassified from a being religous site into a blasting zone.
>
> Assuming the Zeemen effect does not explain
> the red-shifts. In which
> case, the "Big-Bang" will be
> reclassified as "wrong."
> -Tm
> >
> > Although it IS quite possible that scientists
> > may yet find some rationalization or other to
That was a sarcastic quip about how easy
it is for "some" scientists to come up with
just about any rationalization they require.
> > the fact will always remain that the galaxies ARE
> > receding from each other as Hubble first described
> > them:
>
> The Zeemen effect explains the red-shifts
> without invoking the doppler effect.
>
> The evidence wouldn't go anywhere,
> it would simply be indicative of
> something other than the recession
> which you evidently assume.
If red-shift works on the short-run
you will need positive proof that it does NOT
work in the long-run. And, frankly,
to speak of the recession of the galaxies
as merely an assumption is about on par with
speaking of the splitting of the atom as
merely an assumption (and vice versa).
> There is some evidence that the red-shifts
> are quantized. It will be
> the Big-Bang proponents that will be
> left rationalizing, if that
> evidence strengthens.
> -Tm
It may simply modify estimates of distance/age.
There are problems with your Zeemen rationalization:
Splitting of special emission lines due to the presence
of a strong magnetic field means you need a constant
such field in every photon or practically every coordinate
of the universe (not to mention the little matter of the
fact that if the galaxies are NOT receding from each
other... the universe is pretty much inexplicable).
Moreover: Lines split into 3 or more polarization
components that are circular if the local magnetic field
is parallel to the line of sight and linear if the magnetic
field is perpendicular to the line of sight means a dizzying
amount of "just right" circumstances that fall outside
probability. (Not to mention the fact that the amount
of splitting needs to be proportional to the strength of
your "omnipresent" magnetic field.)
However: Among the ranks of the Truth-Seekers
it is not always the best thing to only
accept the Truth from your sergeant. So I will
always keep an open mind, no matter what.
S D Rodrian
web.sdrodrian.com
S D Rodrian
EL <hem...@lilac.ocn.ne.jp> crossposted:
> In article <90149b$bu7$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
> SDRodrian <Don_Q...@mindless.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > EL, could you give a SHORT reasoning
> > as to why crossposting is not appropriate?
> > My own opinion is that IF the post
> > is on-topic on more than one newsgroup
> > then there can be no possible reason
> > why it should NOT be posted [to as many NGs
> > as it is on-topic on].
> >
> > Really, seriously: You have my opinion
> > and now I'd like you consider yours
> > (if it's really serious and meaningful,
> > and not some empty mind-dump of your
> > cross-purposes personal passions).
> >
> > S D Rodrian
> =======================================
> [EL]
> Our collective problem is that "YOU"
> are the one who is deciding the
> appropriateness of cross posting.
That is not correct: I leave the decision strictly up
to Einstein. Two barks means don't (post it there).
One bark means go ahead (and post it to that NG).
Dear EL, what would you have me do... ask you?!?!?!
> We certainly (collectively) do not share
> your opinion on being correct.
I believe in democracy, NOT Communism; so
I will consider my voice the equal of all the
other voices (regardless of how far up the
Politburo you think you are). I will not
obey your order to censor myself. Sorry.
> You send the same post
Which post? Is this "legendary" post
the one where I reveal myself to be
"the enemy of the people?"
> to "bible", "Atheism", "Physics",
> "Humor", "Blabla", "what.can.i.say".
My criterion is very simple & straightforward:
Anybody can predict to which NG any post of mine
will most likely be sent just by reading it...
If it deals with god/creation/cosmology/nature
it goes into: "bible", "Atheism", "Physics"
If there's something funny [pun] about it or in it
it goes into: "Humor" (stupid goes to: alt.stupid)
If it's nothing but chitchat: "Blabla"
AND if it concerns apologies/romantic advice/or people
looking for an alibi, definitely: "what.can.i.say"
> Are you aware of the names
> of groups you are cross posting?
No. I do not approve of name-calling.
> They all have a common point for sure
> and it is called the Usenet.
Is that because I too may use it?
It does seem... such an inviting name!
> Also common is that they are
> all used by human beings.
Does that mean my pooch can't use it??!!
Rats! That seems so unfair: He can bark
better than even you (and oftentimes more
intelligently).
> So Mr. genius if that was a good enough
> reason to cross post, why do
> you not tell us your genius idea of
> why there is different NG for
> relativity and research under "sci.physics".
Because the former is for people still
looking into it, while the latter is for people
who think it's all relative anyway, so why bother?
> Would it not be easier if they combined them
> into the mother NG?
If you had ever been in a house where the wife is
a workaholic and the husband a lovable lazy slob
... you wouldn't ask that question!
> Why bother creating them in the first place?
Those were my very words to God the other day!
> Because a four years old genius
> must realize that a group of people
> would like to discuss relativity and
> do not want to discuss research.
If he's really a genius (or really four
years old)... he'd figure out how to "steer"
the conversation to a compromising position. [sic]
> The other group would have the inverse
> interest, but an individual
> interested in both could subscribe to both groups.
I know a lot of people like that: Aren't they
hypocrites!? They pretend to be so intellectual
and sophisticated when they're with you, and then
you run into them soon as you hit a strip joint.
> That individual who subscribes to 300 NGs
> (mad or sane we care not) is
> not a good enough reason to cross post
> up to his genius wish.
Was that a royal "we?" But the individual who
subscribed to 300 NGs... he needs a girlfriend,
is obviously painfully advertising for one, but
is too embarrassed to place an ad in the
"personals" page of the local paper.
> I would indorse cross-posting a thread
> opening only, then if that group
> was interested they can discuss it
> within their scope of interests but
> further cross posting MUST lead to a
> disastrous network of cross-links
> that delays downloading on the
> fastest machines.
That is the most puzzling "indorsement"
I've ever read... of a totally unworkable
proposal: The laws of supply and demand
demand that the supply follow the demands;
so it's obvious that when a dictator, say,
demands his supply... it must be supplied
or his demands will grow so much that no
supplies can ever satisfy them (so you see:
Communism "indorses" the laws of supply
and demand, unlike what the dictionary sez).
In any case, I can only try to make my posts
available: If something (whatever) prevents
you from getting to them, that's not my fault.
> This means that you are a major fault
> and crippling the system of
> communications.
Sir, I am a doctor: It is my job
to cripple... things. That is what
malpractice insurance is for (to keep
butchers from having to go back to
working only with dead cows & such).
> Now you should be very satisfied
> that you are deliberately and
> criminally destroying a civilization
> advancement,
I am: It has been my experience, not only
as a student of history but also as a man
who has lived for 55,872 years now, that
civilization only ever works when people
are civilized... I'm sorry I even started
the damned thing (but it seemed like such
a good idea at the time)... Was I really
expected to have known that people would
still be such brutes even 55,000 years later?!
> and you shall not
> know it until they take you to a room
> next to that in which the one who
> was curious of what was in the
> pentagons keep safe is staying.
Hey! I was that guy! (And it was just
a stupid pentagram... for Nancy Reagan.)
> If all these reasons are not
Yes: They are definitely NOT reasons.
They are the mindless babblings of
a mindless brain. (Truth is, I never
really expected you to be capable of
a serious defense of your capricious and
utterly instinctive trolling after me
simply because I am considerate enough
to give those I believe may be interested
in [whatever] the opportunity to peruse it:
Please note that the ONLY persons who have
ever complained (ok, 99%) about my cross-
postings have been those who have disagreed
in some way or other with what I have had
to say. And the results are always the same:
Their objections always boil down to: "I don't
want others to hear what you have to say."
And if you "too" are of the opinion that the
only thing that should be posted in a NG
is what "every" reader of it will love and
agree with... you just haven't been around
NGs as long as I (my posts to alt.wisdom,
for example are older and most of the folks
who are now posting there... in fact, I
might have been the first person to ever
post anything there, since, as I recall,
when I first started posting there I was,
in effect, the only poster who had posted
anything to that group... except 4 some guy
advertising his XXX sites or $$$ schemes).
Go thou to any NG thread and follow it
from start to... half a dozen follow-ups
or so, and you will discover (surprise!)
that most threads very quickly degenerate
into idiotic exchanges of personal insults
and almost immediately diverge into esoteric
matters/subjects having nothing whatever
to do with the thread's title.
So, my dear Mister EL, chill out. Go see
a movie. (I hear The Grinch is very good,
or nearly as terrible as are you--Perhaps
it will even inspire you to have a change
of heart.) In any case, you need to take
life less seriously: People who take life
as seriously as you, EL, make themselves
easy targets of people who are convinced
that "the world is a funny place," like me).
> enough for you
> to understand then you are
> a hopeless case,
I understood that... while still in
me mother's womb. (I used to tickle her
... though never to death: I had a
definite plan to be born.)
> and you are forcing me
> to protect my rights by other
> ways than pleading.
Well, EL: In my life I have been held up
three times at gun point (the first one
is always the most impressive one), and
as I told my third mugger: "Look, I get
hurt (no matter how), that's between me
and the hospital. You commit a crime (no
matter against whom)... that's strictly
between you and the cops." [Any other
approach always leads to bad feelings
all around. And I like to feel good.]
