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- Fri Oct 26, 2018 10:29 am
- Forum: LRC Research
- Topic: Meeting a Terrific Challenge
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Re: Meeting a Terrific Challenge
I hope I've been able to clear up the confusion that exists over the use of the word unit. It happens, because we use it in different ways to mean different things. We refer to the unit progression, meaning unit motion or one unit of space for one unit of time, or s/t =1/1. We refer to unit displace...
- Wed Oct 24, 2018 3:42 pm
- Forum: LRC Research
- Topic: Meeting a Terrific Challenge
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Re: Meeting a Terrific Challenge
For vector motion, whether linear or rotational, the change in position or location over time that defines it must be uni-"directional." For linear motion, this means outward from a specified point, or inward toward a specified point. For rotational motion, this means a clockwise change of...
- Mon Oct 22, 2018 12:09 pm
- Forum: LRC Research
- Topic: Meeting a Terrific Challenge
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Re: Meeting a Terrific Challenge
As far as when the 3d reversals take place, it's no different than Larson's 1d reversals: it happens at the end of each unit, as can be seen clearly in the world line charts posted earlier. Of course, the reversing arrows on the chart are to be understood as radii of expanding/contracting balls, not...
- Mon Oct 22, 2018 10:51 am
- Forum: LRC Research
- Topic: Meeting a Terrific Challenge
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Re: Meeting a Terrific Challenge
While the mathematical picture was clearing up remarkably, the problem of the square wave remained. Larson just ignored it, but it was obviously too serious to ignore for long. The solution turned out to solve much more than our square wave, though. It ended up taking the mystery out of quantum mech...
- Mon Oct 22, 2018 7:30 am
- Forum: LRC Research
- Topic: Meeting a Terrific Challenge
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Re: Meeting a Terrific Challenge
The PAs were a good way to show what I called, at the time, "net zero" motion. That is, given continuous "direction" reversals, the reversing aspect of the motion didn't progress. It was like a soldier marching in place. There was motion all right, but neither the soldier nor the...
- Mon Oct 22, 2018 6:25 am
- Forum: LRC Research
- Topic: Meeting a Terrific Challenge
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Re: Meeting a Terrific Challenge
I can't sleep, so I'm going to try to write what I can with this phone in response to some of the comments that have been made here. As Bruce pointed out this discussion has been ongoing for sometime. Nehru took issue with Larson's attempt to derive units of scalar motion from the uniform progressio...
- Sun Oct 21, 2018 8:18 am
- Forum: LRC Research
- Topic: Meeting a Terrific Challenge
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Re: Meeting a Terrific Challenge
I appreciate the discussion. Unfortunately, I'm on the road and only have my phone with me. I will respond when I get home next week.
- Thu Oct 18, 2018 4:33 pm
- Forum: LRC Research
- Topic: Meeting a Terrific Challenge
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Re: Meeting a Terrific Challenge
Horace wrote: ...do you consider the sequence: +1Δs, +1Δt -1Δs, +1Δt a 1 unit of motion or a sequence of 2 units of motion? -1Δs, +1Δt +1Δs, +1Δt ... would constitute one cycle of a scalar oscillation, which I call a unit of scalar motion (space unit displacement ratio - SUDR, because it is an oscil...
- Thu Oct 18, 2018 1:59 pm
- Forum: LRC Research
- Topic: Meeting a Terrific Challenge
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Re: Meeting a Terrific Challenge
The easiest way I've found to think about it is to plot it, as what I call a world line chart. In the graphic below, I've plotted both the space oscillation and the time oscillation, for the two reciprocal sectors: http://www.lrcphysics.com/storage/images/Two%20World%20Line%20Charts.jpg Let's consid...
- Thu Oct 18, 2018 7:28 am
- Forum: LRC Research
- Topic: Meeting a Terrific Challenge
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Re: Meeting a Terrific Challenge
I was trying to provide some context for my answer to your question, not go off topic, Horace. When you speak of "A 'direction' of a unit of scalar motion," the only way the phrase makes sense in my theory, is the "direction" relative to unit speed, s/t = 1/1. At s/t = 1/2, the &...