Recent content by HarryWertM

my math is miserable so go easy here. if a star has an elliptical shape, say due to very fast rotation, [no, not nuetrons or binaries, just plain elliptical] how does this effect the Newtonian geavity field? GR way way too complex. what i would really like to see is a nice simple algrebraic...

Begging patience for an imbecile... If a supernova far, far away is moving very, very fast does that mean the universe long, long ago was moving faster than today?

Two spacecraft in inertial motion have relative velocity .5c. The ships have identical "grandfather" clocks very much like earthly grandfather clocks, except that the force of gravity is replaced by Coulomb repulsion. [The clocks have charged plates on either side of a charged pendulum...

So after deceleration, the electrons would have their original "rest mass"?

In the Stanford Linear Accelerator electrons are accelerated thereby gaining mass; velocity; and undoubtedly radiating EM energy. I'm sure they have grounded shielding to avoid loud pops on local AM radio. But suppose they decelerate electrons the same way - thereby radiating EM energy...

Don't have any clues about anything except what pop media sez and the answers here. Don't have any chemistry or physics journals in local library. Pop media gave crude explanation stating that atoms in hydrogen metal were "closer than Bohr radius... " and therefore electrons forced into some...

Is there a name for the current, undead hydrogen atom model? Just "standard model"? Do the changes in predictions for metallic hydrogen correlate to major changes in theory? It seems impossible to construct any understanding of modern physics - from a historical view or whatever - without...

OK, my own best answer... There are no "planar" orbits in modern atomic theory which might - might, as far as I know - be the "standing wave model" in which there is no way to define an orbital axis and thus no orientation for an emitted photon. This leaves much for a civilian to wonder...

I now realize that ALXM's dismissive reply was mostly due to my badly framed question. What I SHOULD HAVE asked was: Are there experiments besides the hunt for metallic hydrogen which challenge simple quantum theory such as the Bohr model? I know there are experiments with Rydberg atoms...

Says who? Says me. Metallic Hydrogen is expected to be produced by squeezing hydrogen under such high pressure that the nuclei are closer than the Bohr radius, leaving no space for normal electron orbits thereby forcing them into a kind of 'lattice fluid' - possibly exhibiting...

Creating metallic hydrogen has proved more difficult than expected. One explanation would be that the Bohr radius of Hydrogen is smaller than expected. Is there any other evidence of an error in Bohr radius predictions?

What is the orientation of a photon emitted by an atom? By orientation, I mean the direction of the photon's travel relative to the orbital axis of the electron. Consider only the lowest energy photons from Hydrogen atoms. I am sure I would not understand anything more complex.

Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of wave generators [a floating buoy; a cable down to the lake bed; a motor rhythmically pulling and releasing the buoy] are placed in a limited section of a large, glass-smooth lake. The buoys are at random locations an average of a few wavelengths apart. The...

A phase velocity of c would certainly be my wild guess, but can you offer any argument or website in support? Feynman said nothing about near field velocities. Only that the near field disappears.

To be precise, "propagation delay" meant this: Two on-axis (theta=0) measurement points are selected, one closer to the dipole at r_1 and one farther at r_2. The measured E field at (time=t_1, r=r_1) is E_1 and an almost equal [peak or trough] E_2 is measured at (time=t_2, r=r_2)...