> Forgive me for whatever I shall do
> to protect my freedom violated by
> yours.
That final "s" is a telling Freudian slip!
But I do forgive you... Always! I would
no more blame you for what you are
than I would blame someone with cancer
for coming down with cancer: "I get hurt,
whatever the cause, that's strictly
between me and the hospital." I have a
thick skin and a hard head...
Who could ask for anything more?
S D Rodrian
web.sdrodrian.com
wisdom.findhere.org
sdrodrian.com
music.sdrodrian.com
> EL Hemetis
S D Rodrian
old...@webtv.net (Bill Sheppard) wrote:
> SDR wrote,
>
> >There is NO Aether, period..
>
> Agreed!
>
> >The classical Aether HAD to be absolutely
> >rigid and absolutely strong (for it to be able to
> >serve as a medium for ultra-fast waves and
> >ultra-heavy masses...
>
> reading something into it that simply
> was not implied in the classical ether
> theories of Aristotle, Hooke, or
> Huygens.
Not so fast there, Bucko. You're confusing
together classical physics with classical Greek
philosophy: Anaxagoras's classical "ether,"
for example (that... above the air surrounding
the earth there is a rarefied sort of air,
"alive and divine" and having the nature of
fire), apparently leaving no room for any true
"vacuum" anywhere; and Democritus's more
materialist view that matter was [de facto]
distinguished from non-matter exactly because
there were "spaces" (between atoms), although
to him the ether consisted of "little atoms"
within the "vacuums" (or Heavenly spaces) and
that the "motions" of this polka-dotted ether
"carried" the Heavenly bodies along in their
orbits. [Very little attempt was made, basically
until the seventeenth century, to factor in
a gravitational interpretation of this "space
between atoms."] Aristotle's "fifth element"
is incorruptible, unchanging, and to be found
only "in the region outside the sphere of the
moon... its natural motion being that which is
nearest the perfection of rest." [Here, at least,
ancient philosophy coincides in some aspects
with my own interpretation of the universe... as
a kinf of "black hole" whose imploding/shrinking
"singularity" (that part of it which we know as the
universe of matter) is forever AT MOTION away from/
against the "absolute rest" of the universe of
energy... which corresponds to the complete "black
hole" extending even outside its event horizon.]
Aristotle's plenary ether IS the Heavenly bodies,
planets & moons, and there is no "vacuum" to
"interject" any annoying need for a gravitation
as we know it today. [The conceptualization of
"space" has always been rather problematical.]
Seventeenth Century philosophers, Descartes in
particular (and not unlike a surprisingly large number
of "original theorists" in these newsgroups to this
very day)... believed in a kind of gravitation "towards
the earth" which consisted of a vortical motion around
the earth of the ether (and, by extension, of everything
in the Heavens thought to be embedded in it) creating
a centrifugal outward pressure (away from the earth)...
so that when bodies were left "unsupported" by this
supposed centrifugal pressure (as would be the case with
everything here on earth, falling apples and cathedrals)
... they would naturally fall "down" to earth. [One can
still come across this simplistic notion (extended into
some just as simplistic mathematical mumbo-jumbo, of
course) today, in which gravity is portrayed as some sort
of "space falling" effect--only now portrayed as falling
"down to" every bit of matter and not simply to earth:
The conceptualization of "space" has returned to where
it was before anyone thought they needed any theory of
gravitation! Although I marvel how Descartes described
the importance of absolute rest in reverse... just like
others used to describe the universe as orbiting the earth
instead of the other way around.]
Seventeenth century theoreticians also proposed the ether
as a more down-to-earth medium for the transmission of
magnetism, light, and heat... across "vacuums" (or as they
called it "the void"). Einstein's "original" objection to
an ether was that "technicality of convenience" still used
in physics today... namely, the assumption that "if a
quantity is unmeasurable or unobservable, it is therefore
meaningless to physics & ought not to be made an integral
part of a physical theory." ["If you have no idea what it
is... don't try to guess what it's for." And by the start
of the twentieth century is was obvious that the ether
was entirely beyond the capabilities of "modern" physics.]
Note the Aristotle connection to Einstein here: Einstein
"deprived himself" (literally) of the ability to posit
anything at absolute rest... and this "self-denial" here
however it may have assisted him in developing relativistic
philosophies... prevented him (very effectively shut him
off) from being able to consider that a complete theory
of the universe might have to include not only the very
"observable" universe of matter but the universe of energy
from whence it originated. With the inevitable result that
it was impossible for him (or his contemporaries and later
disciples) to imagine a natural evolution of the universe
of matter, and they instead opted to try to "create" it
"spontaneously" as it were. [The perfect analogy is with
biological evolution: What today's theorist (on the origin
of the universe) are doing is not unlike trying to develop
a theory of evolution by studying the qualities of today's
fully-evolved life-forms and hunting their fossils without
yet having acknowledged that it all evolved from the
chemistry of a few simple animo acids: The interpretation
of a universe arising from four "forces" instead of the one
(simple "gravity," or "energy," or, ultimately: "motion")
is as if evolutionists were trying to trace back horses
and pigs and pigeons NOT to one species from which they
might have all evolved BUT to a primal horse, a primal pig,
and a primal pigeon... every one of which evolved quite
independently from each other in the same environment.]
As I have said before: Things are NEVER as confusing
as the confused MAKE them out to be! The universe of
matter EVOLVED naturally, inevitably from the universe
of energy. Fundamentally... all that exists is motion:
Vector motion in/is the universe of matter and absolute
motion in/is the universe of energy (or, absolute rest,
because while there exist two or more "motions" they
can describe "relative motion" ... but when there exists
only ONE single "motion" in all of existence, it is
impossible to describe that one singular motion as being
either fast or slow, or even "moving" at all). We may
never even be able to propose what that singular motion
which I call the universe of energy and absolute rest
(relative to us) may be "moving" against (for self-evident
reasons), but we CAN say that it embodied all the stored
energy... "some portion" of which it then conferred upon
the universe of matter... and ANY motion relative to
that absolute rest (vector) has no choice but to remain
relativistic not only against absolute rest, but against
every other motion the universe of energy gives birth to
in the crucible of the laws of thermodynamics: that all
those vector motions, collectively, comprise our universe
of matter even unto this day. And so, imagine the stupendous
(potential) magnitude of the universe of energy (to be able
to have given birth (energy) to the universe of matter).
And visualize that "birth" as "the advent of gravity" ...
What must have followed HAD to have been that, immediately,
it precipitated an unstoppable implosion of the universe
of matter (an implosion which will continue imploding NOT
until matter piles up at some central point like a white
dwarf BUT which will continue until matter itself dissolves
its energy pool doing the work of that very implosion... like
a cup of water abandoned to the years' inevitable evaporation
until it has become so dry that it's... as if it had never
held water at all). see: http://web.sdrodrian.com
There will you find why an imploding universe requires
that the speed of light always be measured as a constant
in identical mediums; why an imploding universe demands
that the "observable" recession of the galaxies be found
to be accelerating; and why & how it is that "space"
(whether you call it "the void" or "vacuum") exists
at all... the reason for the red-shifted galaxies). But
no universe that can forever "exist" by means of magic.
And no ether, no Matrix, no Dark Matter, no Cosmological
Constant, or "funny energy" need apply, Bill. (Just as
Rube Goldberg constructs such as the Cosmological Constant
and Dark Matter would, by some magical means, have to be
made to work against each other in some places and with
each other in some other places with great planning and
intelligent execution... an ether, or Matrix Rube Goldberg
construct would demand that you account for the material
effects of its, one must assume, "considerable" gravity
... unless it's all "funny energy" at the Matrix ether.)
> They envisioned just what the word
> implies - somethng spiritous
> and insubstantial relative to 'real' substance.
> Although endowed with
> "permitivity" and 'permeability', it was
> still the least substantial
> medium in nature - hence "ether".
> If at any time they had proposed a
> Superdense Matrix as the primary reality
> with matter/ energy tagged on
> as insubstantial side-effects, exactly
> the same problem would have come
> up as it did with Wolter -
> the "conundrum of discreet objects". How can
> discreet objects move and interact kinetically
> while embedded in a
> much-denser medium?
> Michelson-Morley's famous 1887 experiment
> disproving the ether was
> before the advent of QM, particularly
> quantum nonlocality, and the
> holographic principle. The way Wolter
> worked it out, drawing on the work
> of Bohm-Pribram, I can only paraphrase
> for brevity, as in the prevous
> posts. But then that's 'goofy'. Hhyyup.
>
> There is no superdense Matrix,
> space is a vast void of nothingness,
> and we reside in the Imploding phase
> of the universe. And
> oh yeah.. it's an 'oscillating' universe.
> And everything's 'shrinking in
> place'. Hoop de doo.
> oc
As I said, Bill: Fundamental principles:
1) If in order to exist
Existence would have had to have a beginning
it could never have come into existence.
This is no different than saying that everything
evolved, and was not created either by God, or
by The Four Forces over a hand of poker either:
If the universe consists of motion (energy) now
there must have always been energy (motion).
2) Things are NEVER as confusing
as the confused MAKE them out to be.
