On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 1:04 PM, John Ross <[email protected]> wrote:
> It looks like we are fairly close on time but not on space. > Space and time can not be considered separately, they are inextricably linked. > Space is total nothingness. > That is what all physicists thought in the year 1900 and that is what NO physicist thinks in the year 2014, we've made progress in the last century or so. Whatever space is one thing we know for sure is that it's never empty, it's always a seething mass of activity with virtual particles constantly popping into and out of existence. And this fact can be proven experimentally! Consider the Casimir Effect. Quantum Mechanics says that in empty space particles such as photons of light can pop into existence from nothing, but only for a very short time; in accordance with the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle the more energetic the new virtual photon is the shorter the time it is allowed to exist. The Casimir Effect is due to a quantum mechanical consequence of these electromagnetic virtual photons. If you place two flat uncharged mirrors close together then there can not be virtual photons of every wavelength in the vacuum between the mirrors as there are outside, because some photons will interfere destructively; that is to say that as the virtual photons bounce between the mirrors some will be out of phase with each other and cancel each other out. Thus there are more virtual particles in the vacuum outside the mirrors pushing them together than there are between the mirrors pushing them apart. So the mirrors will attract each other. This force was predicted to exist in 1948 but it wasn't until 1997 that it was confirmed in the lab to actually exist with exactly the force that Casimir said it would have. Let me be clear about this, without virtual particles this measurement would have been different, there would be no force and the mirrors would stay put. And so whatever armchair philosophers say there is no way space can be total nothingness. Virtual particles are also the reason Black Holes will eventually evaporate. Just like everywhere else right at the edge of the event horizon of the Black Hole pairs of virtual particles, electrons and anti-electrons (charge must always be conserved) will pop into existence; sometimes one of the particles is just inside the event horizon and its brother just outside, so one gets dragged into the hole while the other breaks free and transforms from a virtual particle into a real one that can be detected by instruments far from the hole. But that detectable particle had real mass and mass must be conserved, so for the accounting to be correct the Black Hole must have lost mass. > > It can’t be curved. Why not? All curvature means is that a triangle might not contain 180 degrees, and what law of logic is violated by triangles having more than 180 degrees, or less than 180 degrees? A triangle is 3 points connected by 3 lines of the shortest possible length. So a triangle on the surface of a 3D sphere must consist of curved lines and have more than 180 degrees, and one drawn on the surface of a saddle must also consist of curved lines but this time the triangle has less than 180 degrees. The surface of a 4D sphere (or saddle) is 3D space, so that 3D space could be curved, and with the discovery of gravitational lensing we know for a fact that there are places in our universe where space is indeed curved. > Low-energy photons pass through large distances of intergalactic space > more efficiently than neutrino photons. > There are electron neutrinos and muon neutrinos and Tau neutrinos and all 3 have their corresponding anti-neutrinos, but there is no such thing as photon neutrinos. > Large masses can definitely produce a curvature in the mass’s Coulomb > grid. > There is no such thing as the Coulomb force and there is no such thing as the Coulomb grid. John K Clark -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
