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Oh yes, if I could use the formula. But currently, when I see the equations it is all meaningless gibberish. I don't know what the letters stand for at all. Though I am getting there, maybe, very slowly from this nifty physics tutorial series I found on youtube. But I am slow at math, even...

Sure I get that. Every body influencing every other body. So not zero. But there must be a point at which the effect becomes negligible. For instance. If you were on the international space station. and you wanted to fire a rocket from there toward the sun. Does that rock still need the same...

Ah, that method seems to work. Thanks.

and after your comment, to make it easier for you to see what you're doing. (The forum software will format it in its own way when you post it.) his is a test. And thank you. Everyone is so nice on here and quick to respond. It is frustrating to be interested in physics as just a layman. There...

Well yes, I was talking about black hole, or at least I was talking about anything with enough mass, like a black hole, or something maybe with slightly less mass than a black hole but still a lot of mass. I guess the way I am visualizing this, which may be wrong, is a sort of analogy between...

I have to figure out how to do that point by point excerpt quotations that I see other people doing in replies. How does that work?

well language barrier assumes the back in time version where there are Hittites and whatnot running around. But the alien Earth like planet has no such problem, if it is uninhabited. I suppose we could change the scenario. Let's say that a team of scientists has crash landed on an primitive...

You are completely correct of course. as Roger Waters said in the song Me or Him You wake up in the morning, get something for the pot Wonder why the sun makes the rocks feel hot Draw on the walls, eat, get laid Back in the good old days Then some damn fool invents the wheel Listen to the...

Okay, so admittedly my background and knowledge base is pretty weak compared to most of you guys on here. I have been reading as much stuff stuff as I can find because I find physics and cosmology so very interesting. I just found today a physics tutorial series on youtube. The beginning...

What is an Aspie?

Thanks. I will read those links. Most of what I have been exposed to on these topics has come from reading Asimov's History of physics. New Intelligent man's guide to science and Nigel calder's book Einstein's Universe as well as some book by michio kaku, the title of which I do not recall. And...

Okay so I have been informed that my suggestion to publish it here is actually against the rules. So disregard that. But hopefully it is not against the rules to suggest that at least as you ask this question you give a bit more specifics about your background, field of study and what the theory...

Hyperion was really enjoyable. Stranger in a strange land was also. and I really liked Asimov's "the Gods themselves".

I have to agree that Star Wars and Star Trek are vastly different things. The huge fantasy leap that a lot of sci fi space stories use is the introduction of all kinds of materials and elements that do not really exist. I think maybe that the best bet at this point for imaging the tech of the...