And this is no different than saying that
you don't even have to know that an apple
comes from an apple tree to know that the guy
who swears to you that it was created by a
Rube Goldberg process of virtual particles
coalescing the "energy of space" to an apple
... has obviously not been eating his daily
ration of apples, and needs a doctor. And it's
not fraud we're talking about here, just... some
poor soul who doesn't know anything AND doesn't
know how to admit it even to himself: Human
nature, really. You can't blame a cat for shedding.
So no sense getting all worked up about it.
Puck Greenman
>In article <9017v7$f99$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
>EL <hem...@lilac.ocn.ne.jp> crossposted:
>> In article <90149b$bu7$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
>> SDRodrian <Don_Q...@mindless.com> wrote:
>> [EL]
>> Our collective problem is that "YOU"
>> are the one who is deciding the
>> appropriateness of cross posting.
>
>That is not correct: I leave the decision strictly up
>to Einstein. Two barks means don't (post it there).
>One bark means go ahead (and post it to that NG).
>Dear EL, what would you have me do... ask you?!?!?!
We seem to have a problem there, one of three possibilities
1: You can't count.
2: when your dog barks twice you assume that the second bark is
simply a re-assertion of one bark, a "yes".
3: your dog is as stupid as you are.
snip
>
>> to "bible", "Atheism", "Physics",
>> "Humor", "Blabla", "what.can.i.say".
>
>My criterion is very simple & straightforward:
>Anybody can predict to which NG any post of mine
>will most likely be sent just by reading it...
>
>If it deals with god/creation/cosmology/nature
> it goes into: "bible", "Atheism", "Physics"
>
And what do any of those subjects have to do with
atheists?
>If there's something funny [pun] about it or in it
> it goes into: "Humor"
We have differing ideas of humour.
>(stupid goes to: alt.stupid)
You must post there a lot.
>
>If it's nothing but chitchat: "Blabla"
alt.tasteless seems more appropriate
--
The spelling, like any opinion
stated here, is purely my own.
ICQ 15096558
Puck #162
BAAWA Knight.
S D Rodrian
No.one@all wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 06:08:16 GMT, S D Rodrian
<Rod...@mad.scientist.com> wrote:
>
> >In article <9017v7$f99$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
> >EL <hem...@lilac.ocn.ne.jp> crossposted:
> >> In article <90149b$bu7$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
> >> SDRodrian <Don_Q...@mindless.com> wrote:
>
> >> [EL]
> >> Our collective problem is that "YOU"
> >> are the one who is deciding the
> >> appropriateness of cross posting.
> >
> >That is not correct: I leave the decision strictly up
> >to Einstein. Two barks means don't (post it there).
> >One bark means go ahead (and post it to that NG).
> >Dear EL, what would you have me do... ask you?!?!?!
>
> We seem to have a problem there, one of three possibilities
> 1: You can't count.
> 2: when your dog barks twice you assume that the second bark is
> simply a re-assertion of one bark, a "yes".
> 3: your dog is as stupid as you are.
I protest, sir: I may be stupid, but You
simply do not know my dog!
He's not only invented a Way-Back Machine
but he's actually built it from parts
he purchased at Radio Shack with money
he earned by chasing bums & winos up & down
the streets all day... and then going back and
collecting the spare change... on the ground.
> snip
> >
> >> to "bible", "Atheism", "Physics",
> >> "Humor", "Blabla", "what.can.i.say".
> >
> >My criterion is very simple & straightforward:
> >Anybody can predict to which NG any post of mine
> >will most likely be sent just by reading it...
> >
> >If it deals with god/creation/cosmology/nature
> > it goes into: "bible", "Atheism", "Physics"
>
> And what do any of those subjects have to do with
> atheists?
Sir, have you ever been to the zoo in your car?
What do automobiles have to do with grease monkeys?
What have you to do with reading and writing?
> >If there's something funny [pun] about it or in it
> > it goes into: "Humor"
>
> We have differing ideas of humour.
Makes me smile. What's it do 4 you?
> >(stupid goes to: alt.stupid)
>
> You must post there a lot.
Man, you couldn't keep this one outta there
if you tried.
> >If it's nothing but chitchat: "Blabla"
>
> alt.tasteless seems more appropriate
You'd be surprised how finicky the alt.tasteless
group really is: They have incredibly high
standards for their shit-chat. [sic]
S D Rodrian
wisdom.findhere.org
sdrodrian.com
SDRodrian
old...@webtv.net (Bill Sheppard) wrote:
> >So no sense getting all worked up about it.
> >S D Rodrian
>
>
> Absolutely true. That's why i closed out
> the whole subject. It's outside
> the purview of these astronomy NGs.
Yes. I can see where astronomers
would have no interest in discussions
about the universe. (I've been running
into that very wall most of my life.)
> It'd be more appropriate in
> alt.philosophical cosmologies or some such.
It's there. Philosophers also seem to be
interested in the whys & hows of existence
for some odd reason... beats me.
> Astronomy folks want to
> discuss things within their arena.
Sand castles & that sort? I getcha:
They like to feel the sand on their butts
as they squirm under the pressure of
the Heavens above them. Wow!
> And you would be well advised to do the same.
I have tried to answer here posts you have addressed
to me here, ye old coot! If you had asked them
in alt.old-farts I'd have to post my answers there.
> If you want to be
> taken seriously,
Can't say I've ever long longed to be
taken... least of all seriously taken!!!
> you don't walk into an astronomy group and start
> evangelizing "shrinking in place" and "we live
> in an imploding
> universe".
Not right off the bat, silly! Somebody'd
throw lemonade on your face and have you
dragged off to the drunk tank. No. You
have to come in, sit down, meet a few people,
down a few Tostitos, and then AND only then
do you stand up and start shouting: "WE LIVE
IN AN IMPLODING UNIVERSE!!! WE LIVE IN AN
IMPLODING UNIVERSE!!!" Possibly, when you
come up before the judge: "SHRINKING IN PLACE!!!
SHRINKING IN PLACE!!!" Unless your lawyer
can get you off altogether.
> It makes you a pariah,
Is that one of those fishies that swim around
in the Amazon wearing dentures?
> and makes you look really, really stupid.
Can it beat my mirrors? I seriously doubt it.
> Your whole modus operendi and
> demeanor proclaims "hey look at
> me" "Look how important I am."
You left out the placards I wear
(on my chest & back) with those very words
... and the red ball on my nose.
> The whole thing is a venue for SDR's
> promoting of SDR.
Well, I started out promoting broccoli.
But, after a few years, I thought: what the Hell...
> If you want to promote yourself that badly
If I wanted to promote myself badly
I wouldn't do it myself. Duh!
> and really impress
> your hearers with your astuteness,
> this is not the place to do it.
Yeah. Like I didn't learn my lesson
that time I tried to do it in a men's room!
> There
> are plenty of alt.science type NGs
> that would really be impressed with
> your stuff.
You're talking about alt.hock aren't you!
> If on the other hand you really
> want to talk astronomy for its
> own sake, you drop SDR out of the equation
> and stay within the
> boundaries of current theory.
Sorry, Bill: I've never been a yes man.
(Not even when I got a job as a yes man:
I got fired for a maybe... maybe.)
> Then you can actually look smart to your
> hearers.
You blind?!?! I never would've suspected it
from the way you type: Do you use Braille or
some voice-to-typing device? Impressed.
(Jeepers! Hope he doesn't see this.)
S D Rodrian
wisdom.findhere.com
web.sdrodrian.com
> the oc
Puck Greenman
>In article <tf3c2t4ssmfe9dvvn...@4ax.com>,
>No.one@all wrote:
>> On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 06:08:16 GMT, S D Rodrian
>
><Rod...@mad.scientist.com> wrote:
>>
>> >In article <9017v7$f99$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
>> >EL <hem...@lilac.ocn.ne.jp> crossposted:
>> >> In article <90149b$bu7$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
>> >> SDRodrian <Don_Q...@mindless.com> wrote:
>>
>> >> [EL]
>> >> Our collective problem is that "YOU"
>> >> are the one who is deciding the
>> >> appropriateness of cross posting.
>> >
>> >That is not correct: I leave the decision strictly up
>> >to Einstein. Two barks means don't (post it there).
>> >One bark means go ahead (and post it to that NG).
>> >Dear EL, what would you have me do... ask you?!?!?!
>>
>> We seem to have a problem there, one of three possibilities
>> 1: You can't count.
>> 2: when your dog barks twice you assume that the second bark is
>> simply a re-assertion of one bark, a "yes".
>> 3: your dog is as stupid as you are.
>
>I protest, sir: I may be stupid, but You
>simply do not know my dog!
ROTFL.
Touche'
snip
>> >If there's something funny [pun] about it or in it
>> > it goes into: "Humor"
>>
>> We have differing ideas of humour.
>
>Makes me smile. What's it do 4 you?
Very little.
>
>> >(stupid goes to: alt.stupid)
>>
>> You must post there a lot.
>
>Man, you couldn't keep this one outta there
>if you tried.
It was the best I could do, with the material you gave me.
>
>> >If it's nothing but chitchat: "Blabla"
>>
>> alt.tasteless seems more appropriate
>
>You'd be surprised how finicky the alt.tasteless
>group really is: They have incredibly high
>standards for their shit-chat. [sic]
There is snobbery everywhere.
