Natural Science Forum / Physics / Relativity / July 2005

ACTION....take 1

Hey kids, do you want to have fun with relativity?

{{yeah we do...yea!!}}

Well ok then, Ken is in his secret laboratory with
a big bag of marbles, all of which weigh the same,
about 10 grams.

Ken's bored so he's tossing a marble into a bucket
everytime the clock ticks, 1 a second.

His friend Fast Freddi happens to be passing Ken's
lab at Fast Freddi speed, more than 86% speed of
the speed of light.

{{wow, yea for Fast Freddi}}

Freddi tells Ken that Ken's  tossing a marble every 2
seconds, but they weigh 20 grams each.
Well Ken and Freddi get in an arguement...:-(

{{booo}}

But then Ken and Freddi discover something called
ACTION.

They both agreed the

(mass of the marble) x (the rate the marbles are tossed)

is the same for both of them.

{{yea!!!}}

You see what happened was Ken was tossing a
marble every second, but Fast Freddi saw that
as a fat marble (a 20gm aget) tossed every 2 seconds.

Both now know that ACTION is the same for both
Ken and Fast Freddi, and everyone else.

So everyone in the universe sees Ken tossing marbles
into a bucket so that the

(mass of the marbles) x (rate of marbles tossed)

is the same for everyone in the universe!

{{yea!!}}

And that's called ACTION.

ET phoned home and it's true there to...

{{WOW}}...

Would anyone like to see how that's done in relativity?

{{No, I need to take a pee, Can I go home}}

Sit down ET...you need to learn geometry,
and General Relativity!

Mr. Planck went to a lotta trouble to explain his

h = 6.625 ergs * seconds = invariant ACTION units.

He thinks the rate of the marbles x their mass going
into the bucket Ken  and Freddi see is the same for
everybody, and called that Quantum Theory, just
because Ken used a unit marble.

Then some beatnik ahh, Einstein comes along
and agrees with Mr. Planck, and Einstein gets a
Nobel Prize for agreeing, so be agreeable.

{{Yea!  ...  hmm}}

Kids, wanna know how QT and GR work together?

{{Yes, is tomorrow to soon?}}

That's fine...
Ken S. Tucker