This is what ITER is designed to achieve; break-even. If they can achieve this and/or surpass it, then commercial fusion 'will be' viable in the not too distant future. ITER groundbreaking has just started, and the plant is not expected to go online until sometime in 2016. I'm still a little...
Looking back at my other posts, I can see why the "100% efficiency" wasn't clear; I assumed that's what we were talking about. In response to:
I must say that the purpose of my clarification-question has served its purpose; you've made me realize something that I had previously not...
In Verlinde's paper, he does not 'do away with gravity' in the sense that there "is no gravity" as you stated. He simply realizes what it 'truly' is, if you will, and states on page 9, "-the origin of gravity: it is an entropic force!"
Here is a quick summary of how he gets from temperature...
Are we "turning [energy] into energy" or "turning matter into [radiation]"? The issue of being mindful on how we make statements such as this was pointed out earlier as it is a point-of-clarification with respect to answering the questions as they were 'intended' to be asked. I only point this...
Let me end this debate by just saying "No". There will become a point where your Uranium will either become degenerate which will 'stop the crush', the electrons will begin to 'fuse' (if you will) to the protons forming neutrons (as in the formation of a neutron star) which will 'stop the...
I just watched a lecture by Raphael Bousso from UC Berkeley on "The World as a Hologram" on YouTube, and the answer to my own question is 'yes'. Black hole entropy apparently tells us much about the structure of nature, and these arguments are not based on string theory; it's based on...
I've read Verlinde's paper "On the Origin of Gravity and the Laws of Newton". The first 23 pages are on how to derive Newton and Einstein's equations of gravity "as an entropic force caused by a change in the amount of information associated with the positions of bodies of matter." In the last...
I'm going to rephrase your question as a physicist would interpret it, and then ask yourself if it makes any sense:
"Can the 'energy' that falls into a black hole be crushed so hard that it is converted to energy?
Matter 'is' energy; no converting needed. I'm guessing what you probably...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the relativistic Doppler effect as v -> c, would be:
f = (lim v->c)f0*sqrt([1+B]/[1-B])
which would be a frequency approaching infinity. I wouldn't be concerned about being 'pelted' by 'frequency' as much as I would the infinite amount of energy associated with...
I'm going to guess that Dmitry67 is probably messing with you because he knows you'll correct him each time; he's probably trying to see how long you'll go before you stop. I don't know him/her, but as I said, that's my guess.
As for the initial question concerning 'time freezing', I'd like to...
Back when Michelson and Morley conducted their experiments it wasn't 'completely' known whether or not the speed of light was truly constant, or if it could vary a little, which is what their experiment would have told them if this was true. Their 'null' result needed an explanation. 'Part' of...