Ok, Marsha, try to remember ;gravity is everywhere, and different everywhere, in a boat, in your livingroom, in the garden,on a mountain. nobody knows the mechanism behind it , only the effects are known, this makes you a specialist like everybody else.
and if you want to eat an elephant , you have to do it in pieces, so bit by bit, it grows. greetz, Adrie 2010/9/2 MarshaV <[email protected]> > > Thanks Horse, > > Much of this stuff, at least the tiny bit I can decipher, is interesting, > especially the twist and turns. > > > Marsha > > > > > > > On Sep 2, 2010, at 6:45 AM, Horse wrote: > > > Hi Marsha > > > It probably depends on what you mean by a vacuum but I was having an > interesting conversation with a friend of mine yesterday about C. > > Apparently, from what I gather he was talking about, C is no longer a > constant but is dependent upon the curvature of space - i.e. if there is a > gravitational difference in one area of the universe compared to another > area (E.g. a singularity) then there will be a difference in the value of C! > The greater the effect of gravity the slower C becomes and thus time is > affected. So in areas of high gravitation time is slower than in areas of > lower gravitation. Weird? Maybe. The Standard Model has been in a bit of a > mess recently and I don't suppose that this helps too much. > > > This also, apparently, has implications for the age of the universe as in > the early stages of the universe overall gravity would have been much > greater so time would have been slower which means, I think, that the > universe could be older than has been assumed!!!!! It could also mean that > as the universe expands and average gravity value decreases time speeds up. > Which may also be a factor in the apparent increase in the speed of > expansion of the universe. Maybe! All pretty mind-blowing but very > interesting. > > > I'm sure this idea has been around for a while but I can't find specific > references to it at the moment but I think there was an article recently in > either New Scientist or Scientific American relating to some new ideas on > the subject and how it relates to a reduction in the amount of dark > energy/matter required to make various sums add up properly. Anyone else > heard anything about this? Or am I becoming delusional as I get older? Which > is entirely possible! > > > > Horse > > > > > > > > On 02/09/2010 07:58, MarshaV wrote: > >> Greetings, > >> > >> It is my understanding that the usefulness of c is dependent > >> on it existing within a vacuum, a vacuum which does not > >> exist, is this true? Anybody know? > >> > >> > >> > >> Marsha > >> > >> > >> > >> ___ > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > -- parser Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
