Natural Science Forum / Physics / General Physics / March 2007

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that amount, and in light of that - I probably wind up saving quite a bit of
money this way.

I'll get a worthless one for ya -

Here's what I want to do.

There is a discrepancy of 43 seconds of arc per century in the precession of
the perihelion of Mercury.

Just for the hell of it, try to come up with a differential equation or a
PDF which would model this discrepancy if indeed length were probabilistic.
Try to model bent space using the concept of an existential potential.

Throwing caution to the wind, and with the caveat that this will be a work
in progress - we boldly proceed.

According to Newton,
F=GmM/r^2

However, we will attempt to abandon the notion of force. In accordance with
my theory in general terms, all interactions of energy and transformations
from one form to another must be essentially probabilistic processes
somehow.

Start with something dirt simple.
    A projectile travels with velocity v = 10 m/s. It travels a distance of
10 meters, and science predicts that it will require 1 second to traverse
the 10 meters. However, using a very precise stopwatch,  accurate
measurements show that the 10 meters are traversed in just 0,9 seconds. The
distance of 10 meters is measured at a distance using standard surveying
methods, and the distance of 10 meters is not disputed.

   To explain this in terms of an existential potential, assume that the
probability that length exists at an arbitrary point along the 10 meters is
not everywhere equal to 1. Let the probability that length exists at any
given point be equal to 0,9. So, even though it looks like 10 meters long,
the probability that length exists any any point from one endpoint to the
other is only 0,9 and so the projectile travels from one endpoint to the
other as follows :

distance * probability  =   velocity *  time required
   10 m    *     0,9      =    10 m/s   *        0,9
              9                 =                 9

I dont know any other way to do this except "distance * probability", the
probability being the existential potential that length exists between two
endpoints. Dont laugh, I know how stupid it sounds.

Next, we should try something just slightly more tricky, I think that
ballistic equations and freefall would be pretty easy to think about,
gradually building in difficulty toward the orbit of Mercury, abberation of
precesion or perhelion, Newton, diff eq, bla bla bla.

a =32
v = 32 t + m
d = 16 t^2  + mt + n

A rock falls from a height of 1,000 meters. Initial velocity is 0 m/s

1,000 = 16 t^2  + 0 t + 0
1 000 / 16 = 62.5
sqrt(62.5) = 7.90569415

The time in transit for this rock is predicted as 7.90569415 seconds.
Terminal velocity is predicted as 7.90569415 * 32 = 252.982213  meters
sec^-1

The distance 1,000 meters is not disputed, having been measured by
triangulation using extremely accurate surveying equipment.

However, researchers at Batavia have carefully measured the time in transit
to be just 7 seconds, instead of the predicted 7.90569415, and they are
stubbornly confident of their results that the total elapsed time is exactly
just 7 seconds.

An elapsed time of 7 seconds implies a distance of  16 * 7 * 7 = 784 meters.

Net existential potential from start to finish is 784/1000 =  .784 =
probability that points exist along that path.

Now, I dont know how to reconcile the nonlinearity of the distance function,
and the linearity of the velocity equation, with the existential potential
nonsense I've been spewing - I think that it could be a deal breaker. Not
sure - If I can prove that I'm an idiot  then I will have no choice but to
permanently shut up.

Thus far, I see no reason to quit just yet.