Recent content by Charlie G

Hi, I just submitted some homework that had a question that I'd really like to know the answer to now (rather than waiting on getting the homework back). The question asked to plot the current induced in a loop of wire as a magnetic monopole passed through it. My graph showed the current...

Alright, thanks for clearing that up guys; couldn't read ahead until I understood lol.

Hi all, I was just looking for some assistance in reconciling the equivalence principle and the varying intensity of the gravitational field. (I'm in high school so go easy on me, I'm just studying Einstein's Relativity for the general reader). For convenience let's keep with Einstein's example...

Thanks for the response, I was very surprised when I read the sketch of his idea, I had never heard of any possible explanation of inertia, I had thought it was one of those mysteries where we hadn't formed any notions making it intelligible. I definitely plan to keep an eye on the idea...

I was wondering if anyone is familiar with D.W. Sciama's theory of inertia based on Mach's principle? I came across the theory in a book or selected writings on motion I found at a used book sale and found it very compelling. Just curious to hear any fallacies in his reasoning or negative...

Ah, man. I've been thinking about it all day haha. Thanks for clearing that up for me Dave, so that I don't spend any longer thinking about it.

Hi forum, I was having some difficulty in understanding how time as a fourth dimension allows a cube of three spatial dimensions to obtain the properties of a tesseract. Suppose we allow a cube to exist for some interval of time. At the start such a cube would have eight vertices as well as...

Thanks for the replies. I suppose my troubles only lied in my confusion about relativity, I had assumed tht the general principle applied to all frames of reference, even non-inertial frames, so that even an observer in one could call himself at rest and attribute inertial forces to a...

I was having trouble making sense of the geosynchronous orbits from a relativistic point of view. Correct me if I am wrong, but in a geosynchronous orbit the object appears to hover over a certain place on the Earth, from the point of view of the Earth, which can be said to be at rest according...

Memory banks would be pretty cool. When your older and want to relive some of the good times in your life you could just take a trip to the memory bank and have the forgotten or blurry memories put right back into your mind.

Thanks for clearing up the information loss idea for me Dave.

Thanks for the help everyone.

Sorry about that, but anyway is information "destroyed" when someone or something dies?

Thanks for the replies, that would be a pretty convenient technology if we could probe the memories of the dead, definately be a help to crime investigations. The reason I asked the question was to know if death really contradicts that information cannot be destroyed, if it does, then...

I was curious if, when someone dies, are the informetion, such as memories, stored in the brain lost? Is it possible to extract that information without somehow bringing life back into the person?