On Oct 23, 2009, at 7:29 PM, Harry Veeder wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: Horace Heffner <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, October 23, 2009 9:33 pm
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Gravity role in fusion
On Oct 23, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Harry Veeder wrote:
Hmm two sources of gravity come to mind.
The gravitational acceleration of the earth on the system
undergoing fusion,
and the internal gravitational acceleration of parts of the
system due
to the system's own mass. Is it the latter acceleration that you
mean> does not conform to an inverse square law of gravity?
Harry
I have not mentioned accelerations at all, only *forces*, i.e. two
force laws.
Unless you are considering a static system where the net force is
zero,
acceleration occurs whether you want to mention it or not. ;-)
harry
Actually, I guess I did mention it indirectly when I said: "... when
things get relativistic, there is not a large difference in
interacting particle gammas because the mass ratios are only 3 orders
of magnitude apart, so the interactions keep the gammmas in a similar
range, not varying anything like 30 orders of magnitude." Particles
only 3 orders of magnitude apart are going to develop similar
(compared to 10^30) gammas due to mutual acceleration.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