The Ghost In The Machine
<pu...@pooks.hill.co.uk>
wrote
on Thu, 30 Nov 2000 09:48:59 GMT
<tf3c2t4ssmfe9dvvn...@4ax.com>:
>>EL <hem...@lilac.ocn.ne.jp> crossposted:
>>> In article <90149b$bu7$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
>>> SDRodrian <Don_Q...@mindless.com> wrote:
>
>>> [EL]
>>> Our collective problem is that "YOU"
>>> are the one who is deciding the
>>> appropriateness of cross posting.
>>
>>That is not correct: I leave the decision strictly up
>>to Einstein. Two barks means don't (post it there).
>>One bark means go ahead (and post it to that NG).
>>Dear EL, what would you have me do... ask you?!?!?!
>
> 1: You can't count.
> 2: when your dog barks twice you assume that the second bark is
> simply a re-assertion of one bark, a "yes".
> 3: your dog is as stupid as you are.
Personally, I thought it was one bark if by land, and two if by sea....
[rest snipped]
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Myke <mmc...@cgocable.net> wrote in message
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> Lghter objects fall faster than heavier ones.........
Umm... no they don't.
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"My dream was to become a champion roller skater..." - Marilyn Manson
Myke
headed towards earth will be subjected too Earths gravitational field;(or
pull) pull itself away., and out from earth it will come (likely headed
towards the sun), will burst into a ball of flames and disintegrate.Simple
as that! If it don't head toward the sun it doesn't really matter, were all
safe and that meterote can head out to where ever it want's too!
If and when the big asteroid comes, I will revert to my astroid game!
"THOMAS STEGEN" <ste...@c2i.net> wrote in message
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>
> > > When you fall, you don't feel pulled.
> > > You feel weightless.
> >
> > ONLY if you're inside a falling plane: Outside
> > and butt naked you feel pushed to the limit by
> > the earth's atmosphere (and then betrayed, when
> > it turns out that after going through all that grief
> > it's not really enough to keep you from hitting bottom).
> > Hell, even if you survive, the cops'll probably take
> > you in for indecent exposure.
>
> Hey! You guys ever heard of the general theory of relativity?
> Read up on it and it might answer some of the questions you seem
> to have.
>
> Hint: the idea is that acceleration and gravitational pull (or push if you
> like that better)
> is the same thing ;)
>
> Oh, and yes, you do feel weightless, but when falling in the athmosphere
all
> the air
> rushing to meet you will distort the feeling a little.
>
> Thomas
>
>
Baka No Kami
wrote:
> Lghter objects fall faster than heavier ones.........
The force of gravity is greater on more massive [heavier]
objects, but the effect is cancelled out by their higher inertia,
so they fall with the same speed as less massive [lighter] ones.
Other forces, such as air resistance, come into play with the
size/shape of the object and it is due to them that things like
feathers fall slower than hammers.
--
Regards,
Kamibaka
* "When I became a man, I put away childish things,
including the fear of childishness and the desire
to be very grown-up." -- C. S. Lewis, 1947
S D Rodrian
"Tony Cook" <tony...@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
>
> S D Rodrian <Rod...@mad.scientist.com> wrote in message:
> This and that.
You must always use quotation marks, Tony!
> Hi Roddy - Before I forget - have a merry xmas
> and a great new year.
You too. May your politics never become
as Gored as ours has become of late.
> By the way - I forgot to mention - there is
> another aspect in our universe
> which is often forgotten - it's called evolution
Not by me: I have a strong sense of
human history.
>- and evolution depends entirely
> on a timed sequence of events (not just repetitive,
> or ad hoc motion) - in other
Eating a one-course hotdog depends on
a timed sequence of events (most of'em
chewy; some involving a paper towel).
But evolution is simply the tale of life's
adaptation to its environment. It is not
progressive but adaptive (it can produce Man
for an instant, and when the environment
no longer favors apes & other brutes of that ilk
it will stick with cockroaches and bacteria).
> words it is a progression that has a start
> and we know not whether it has an end.
Our much beloved & lovely little yellow dwarf
will become a red giant in 4.+ billion years:
I'd say that's about as conclusive an end
to evolution hereabouts as any ending can get.
> Each point/phase of evolution is
> indicative of a specific, different, and
> quite
> unique time factor.
Does this include our friend the cockroach?
Seems as if that beastie's been around
for ages! (And everybody swears they'll
be here to see that red giant swallow Earth:
While I don't know if we can even survive
another century!)
> Just thought I'd throw that in for a bit of fun.
Love fun. Hate getting hit on the head
with things people throw, though.
> Look after yourself.
I always walk backwards in here.
That way I can't run INTO a wall.
> All the world loves a thinker.
Shouldn't that be: Everybody in the world
thinks he/she's a lover...?
Sleep tight, and remember this basic
Law of Reality: "Thermodynamics rules!
There can NEVER be a pause to the motion
of the universe BECAUSE it could then
NEVER get going again." [The ONLY "pauses"
in the universe are those that obey
Sir Isaac Newton. Translation: ALL timing "units"
only have a mental existence; and the universe
is but One Single Motion away from & then back to
the universe of energy... all broken up into
the momentary chaos of numberless sub-motions.]
S D Rodrian
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Before you buy.
jimC
Myke wrote:
> Lghter objects fall faster than heavier ones...
Not since Galileo's time.
jimC
Der Senfmeister
> I meant 'lighter' objects, will fall faster than heavier ones!
..and you're still wrong.
Gary Shannon
the interior of the earth is populated by tiny robotic creatures whose
emense factories and power gnerating facilities require a constant supply of
oxygen. Huge suction devices attached to the ceilings of their caverns suck
the air out from between the particles of soil creating a partial vacuum
which in turn draws the air out of higher strata until finally a partial
vacuum is created in the first few millimeters above the soil. This
constant suction is onviously what holds our feet to the ground.
Just thought you should know.
--gary
jimC
Myke wrote:
>
> I meant 'lighter' objects, will fall faster than heavier ones!
> "jimC" <jimc...@pacbell.net> wrote in message
> news:3A2B868D...@pacbell.net...
Nope. Neglecting wind resistance, a falling object
experiences a force F = mg, where m is the object's
mass and g is the acceleration due to gravity. The
acceleration on the object, obvious from inspection,
is F/m = g and over T seconds, the object has an
increase in velocity T F/m = gT, which is independent
of its mass. So two falling objects, one light
and the other comparatively massier, starting at
the same initial velocity, 0, and same position, are
both moving at v = gT meters/sec after T seconds and,
since both objects move at equal velocities which
increase with time, go kerplunk and *POW*! respectively
into the earth's surface at the same instant. The more
massive object has greater momentum, mv, and makes a
bigger dent, as you might expect.
Wasn't this covered in high school physics?
Hmm. I see we have all the silly alt. bait groups
along for the ride. I am reminded of a certain man of
the cloth, whom I encountered at age 19 or so, while
on the way east, who proposed using a battery-operated
generator to run a battery charger to keep the battery
charged. (Also plugged into the generator were a tape
deck and amplifier and rooftop loud speakers blaring
verily stupendous music from the Appalachians into the
Mojave Desert community of Barstow.) I said, "Let's
think this through: that would require a bloody miracle,"
and he avowed that he was a man of miracles. So as an
experiment of a non-scientific sort, I said "Sure, why
not?" and drove off. Miraculously, I never saw him again.
jimC
cz...@ecn.ab.ca
: Lghter objects fall faster than heavier ones.........so
...so you're an idiot?
[snip rest of thoroughly bizzare grasp of physics]
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cz...@ecn.ab.ca
: I meant 'lighter' objects, will fall faster than heavier ones!
Oh, it's in quotation marks now -- well, *now* it makes sense!
Gary Shannon
"Colin Hayman" <colin...@home.com> wrote in message
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> swung on a really, really long string. We just haven't found it yet.
Ah, another enlightened soul who has realized the truth!
Maybe we can start a movement. ;-)
--gary
P A Ryan
>> Lghter objects fall faster than heavier ones.........
Kamibaka wrote:
> The force of gravity is greater on more massive [heavier]
>objects, but the effect is cancelled out by their higher inertia,
>so they fall with the same speed as less massive [lighter] ones.
>Other forces, such as air resistance, come into play with the
>size/shape of the object and it is due to them that things like
>feathers fall slower than hammers.
If you read the original post, I think Myke is trying to tell us that
feathers fall faster than hammers.
Regards,
Patrick Ryan.
Myke
Al Klein
in alt.atheism:
>Lghter objects fall faster than heavier ones
No they don't.
>so A small meteroite
>headed towards earth will be subjected too Earths gravitational field;(or
>pull) pull itself away., and out from earth it will come
No it won't.
> (likely headed towards the sun), will burst into a ball of flames and disintegrate.
Only if it falls to Earth AND is relatively small.
>Simple
>as that! If it don't head toward the sun it doesn't really matter, were all
>safe and that meterote can head out to where ever it want's too!
And, if it lands on your house? While you're in it?
Do a web search for "Tunguska".
Then be afraid - be *very* afraid.
