Posted on 04/02/2005 7:01:14 PM PST by PatrickHenry
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I think he got the last laugh on them.
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I came up with this odd idea--
When mathematicians wanted to solve an impossible problem, they invented "i", such that: "an imaginary number is a real number times the positive square root of -1." The subsequent results yeilded amazing observations in many aspects of mathematics.
Why not do the same with physics? Just define a black-box figure (declare some "impossible" equivalence, perhaps?) and don't worry about how it works- just accept the result as true.
(The details of such a thing are well beyond my skills, which are presently stuck at undergraduate standards...)
Why would a gyroscope change its direction of spin?
The spin would not change, only it's direction in relation to the stars.
Now that is fascinating. And I will be nice.
I still think Hawking was right. Einstein did not prove Newton wrong, he proved him incomplete. The next great breakthrough will not prove Einstein wrong, it will prove him incomplete. The next breakthrough will build on his work, not eradicate it.
It's a Democrat.
I wonder if any new object in space, little as it may be, such as us, causes a littler 'dimple' in the fabric creating a much smaller distortional vortex of spacetime.
I was taught that the Universal Fudge Factor was the square root of 2. :-)
Yes, I understand that the spin is not changing, only its direction, that is to say the k component of the vector perpendicular to the rotational motion. But what causes the direction to change?
That's essentially what Einstein did: he declared that the velocity of light was the same regardless of conditions and then jiggered the universe so it would be.
My problem is that I can't make the 'elevator experiment' work the way it seems to work for everybody else: I always come up with the notion that the scientists inside the elevator car would have no trouble at all distinguishing between acceleration due to changes in velocity and acceleration due to gravity.
LOL. The best explanation I have heard so far.
It's three hours, all online. I've been watching it with my homeschooled six-year old. (I have a hunch he understands more than I do :).
I think the direction would only change if space is curved and that is what any change will show. The direction of the gyroscopes doesn't change....only a change in direction relative to the stars, based on any curvature found.
Hope this makes some sense.
Interesting question. I do know that all mass has gravity. When we fall down we see and feel the effects of the gravity of the earth on us. But our gravity also pulls on the earth and the earth moves due to our gravity, although the movement is so small that it is neglibible.
So you may be onto something, althought the effect may be so small that it is also negligible.
How do you define your coordinate system to measure direction if space is changing.
It's a Democrat.
It's a Creationist, moving the goalposts one more time.
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