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Referring to Lagrangian methods if potential energy of gravity is considered as positive energy, then kinetic energy should be considered negative. Recent publications on frame dragging could...
08 August 2019 9,210 1 View
If state reduction R occurs at critical points between one period of unitary evolution U1 and another U2, then the U1 might represent a false vacuum and the U2 a vacuum, with R representing the...
06 June 2019 7,657 1 View
In other threads vacuum space was discussed for possibilities of scale relativity, squeezed quantum states, and hierarchy of Plancks. In each or these a quantum state of local space is associated...
04 April 2019 4,955 4 View
Thirty years ago Roger Penrose published a book The Emperor's New Mind arguing that AI could not have human like thoughts with the available level of technology. Technology has advanced, so the...
03 March 2019 1,364 5 View
Much is published about successes in driverless automobiles and other automations. Responsibility for accidents is not sufficiently discussed when AI is controlling. So far the owners and...
03 March 2019 2,168 2 View
As a musician in old age I notice in great cathedral choirs the voices of boys are said to break suddenly during age 13 or 14 at which time the boys are promptly dismissed from the choirs. After...
01 January 2019 4,291 1 View
Mass energy equivalence is conditional and situational. Energy and time measurements are subject to uncertainty. Small electron mass seems to be fairly measured and repeatable. while electron is...
12 December 2018 9,367 1 View
Three generations differ by energy. In other threads the proposition was discussed that increasing energy may eventually result in change of quantum state sometimes called squeezing of quantum...
12 December 2018 8,399 4 View
Many year ago I was presented a theorem of mathematics that contained a claim and proof that enough dimensions make every curved function straight and flat. It sounded OK in principle but the...
10 October 2018 5,948 1 View
Everyone has heard my opinions. I would like to hear opinions of others. Will Human Technology Find A Way To Travel Among Stars?
10 October 2018 2,068 1 View
Experiments in high energy have reported hard collisions of point like particle electrons. Spin angular momentum is suggesting the electron has geometry larger than a point. Scattering of...
09 September 2018 1,806 9 View
Pairs of particles or larger groups are not usually considered to be real unless they separate by distance of more than a wave length and become measurable in isolation. In space vacuum virtual...
09 September 2018 7,319 12 View
In classical times there was a concept of pure science that was produced entirely in the intellect. More recently sciences were developed by testing the intellectual product with empirical data....
08 August 2018 8,528 67 View
Max Born was a long time friend of Albert Einstein and first published his book in 1924 after discussing it with Einstein in a letter. The passage in question can be found on page 357 in the...
08 August 2018 6,641 15 View
In another thread some researchers were discussing Hubble constant and distant galaxies calculated to move faster away from us than our standard light speed. Also publications can be found...
08 August 2018 5,684 2 View
Light speed is constant when acceleration does not have to be considered. The traveler has a dilation of time and distance compared to the origin. In SR the approximation for a traveler can be...
08 August 2018 3,336 2 View
Light speed seems to be a property of vacuum space related to potential for polarization by electric and magnetic fields. In other threads researchers have debated whether or not a fast moving...
08 August 2018 4,587 13 View
The Hamiltonian function H is defined as the total energy of a system, the sum of kinetic and potential energy. Lagrangian function L is defined as the potential energy subtracted from the kinetic...
08 August 2018 7,845 6 View
Other researchers have published opinions that collapse of a false vacuum destroys everything it contains. It other threads the possibility of big bang caused by collapse of false vacuum was...
07 July 2018 1,177 1 View
From conventional energy and momentum we get the equation. (mc2)2 = E2 (1 - v2/c2 ) This question depends on how quickly energy increases compared to velocity. The conventional equations do not...
07 July 2018 4,825 15 View
Assuming that radiation including light helps to drive expansion and prevent collapse, the question is asking what happens when the light fails. At present the radiation total force may be very...
07 July 2018 3,958 0 View
In other threads I showed that higher dimensions of 6D, 12D, or 26D can be constructed and tested when the base components are velocity vectors or velocity tensors. These frames are not the ones...
05 May 2018 3,735 1 View
A lot of science has been applied to study how our universe developed and when it began. Not much science is available to say why the universe started at one time and not another, or why the...
04 April 2018 5,815 4 View
"Ground-based telescopes, like the Anglo-Australian Observatory, saw the light from supernova 1987A several hours after the Kamiokande and IMB experiments had already detected the neutrinos that...
04 April 2018 3,815 1 View
Detection at LIGO of colliding neutron stars has added to the evidence that gravity waves move at light speed in agreement with widely held expectations. Light speed is suggesting massless...
04 April 2018 9,496 4 View
Neutrinos were thought to be massless, but this was not entirely satisfactory in comparison to other particles that feel the short range forces. Then experiments concluded that neutrinos have a...
04 April 2018 8,909 6 View
In a different thread the researchers discussed Einstein's suggestion from 1949 to express kinetic energy as a local field in space. In this question I would like to evaluate Einstein's final...