--
Al - Unnumbered Atheist #infinity
aklein at villagenet dot com
S D Rodrian
<Pine.GSO.3.95.iB1.0.100...@halifax.chebucto.ns.ca>,
Kumar Yelubandi <zook...@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, S D Rodrian wrote:
> > In article <90bfu2$38b$1...@lust.ihug.co.nz>,
> > "Tony Cook" <tony...@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> > > S D Rodrian <Rod...@mad.scientist.com> wrote in message:
> > > This and that.
> > You must always use quotation marks, Tony!
> > > Hi Roddy - Before I forget - have a merry xmas
> > > and a great new year.
> > You too. May your politics never become
> > as Gored as ours has become of late.
>
Yes I am! (I think we all are, in fact.)
[I should've included the quip just to deter
"you" from it.] But things are looking up:
Al Gore's nuisance suits are now on a peel.
> [...]
> > > By the way - I forgot to mention - there is
> > > another aspect in our universe
> > > which is often forgotten - it's called evolution
> > Not by me: I have a strong sense of
> > human history.
> > >- and evolution depends entirely
> > > on a timed sequence of events (not just repetitive,
> > > or ad hoc motion) - in other
> > Eating a one-course hotdog depends on
> > a timed sequence of events (most of'em
> > chewy; some involving a paper towel).
> > But evolution is simply the tale of life's
> > adaptation to its environment. It is not
> > progressive but adaptive (it can produce Man
> > for an instant, and when the environment
> > no longer favors apes & other brutes of that ilk
> > it will stick with cockroaches and bacteria).
>
>Not when you apply an "intelligence" filter to it.
Some intelligent person's or yours?
[Just kidding.]
>Organic
>evolution taken over a large timescale appears to be oriented
>in the direction of higher intelligence.
Not in my neighborhood. Some of my neighbors have
even gone back to swinging on trees--the lowlifes!
I wouldn't mind it so much if they... did it
in the privacy of their bedrooms, but we've got kids
& decent folks with binoculars here, forGod'sSake!
>We came from apes
>which came from protoapes which came from
>...amino acids from
>...elements.
We came from---?!?! This is gonna be a shock, I know,
but SOMEbody's gotta be the one to tell you... My
friend, hang on to your bloomers, now: We ARE apes!
We have as many hairs as do apes; we have the temperament
of apes; we are as curious and prone to stupid practical
jokes on our fellow apes... as are apes; apes are the only
mammals other than human apes who develop a true culture;
apes (chimps) have engaged in organized warfare against
human farmers in Africa (apes won the battle, lost the war);
and, frankly, I don't know any human ape who wasn't reared
by apes. I grew up in a house of very genmteel, post-Victorian
piano-playing apes, myself: It wasn't the shedding that
bothered me... as much as the petting when I did something well
(their hands were gigantic and it felt like being beaten over
the head with a sack of salt). Practically the only comfort
or joy my siblings and I had at all as children was when they
took us to the park and let us play on the monkey bars... until
we dropped!
>At least, there is much fossil evidence for this
>possibility to make it a probability.
Every time my grandfather used to argue against
our being that closely related to apes, I'd simply
agree with him (he was very free with his money)
... simply adding, "You're probably right, Gramps:
We do seem to share a lot many more traits with
cockroaches than with monkeys." That seemed to
satisfy him. Apparently, it was ANYTHING but apes
for Gramps (which might have had something to do
with the way he'd hoop and "demonstrate" whenever
his team scored--Jikes! (I'm just glad there were
no overhanging bars in our living-room.)
>It appears that
>"intelligence" is nonadaptive even when
>many other attributes are
>adaptive; that is, intelligence
>appears to evolve in a certain
>direction (eg. begets itself).
I disagree: Billions of years ago
dinosaurs seemed to have been very professional
printers; but how many lizards are there today
who can even type properly? Hell, today even most
humans can't type worth a hoot... even after
millions of years of human prototypes.
By the way, please note that "intelligence"
(whatever that may be) is as responsive to
"adaptation" as all other traits: Until very
recently it was our common practice to smash
the head of any baby who was not born "perfect"
(it may even be true today in some parts of the
world). [Even wonder why our species suffers from
--really-- so few instances of inherited adverse
mutations?] One of the most important duties
in reproduction is finding the "perfect" mate.
[Translation: Genetic mutations may arise by
"chance" --whatever that may be-- but once they
prove beneficial to survival they will tend to
be irresistibly enhanced until such enhancements
actually become counterproductive and begin
hindering survival: It really is no different
with so-called human "intelligence" ... which
will continue to be enhanced until we become
intelligent enough to destroy ourselves--And
it is just as true even of wisdom... which will
also continue to be enhanced until wisdom itself
becomes sheer self-sacrifice and we actually
embrace extinction most nobly and dignified...
or until the next asteroid hits the earth.] Don't
worry: All signs point against our even achieving
such wisdom (I'm betting on the asteroid). Although
it may be that countless other so-called intelligent
beings may have arisen in the universe only to find
themselves to be their own worst enemies. In any
case... the point is that "intelligence" only
appears (to you) to be an exception to the laws
that govern all biological evolution; and I can
only suggest that the intelligent thing is to
not jump to such conclusions quite so hastily:
It'll all come to an end soon enough.
>In any event, an infinitely
>higher being appears to be
>co-ordinating the movement of humans
>in this direction.
And has appeared to be doing so ever since
the first pre-human put together the fact that
nothing ever got "done" unless he did it himself
WITH the realization that his world appeared to
be teeming with many, many things fully "done"
which he had NOT himself done: OBVIOUSLY SOME-
BODY other than he had done all that... and if
the greatest thing he was capable of doing was
to pitch a rock at his dog... it had to have been
a god who had "done it." But this business of
"the blooming of the flowers in Spring proving
there is a God" ... is totally unacceptable and
inadmissible evidence in most courts of law.
>I would guess that adaptive evolution
>is the basic architecture
>in which nonadaptive evolution is housed.
There is but ONE simple and straightforward
distinction between adaptive and non-adaptive
evolution: Adaptive evolution leads to another
chance to survive, while non-adaptive evolution
simply leads to certain death.
>Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all!
>-zookumar-
Kind thoughts, sweet dreams, and glorious ideas!
S D Rodrian
web.sdrodrian.com
wisdom.findhere.org
Colin Hayman
Colin Hayman
>
> Colin Hayman wrote:
> >
> > And the Earth isn't orbiting the Sun because of gravity -- it's being
> > swung on a really, really long string. We just haven't found it yet.
>
> Maybe we can start a movement.
Shall we call it the superstring theory? ;)
PMD
seen to type in alt.atheism:
>On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 04:33:00 GMT, "Myke" <mmc...@cgocable.net>
>wrote:
>
>> Lghter objects fall faster than heavier ones.........
>
> The force of gravity is greater on more massive [heavier]
>objects, but the effect is cancelled out by their higher inertia,
>so they fall with the same speed as less massive [lighter] ones.
>Other forces, such as air resistance, come into play with the
>size/shape of the object and it is due to them that things like
>feathers fall slower than hammers.
This test has actually been performed on the moon. A feather and...
and... I can't remember what the other object was, but they both hit
the floor together.
--
>> PMD
http://www.youvebeenhad.com
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S D Rodrian
"Tony Cook" <tony...@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> Dear Roddy,
> Most of the above contributions [on evolution]
> above are not mine (TC's).
Nor are mine mine either: They're Darwin's
and his disciples'. Interesting stuff, though,
this inquiry into who we are by finding out
where we came from.
> I only raised the subject of evolution
> as a further piece of evidence
> of the existence of time as a separate
> and very vitally important
> dimension giving sequential
> meaning to all movement.
There are only 3 dimensions to our
universe (this is a conceit of
convenience, but we all know what
is meant by it). However, the crucial
thing is that only those 3 dimensions
are needed for everything else: That
is the place (the room) into which
our universe can be put. And, ultimately,
that is all that matters.
Concerning time... all you really need to
understand is that the universe of matter is
but ONE SINGLE MOTION away from Absolute
Rest (the universe of energy) and back again.
[Translation: If the only motion that exists
is but only a single ONE, it is impossible to
describe it as either fast, slow, or even as
"moving" at all... and yet it still is MOTION
(relative to its own whatever background utterly
beyond our ken). This is the case with the universe
of energy: It is ONE singular MOTION nearly
impossible to describe in our mortal language.]
But, this much (I hope) you can understand
of it: Because it [the universe of energy, aptly
also describable as Absolute Rest] is ONE motion:
there is nothing we can "time" it by/against. And
by definition that gives us timeless motion (or,
motion without time) as existing prior to all else:
Motion can exist without time while time cannot
exist without motion (not even without at least
two motions, one of which "may" be absolute rest).
It is ONLY when the universe of energy [or,
that primordial "singularity" which is simply
depicted as "infinite (scalar) mass"] gives birth
to the universe of matter [or, to all the vector
sub-motions which gravity coalesces into all the
eternally evolving gravitational systems whose
present-day descendants are the particles described
by the Standard Model]... that it at last becomes
possible/practical for "us" to begin "timing" one
motion by/against some other motion(s). Know this:
the "universe of matter" [which is created by the
manifestation of gravity and therefore immediately
begins to implode] ultimately boils down to only a
jumble of nearly numberless "independent" relative
motions, some speeding up while others are slowing
down, as described by the gravitational laws (of
motion) ably and elegantly described by Isaac Newton.
