Natural Science Forum / Physics / Particle Physics / September 2006

"Is There a Force of Gravity?"
    In undergraduate physics, the Newtonian concept of an attractive force
between masses that is proportional to the product of the masses divided by
the square of their separation is taught. When one advances to the more

"The Error in Relativistic Physics"
    The Science of Physics is based upon the making of measurements. What
can be measured is taken as being "true". This is an excellent philosophy,
but unfortunately the addition of the concepts of relativity into science

Can anyone here demonstrate a time event that is not a kinetic energy
event?

"Is String Theory Justified?"
    The holy grail of theoretical physics seems to be the generation of a
"theory of everything". It is the goal to generate a single set of equations
which deals with all physical processes. Mathematical theoreticians have

Imagine 2 super-strong magnets in a vacuum chamber. They're polished to
a mirror fininsh and mounted in a frame that allows them to be brought
together without touching At some very close proximity, the magnetic
force between them becomes so strong that virtual particle pairs in the

"The Arrow of Time"
    Over the years the immutable passage of time from  past to future has
been likened to the passage of an arrow, "the Arrow of Time". There have
been numerous speculations as to why time should only progress in that

If acceleration and gravity are equivilent for "some" descriptive
equations of GR, then is it correct to state that, a highly accelerated
particle, is really a gravited particle? Particles accelerated to close
to light speed gain Mass, thus gain Gravity.

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If I was inside a Faraday cage,a long way from a any gravitational
sources such as stars and planets,and the cage had negative electric
charges
all over its outer surface,kept in place by a strong sheet of

Is there any reliable source (Historical Definition), of how Quarks
came to be assigned their specific quantity?
How the fractions came to be chosen and for what mathematical reason?
Any source links would be gratefully appreciated.

Roger Penrose (1981) defines specific entropy as the ratio of photons
per baryon. For example, the universe currently has an average of 10^8
photons per baryon while a black hole has at least 10^20 photons per
baryon. According to this, when galaxies eventually collapse into black

"Einstein's Unfortunate Legacy #1"
    Dr. Einstein is credited with being a modern Newton who provided a sea
change shift in our understanding of physical reality. He is credited with
this accomplishment by virtue of his Special Theory of Relativity (1905)

Atomic nuclei emit photons, and specific entropy measures the ratio of
photons per baryon (or the ratio of photons per proton). I am
wondering. How and why atomic nuclei emit photons? And what changes
inside an atomic nucleus when it emits a photon? For example, is

Roger Penrose calculates entropy by the number of photons per baryon.
And whenever I asked a physics graduate student about this, they where
not sure why. I wonder if it makes more sense to calculate entropy by
the number of photons per gluon. Does anybody know why Penrose

"Is General Relativity Compatible With Special Relativity?"
    When the writer first started to investigate General Relativity about
four decades ago, he was quite startled to learn that the results were
incompatible with the Principle of Equivalence and where therefore