Re: moving vs stationary weights

[RC Macaulay]

Grimer wrote.. >The problem with Gravity is that most laymen think of it as a Force. And the problem with the layman's notion of Force is that it is a static concept which does not involve time. It is reminiscent of the way that an electron jumps from one level to another. Where is the electron in between?  It isn't anywhere (allegedly). What is the time interval between it leaving one level and arriving at the other. There isn't any interval (allegedly). But then quantum physics was always more the playground of physicists who preferred maths to engineering. <g> Howdy Frank.. Back as a kid, I showed off to the girls how to bicycle over a " see-saw". Go up the plank slightly past center and tip it down to coast down. As is the case with daring doo.. another kid with a Harley showed us all how it was done by the big boys. His momentum was sufficent to travel near to the other end of the plank before the " evils of gravity" demonstrated there are not to be sullied by smart aleck quantum geeks and the kid came crashing down some distance past the seesaw much to the horror of the girls and amusement of the boys. The boys that later grew up to be engineers held a retrospective view of the event, entirely different from the boys that grew up to be physicists. The majority, however, could care less as long as the girls were pretty. Whne viewing a water vortex, the inner  spiral appears to be moving in a reverse direction from the outer whereas the outer is also rising as the inner is dropping. One needs to study the shape of a chambered Nautilus to grasp the profound effect that gravity and electrons play while we are asleep. Perhaps the DNA double helix would be better understood by considering the Nautilus shell in the southern hemispheres have an opposite spiral rotation from the northern. Once saw a depiction of the spiral shell dimensionally scaled to planetary positions and musical scales to show they "overlay" the shape of the shell. Even us "statics" must live in a dynamic universe full of energy and non stop change. A figment of my imagination also attempts to " see" 4 times the number of "colors" and " music notes" than we perceive. Bach obviously saw or heard something he never shared with others.. Stay off high buildings unless you have a Batman cape. Richard