Robert Shuler

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Is there a paper on what fraction light velocity is attributable to distant observed mass?

All mass produces time dilation, and a reduced velocity of light isotropically, and for distant mass the effect is proportional to the inverse radius. In addition there is a radial reduction in...

05 May 2019 4,738 19 View

Will an AI in a closed room conclude that it collapses the wave function of a Schrodinger cat-in-a-box?

The Schrodinger experiment (intended to illustrate what he thought was the implausibility of a half-live half-dead cat state function, but now taken seriously by many) is modified to examine the...

05 May 2016 498 69 View

Do you believe in the block universe (a "block" of space-time where time is much like space)?

An article on Space.com (see link below) prompted me to ask this question in a way that is not a scientific question, but one of belief, or speculation. I could add also, do you find scientific...

10 October 2015 4,074 42 View

Is it possible to convert back and forth between gravitational and all other kinds of energy?

When antiparticles annihilate, all the energy from matter, EM, strong, weak and Higgs fields bound to the particles converts to a pair of photons, involving only EM energy. Across the moment of...

09 September 2015 9,611 75 View

What differential equation has a solution of the form F(x)=(1+1/Kx)^-2?

I'm aware that the solution to xd/dxF(x)=F(x)(1-F(x)) is (1+1/Kx)-1, where K is an arbitrary constant. I'm looking for a similar equation with solution (1+1/Kx)-2. It's been a long time and I'm...

08 August 2015 4,298 22 View

Who has Special Relativity students and would be interested in trying the heuristic "Leading Clocks Lag"?

I have some feedback from a referee at Physics Education (PED) on the draft paper linked below, Leading Clocks Lag - A Pedagogical Memory Aide. The reviewer comments (below, 1 referee for...

08 August 2015 8,578 6 View

Should high school students be taught space-time gravity?

We might also ask this of the introductory college physics course, which will be taken by a lot of non-physics majors, who will never take another physics course, but will for the rest of their...

07 July 2015 6,417 2 View

What structural changes would be helpful in making employment a goal of business?

Mergers are praised by business analysts for efficiency based on the number of layoffs (among other things), i.e. the number of productive jobs they destroy. Communities offer corporations tax...

05 May 2015 5,924 9 View

Is there more than one theory of gravity that can demonstrate compatibility with the Einstein equivalence principle?

I am looking for theories that give different observations, i.e. that are measurably different. Observations must match Minkowski space in free space. This is a theoretical question. Not looking...

09 September 2014 672 68 View

Does risk compensation apply to corporations, markets and government policy development?

Does increased efficiency increase the risk? I propose the answer to both questions is yes and develop a microeconomic model in the draft short paper linked below. I would appreciate hearing the...

08 August 2014 9,596 8 View

Is it possible to derive the constant & uniform velocity of light & the Lorentz transform without starting from the principle of relativity?

Originally the Lorentz transform was developed to explain the Michelson-Morley experiment in terms of length contraction due to motion through an ether. Some work was done on how this might...

12 December 2013 3,652 75 View

Should offloading of tasks onto customers be counted as productivity gains?

From "assembly required" furniture, to having to enter all my information on a computer terminal at UPS before the attendant will take my package, not to mention computerized training and...

11 November 2013 2,914 13 View

Would wormholes be useful in flat cosmological space?

Wormholes, within the theory of General Relativity, are microscopic and short lived, but many serious physicists have speculated openly and hoped that perhaps with negative energy (as yet...

11 November 2013 8,145 6 View

Could time or radial dilation prevent the formation of black holes?

As we get close in time to the formation of an event horizon, then in the vicinity of the location where that event horizon will form in the future, time dilation becomes very large. The formation...

10 October 2013 1,094 80 View