Thanks for the reply!
I recently found a similar question on the forums and in which it was said that only a very small faction of the Sun's mass will be lost through out it's entire life. Mesurable, but not enough to change any climates enough to be noticeable. Well I'm glad to hear that the...
Through nuclear fusion the Sun slowly losses mass as it is converted to energy. The Sun also losses mass through coronal mass ejections. So after a large amount of time would this change in mass of the sun create a measurable change in the gravitational influence the Sun has on bodies in the...
I've had this same question pop up in my head before, but I have found a website that gives an explanation for attractive forces using virtual particles.
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Quantum/virtual_particles.html
I hope it will be of help to you.
That's what a high school physics teacher would say but the fact is it only appears to slow down(because of the constant absorbing and re-emitting of the individual photons).
Well that's not completely true. The individual photons in a medium constantly are absorbed and re-emitted by the atoms of the medium. So this makes it appear that they are being slowed down but the fact is they travel at c in between being absorbed and there is a small delay for re-emittion. In...
I agree, what about Planck's constant? Seems like an important constant to me.
P.S. h-bar is important but it is h/2pi(I think). So you would have to have that important constant pi to have h-bar. For this reason I would put pi above h-bar as a more important constant.
Thank you:smile: I apparently wasn't clear enough on my question. Okay what I asked is if you have say two charges(or two masses) there would be an electromagnetic force between the charges and a gravitational force between the two masses. I realize that each charge or mass would have a potenial...