On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 01:00:48 -0900, you wrote: >At 5:41 PM 12/7/4, John Fields wrote: >[snip] >> >>>The real beauty of your idea (is it original?) >> >>--- >>As far as I know, it is. The lightbulb going off was due to something >>of Fred Sparber's or Frank Znidarsik's (sp?) that I read a few years >>ago on vortex, and since then I've been looking but haven't been able >>to find anything quite like it. A month or so ago I talked to Hal >>Puthoff about it and he also thought it was novel, so maybe it is. > >You may want to check out the thread: "Qball: Electrostatic Sphere Field >Evaluator". A sample post late in the thread follows below. I wrote (and >posted) a basic program to integrate the effects of a spherical >distribution of charge, and sample data. We learned a few things from the >exercise if you recall...
--- Yes. I particularly liked the following paragraph, and especially liked the sentence following it: " >>Now let's attempt to look at your initial problem of the bubble universe >>and an infinitely dense surrounding. The confinement force is now an >>expansion force, due to gravity being attractive, but all else is really >>the same, except for dealing with the infinite nature of the infinitely >>dense volume outside the bubble. To begin this we can examine a single >>shell, but only a finite portion of mass m in the shell, uniformly >>distributed. This gives us a finite mass density in the shell. Such a >>shell has zero force inside it, as we saw earier. We can now sum >>(integrate) an infinite number of such shells, all of the same fixed >>radius, each having mass m, so that the total mass in the resulting shell >>is infinite. Since the force of each shell everywhere is zero, the same >>is true of the final infinite sum. We can then sum (integrate) the shells >>at every radius r, with r-> inf. Since the force inside every shell is >>everywhere zero, this must be true inthe final sum. There is thus no >>force of gravity exerted by the external volume on the universe. >> >>Of ourse one tiny change in density out in that infinitely dense volume ... " --- :-) -- John Fields
