Sayanyein/s notes 1 august 2017.
Why
don’t we change the misleading name of c as "the speed of light" to
another meaningful name like "the maximum universal speed"?
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Sha
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Why
don’t we change the misleading name of c as "the speed of light" to
another meaningful name like "the maximum universal speed"?
Beacause c
is noticia the “maximum universal speed” but the speed of light in the
vacuum. It happens that this speed, according to the genereral theory of
relativity, is the maximum absolute speed. C is the speed of light, and according with a theory widely accepted today, this is the maximum absolute speed.
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If the momentum is zero, does a body have kinetic energy?
Vinod Gohel, former Retired professor of physics at Gujarat University (1962-2003)
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If the momentum is zero, does a body have kinetic energy?
Vinod Gohel, former Retired professor of physics at Gujarat University (1962-2003)
This
condition can be there if the body is made up of large number of
randomly moving particles, such as a gas. The total momentum of these
internal motions is zero, but total kinetic energy is not zero. The body
as a whole is at rest.
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Answer ·
Steven Lehar, Independent researcher with radical ideas
Yes,
its already happened, just that nobody knows about it. I’m talking
about William Kingdon Clifford, inventor of Clifford Algebra, the most
extraordinary advance in mathematics that (virtually) nobody has ever
heard of!
It is a simplification /
reformulation of the Vector / Matrix / Linear algebra that suddenly
makes them more intuitive, and it merges seamlessly with the rotational
multiplication of complex numbers, providing single scheme for both
rotational and scaling operations. And there are many formulae that are
far simpler when expressed in Clifford Algebra. For example in Clifford
Algebra the four Maxwell’s Equations of electromagnetism reduces to a single equation, the rest is implicit in the math!
But the most extraordinary thing about Clifford Algebra, a.k.a. Geometric
Algebra, is that it reveals that all of algebra is really a branch of
geometry, and thus that mathematics is geometrical in nature,
fundamentally.
And that in turn suggests a spatial computational principle in the brain that we experience as mathematics.
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8 august 2017.
John Knight, Scientist at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1966-present)
Late
in his career Einstein was giving a lecture in England. He was asked by
a student, “Did you stand on the shoulders of Newton?”
He replied, “No, I stood on the shoulders of Maxwell”.
Einstein had a picture of Maxwell in a prominent place on the wall of his study.
He replied, “No, I stood on the shoulders of Maxwell”.
Einstein had a picture of Maxwell in a prominent place on the wall of his study.
Late in his career Einstein was giving a lecture in England. He was asked by a student, “Did you stand on the shoulders of Newton?”
ReplyDeleteHe replied, “No, I stood on the shoulders of Maxwell”.
Einstein had a picture of Maxwell in a prominent place on the wall of his study.
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