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|    poraty350@gmail.com to pora...@gmail.com    |
|    Re: gravity    |
|    09 Mar 17 13:04:31    |
      On Wednesday, February 8, 2017 at 5:52:01 PM UTC+2, pora...@gmail.com wrote:       > On Tuesday, January 17, 2017 at 1:03:44 AM UTC+2, fil...@gmail.com wrote:       > > On Tuesday, January 10, 2017 at 5:46:13 PM UTC-8, Nagaraju Palagani wrote:       > > > Because of gravity, if we drop something, it falls down, instead       > > > of up. Well everybody knows that! But we do not know the mechanism       > > > that governs gravity?       > >       > > No. We only have a model that tells us how paths of free fall are coupled       > > to energy-momentum(*). General relativity is a non-quantum theory so this       > > sort of thing is perhaps not that surprising:       > > this is a situation similar to where Lagrangian mechanics was with its       > > least action principle: no mechanism underlying the odd property of nature       > > choosing extremal paths for particle motions. Then came quantum mechanics       > > in the Feynman formulation showing how those extremal paths arise from       > > certain wave reinforcement and cancellation.       >       > ============================       > does the Feynman diagram explain why the change in direction (after       collision )       > is in angle say ''x''       > and not angle ''y ''       > iow       > why just the angle he is suggesting ??       > ==========================       >       > TIA       > Y.P       > ===============================================       >       > [[Mod. note --       > * 9 excessively-quoted lines snipped here.       > * To answer the poster's question, this depends on how precisely the       > initial conditions are specified. If they are specified sufficiently       > precisely [so that the impact parameter of the incoming particle       > (i.e., the lateral offset of its incoming trajectory with respect       > to a collision) is known; obviously the uncertainty principle imposes       > restrictions on just how well this can be done] then yes, the particle's       > future trajectory (including the change in direction) can be computed.       >       > But in the usual case the impact parameter is completely unspecified       > (we *don't* know the incoming particle trajectory's lateral position       > to ultra-high accuracy) and in this case even classical mechanics can't       > do what you ask.       ==============================       in other words       my above question has no answer       in current science !! ??       ===       TIA       Y.Porat       =====       > -- jt]]              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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