Recent content by saderlius

Modes of what- photons? This seems odd... if there is an ever-present ambient field of energy, wouldn't it be evenly distributed? This explanation of the Casmir effect looks similar to diffusion, except with supposedly ambient energy. How do they know the effect isn't caused by minute...

Are you saying that virtual particles are no longer necessary or a viable approach? I thought they were still being used to explain things. If so, then why don't constant pair creation/annihilation in the vacuum of space create constant ambient light? If not, then could you reference me to an...

If the universe is a Dirac Sea, then wouldn't the light generated from virtual particle annihilation be detectable? Not only this, but wouldn't it drown out all other light sources? I can't find any good explanations so far for why virtual particle annihilation does/doesn't produce photons or...

Ah, ok. Thanks for your help. Apparently he is positing the existence of virtual particles as proof that space = energy. Thoughts? I might be posting more direct questions about his claims since this thread didn't give me much for/against arguments. Do you know of any "physics philosophy"...

In which case, you could pretend as if each assertion is instead presented as a question, and then answer them for me. Thats what I'm really wanting. He is claiming that his theory is the standard big-bang model of cosmology. So you are saying nothing claimed here is actually reasoned form...

I dunno, maybe he's just more erudite or comprehensive of modern evidences than me. I asked him to explain how matter = the capacity of matter to do work, but he dismissed it as semantics. I'll ask him to define energy, maybe it will present a flaw. I'm assuming he was drawing from a...

I've been debating a fellow who makes all sorts of physics claims which counter my limited understanding of physics, so i wanted to run some by you. (1)All matter is energy and all energy is matter. There is no significant difference between "bound" states with confinement energy(what is...

hrm, a very useful analogy, thanks. I think i understand the practicality involved in the use of time as a "dimension" of a system which allows for separation, just as space is also a dimension which allows for separation of events. This says more to me about a practical perspective of time...

Ah yes that's much simpler than some previous posts. I see in Galilean trans. time is treated as universal between 2 reference frames, but in Lorentz trans., respective velocity determines the time dynamic. interesting... it is easy to see from the equation that time is intimately articulated...

Don't sweat it, I'm still reading and studying posts, but at a slow pace. This is actually exactly my purpose for posting- to explore the nature of time in comparison to the nature of space. Part of the reason i received an infraction in my previous thread was for my claim that the arrow of...

My gratitudes! Your answer is very reasonable, and of all the ones given, the easiest to understand from a lay perspective.

Fair enough. i define dimension as dichotomous direction. However, i admit "dimension" has a much further range of uses than that. If you were to say time is a dimension of reality, in that it is a faculty of existence, i would agree in that use. What gets me is the treatment of time as if...

If a 4th dimension makes sense, why not "n" dimensions? In math, the 4th dimension, in which "exists" such entities as hyper-cubes, the dimension is treated like a euclidean dimension. It doesn't make sense in math to describe that dimension as time. If anything, the use of time as a "4th...

To me, this regards time relative to position, but it doesn't tell me why time is treated as synonymous with position. Also, depending on velocity, my values of time and distance can be very drastically different. The only thing they seem to have in common is our ability to quantify them...

Thanks! I've been plowing through endless wikipedia articles trying to keep up... -said, sad