Horace wrote:
Do you have an intuitive understanding why two atoms gravitate in space?
Funny you should mention this... I was just pointing out an abnormality with gravity to Phil and Gopi yesterday.
Consider that there are three, basic "field effects": the electric field, the magnetic field, and gravity, which appear non-local to our environment. Now look at the space-time dimensions of each:
Electric field (charge): t/s
Magnetic field: t
2/s
2
Gravity: s
3/t
3
And the localized inverses, the dimensional speeds:
Speed: s/t
Momentum: s
2/t
2
Mass: t
3/s
3
Why do gravity and mass appear BACKWARDS, when you look at the space-time units? It would make more sense if mass and gravity were exchanged, because "mass" has the energy dimensions, not gravity. Even E=mc
2 says that mass is energy, and should not be localized like it is.
A reasonable assumption would be to conclude that we are observing mass/gravity from the other side of a unit boundary than we observe electricity and magnetism, and hence the dimensional relationships are inverted.
I'd like to get Nehru's opinion, but I suspect that the electric and magnetic fields are generated within the time region, whereas gravity is a measurement of the net effect of the temporal motion OUTSIDE the unit boundary, in the time-space region. Now we know that there is a 2nd-power relationship between speed inside the unit of space (1/t
2) and the region outside (s/t), and I believe the "c
2" in E=mc
2 is a reference to that 2-dimensional boundary, indicating that the region outside the unit of space (mass) is a 2-dimensional inversion inside the unit of space (energy).
That makes gravity the equivalent speed of the atomic temporal motion in space-time (not the time region).
Horace wrote:
I know DBL writes that since time and space are reciprocal then "increasing distance in time is equivalent to decreasing distance in space".
This explains to me why increasing distance per time has the same effect ON SPEED, as decreasing time per space, but it does not explain why increasing distance in time is equivalent to decreasing distance in space and I'd like to know your take on this issue in terms of Projective Geometry and its projection on the different geometric strata. (above one unit distance!)
The concept of "direction" has to do with change; if an object never changes position, it has no direction of motion, so you are looking at the derivative of speed, which is 'displacement', in order to get a direction.
Gravity shows up like this: the outward progression is like an expanding grid, where absolute locations are at the intersections of the grid lines. Every time the grid expands to 2 units, a new set of lines is created to always keep the distance between the grid lines at 1 natural unit. When motion, like the photon, is placed at a point on the grid, it gets carried away from all other points.
When a rotational motion is introduced, as in rotating the photon, it imparts an "inward" speed to the photon that such that when that next set of lines is created by the expansion, it can jump back to the original location it was at, prior to being carried away. This is the "rotational base" that Larson uses.
If you increase the speed of the rotational base, rather than being being carried outward (the photon) or staying in the same location (rotational base), it starts hopping backwards in the direction opposite to the progression. This is "gravitation".
Basically, you need 2 units of displacement (a temporal speed of 3) in order for an atom to gravitate. This is shown in BPOM with inter-atomic distances, where the basic inter-atomic distance is calculated by the natural log of the temporal speed, and it is not until ln(3) is the result greater than unity (and having an effect outside of the unit boundary--gravitation).
Regarding the direction, remember that direction requires change. A speed change of 1/2 to 1/4 is an increase of 2 displacements of time, the temporal aspect going from 2 to 4 (space at unity), with the latter being larger, and hence "outward" (away from zero in a coordinate system). But now look how space sees the same change: 0.5 to 0.25 (time at unity) -- the latter being smaller, and hence a direction of change that is "inward" (towards zero). From this, Larson deduces that an increase in the temporal aspect is tantamount to a decrease the spatial aspect, so "outward in time" is "inward in space".
Horace wrote:
Also, I think the assumption that the temporal distance between 2 material atoms must necesarily increase, is a bit too optimistic.
I see no reason why these 2 material atoms could not decrease the temporal distance between themselves as they stand spinning in space ?
Remember that you are dealing with a UNIT of space regarding the time region, which is less than a speed of 3 so it has NO EFFECT in time. The temporal distance between atoms is constantly increasing (outward temporal motion not neutralized by outward spatial motion, since the displacement is too small).
Just as motion in time creates gravitation in space, motion in space creates gravitation in time. The only way to get the temporal distance to decrease would be to rotate the space of the time region. Now this CAN happen, as we see with the spatial electric displacements of atoms, but it is not enough to overcome the outward motion of the temporal rotation to bring them together--just slows them down.
There is actually one case where the spatial motion is sufficient to overcome the temporal motion, and cause the atoms to gravitate in time--when the number of neutrinos (gravitational mass) within the atom increases to 4Z (magnetic ionization level of 0). However, the shear that results from trying to gravitate in both space and time simultaneously literally rips the atom apart. Larson refers to this as the "age limit" of matter.
Horace wrote:
After all, 2 outward moving photons can move towards each other, even to the point of collision and interference, so why can't material atoms do the same in time?
The only time two photons can interact is when one is circularly polarized, giving it torque to hop locations on the absolute reference system. It is actually an observed fact that linearly-polarized photons never interact with each other. The wave patterns you see from "interference" in slit experiments is actually the photon interfering with itself (seen Nehru's article on this).
Horace wrote:
Did you ever try to make any animation of 2 atoms gravitating TOWARDS each other on the macro scale (above one unit spatial distance)?
No, but that's a great idea. I'm trying to learn Java graphics, so it might be an interesting program that I could put on the web.