Recent content by lsimpson1943

Many thanks to phyzguy and SteamKing. I did the math you suggested and it worked out perfectly. h = \frac{1.380662\times10^{-23}\times2.82143\times10^{-10}}{5.878925} = 0.6626132 X 10-33 = 6.626 X 10-34 I screwed up originally when I looked up Wien's frequency displacement law constant at...

Homework Statement In a textbook I have, What is Quantum Mechanics?-A Physics Adventure, second edition,1996, Page 54, states that h=kβ, where h is Planck's constant; k is Boltzmann's constant, and β is Wien's constant. I have multiplied Boltzmann's constant times Wien's constant, but it does...

Thanks, Mentz114. I love these free books. I have downloaded them and will start trying to catch up with your knowledge. Ha. Ha. I appreciate your help.

Thanks, Pervect. Maybe I am just not smart enough to understand what you are saying or I don't have enough physics education. I really appreciate your effort. When I posed my question, I was not really concerned about the affect of an expanding Universe. Maybe I was not clear with what I was...

I assume you are making reference to the Riemann metric. Correct? As for the tensor, are we talking the Riemann curvature tensor or the Ricci tensor? If I understand the difference between the two, one is more "local" and the other averages the curvature for a defined part of a manifold. I...

Reading just enough to be dangerous concerning Riemann geometry, choices of geometry regarding the shape of the Universe, etc., and the geodesic mappings to different geometric models (flat, spherical, and hyperbolic), I have an unanswered question in my mind. Acknowledging the affect of large...

Polyrythmic, thanks again. I will correct my use of the word "geometrization" in the future. You have been very helpful, and I truly appreciate it.

James, since you and I apparently are the same age, one thing we can definitely agree on is that it takes us a wee bit longer to catch on to complex concepts than when we were in our prime. At age 68, I find myself rereading information over and over before I begin to understand it. You and...

Thanks, Polyrhytmic. I read the article in wikipedia for which you had provided a link. It cleared it up for me, I think. If I understand everything covered this far correctly, geometrization involves setting certain recognized constants in Planck units to 1 in order to simplify equations. The...

You say "convert the results". Do you mean that I have to remember that I divided c by 300,000,000 to reduce it to 1, so I have to multiply the results by 300,000,000? I understand the need for simplicity and I understand the dimensions of space, I just don't quite understand this process. Can...

While reading about Minkowski's description of the fourth dimension time axis, I saw that by taking the product of the speed of light and time, he was able to give it a "spatial" geometric character of distance (i.e. light-years, light-seconds, or whatever). I then saw that he set c (the speed...