But, however you cut it: Even if you wish to be a
stickler for absolutely unambiguous definitions
(namely that "time" began the instant the first
primordial motion "separated" from Absolute Rest,
and that therefore "time" existed before there were
brains to "time" motions), this still does in no way
put into question the fact that Time only "exists"
in our brains... because if there is but one motion
in existence it is de facto timeless... and if that
singular motion is composed of an utter chaos of
internal (and therefore ONLY relativistic) motions
... we here inside the universe of matter may "time"
a few of those motions (necessarily against each other)
as much as we wish, but... of what absolute good are
all our "timings" if we are but timing how long it
takes one soap bubble to burst as opposed to how long
it takes other soap bubbles to burst? The universe
does not care about our whatever notions of time,
it only "understands" that its inner motions are all
relative and that there exists nothing inside the
universe which is at absolute rest. [And it's not
even THAT, because relativistic motions are eternally
speeding up/slowing down and there is no way for us
to synchronize two or more motions inside the universe
... without their eventually falling completely out
of synchronization of their own accord: "The world
grows old, the stars devour themselves," the rotation
of the earth is slowing so the day is growing longer,
and we must forever keep adding nanoseconds to our clocks
to most unnaturally (artificially) keep them from utter
meaninglessness not only to the universe, but to us too.]
> As for the US elections - the rest of the world
> will probably continue to
> wonder who actually won, even after
> a President is named.
I doubt the world will even remember the name
of Al Gore a month from now. And I'll bet you
nobody will care who he was after January, 2000.
> The US can put a man on the moon, but
> can't seem to count voting papers
> reliably.
Unfortunately the opposite may be true:
We may be becoming TOO good at counting
for our own good...
"Ultimately, our only purpose in all this
is to make certain that every (Democratic)
vote is counted. (And that Republican votes
are tossed, no matter how valid they may be.)"
--An ideally honest Al Gore.
> It's a bit of a wierd circumstance.
What?!... Oh, for a minute there I thought
you'd said "circumcision!" Actually, it's
human nature de-evolving again: We used to
be more civic minded and principled (because
it simply became too costly to keep pursuing
victory at any cost). And now I'm afraid we
are condemned to repeat (those painful lessons
of) the past we've seemed to forgotten... as
George Santyana once warned us [if I remember
correctly].
S D Rodrian
web.sdrodrian.com
sdrodrian.com
> Regards, Tony Cook NZ
Ewan Chilton
<cz...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote in message news:3a2c...@ecn.ab.ca...
> Myke (mmc...@cgocable.net) wrote:
>
> : I meant 'lighter' objects, will fall faster than heavier ones!
>
> Oh, it's in quotation marks now -- well, *now* it makes sense!
prehapes he means lighter as in lighter coloured? ie a white feather
falls slowly, but a black cannon ball falls fast. clouds are so 'light'
that they fly through the air, while the sun, lightest of all is high in
the sky!
The Ghost In The Machine
<mmc...@cgocable.net>
wrote
on Mon, 04 Dec 2000 04:33:00 GMT
<08FW5.15808$_5.38...@news4.rdc1.on.home.com>:
>Lghter objects fall faster than heavier ones.........so A small meteroite
>headed towards earth will be subjected too Earths gravitational field;(or
>pull) pull itself away., and out from earth it will come (likely headed
>towards the sun), will burst into a ball of flames and disintegrate.Simple
>as that! If it don't head toward the sun it doesn't really matter, were all
>safe and that meterote can head out to where ever it want's too!
>
>If and when the big asteroid comes, I will revert to my astroid game!
[rest snipped]
[1] You've got that reversed.
[2] The only reason light objects fall more slowly than heavier ones
(on Earth, that is) is that more air gets in the way. I'm not
aware of any experiments on the Moon regarding a feather and/or
a ball/screw/whatever, although that would have been a logical
time to conduct such demonstrations, but a simple one consists
of said feather, a nut or bolt, and an evacuated transparent
cylinder of sufficient length to be able to measure the time
elapsed during the fall as it is rotated.
[3] Meteoroids don't have intelligence. [*]
[4] A meteroid hitting the sun would have as much effect on the Earth
as a speck of dust hitting our ocean. [+]
[5] If and when the Big One comes, you might as well; if we're
lucky, we'll be pulverised; if not, we'll starve and/or
freeze to death. (We might be able to divert it with
a missile well before then, however -- and in any event
we can at least theoretically see the danged things using
telescopes; one hopes someone's watching for them, although
I have my doubts.)
[*] An object in space is a meteoroid. When that object hits
Earth's atmosphere, it becomes a meteor -- a "shooting star".
If it hits the ground, it is a meteorite.
There is a hypothesis making the rounds -- and it is a legitimate
hypothesis, AFAICT -- that meteors might have brought simple
amino acids, or even proto-life forms, to Earth. Of course,
meteors bringing proto-life forms just begs the question. :-)
[+] Unless that dust speck were made of antimatter, perhaps -- but
then, it would have hit our atmosphere first and went "bang" there.
--
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up 82 days, 13:24, running Linux.
hieronymous707
> I'm not aware of any experiments on the Moon regarding a feather
> and/or a ball/screw/whatever, although that would have been a
> logical time to conduct such demonstrations
As I recall, one of the early Apollo missions did just that.
--
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Andrew Lias
hieronymous707 <hierony...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>ew...@lexi.athghost7038suus.net (The Ghost In The Machine) wrote:
>
>> I'm not aware of any experiments on the Moon regarding a feather
>> and/or a ball/screw/whatever, although that would have been a
>> logical time to conduct such demonstrations
>
>As I recall, one of the early Apollo missions did just that.
I saw the video. IIRC, it was an eagle feather and a weight. It was a
beautiful demonstration of how gravity actually works and of my our
intuitions can be so deceptive.
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hieronymous707
IF:
> There is a hypothesis making the rounds -- and it is a legitimate
> hypothesis, AFAICT -- that meteors might have brought simple
> amino acids, or even proto-life forms, to Earth.
THEN:
> [3] Meteoroids don't have intelligence. [*]
Is a statement that is, to my mind, in apparent contradiction to the
hypothesis.
AND:
> [4] A meteoroid hitting the sun would have as much effect on the Earth
> as a speck of dust hitting our ocean. [+]
> [+] Unless that dust speck were made of antimatter, perhaps -- but
> then, it would have hit our atmosphere first and went "bang" there.
Please explain in as detailed a fashion as you are able, precisely what
you mean by an "antimatter dust speck". That would appear to be a
contradiction in terms.
> Of course, meteors bringing proto-life forms just begs the
> question. :-)
Please excuse my lack of clarity. What is the question?
Andrew Lias
hieronymous707 <hierony...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>ew...@lexi.athghost7038suus.net (The Ghost In The Machine) wrote:
>
>IF:
>
>> There is a hypothesis making the rounds -- and it is a legitimate
>> hypothesis, AFAICT -- that meteors might have brought simple
>> amino acids, or even proto-life forms, to Earth.
>
>THEN:
>
>> [3] Meteoroids don't have intelligence. [*]
>
>Is a statement that is, to my mind, in apparent contradiction to the
>hypothesis.
How does the lack of meteoroid intelligence contradict the hypothesis that
meteoroids could have been vessels for amino acids or proto-life forms?
>> [+] Unless that dust speck were made of antimatter, perhaps -- but
>> then, it would have hit our atmosphere first and went "bang" there.
>
>Please explain in as detailed a fashion as you are able, precisely what
>you mean by an "antimatter dust speck". That would appear to be a
>contradiction in terms.
See http://www.lbl.gov/abc/Antimatter.html for a good explaination.
Essentially (well, simplistically, actually) it is a form of matter than
has the opposite charge to normal matter. When a particle of matter meets
its anti-matter twin, they both experience 100% conversion of their mass
into energy (which, given E=mc^2, is a LOT of energy), hence the
aforementioned "bang".
>> Of course, meteors bringing proto-life forms just begs the
>> question. :-)
>
>Please excuse my lack of clarity. What is the question?
The question of the ultimate origins of life, I imagine. Panspermial
theories (of which the meterorite hypothesis is one) simply indicate that
life had its origin elsewhere and migrated to Earth. They don't tend to
explain how the life originated, elsewhere, in the first place.
Matt Grubb
> IF:
>
> > There is a hypothesis making the rounds -- and it is a
legitimate
> > hypothesis, AFAICT -- that meteors might have brought simple
> > amino acids, or even proto-life forms, to Earth.
>
> THEN:
>
> > [3] Meteoroids don't have intelligence. [*]
>
> Is a statement that is, to my mind, in apparent contradiction to the
> hypothesis.
Why? Sentient Life Forms were brought to the surface of the moon by
un-inteligent contraptions of metal and plastic and silicon. When the
Mir Space Station sprung a leak, who's to say how many microbes were
shot off into space aboard a bit of metallic debris, that may one day
give rise to beings in a far off galaxy who lay awake at night wondering
where they came from.
