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- From: corleyj@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Jason D Corley )
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: TIME HAS INERTIA ABIAN replies to INDRA
- Keywords: Principles (A1) and (A2). Reply to INDRA 11-14-92
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.203056.14720@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 20:30:56 GMT
- References: <abian.721770451@pv343f.vincent.iastate.edu>
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- In article <abian.721770451@pv343f.vincent.iastate.edu> abian@iastate.edu (Alexander Abian) writes:
- >
- >
- > Indra, please go to the nearest University, go to the Physics Department
- >find the most "prominent" physicist there and ask him/her:
- >
- > " WHY , say, TWO NEGATIVE ELECTRICAL CHARGES REPEL "
- >
- >My guess is that his/her answer will be "It is a principle , we do not ask
- >why we use Coulomb's law to quantify the repelling force"
- >
- > Indra, my answer is "According to (A1), the space tends to maintain
- >the status quo of its electrical neutrality and opposes a further concentr-
- >ation of negative charges, and repels them. However, if we overpower the
- >space we may crush spaces' opposition", and a new Status Quo is created.
- >
-
- Indra, the real answer is that this is caused by the electromagnetic
- force which has been understood for literally centuries. This
- may sound like mere posturing, (I can even hear Mr. Abian now,
- "you don't understand it so you call it electromagnetism"),
- but electromagnetism was proved in the 1920s by a man whose
- name begins with K that temporarily escapes me to actually be gravity
- operating in 5 dimensions.
-
- Let me put that another way. Gravity (relativistically speaking)
- is a distortion of the space-time continuum. If you extend that
- continuum to 5 dimensions, you get electromagnetism, which
- causes the two negative charges to repel. There is no need to
- resort to these Status Quos and Provokers and Provokees which
- are unclear, undefined, un-backed-up by mathematics, unpredictive,
- unscientific, and (I must admit) rapidly becoming more and more
- uninteresting.
-
- I'm sorry if the science in this post is muddled. If you like,
- I will email you with a better description, or perhaps someone
- with more knowledge and better communication skills will oblige
- us with a translation.
-
- Jason (not the Jason that asked for Abian's credentials
- but an incredible simulation)
-