Re: serious chewing and eotvos

2005-01-16 Thread Harry Veeder
Grimer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 15:41 13/01/2005 -0500, Harry wrote: All this flows from _your_ force analysis of orbital motion. I think it is a mistaken analysis because it is based on an analogy between orbital motion and a body in a centrifuge. A body orbits the earth because it

Re: serious chewing and eotvos

2005-01-14 Thread Grimer
At 15:41 13/01/2005 -0500, Harry wrote: All this flows from _your_ force analysis of orbital motion. I think it is a mistaken analysis because it is based on an analogy between orbital motion and a body in a centrifuge. A body orbits the earth because it is in free fall. There is simply no

Re: serious chewing and eotvos

2005-01-14 Thread Grimer
At 08:29 AM 1/14/2005 -0800, you wrote: A body undergoing a constant acceleration at 90 deg to its direction of travel will travel in a circle. Radius of the circular path is determined by a combination of the bodies velocity and the magnitude of the force. (Sorry Horace, I can't take the time

Re: serious chewing and eotvos

2005-01-13 Thread Harry Veeder
Grimer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 06:05 pm 12-01-05 -0500, you wrote: Grimer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:24 pm 12-01-05 -0500, Harry wrote: Your protons and neutrons are not like the protons and neutrons known to physics. Neutrons and protons both have inertia and gravity,

Re: serious chewing and eotvos

2005-01-13 Thread Grimer
At 03:42 am 13-01-05 -0500, Harry wrote: Do thing 1 and thing 2 come with a thing-force to keep them together? By George, (s)he's got it, Pickering. By George, (s)he's got it. ;^) Of course they do. That was implicit in the analogy. It's no good having a sail and a hull if they haven't

Re: serious chewing and eotvos

2005-01-13 Thread Harry Veeder
Grimer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:42 am 13-01-05 -0500, Harry wrote: Do thing 1 and thing 2 come with a thing-force to keep them together? By George, (s)he's got it, Pickering. By George, (s)he's got it. ;^) Of course they do. That was implicit in the analogy. It's no good

Re: serious chewing and eotvos

2005-01-12 Thread Grimer
At 06:05 pm 12-01-05 -0500, you wrote: Grimer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:24 pm 12-01-05 -0500, Harry wrote: Your protons and neutrons are not like the protons and neutrons known to physics. Neutrons and protons both have inertia and gravity, but for the sake of argument you have