Recent content by Dennis Plews

This is what I was asking: Demystifier It's clear what the OP meant; "Higgs field creates mass" and "mass creates gravity", so there could be a relation between Higgs and gravity. Of course, both claims in quotation marks originate from oversimplified and misleading explanations in...

Of course they are not the same. The question is whether they’re connected via their common core of mass. Has anyone examined this commonality to see if they are connected? The first thing that comes to my mind as a possible nexus is the stress energy tensor

To use a famous quote: “Matter tells spacetime how to curve and spacetime tells matter how to move.” Here I am converting Prof Wheeler’s “matter” to what I consider to be a fair substitute, mass. Mass is now understood to be field excitations that have a positive coupling constant with the...

Since these two pillars of science have mass as a common core, are they related, essentially the same or not?

That’s interesting. If dark matter doesn’t couple to the Higgs Field, how does it aquire mass so that it bends spacetime? Also, since the multi-year searches at several detectors have not seen any DM interactions, what is discernible from these nul results?

Thank you for pointing out what I should have realized initially. I overlooked the fact that dark matter only interacts gravitationally. Since it only couples with the Higgs Field does it have momentum?

Calculating the amount of force needed to needed to increase Earth’s orbital velocity sufficiently to achieve the desired results is trivial and well within the ability of a high school science student. Conceiving of a potential method that can potentially save an inhabited planet is a bit more...

Good idea.

Starting early is the solution.

Thanks. It quantifies the amount of orbital radius increase needed to avoid Esrth becoming a Solar snack.

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Summary:: A proposal for keeping the Earth intact during the Sun’s Red Giant phase. The following is a hypothetical method for keeping our Earth in the Goldilocks zone during the Sun’s Red Giant phase offered for analysis and critique by those amongst us who are more knowledgeable than I. Your...

What gravity is, as pointed out by Newton and Einstein, is still a mystery. Adding to that conundrum is dark energy which continues to inflate the cosmos. Both Newton and Einstein, and every one else as far as I am able to discern, assume that gravity works by drawing massive bodies together...

Thanks everyone!