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My second experiment was having the circular screen completely enclosing a circular wall that has the slots. Like one cylinder inside of another with the emitter being in the very center of the whole thing. In this case, the barrier is two V shaped walls that point in opposite directions (180...

In the 2 slot experiment, I always see the slots side by side. The electron seems to know if the second slot is open or not. How do we know that this would happen even if the second slot was on the moon? Secondly if the slots were placed at the apex of two sharp V shaped walls with the V's...

Doesn't a force contain energy but with force you have given a vector to that energy?

Thanks Ger. If I may, I would like to put this in a form that helps me understand just what you are saying. Gravity holds my mass against the earth. There is an energy or potential difference between me on Earth and me out in space. My mass remains the same but when I'm on Earth I contain more...

I'm trying to learn here. After all, you all know more about this stuff then I do. If you were to take a given mass of uranium and compare it to say, a mass of butter having the same number of electrons, do they both contain the same amount of energy if it could be released like in a bomb? I...

If there was no rotation and resistance, the ball will go back up a distance equal to what it fell. Ratchettrack

Your right. With the ball having to go from not rotating to rotating to not rotating... It would eventually stop in the bottom center of the shape. Even if it was a mass on a sled, there would still be rotation. Only if the mass didn't rotate and there wasn't anything to inpede its movement...

Without any resistance to slow it down, its going to go all the way to B. It would then continously go from A to B back and forth. Ratchettrack

Thanks, I'm a high school guy that has worked a lot with physics. Have several patents and have worked out a complex problem that all the engineers of my competors said couldn't be done. Most people that know me think I'm an engineer. Got them fooled. I'm from a family of engineers. That said...

Well, I didn't state things as a fact but instead as what i was thinking. I'm looking for insite here. Are you inferring that you should only post on this forum if you know all the answers already? If everyone who post already knows all the facts and are not allowed to inquire, then what is the...

Don't they have to amplify the signal on long runs to maintain it? I would think that the lights energy loss would be less because its reflection off the inside of the fiber is more of a ricochet.I also would think that all that glass doesn't matter too much because none of the light seems to...

Ok I'm starting to get it. So when I considered the difference in the mirror and light speeds being the source of the energy, I'm thinking I was sort of right and that is why I went to the mirror going the same speed as light in the same direction. I do know that isn't possible. Let's then...

How would the reflective ability of a pool of mercury compair to a mirror? Ratchettrack

I'm thinking about things that are at the fringe of my knowledge to understand them but that is what draws me. That said, I'll have to give your energy question some thought. My first thought wonders if its from the difference in speed of the mirror compared to the lights speed. Thinking out...

Hi I'm new here. Been interested in physics all my life and understand it quite well. Been reading a book about Einstein which lead to a question I've been pondering. What happens if a mirror, that is traveling near the speed of light, has a beam of light pointed at it? What is the status of the...