Recent content by Benplace

Sorry, but this is why more people don't come to this forum. You could have answered him in a way he could understand, but instead you chose to belittle him. A lot of people are simply curious and responses like this make them go elsewhere for discussion.

I bought one of the lasers from quantumlaserpointer.com If I remove the cap I can see the two thin slits cut in it. If I hold the laser around 3ft from a surface it appears to show the refraction pattern. Is this actually working like the dual slit experiment and the laser photons are going...

I thought it would be the opposite and they would barely be able to detect the flash of light? If they were somehow able to watch the spaceship from the planet wouldn't they see the man aging very rapidly? Hence the light would quickly flash?

In the movie Interstellar we see a planet close to the event horizon so when the astronauts land and get stuck on the planet for over an hour, many years passes for the guy on the spaceship and when they return he is an old man. From what I understand, this is indeed what would happen and they...

Thanks, that makes sense.

I was doing a thought experiment last night. Gravitational waves, being like any other type of wave would cancel each other out and create a refraction pattern of strength. While we do not have definitive proof there is a black hole at the center of every Galaxy, we do know, through...

What I am trying to figure out, is it possible that when a star dies the mass ejected from it could be greater than the mass of the original star?

Sorry, I'm not a physicist or a mathematician, I am just interested. From what I understand, when a star dies, heavier elements are extracted from it. Does the total sum of those elements and the gravitational force they create equal the gravity the star originally created by warping space...

Would the amount of star dust excreted from a dying star equal the gravitational force of the original star then?

If the Earth were divided into 4 sections and separated far enough that they have no gravitational pull on each other, would the gravity on each section be 25% of the current gravity on Earth?

Thanks for the answers.

Where would you recommend I start from the basics? I really do want to learn, but I am not a young pup anymore so going back to school really isn't an option for me. Thanks for your thorough response. Maybe I should look more into the philosophical side of things?

This is why I rarely post on this forum, I am trying to understand and put things in perspective. I am not saying an object could disappear. I am using it to explain what I mean. Here is my next question, are all physicists rude to people that want to learn?

So you are saying, that while the plates would move back and forth, there is no way to extract any energy from them?

Imagine two flat metal plates connected in the center of each one with a pipe in the middle, then having multiples of these close enough that the Casimir effect when pulling them together, on the other end the same effect would pull them together as well while pulling the other end apart...