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How gravity actually works
Einstein once said when describing himself: “When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a curved branch, it doesn’t notice that the track it has covered is indeed curved. I was lucky enough to notice what the beetle didn’t notice”.
Can you visualize a triangle with three 90 degree sides? This is hard for most people, but easier if you superimpose that triangle to follow the curvature on the surface of a sphere. Since most of us don’t need to consider the curvature of space in our day-to-day lives, life is constantly reinforcing an intuitive perception the space is flat making us very much like that “blind beetle”. The reason we don’t understand gravity Read the rest of this entry »
No CommentsDetermining the size of space and if it ever ends
One would like to think that the age of the Earth times 3.14 times the speed of light would give the size of the Universe with time representing distance-if only it were that simple!
It has been speculated that in black holes at the singularity space may have an edge, or end. The vacuum of space is a field with implicit energy perhaps. Paremenides, the Ionian philosopher of the 5th century B.C. thought of mass-energy as a plenum and as space as not-existing. That which does not exist cannot have ’size’. What humans perceive as space is a protocol relation of mass-energy in a variegated event configuration. An empty ’space’ may not exist.
The question of how the mass-energy is contained, of Read the rest of this entry »
1 CommentTime travel might really be possible
Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem. – MICHIO KAKU, Wired Magazine, (Aug. 2003)
In 1949, an Austrian mathematician and logician named Kurt Gdel became the first person who came up with a mathematical solution which allowed for the existence of time travel. He came up with a solution to Einstein’s field equations for general relativity, one in which the universe was not expanding but rotating. (The centrifugal force arising from the rotation was what kept everything from collapsing under the force of gravity.)
An observer in this universe would see all the galaxies slowly spinning around him; he would know it was the universe doing the spinning, and not him, because he Read the rest of this entry »
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Knowing more about our origins is an all-consuming passion for most people once they’ve gotten past the stage of "I’m superman and I know it all". I offer here some of the writings put forward by a man whose lifetime has been devoted to following his passion for understanding, Zecharia Sitchin. For more information go to his web site www.sitchin.com and perhaps attend a seminar given in person by Mr. Sitchin or read a book that adds further to this information extracted from most ancient civilization treasures and remains.
Below quotes from: DIVINE ENCOUNTERS (Avon Books) by Zecharia Sitchin, Hebrew scholar and author of The Earth Chronicles:
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It all began, we learn from the Read the rest of this entry »
Is time travel possible?
In short, from a scientific perspective, time travel is (and always will be) NOT possible.
For a brief explanation, we consider the ’spacetime causality’ as defined by the mathematician Hermann Minkowski. Essentially we can relate the history of motion of any object based on the 3 components we actually live in (space), and then a progressive 4th component called time. It has been proven that we cannot treat any form of motion as independent of time. This is due to a variety of formulae known as the Lorentz coordinate transformations, that allow us to relate positions in different frames of reference. From this, we can treat the motion of an object as a 2d graph, with its position on one set Read the rest of this entry »
No CommentsSocial science data on the effects of gay marriage and polygamy on society
“The Persistence of Polygamy” and “Gay and Lesbian Marriage”
The articles “The Persistence of Polygamy” and “Gay and Lesbian Marriage” both display two controversial points of view on highly debated topics. Polygamy is illegal, yet still practiced by a minority. Homosexual marriage is being approved through civil union laws in some states, while others have banned the concept. These issues prompt concern for the integrity of our culture and our future as a society by some; other groups want their personal and religious freedoms to be legally and socially acceptable
The section “Gay and Lesbian Marriage” is presented in two parts. The first article is “Sex & Consequences: An Anthropologist Vindicates the Traditional Family” by Peter Read the rest of this entry »
No CommentsThe secret of the EPR experiment
Scientific American turned down my original article, so I posted it to Helium as the first article in the section under the title: “How to Create a Faster than Light Communications System between Earth and Mars”. Helium later changed the title of this section to: “After Einstein: Faster than the speed of light”. But I am now proud to say my initial hypothesis has been experimentally proven. And in a twist of fate, Scientific American picked up the story where “scientists at Geneva in Switzerland performed my experiment and it worked. I suppose Scientific American didn’t like to publish thought experiments.
The speed of light has a long tradition of thought experiments, which Read the rest of this entry »
No Comments57 alien species: Are we alone in the universe?
57 alien species: Are we alone in the universe?
I remember being disappointed when I found out that Heinz doesn’t actually produce 57 varieties of anything, that it was just a “marketing technique.
But I don’t feel anything when I learn that “57 varities of aliens exist. Because they don’t!
Now, I know we’re not alone in the universe – that would be impossible. Even on Earth life has arisen in the unlikeliest of environments, in areas without sunlight, in the depths of the ocean, “alongside undersea volcanic vents that spew out superheated water. Some forms of life on earth “do not even need oxygen. It’s clear Read the rest of this entry »
No CommentsThe basics of acoustics
Sound is mechanical longitudinal pressure wave form;
Acoustics have been an interest of the arts for as long as man could beat on anything for rhythm and dance. Studies have evolved to become a science of wave mechanics, after centuries of studies, that were done by musicians and architects.
Acoustics is a branch of physics that deals with the mechanics of wave forms in matter IE; compression mediums such as gasses, including propagation of waves through liquids and solids.
These scientists are called ‘acoustician’s’ and when dealing with technology engineering are called ‘acoustic engineers’ these two sciences often share projects in new technology.
This science deals with vibrational-pressure waves that are longitudinal and that propagate in air at a speed Read the rest of this entry »
No CommentsWhat flames are made of
“PHOTON EMISSIONS”
Flames are seen out of matters photon emissions that are energy packets (waves) released by a product (reaction) of changing states of matters forms.
When something burns or changes states of chemical bonds due to a reaction, such as gas being ignited on your stove. It changes its molecular composition by releasing a form of energy, that is commonly referred to as photons and other radiation that is of lesser power called infrared or heat.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K inetic_theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S tates_of_matter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P hotons
Variations of color are due do the energy of the wave forms.
Red light is of lower energy in photon emissions per unit of time emitting from its source.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P lanck%27s_constant
Yellow would be Read the rest of this entry »
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