Natural Science Forum / Physics / Relativity / September 2005

Alert -- I'm not a physicist.
I've been reading about relativity and need some clarification about
the speed of light (SoL).
As I understand it the SoL (in a vacuum), is about 650 million mph and

I has all keen in university about physics. I was a physics major that
transferred into computer engineering. I also used to love reading
quantum physics and relativity books at nite. This is the logical
outcome.... A essay on how to use general relativity and quantum

"The Paradox of Zeno"
    The Paradox of Zeno is 2000 years old and its apparent ability
to prove that all motion is impossible was not resolved until the
mathematical

You now can show what your f.ck oeconomics can do against. Leave oil and gas
in the ground !!!!
30 cm increase of ocean level within next 5 years awaited.
Where shall the ice bears go ?

Hi, I have a quick question. Forgive my ignorance. I had originally
typed up a big question, but I'll just make it simple so I don't lead
anyone to one train of thought. What happens when a mirror is moving at
.5c from earth(ignoring rotation), and we are watching the mirror from

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We recently updated our NASA Factsheet on the GP-B mission and
experiment. You'll now find this 6-page document (Adobe Acrobat PDF
format) listed as the last navigation link under "What is GP-B" in the

A. Length of arrows is constant. cos^2+sin^2 = 1. Energy is conserved.
It flips from moving mass to compressed/stretched spring and back again,
from E-field to B-field and back again.
S. There is no energy to conserve 'till you intercept the wave

I have written a paper and submitted it to the American Physics Journal, but
it was declined because I did not show where my thoeroy improves on current
theory.  I need some help on this.

Two identical masses, at equal initial heights wrt the ground, drop
simultaneously from a moving platform. Wrt an observer, who is at rest
on the platform, the accelerations of the two masses under the force of
gravity commence simultaneously.

The following link describes new interpretions for the following past famous
experiments based on absolute motion: the Double-Slit experiment, the
Compton Shift experiment and the Photoelectric experiment.
http://www.geocities.com/kn_seto/2005pastexperiments.pdf

  Do you know what's the expression for Lorentz Transformation of
force?
I tried to google it but found no clue.
Any pointer on this will be greatly appreciated.

In my view, two major breakthroughs in science are unavoidable. First,
theoreticians (and philosophers of science) should remember Kant's
reaction to Hume's scepticism: physical propositions must have the same
certainty as mathematical propositions. Consider two mathematical

During the course of the recent LET debates, I considered several
possible alternatives to measuring length via mechanical means, hoping
to by pass the simultaneity issue. While I failed to manage this, one
promising prospect arose, though being inconsistent with the many other

Spitzer and Hubble Team Up to Find "Big Baby" Galaxies in the Newborn Universe
Astronomers have used the penetrating power of two of NASA's Great Observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes, to identify one of the farthest and most massive galaxies that once inhabited ...

In the deduction of his famous conclusion "Entropy always increases"
Clausius used as a premise the oxymoron "ANY IRREVERSIBLE PROCESS CAN
BE CLOSED INTO A CYCLE BY A REVERSIBLE PROCESS". Later Clausius
abandoned the conclusion but other postscientists did not. They