Recent content by Timothy Jones

In all fairness, all objects must have a potential energy relative to another body. However, the tractive forces of the said body in question do decrease significantly over distance. So, those forces can be ignored.

Another parallel universe.

I believe that a collision between two objects of similar mass in space is unlikely to occur...for, why should either mass attract the other? If their masses are the same and the distance between them is contant, then the gravitational pull between the two bodies should not cause either planet...

I'm kind of going out on a very long limb to play on: d=rt If an object is traveling a distance of 5000km from the surface of the earth(neglecting gravitation) at 500km/h, then it follows that it would take 10hrs for the object to reach a height of 5000km. However, on another planet, with a...

I haven't had the pleasure of being on this site as much as I should be...pardon that. Either way, on with it then: I would like to begin this article with a question regarding the actual nature of gravity. Relative to massive bodies, it seems that gravity exerts a force that in general...

Very curious...Hello by the way... Umm...traveling faster than the speed of light would perhaps have a very interesting result. Once one approaches light speed, his mass becomes infinite...thus necessitating an infinite force to propel the infinite mass. Only one force that I know of is...

I'm not a physicist, yet. However, have you ever considered that perhaps the Earth is not neutrally charged? If the exact composition of the Earth is taken into consideration (By composition i mean, the X/100 of separate elements) and the sum charge associated with each X/100 (be they negative...