What Are You Thinking??

I spend a good amount of time thinking about these subjects also. You know, I read a couple books that really altered my perception(s), and this has made me wonder even more about subjects like gravity. "Strange Matters", and "Non-Zero" these are two books that really make me think. In "Strange Matters" it is a very complex book, and it looks at all the "strange" things in science. You can look at the title a few ways, like, 'strange does matter', or, 'these matters are strange', or, 'matter has a strange composition in reality'. Either way, it's all about perception and interpretation of the data. This book points out some of the strange nuances of science and asks some pretty good questions. There are two in particular that I'd like to discuss. One is gravity, and the other is the background "noise" that science has to "cancel out" in order for their equations to work properly. As far as gravity, it seems we really don't know why there is a constant "force" holding us to the ground. There are many theories, but none of them properly explains the complete spectrum of information. I have a theory about this. Does it not make reasonable sense that the speed of the earth flying through space could be the cause. Anything that large, moving that fast, would cause smaller objects to get sucked into the electromagnetic vortex, and we experience gravity. Also, the "noise" that scientists cancel out. Isn't that the frequency of the sub-atomic "field" emanating from the energetic side of the equation? Which is why it permeates everything, everywhere. Is there a better way to tune into this "noise"? The disparity of gravity at the macro level (Einstein's General Theory of Relativity) and gravity at the micro level (quantum and/or particle) was what I was puzzling over. Your thought is interesting regarding a vortex. but in relativistic terms, any object can be thought of as non-moving despite any relative motion as compared to another object. Your thought sounds very like the old idea of an "aether" that was thought to be everywhere (and later disproven). Still, I will definately take that to the pool with me for the next hour swim. I need to get the two books you mention from interlibrary loan. If you've not read it before, you might like "The Elegant Universe." The author is a bit too gung-ho on string theory for me, but it's a wonderful book. As a counterpoint to that, Lisa Randall's "Warped Passages" presents many of the same ideas, but from the standard (particle) model point of view. Apropos of nothing, today's main thought while swimming was how to take an old lawnmower apart and make a leaf mulcher out of it. We have LOTS of leaves. -LBJ

I spend a good amount of time thinking about these subjects also. You know, I read a couple books that really altered my perception(s), and this has made me wonder even more about subjects like gravity. "Strange Matters", and "Non-Zero" these are two books that really make me think. In "Strange Matters" it is a very complex book, and it looks at all the "strange" things in science. You can look at the title a few ways, like, 'strange does matter', or, 'these matters are strange', or, 'matter has a strange composition in reality'. Either way, it's all about perception and interpretation of the data. This book points out some of the strange nuances of science and asks some pretty good questions. There are two in particular that I'd like to discuss. One is gravity, and the other is the background "noise" that science has to "cancel out" in order for their equations to work properly. As far as gravity, it seems we really don't know why there is a constant "force" holding us to the ground. There are many theories, but none of them properly explains the complete spectrum of information. I have a theory about this. Does it not make reasonable sense that the speed of the earth flying through space could be the cause. Anything that large, moving that fast, would cause smaller objects to get sucked into the electromagnetic vortex, and we experience gravity. Also, the "noise" that scientists cancel out. Isn't that the frequency of the sub-atomic "field" emanating from the energetic side of the equation? Which is why it permeates everything, everywhere. Is there a better way to tune into this "noise"? The disparity of gravity at the macro level (Einstein's General Theory of Relativity) and gravity at the micro level (quantum and/or particle) was what I was puzzling over. Your thought is interesting regarding a vortex. but in relativistic terms, any object can be thought of as non-moving despite any relative motion as compared to another object. Your thought sounds very like the old idea of an "aether" that was thought to be everywhere (and later disproven). Still, I will definately take that to the pool with me for the next hour swim. I need to get the two books you mention from interlibrary loan. If you've not read it before, you might like "The Elegant Universe." The author is a bit too gung-ho on string theory for me, but it's a wonderful book. As a counterpoint to that, Lisa Randall's "Warped Passages" presents many of the same ideas, but from the standard (particle) model point of view. Apropos of nothing, today's main thought while swimming was how to take an old lawnmower apart and make a leaf mulcher out of it. We have LOTS of leaves. -LBJ