Recent content by Victor Ray Rutledge

Just thought I'd muddy the water. https://www.s-cool.co.uk/a-level/physics/kirchoffs-laws-and-potential-dividers/revise-it/kirchoffs-first-and-second-laws

When I was in College, in my very first physics class, we decided to do a simple experiment. We constructed a device to flip a coin, and then recorded the output. It came up heads, the first 87 times. Our professor carefully examined the device, and was unable to repeat the results. He got a...

Being a resident of Texas, I can verify the following. First, not all bathroom outlets have GFCI, in spite of regulations to the contrary. Secondly, she may have submerged both her hand, and the phone, since electrical safety has never been a major priority in this area. Beyond that, she...

This occurred to me, while reading, (with almost no understanding) the thread. http://www.businessinsider.com/do-astronauts-age-slower-than-people-on-earth-2015-8 Which explains(?) the gravity time-dilation and the velocity time-Dilation, in uncertain terms. (humor referencing the uncertainty...

Quotes from the references given previously, ". A clear distinction between signal and noise, therefore, remains to be established, in order to determine the contribution of gravitational waves to the detected signals." And then, "When the first LIGO discovery was released in February 2016, I...

One of my cardinal rules, in science fiction, is that ALL of my speculation is founded, or grounded, as the case may be, in HARD science. In that sense, this is exactly where I should be, inasmuch as I'm not interested in seeing what others intend for fiction, but what facts may be used to...

It's as if the Universe were composed of living Galaxies, and Galactic Families, which 'feed' on the matter around them, traveling ro places where there is more food, and leaving the locales where the nourishment has been exhausted. What an image, and fanciful story!

I am a retired man, who has always wanted to be a Physicist. I have no credentials, and am not qualified to comment on anything, but I enjoy having studied Physics some 43 years ago, and am only slightly behind what was current then. I have engaged in discussions on Quora, and in many other...

Then the 'cold death', of the Universe, represents an empty void, since the structure of the time/space continuum appears to be contingent on its contents, and without contents, there is no universe.

As an addendum to the question, If one considers absolute entropy as a state where a particle has 'no energy', then energy is a representation of the position of a given particle with respect to that state. In essence, I'm asking if the juxtaposition of position could be considered the 'energy'...

I find all of this to be a tempest in a teacup. http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=5907 is a discussion of current articles, and fails to point in any defined direction. Look at this piece of rampant speculation, to see what I'm discussing...