> AND:
> > [+] Unless that dust speck were made of antimatter, perhaps -- but
> > then, it would have hit our atmosphere first and went "bang" there.
>
> Please explain in as detailed a fashion as you are able, precisely
what
> you mean by an "antimatter dust speck". That would appear to be a
> contradiction in terms.
Antimatter is a form of matter carrying an equal, but opposite
electronic charge to 'regular' matter. I.e. positrons (the antimatter
equivalent of electrons) are positively charged, but otherwise have
exactly the same properties as their negative equivalents. When a
particle of antimatter collides with a particle of regular matter, both
particles are converted to energy. If a 'speck' of antimatter collided
with the Earth, it would be anihilated upon contact with the
regular-matter atmosphere, making a small bang of energy.
> > Of course, meteors bringing proto-life forms just begs the
> > question. :-)
>
> Please excuse my lack of clarity. What is the question?
Where did that proto-life come from?
Matt.
Matt Grubb
> IF:
>
> > There is a hypothesis making the rounds -- and it is a
legitimate
> > hypothesis, AFAICT -- that meteors might have brought simple
> > amino acids, or even proto-life forms, to Earth.
>
> THEN:
>
> > [3] Meteoroids don't have intelligence. [*]
>
> Is a statement that is, to my mind, in apparent contradiction to the
> hypothesis.
Why? Sentient Life Forms were brought to the surface of the moon by
un-inteligent contraptions of metal and plastic and silicon. When the
Mir Space Station sprung a leak, who's to say how many microbes were
shot off into space aboard a bit of metallic debris, that may one day
give rise to beings in a far off galaxy who lay awake at night wondering
where they came from.
> AND:
> > [+] Unless that dust speck were made of antimatter, perhaps -- but
> > then, it would have hit our atmosphere first and went "bang" there.
>
> Please explain in as detailed a fashion as you are able, precisely
what
> you mean by an "antimatter dust speck". That would appear to be a
> contradiction in terms.
Antimatter is a form of matter carrying an equal, but opposite
electronic charge to 'regular' matter. I.e. positrons (the antimatter
equivalent of electrons) are positively charged, but otherwise have
exactly the same properties as their negative equivalents. When a
particle of antimatter collides with a particle of regular matter, both
particles are converted to energy. If a 'speck' of antimatter collided
with the Earth, it would be anihilated upon contact with the
regular-matter atmosphere, making a small bang of energy.
> > Of course, meteors bringing proto-life forms just begs the
> > question. :-)
>
> Please excuse my lack of clarity. What is the question?
Where did that proto-life come from?
Matt.
hieronymous707
> How does the lack of meteoroid intelligence contradict the hypothesis
> that meteoroids could have been vessels for amino acids or proto-life
> forms?
I suppose it depends on an individual's definition of "have".
Peter Walker
>ew...@lexi.athghost7038suus.net (The Ghost In The Machine) wrote:
>
>> I'm not aware of any experiments on the Moon regarding a feather
>> and/or a ball/screw/whatever, although that would have been a
>> logical time to conduct such demonstrations
>
>As I recall, one of the early Apollo missions did just that.
That would be Apollo 15, Commander Dave Scott, IIRC...
Also the first extra-terrestrial geologic field survey, BTW. And the
subject of a particularly stirring episode for "From the Earth to the
Moon".
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Naval Research Laboratory | alt.atheist #3 (Oldtimer Division)
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The Ghost In The Machine
<hierony...@my-deja.com>
wrote
on Thu, 14 Dec 2000 17:32:03 GMT
<91b06j$30u$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>:
>ew...@lexi.athghost7038suus.net (The Ghost In The Machine) wrote:
>
>IF:
>
>> There is a hypothesis making the rounds -- and it is a legitimate
>> hypothesis, AFAICT -- that meteors might have brought simple
>> amino acids, or even proto-life forms, to Earth.
>
>THEN:
>
>> [3] Meteoroids don't have intelligence. [*]
>
>Is a statement that is, to my mind, in apparent contradiction to the
>hypothesis.
Not all life has intelligence. A bacterium or virus is little more
than a reproducing machine; even an insect isn't too bright.
Therefore, these are not contradictory.
It is also possible -- though extremely unlikely -- to imprison
something, say, a mouse, inside of a meteroid; the mouse would have
intelligence, but the meteroid would not (unless we also imprison
a flight-control system which the mouse can use to fly!). But this
is probably a philosophical quibble and not worth further pursuit.
>
>AND:
>
>> [4] A meteoroid hitting the sun would have as much effect on the Earth
>> as a speck of dust hitting our ocean. [+]
>
>> [+] Unless that dust speck were made of antimatter, perhaps -- but
>> then, it would have hit our atmosphere first and went "bang" there.
>
>Please explain in as detailed a fashion as you are able, precisely what
>you mean by an "antimatter dust speck". That would appear to be a
>contradiction in terms.
Contraterrene matter -- or antimatter -- is matter which is, in a sense,
the opposite of normal matter; an antihydrogen molecule would consist
of two antiprotons (negatively charged), with two positrons circling them,
in a manner similar to the two-atom hydrogen molecule (hydrogen's form
at standard temperature and pressure).
Such a contraterrene molecule, upon encountering a normal hydrogen
molecule, would result in a rather violent annihilation (E = mc^2;
c = 3*10^5 km/s). This is why I qualified my statement. Of course,
the probability of such a dust speck actually reaching our Earth,
or even our solar system, is virtually nil anyway, so I'm not sure
why I bothered... :-)
>
>> Of course, meteors bringing proto-life forms just begs the
>> question. :-)
>
>Please excuse my lack of clarity. What is the question?
The question as to how, or where, life was created. If it was
imported outside of our solar system, we'd have to go outside
our solar system to find the origin thereof.
It's intriguing, but somewhat beyond our capabilities right now.
>
>--
>-hi-
>
>
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The Ghost In The Machine
<matt...@M.com>
wrote
on Thu, 14 Dec 2000 18:23:38 -0000
<91b39j$ona$1...@plutonium.btinternet.com>:
>"hieronymous707" <hierony...@my-deja.com> wrote :
>
>> IF:
>>
>> > There is a hypothesis making the rounds -- and it is a
>legitimate
>> > hypothesis, AFAICT -- that meteors might have brought simple
>> > amino acids, or even proto-life forms, to Earth.
>>
>> THEN:
>>
>> > [3] Meteoroids don't have intelligence. [*]
>>
>> Is a statement that is, to my mind, in apparent contradiction to the
>> hypothesis.
>
>Why? Sentient Life Forms were brought to the surface of the moon by
>un-inteligent contraptions of metal and plastic and silicon. When the
>Mir Space Station sprung a leak, who's to say how many microbes were
>shot off into space aboard a bit of metallic debris, that may one day
>give rise to beings in a far off galaxy who lay awake at night wondering
>where they came from.
Not horribly likely unless they jetted out at better than about
24 km/s or so -- roughly the escape velocity of the Sun (1.4 times
the orbital velocity of the Earth), minus the velocity of the Earth,
which, IIRC, is about 60 km/s. I don't know what the molecular speed
of a gas is at 25 degrees Celsius, though. (I should :-) .)
Of course, the jet would also have to be going in the right direction.
And even then, it would take awhile.... :-)
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Matt Grubb
"The Ghost In The Machine" <ew...@lexi.athghost7038suus.net> wrote in
message news:slrn93j247...@lexi.athghost7038suus.net...
> Not horribly likely unless they jetted out at better than about
> 24 km/s or so -- roughly the escape velocity of the Sun (1.4 times
> the orbital velocity of the Earth), minus the velocity of the Earth,
> which, IIRC, is about 60 km/s. I don't know what the molecular speed
> of a gas is at 25 degrees Celsius, though. (I should :-) .)
> Of course, the jet would also have to be going in the right direction.
It can't be any less likely than alien spores landing on earth via
meteor/ite/oid can it ? . But just to cover all bases, I'll assume that
the Russians had been firing just such microbially contaminated
projectiles into deep space as an experiment in bio-weaponry ;)
MAtt
Andrew Lias
hieronymous707 <hierony...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>Andrew Lias <anrw...@wco.digitus_invictus.com> wrote:
>
>> How does the lack of meteoroid intelligence contradict the hypothesis
>> that meteoroids could have been vessels for amino acids or proto-life
>> forms?
>
>I suppose it depends on an individual's definition of "have".
Okay, I'll bite. What definition of "have" are you using?
Al Klein
<hierony...@my-deja.com> posted in alt.atheism:
>ew...@lexi.athghost7038suus.net (The Ghost In The Machine) wrote:
>IF:
>>There is a hypothesis making the rounds -- and it is a legitimate
>>hypothesis, AFAICT -- that meteors might have brought simple
>>amino acids, or even proto-life forms, to Earth.
>THEN:
>> [3] Meteoroids don't have intelligence. [*]
>Is a statement that is, to my mind, in apparent contradiction to the
>hypothesis.
Carbonaceous chondrites are forms of intelligence?
>Please explain in as detailed a fashion as you are able, precisely what
>you mean by an "antimatter dust speck". That would appear to be a
>contradiction in terms.
