Recent content by dshea

sorry maverick I am missing out on the joke cause I'm running ubuntu (linux) and my comp setup isn't able at this moment to play flash/youtube videos. As for the 10 year bit, I got lots of time and the more I learn the more I want to.

Ok maybe a week:50 year ratio is ureasonable considering the the g's and the human body. What IS a more reasonable timeframe/withstandableg's. And to get back on topic, you could leave the wine and cheese on Earth and go on a trip come back and it be well aged.

I understand all of this. When I think of looking at a black hole I think of the first visualization you listed below, however I am not thinking of it as a record player, more as a whirlpool that if you moved the center of the whirlpool would seem to move with you. Thats if the black hole is...

One application I can think of is that if I had an incurable disease I could go on a one week ride in a spaceship, on return 50 years have passed on earth. Of course if there wasn't a cure I could just go on another trip.

Well when you say it like that physics doesn't seem as fun, I think that I am in danger of becoming a metaphysicist . Though I do have an analytiacal mind and have gone through a calc book on my own time, so the math isn't so much of a problem for me. Though that was some time ago so I am a bit...

I must say maverick your answers are clear, and you have been very helpful to my understanding thus far. As for light being 2-dimensional I may have been jumping to a conclusion that may have been false. My conclusion came from an observers point of view. If there was a spaceship that was...

I wasn't trying to express a photon as a particle (still struggling with what a photon is), rather I was trying to say it was a form of energy. In order for you to better understand how I understand em waves so far I will use a comparison. (what I'm about to say isn't neceassarily a statement of...

So if space is always filled with energy (photons) does that imply that em waves are waves in a sea of waves, or would that imply interference patterns?

As I understand it a vacuum is space that doesn't contain matter, however is it possible to have space that is a vacuum that also doesn't have any energy?

I hope the instructors in my geographic location are as open as you are. Does anybody know of any alternatives? For example are there physics clubs, government programs, etc? Of course there are online resources, however there is little if no mentoring online, excluding this forum :approve:.

Good point. Can you point me in the right direction?

So the photon's are not being converted into electrical energy? Or is the photoelectric effect being expressed by the opsins? It seems to me that light is being converted to electricity that our brain interprets.

maverick I wish you could provide me with an intuitive easy answer. On the other hand I have avoided understanding things based on their difficulty for far to long and am pulling up my sleeves and going to work. Gotta start somewhere right! Now what do you mean a spin 1 boson (I know what it...

If a photon leaves it's source and it is not affected by time and space at which point I absorb the photon, does it therefore imply that the source had interacted with me. To further develop my question so that you understand what I am thinking. The source is in a way passing it's energy...

Thank you so far for your answers, I am loving this forum. As an observer Is the spin part of the photons energy? How much energy is in a photon?