Recent content by sonmage

I like what you say Jonathan, but my perspective is slightly different. In my view the fundamental particles have a very precise energy rerquirement so that every electron is exactly like every other electron. But this precise requirement changes with changes in motion and gravitational field...

From yuiop: "the lost potential energy was not initially localized in m but is stored in the gravitational field" This is the key question that underlies Zirkman's original question: In water falling on a turbine where does the kinetic energy come from ? Does it come from the Earth's...

So there you have it Zirkman, you can get any answer you want as long as it is impossible to do the experiment because the difference in mass, if any is too small to measure. One thing we can be sure of: all tests have shown that inertial and gravitational mass are equivalent and that mass and...

I think we all agree on the following: (1) An object in free fall retains constant energy even if is moving at relativistic speeds (2) When the object is stopped it loses its kinetic energy (3) When a particle is accelerated to relativistic speeds its inertial mass increases and its kinetic...

Perhaps I misunderstood the model. I believe the time dilation model deals entirely with a falling object. In that case it makes sense that the clock rate determines the energy transfer from potential to kinetic. I was thinking in a broader sense of a single reality that includes particles...

For a small object near a large gravitational source, one can get a useful model of how it works by assuming that the fractional change in energy is exactly determined by the time dilation effect, which causes all local clocks and frequencies to be slower closer to the gravitational source...

If it is impossible to measure the one way speed of light how did the group in Italy measure the one way speed of neutrinos? And what one way speed of light did they compare it to?

Has the one way speed of light been measured? All the measurements of the speed of light that I am aware of are two way or round trip measurements.

In my opinion the carrier particles are the field. I have a question. If the field is made up of virtual carrier particles how do they expect to find the Higgs boson if it is a virtual particle?

Gravity is present before the event horizon forms. Once the star, for example, collapses beyond the critical circumference where the event horizon forms, only random radiation leaks out...via virtual particle formation just outside the horizon Does this imply that the gravitational field once...