Why would a dust spec made of antiparticles be contradictory?
hieronymous707
> Okay, I'll bite. What definition of "have" are you using?
Apparently one that would cause me to consider the two statements in
contradiction to one another.
> *-----------*------------------*-----------------------*------------*
> Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely
> powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is
> deeply and personally concerned about my sex life.
> *-----------*------------------*-----------------------*------------*
The "entity" is not particularly concerned with your sex life.
The "Christian Fundamentalists" apparently are.
hieronymous707
> Sentient Life Forms were brought to the surface of the moon by
> un-inteligent contraptions of metal and plastic and silicon.
There are many ways to define intelligence. Indeed, some of it is
artificial, made of metal, plastic, and silicon.
> Antimatter is a form of matter carrying an equal, but opposite
> electronic charge to 'regular' matter. I.e. positrons (the antimatter
> equivalent of electrons) are positively charged, but otherwise have
> exactly the same properties as their negative equivalents. When a
> particle of antimatter collides with a particle of regular matter,
> both particles are converted to energy. If a 'speck' of antimatter
> collided with the Earth, it would be anihilated upon contact with the
> regular-matter atmosphere, making a small bang of energy.
Thank you. Now can you please explain how the energy from the "small
bang" is disseminated.
Peter Walker
<hierony...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>> If a 'speck' of antimatter
>> collided with the Earth, it would be anihilated upon contact with the
>> regular-matter atmosphere, making a small bang of energy.
>
>Thank you. Now can you please explain how the energy from the "small
>bang" is disseminated.
Photons, usually.
_
p + p = 2Y (~1 GeV each)
_
e + e = 2Y (511 keV each)
It's not like this hasn't been seen in the lab...
--
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Computational Physics, Inc. / Naval Research Laboratory
hieronymous707
> Photons, usually.
_
> p + p = 2Y (~1 GeV each)
_
> e + e = 2Y (511 keV each)
Precisely, thank you.
> It's not like this hasn't been seen in the lab...
Absolutely, Peter.
I was making a similar point to another newsgroup on a very related
topic.
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I couldn't have said it better.
Andrew Lias
hieronymous707 <hierony...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> Andrew Lias wrote:
>
> > Okay, I'll bite. What definition of "have" are you using?
>
> Apparently one that would cause me to consider the two statements in
> contradiction to one another.
Apparently. Now, what would that definition be? Or are you just
trolling?
[My sig]
> The "entity" is not particularly concerned with your sex life.
> The "Christian Fundamentalists" apparently are.
Given that my sig specifically references Christian Fundamentalism, I
dare say that is the entire point of the sig.
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Matt Grubb
"hieronymous707" <hierony...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:91g3gk$20q$1...@nnrp1.deja.com...
> "Matt Grubb" wrote:
>
> > Sentient Life Forms were brought to the surface of the moon by
> > un-inteligent contraptions of metal and plastic and silicon.
>
> There are many ways to define intelligence. Indeed, some of it is
> artificial, made of metal, plastic, and silicon.
The metal, plastic, and silicon itself is not intelligent. Intelligence
is an emergent feature, not based on the physical material itself, but
on its properties when combined and arranged in an appropriate manner. A
lump of rock hurtling through space is not intelligent. Whether it is
carrying organic spores or not. Its only guiding force is gravity, and
the miniscule effect of random collisions with the occasional
free-floating atom or dust speck.
Matt.
hieronymous707
> Now, what would that definition be?
It's not particularly important at this point, Andrew. I was merely
musing upon the nature and quality of "possession".
> Or are you just trolling?
I was drolling, not trolling.
> Given that my sig specifically references Christian Fundamentalism, I
> dare say that is the entire point of the sig.
I beg your pardon. I guess droll doesn't play well on usenet.
--
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hieronymous707
> The metal, plastic, and silicon itself is not intelligent.
> Intelligence is an emergent feature, not based on the physical
> material itself, but on its properties when combined and arranged in
> an appropriate manner.
Intelligence is required for combining and arranging in "an appropriate
manner". Artificial Intelligence is the end result. At no time is
intelligence not present.
Matt Grubb
> Intelligence is required for combining and arranging in "an
appropriate
> manner". Artificial Intelligence is the end result. At no time is
> intelligence not present.
No it's not. Simply chemistry and phsyics is sufficient. Intelligence
involves self-volition, the power to make choices. Chemistry and Physics
do not have a choice about what to do, they do the same thing each and
every time without thinking about it. When an atom of silicon meets an
atom of oxygen, it is not intelligence that causes them to combine to
form a silicate compound. When lots of silicon meets lots of oxygen,
neither is it inteligence that causes lots of silicate compound to form,
and group together into a larger mass.
Matt.
hieronymous707
> No it's not. Simply chemistry and phsyics is sufficient. Intelligence
> involves self-volition, the power to make choices. Chemistry and
> Physics do not have a choice about what to do, they do the same thing
> each and every time without thinking about it. When an atom of
> silicon meets an atom of oxygen, it is not intelligence that causes
> them to combine to form a silicate compound. When lots of silicon
> meets lots of oxygen, neither is it inteligence that causes lots of
> silicate compound to form, and group together into a larger mass.
Okay, Matt.
Mark
Ghost In The Machine) wrote:
>Not all life has intelligence. A bacterium or virus is little more
>than a reproducing machine; even an insect isn't too bright.
Quite true. But you imply wrongly that a virus is alive. And even
humans are "little more than reproducing machines" - or at least their
gennomes are.
Mark Atherton
(Amateur [very] mathematician, professional physiologist)
hieronymous707
> And even humans are "little more than reproducing machines" - or at
> least their gennomes are.
Genomes.
http://www.genome.ad.jp/anonftp/
Happy New Year, Mark
Peter van Velzen
What is your definition of life, so that it does not include virusses?
--
"Think for yourself"
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Amstelveen
The Netherlands
http://home-2.worldonline.nl/~pbamvv/petervve.htm
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The Ghost In The Machine
<a...@dr-atherton.demon.co.uk>
wrote
on Sat, 30 Dec 2000 16:35:40 GMT
<3a4e0ddf...@news.demon.co.uk>:
>On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 02:53:12 GMT, ew...@lexi.athghost7038suus.net (The
>Ghost In The Machine) wrote:
>
>>Not all life has intelligence. A bacterium or virus is little more
>>than a reproducing machine; even an insect isn't too bright.
>
>Quite true. But you imply wrongly that a virus is alive. And even
>humans are "little more than reproducing machines" - or at least their
>gennomes are.
Virii are a little weird. In essence, they are DNA held in a jacket
of protein; when conditions are right (e.g., said virus bumps against
a cell wall), the jacket does something and the DNA enters the cell,
hijacking it to create more jackets and DNA. The cell wall then bursts.
So we have reproduction, but that's about it -- and even then,
virii have to basically, erm, borrow the machinery from somewhere else.
Very weird, and almost always deadly -- at the cellular level, anyway. [*]
They're definitely somewhere on the boundary of life and non-life,
and I'm not sure what side they are on. We can even crystallize
some virii -- one notion would be to drop said crystals in
drinking water and make everyone sick (assuming said virus is
soluble in water and infects human cells). Yuck.
As for humans being reproducing machines, well, a human is a gamete's
way of creating more gametes. (One hopes we have fun doing so, as well.
After all, it would be dreary going through life if we didn't. :-) )
So you're right, although it kind of depends on how one looks at it. :-)
>
>Mark Atherton
>
>(Amateur [very] mathematician, professional physiologist)
[*] We can create virii which self-destruct, injecting their DNA
payload into the cell, but instead of reproducing like crazy
the DNA payload does something else, such as create a chemical
useful to humans, or modify the bacteria so infected so that
they will do something useful to humans, such as eat oil.
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The Ghost In The Machine
<b...@barkk.com>
wrote
on Mon, 01 Jan 2001 16:54:35 -0500
<GvhQOmjn9=TTGUXxoMz5HCyR5K=r...@4ax.com>:
>ew...@lexi.athghost7038suus.net (The Ghost In The Machine) wrote:
>
>>Virii are a little weird. In essence, they are DNA held in a jacket
>>of protein; when conditions are right (e.g., said virus bumps against
>>a cell wall), the jacket does something and the DNA enters the cell,
>>hijacking it to create more jackets and DNA. The cell wall then bursts.
>
> replicate the information. Pretty cool.
>
> More interesting is what viruses may have DONE
> to more conventional "life" over hundreds of
> millions of years. Some cause overt diseases,
> but others just incorporate their data into
> the genome of a cell and rarely/never reproduce.
> This data can sometimes cause cancers - SV40 & HPV
> for example - but undoubtably there are many bits
> of viral DNA firmly incorporated into our genomes
> which may do *something* but not cause "disease"
> per-se. Even a herpes "cold-sore" affects ones
> socialization and mating habits -- what cumulative
> effects does that cause over millions of years ?
>
> So, viruses may be agents of mutations which drive
> evolution. Interspecies gene-mixing perhaps. How
> much of our genome originated as incorporated viruses ?
> Do old, long-since-modified, incorporated viruses ever
> "come to life" and spread their new genetic data around ?
>
> BW
Frankly, I've no idea -- but they are interesting questions. :-)
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