On Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at 7:50:51 PM UTC-7, Brent wrote: > > > > On 2/20/2019 1:23 PM, agrays...@gmail.com <javascript:> wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at 12:16:31 PM UTC-7, Brent wrote: >> >> >> >> On 2/20/2019 8:42 AM, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, February 20, 2019 at 7:09:10 AM UTC-7, John Clark wrote: >>> >>> >>> >* Newton "explained" * >>> >>> >>> Why did you put explained in quotation marks? If you can predict what >>> something is going to do then you've explained it, the better the >>> prediction the better the explanation. I don't know what else the word >>> could possibly mean. And in science no explanation is perfect, but some are >>> less wrong than others. >>> >> >> *QM better illustrates the justification for quotes. Many interpretations >> that make the same predictions. AG * >> >>> >>> *> why a body at "rest" can start moving, via the application of "force"* >>> >>> >>> And Einstein explained that a body moving in a geodesic through 4D >>> spacetime will take a path that is not a geodesic if a force is applied. >>> The Earth is moving in a straight line (aka a geodesic) through curved >>> spacetime; the reason Earth's orbit looks elliptical to us is due to map >>> distortion, the same reason that in a flat map of the curved surface of the >>> Earth Greenland looks larger than South America and is almost as large as >>> Africa. Except that it's even worse, in one we're projecting the 2 D >>> curved surface of the Earth into the flat 2D surface of the map, but with >>> Einstein we're projecting a curved 4D volume into a flat 3D volume. >>> >>> *> What does "rest" mean in GR * >>> >>> >>> In General Relativity moving in a geodesic is as close as you can get >>> to the traditional idea of rest, but as long as time passes you're going to >>> be moving through 4D spacetime. >>> >> >> >> *If you're at spatial rest in spacetime in the presence of a >> gravitational source, how does GR explain the subsequent spatial motion? AG >> * >> >> >> When you were at "spatial rest" you had a force applied to you. Removing >> it allowed you to follow a geodesics path through spacetime....also known >> as "falling". >> >> Brent >> >> > > *So it seems that GR doesn't explain motion; rather, it assumes motion is > a natural state of things. AG * > > > So called "standing still" is just motion in the time direction only...in > Newtonian and special relativity as well. Just as there is no absolute > motion, there's no absolution motionless either...it's called "relativity" > for a reason. > > Brent >
*Other than gravity, the remaining known forces are moderated, or shall we say "caused by" particles. Doesn't GR remain an exception; that is, wouldn't it preclude the existence of a graviton? TIA, AG * > > > >>> *> what causes "motion" from that pov?* >>> >>> >>> Force, same as with Newton. >>> >>> 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 everything-li...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to everyth...@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> -- > 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-li...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to everyth...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- 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 post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
