On Wednesday, June 4, 2025 at 5:07:05 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote:
On Wed, Jun 4, 2025 at 2:40 AM Alan Grayson <agrays...@gmail.com> wrote >* Why should I be troubled by inertia? It's easily understood.* On Wednesday, June 4, 2025 at 12:17:40 AM UTC-6 Brent Meeker wrote: *> Then perhaps you can explain why a muon has about 200x the inertia of an electron? And why inertia and gravity are always proportional? Brent* *> It's caused by its larger mass, about 200x, compared to the electron.* *But WHY is the muon identical with the electron except that it's 207 times as massive and has a half-life of 2.2*10-6 seconds, which is very very long by particle physics standards. * *> The statement of Inertia, what it is, is easy to grasp.* *The only reason you don't find inertia to be mysterious is because you're accustomed to it, you have experienced it every moment of your waking life since you were born, so it has become humdrum, hardly worth talking about.* *No. I never heard about it until I was in college studying physics. Neither is it "humdrum". But it's not a very hard concept to grasp. AG* *But if you had never encountered it before you would find it deeply weird. It's easy to grasp what inertia does, but if you can really grasp why inertia must be the way it is and not some other way then you should stop blabbing on the Everything List and start writing your Nobel prize acceptance speech. * *You post like an abusive fool. You demanded I tell you if I know what Inertia is, and I did, implicitly. This, of course, doesn't mean I can explain the long half-life of muons. But my question about Relativity is valid, even if you can't understand it, or refuse to do so. The Earth-bound observer calculates the time dilation of moving clocks using the LT, but obviously the muons have no information of that. And yet, their clocks appear to fall in line with that time dilation prediction, resulting in a change in their half-lives. Logically, this is required in order for the speed of light to be invariant. But how and why this occurs physically is a mystery IMO. Same with the muon clock, the existence of which you are sure of, but can't define their physical structure.You can deny these mysteries, and remain a fool. The choice is wholly yours. AG* *Read my post about what Richard Feynman's father told his eight-year-old son about inertia, the man wasn't a scientist but he demonstrated deep wisdom. And it's ridiculously easy to come up with unanswered propositions in science, all you need to do is start asking an iterated sequence of why or how questions and very soon you'll hit one. * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* df -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/a0f33777-e638-4c48-acc6-6a287331ab34n%40googlegroups.com.
