Dear Haruspex, thanks so much for your help, I really appreciate it very much, and I think I can do it given your excellent assistance, and thanks to Berkeman too :-)
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1. Homework Statement
n identical equi-distant particles are distributed equi-distantly around the circumference of a ring of radius r in space. Each particles is of mass m, so the total mass of the ring is...
A closely related question: Re photons affected by gravity, as photon p passes particle m there is a mutual g force f1 on approach due to energy of p and mass of m (fact), and there is a mutual retarding force f2 on leaving (supposition s1). They move together slightly on passing due to...
Echo of black hole info/area relationship?
One further thought, given n approximately evenly distributed spherical set of interacting particles, the number of interactions is proportional to r squared, which is proportional to the area of the sphere.
The information required to predict or...
Reflexive effect of multiple small Casimir plates/particles
Forgive me, this is getting to seem like a personal theory, but I would just like to present a few more questions:
It seems that n particles together would influence each other and the number of influences would be n ^ 2, where each...
Alternate Universes interpretation
I'm a non-physicist, but it seems to me that making an observation could be seen as akin to locking oneself into a sub-set or an otherwise larger set of previously possible universes. I.e., by making an observation (or even by having been able to make that...
"Fourier Representation of Fields" thread better?
Sorry, maybe this thread should have gone as a post under the "Fourier Representation of Fields" thread, but I don't know if I can or how to move it there anyway.
Gravity and the Casimir force are both attractive forces, and likely both follow energy conservation laws.
Therefore it seems possible that the mysterious Gravity is nothing more than the Casimir effect at work between small fragments of matter.
I wondered if this has already been...
Interesting feedback complexities - the matrix re-gilded?
The hypothesized spherical-mirror-like communication between 'particles'
seems to provide an interesting environment for information processing and signal broadcast/echo(n)-rebroadcast feedbacks.
Note that integrated...
I'm not really sure it is impossible for it to only be a wave. Perhaps some waves could have non-linear reactions that made their interferences/collapses look just like particle. Also, two exactly opposite waves could perhaps meet and cancel out. Would this look like the collapse of the...
If you care to find a recent special 'Einstein' edition of the Scientific American, I think you will enjoy a very good article on string theory that suggests the big bang was actually caused by a random quantum fluctuation in the organization of space which allowed a new spatial 'paradigm' to be...
High-altitude floating (re)launch pad
Hi Drag, thanks very much for the valuable info.
I have refined an idea I posted a while ago re a floating launch pad. This large platform might be made for example from linked/tiled (hexagonal?) helium balloons.
It would allow cheap private vehicles...
Utterly cool after 3 Stella Artois
"Notice that in contrast to special relativity, the redshift does not indicate the velocity, it indicates the distance [12]. That is, the redshift tells us not the velocity of the emitter, but where the emitter sits (at rest locally) in the coordinates of the...