03 March 2018 3,244 1 View
Isotropic CMB has given a convenient zero velocity reference frame for putting kinetic energy into a local field. Victor Weisskopf wrote in his essay "Contemporary Frontiers Of Physics" published...
01 January 2018 4,216 1 View
In November 1915 Albert Einstein published General Relativity in an expression of geometry and implied action at a distance with assistance of leading Mathematicians. They took credit for the...
01 January 2018 3,749 2 View
If stress energy is represented in ZPE as a change of amplitude and frequency, it seems likely that there is a limit to the amount of strain that ZPE can display in a single mode of...
01 January 2018 4,320 1 View
Much discussion occurs on topics that have been around for many years. Is there a new topic, or are we just refining the old ones. What Are The Leading Edge Topics Of Physics Research In...
01 January 2018 7,101 8 View
Most of the possible products seem to need more energy that the proton usually has available. Example is the positron and neutron product pair observed in nuclei and possibly in some collapsed...
11 November 2017 2,936 2 View
Many teachers are asking in threads for advice about how to be successful in preparing students for life and career. Occasionally I look back into the personal portfolio where some of the most...
11 November 2017 2,004 3 View
In lower level classes I start with a simpler question. If a mirror reverses an image from left to right, why doesn’t it reverse the image from top to bottom? Of course the researchers know the...
10 October 2017 9,960 6 View
In a previous question and answer the absence of a third dimension of time was applied to Kaluza Klein and EM radiation in cylindrical coordinates, identifying the lack of mass as a reason the...
10 October 2017 4,199 3 View
The other choice seems to be the interaction of a gravity field with the divergence of the momentum vector field. Does The Gradiant Of A Gravity Field Interact With A Momentum Vector Field In...
09 September 2017 5,354 1 View
Matti Pitkänen has provided from TGD theory a vital missing piece of high energy physics. It helped my engineering project to be completed with favorable results, Deep Space Transport at High...
08 August 2017 5,735 7 View
There seems to be a path forward to higher dimensional systems by constructing coordinate systems from velocity vectors and velocity base units instead of distance vectors and distance base...
07 July 2016 9,031 15 View
A magnetic field can be represented as the curl of a magnetic vector potential. When generated with no curl the related vector potential passes through barriers and is detected by a special type...
07 July 2016 3,977 26 View
Much has been learned about what laws exist and what possibilities occur in actions. Very little is known about where the laws reside or which mechanisms describe how they govern physical...
07 July 2016 423 5 View
Conclusions from 1000 scientist at LIGO is that mass was converted to energy 2 or 3 times about 1 to 2 billion years ago without antimatter to annihilate the lost mass. References were made to...
06 June 2016 7,183 29 View
From an engineering point of view the most advanced concepts of physics are usually found in publications of astrophysics, and in terminology that makes understanding easier than the same concepts...
01 January 1970 4,493 3 View
Schrödinger in his book "What Is Life?" suggested that Entropy could decrease in a system of D1 energy states that are not randomly filled. (- S1) = R Ln (1/D1) Compared to the usual form for D2...
01 January 1970 8,089 9 View
A lot of energy is represented in moving asteroids. How Much Time Advanced Notice Is Needed To Be Successful?
01 January 1970 1,136 2 View
In early work on beam splitting experiments one of the researchers suggested the methods might be developed to predict future events by quantum measurements. Another researcher some years later...
01 January 1970 6,853 2 View
I've done a lot of writing for simplicity in the ( v, t ) coordinate sheet of SR and GR. It seems to suppose that the cases represented are operating on a fully contracted tensor domain. d(x1) =...
01 January 1970 8,463 2 View
Earth acceleration 9.8 m/sec2 works out to 1.03 times c/yr. Is this just a convenient coincidence for calculations, or is there some physical cause for it? Anthropic arguments are made for other...
01 January 1970 8,971 60 View
A sizeable number of exo planets have been discovered using a variety of methods and with many parameters of orbits and many sizes of planets. With the available information is it possible to...
01 January 1970 9,414 1 View
Planck's constant can be regarded as a property of vacuum space, together with light speed, gravity constant, and the two constants for polarization in electric and magnetic fields. Then the...
01 January 1970 8,966 12 View
In my previous thread the detection of curl free magnetic vector potentials was discussed for detection in Josephson Junctions with references to patents and defense of patents in education of...
01 January 1970 7,869 13 View
The ratio is precisely defined which agrees with SR, and is not in doubt. T/pv = [ 1- ( 1 – v2/c2 )(1/2) ] / (v2/c2) Where T = E - (mc2) E2 = (mc2)2 + (pc)2 pv = E(v2/c2) I would like to integrate...
01 January 1970 5,450 7 View
Evidence of gravity bending light suggests that EM interacts with gravity. Many theories attempt to develop this further, and seem to stop short of completion. Some of the most interesting work...
01 January 1970 2,421 7 View
