Recent content by curvedlogic

If you go to pprune/forums/jet-blast you will see what pilots and engineers think of this problem. you may never want to fly again.

Eye surgery has seen me out of the loop for a while... but a late thanks for that, McQueen

Most scenarios seem to imply that massive objects hitting our planet would be traveling at a speed that would give days if not weeks of warning. Is there any reason that a meteor should not hit the Earth at a very high relative velocity? Even one traveling at 80% the speed of light would be...

Thanks for the reply. Okay, I can visualize it until I extrapolate downwards, to say, Long Wave radio. There I imagine the broadcaster saying something like... "there will be a short intermission while we wait for the next package of our radio waves. Joking aside, I will give some...

The discussion has got too technical for me, so a question in very simplistic terms. Within my limited understanding, I have never before read of missing mass being attributed to some sort of space fabric. I read on these forums some debate on the reality of an aether, so if such a...

I have always visualized light as a series of discrete packages of energy. It seems fairly straight forward...at least until goes into more detail, but the smooth transition into a radio wave leaves me confused. Is there some specific point at which a radio wave becomes contiguous?

I just happen to be reading and article which states... ‘The Bc meson contains a charm quark and a bottom anti quark...' and it goes on to say that ‘its mass, the new findings reveal, is about six times that of a proton.' This seems ambiguous. Does it mean that the afore mentioned quarks are...

This is precisely my point, when I say that detecting gravity waves would be impossible. I would guess however, that there would be substantial differences in the local forces. But despite years of thinking about it, I have not the slightest idea how one could construct an experiment to test...

In the post "Einstein's theory of gravity" Yogi again mentioned something akin to my question. "Inflow theory contemplates a dynamic of some sort - usually an aether." I Googled 'gravity inflow' -- and hey presto, i got just what i was looking for. matin@gravityresearch.org...

Yogi posted. "There is another theory which is much more respectable that postulates that ether flows into matter and that the rate of inflow explains gravity." Thanks again...in particular for Yogi's post. I would be fascinated to know more about this, as I have been unable to find...

Thanks for the link. Navigation on a 707 in those days was a bit primitive, I wonder how it affected the data!

Thanks for the replies. I have to confess that some 40 years ago, I wondered if the accelerating surface of any physical body would be the answer to gravity. It was late at night when I bounced this idea to a maths student pal that I was lodging with. I was studying terrestrial...

After a spectacularly unsuccessful first post--the silence of the replies was deafening--I would like to again beg the simplest of answers. I am aware that most forums of this kind do not allow unqualified pontificating, yet I'm seeing quite a few ‘ideas' being put forward, and they often...

I had always assumed that, while testing relativity, clocks flown round the world actually had a physical final sum of the divided prime frequency when returned to base. I.e., there was a permanent reduction in the final count. Is this not true?