Recent content by David McArthur

Thanks for the reply. I can work out the kinetic energy of the falling object easily enough. The PE of the static body would be it's mass times the distance to the centre of the earth, I believe. Going back to the forces of the static body and the impacting body. The static body applies a force...

I have been asked by a piling engineer to try to come up with an alternative to static pile testing in a restricted access site. Normally a pile test is carried out by applying a static load to the ground and measuring the deflection of the pile under the load. This of course requires a large...

Thank you for taking the trouble to point me in the right direction.

I have been watching a few explanations of the Higgs boson/ Higgs field. From what I can understand is that all space if filled with a sea of Higgs bosons which create the Higgs field. Is the Higgs field a property of space and does it give space energy? As more space is created with the...

I was watching a discussion on wether the the universe is the way it is through design or by chance. The design theory is basically that the universe is such a complex entity and that for it to have evolved exactly as we see it, then it must have been designed. The counter theory is that we live...