The original display (which I saw) was on the BBC Tomorrow's World programme; the stationery gryoscope stayed down whilst a small girl swung on the other end of a see-saw. With the gyroscope spinning the girl could lift the gyroscope with one finger pressing down on the other end of the see-saw...
The root of the problem can be found in the closing line of The Nature of Mass by Max Jammer:
"Thus in spite of all the strenuous efforts of physicist and philosophers, the notion of mass, although fundamental in physics, is as we noted in the preface, still shrouded in mystery".
It...
As a fellow novice, I question your choice of words; without motion there is no time, but time is used to describe events not things, and the events are real not illusions. The only real time is 'now' and historically time is a numerical record of a succession of 'nows' (movements).
Perhaps the following is what you are referring to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_experiment
It is very interesting, but it does not proove Einstein's theory right or wrong, it simply negates the experiment; my sugestion is a none mathematical hypothesis of the action...
Surely photons slow down as the get closer to a black hole? are not frequency changes caused by compression or decompression? We observe the same speed because the measuring instrument is subject to the same gravitational pressure as the experiment hence regardless of the direction of...
Assuming that gravitons are real, then experiments on the speed of light can be explained by assuming that light travels throught a given number of particles in a given unit of time.
Your question is far to broad, but to deal only with particle physics basics, only Quantum theory is allowed and usually a sponsor is required. The pitfalls of the current system have been raised many times by professionals, the latest being Lee Smolin in the closing chapters of The Trouble with...
Long before the web started an article appeared in Scientific American on a paper by an American student who had deduced (mathematically) that photons have a mass that (at that time) was about 2/3 of the lowest mass value measurable by experiment.
Unfortunately far to many papers get lost or...
Is that not the same as saying that the centre of effort moves forward in proportion to the resistance and stays there as long as the resistance is applied.
Gravity is a linear force, r is a linear measurement, so why is the constant 'non-linear'?
I cannot quote reference, but amongst...
The solution I adopted, although not necessarily correct; is as follows:
Imagine that infinity consists of gravitons, now if a group of gravitons are reduced in volume then this causes the remaining gravitons (i.e. infinity) to expand to fill the volume that would otherwise be a volume of...
A topological insulator is a material that behaves as an insulator in its interior while permitting the movement of charges on its boundary. ..
This is trillions of various particles salter is dealing with a single particle.
condensed matter physics is based on wavelength measurement, but...
Mass is a fixed quantity, weight (kilogram) is determined by gravitational force; hence the number of carbon atoms that = 1K depends on the G force. The true fundamentals are internal force (energy) and external force (force).
N carbon atoms weigh 1K when subject to X gravitational force.
Quantum theory regards all elementary particles as 'point-like' objects without providing a clear definition for the term. Composite fermions and their decay products are referred to as 'two dimensional' objects. As far as the structure of the particles are concerned the theory is not...