Natural Science Forum / Physics / Relativity / August 2005

George Chapline Jr (long time protege of Ed Teller) and I have, quite
independently from somewhat different POVs, come to the same general
conclusion (key theme of my http://qedcorp.com/APS/cover.jpg ) on one
key issue. George wrote:

If as they say the Earth's core is rotating faster than
the outer portions wouldn't it transmit causing the day
to get shorter?

In statistical thermodynamics, the books cite
the example of the all the air molecules in a
room suddenly moving to one side (or something
similar), with the comment, "It could happen,

God is that which defies the second law of thermodynamics

suppose an observer in the experiment below placed one marker at the
location of the pion's formation and another at the location of its decay.
the distance between the markers is measured to be 17.4 m. on the other
hand, to an observer traveling along with the pion at 0.913c, ...

let A be a passenger in a car. A is tightly held in the seat by the seat
belt. B is standing along the side of the road and sees A, the car, and a
book that is on the seat next to A all moving together at 22 m/s. if A and
the car suddenly slow to 20 m/s, in the absence of ...

A reward awaits!
You will win 1000 US dollars if you can come up with an argument that
invalidates this theory of gravity as falling space, either completely or a
major part of it. For

muons are elementary particles with a (proper) lifetime of 2.2 ?s. they are
produced with very high speeds in the upper atmosphere when cosmic rays
(high-energy particles from space) collide with air molecules.
take the height L0 of the atmosphere (its rest length) to be 100 km in ...

"The Brilliance of Our Teachers"
    "Great spirits have always encountered violent oppositions from
mediocre minds." - A. Einstein
    A recent newspaper question and answer column raised an

Would it be worthwhile to extend the physical interpretation of probability
to the statistical-mechanics definition of entropy, which suggests that in
general, the highest-probability configuration of (insert whatever) is the
one generally achieved, and this tends to maximize the ...

a malicious attack.
aspersion: an abusive attack on a person's character or good name
In English and American law, and systems based on them, libel and slander
are two forms of defamation (or defamation of character), which is the tort

the pion is a particle that can be created in a high-energy particle
accelerator. it is a very unstable particle; pions created at rest are
observed to decay (to other particles) with an average lifetime of only 26.0
ns [26.0E(-9)]. in one particular experiment, pions were ...

Let us use a little bit of common sense. If aliens had indeed visited
the Earth with vastly superior technology, how likely is it that a
spacecraft would crash in the terrestrial environment? Any terrestrial
craft would be safer even than todays airliners.

can you imagine a system of base units* in which time was not included?
*the system of base units is the following:
quantity                                       name                symbol
time                                             second             s

suppose that God is a divine ice cube. if i drop the divine ice cube in a
cup of hot water, the hot water cools down, but the divine ice cube does not
melt (it does not change at all). a negative entropy change is a change in
the state of a system towards organization and order ...