"Don Kelly" <dhky@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Bill Miller" <billmillerkt4ye@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Spaceman" <spaceman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Bill Miller wrote:
>>>> "Spaceman" <spaceman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>> Bill Miller wrote:
>>>>>> For example, for many years, Newton's Law fell into the "Law"
>>>>>> category. Not anymore.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry to quibble Bill,
>>>>> What law of newtons became not a law anymore?
>>>>> Perpetual motion designers all over the world would like to know
>>>>> so they can "break" all of his laws by simply jumping over one.
>>>>> :)
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> James M Driscoll Jr
>>>>> Spaceman
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello Spaceman. No quibble... just an example of how teaching has
>>>>> not kept pace with reality. Here goes:
>>>>
>>>> One of the fundamental laws of mechanics is Newton's law of action
and
>>>> reaction, usually stated as : "Whenever a body exerts a force
>>>> (action) on a second body, the second body exerts an equal and
>>>> opposite force (reaction) on the first body."
>>>>
>>>> Suppose that a stationary mass is located in the gravitational field
>>>> of another, distant stationary mass.The two m***** exert equal and
>>>> opposite forces on each other. (Action and reaction) Let us now
>>>> allow one mass to move under the action of the field of the other
>>>> mass. ut the second mass, being far away, does not yet "know
>>>> that the first mass has moved. (gravity -- like light -- cannot
>>>> propagate instantaneously.) The second body continues to experience
>>>> the same force as before.
>>>
>>> Bill, I am sorry you have been fooled by the described situation
>>> Newtons force theory has to include every object in between
>>> also.
>>> When every action-reaction of the object is considered, it has never
>>> been
>>> wrong.
>>> The example given is "ignoring" action-reaction of all in between
>>> the two objects.
>>>
>>>> In other words, the forces are now unequal in magnitude and direction
>>>> and Newton's action/reaction law no longer holds! Further, this
>>>> situation also is in conflict with the very basic law of conservation
>>>> of momentum.
>>>
>>> Every action/re-action in between have balanced.
>>> Forces have caused "objects that would transfer the force
>>> to transfer to a different direction, and not enough force
>>> was transmitted all the way to cause the re-action you were hoping
for.
>>> Newton still holds true if each and every action-reaction is
considered
>>> in between.
>>>
>>>> For a detailed analysis of this, and other Newtonian flaws, please
see
>>>> Jefimenko's "Causality, Electromagnetic Induction and Gravitation" OR
>>>> "Gravitation and Cogravitation."
>>>
>>> Again,
>>> This is not a newton flaw, it is a flaw of the understanding of the
>>> newton
>>> law.
>>> Each and every single object in between must be considered.
>>> You can not ignore the action-reactions that take place in between
>>> the two objects like such is being done to come up with
>>> the supposed violation.
>>>
>>> Try this one in a much simpler form but almost like the gravity
>>> problem...
>>> Lets use air.
>>> Air between two objects on the ground.
>>> Would the air transfer all the motion of an object
>>> that is 5 ft away from another object?
>>> No, simply because all the force of the action-reactions
>>> are diverted by the air but all action re-action of the air
>>> follows Newton's law very well.
>>> the same holds true for gravity.
>>> :)
>>>
>>>> BTW, Timo questioned my assertion that F = MA was also "leaky." I
>>>> THOUGHT that the above also affected this equation. After further
>>>> review... Timo's right... so far!
>>>
>>> Action-reaction of Newton law still holds true if
>>> all such action-reactions in between are considered.
>>>
>>>
>>>> I hope this helps!
>>>
>>> I hope what I babbled probably too many times just now,
>>> helps you understand that Newton still holds fine and no
>>> problem has occured that Newton has been proven wrong
>>> in such.
>>> (Missing forces is the only way he is ever proven wrong)
>>> and missing forces only proves that someone is not following
>>> Newton the way they really should.
>>>
>>> After all any force at all, is a force and not only the ones
>>> Newton haters want to pick are the only forces.
>>> :)
>>>
>>>> BTW, yes, a glass is simultaneously 20% empty and 80% full, but
>>>> entirely too many people (IMNTBHO) ignore the fullness and
>>>> concentrate only on the empitiness. And that's kinda sad!
>>>
>>> Yes, it is sad..
>>> I always try to think of both sides of the story.
>>> It is much safer to do so also.
>>> :)
>>>
>>> I am sorry for babbling but I have never seen Newton's
>>> Laws to be wrong.
>>> and that is why I always follow him and think about each
>>> and every force (action-reaction) that could occur.,,
>>> also if I don't follow such being mechanically minded... I could be
>>> killed.
>>> Newton has saved my life a few times.
>>> I am sure he probably has saved a lot of peoples lives by coming
>>> up with such beautiful laws that have not actually been broken ever.
>>> :)
>>>
>>> --
>>> James M Driscoll Jr
>>> Spaceman
>>>
>>>
>> I think I understand your point, but in the case that I described,
there
>> is nothing in between the two m***** but vacuum. Are you postulating
some
>> special property of vacuum that instantaneously transmits force vector
>> information from a perturbed mass to a mass in the same field? If so,
I'd
>> like to learn more about that!
>>
>> If not, then there will be a delay between when a mass is perturbed and
>> when the perturbation is sensed..And that delay is not explicit in any
of
>> Newton's laws.
>>
>
>
> Put a bunch of ball bearings in contact with each other in a row. Tap
the
> first one and not that the last one does not instantaneously react. At
> each contact point, assuming the bearings are incompressible there is a
> local action/reaction equivalence but the time for this to be
transferred
> to the end is dependent on the speed of sound in the bearings.
> Essentially a travelling wave. No need to go to deep space to see a
delay.
> Does this make Newtons 3rd law invalid?
GREAT example. Let's think about this.
We hit the first ball. Some time later, the last ball moves.
Newton says: "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."
If
this means "instantly," then clearly there is a flaw. Does this mean that
Newton is wrong, or merely incomplete?
Since we routinely use Newton to chart the heavens, launch satellites etc.
etc., it is clear that Newton isn't WRONG. I believe the answer is
"incomplete."
Let's take your line of balls idea a step farther. First, let's assume
that
the second ball is slightly out of line with all the others. When we
strike
the first ball, it p***** the impact on to the second ball slightly off
center. This acts to transfer some of the impact in a straight line, but
also causes it to rotate. This imparts angular momentum to the second
ball -- and subsequent balls. The reaction is not the same as the action!
Now let's assume that it has been a while since we have played with our
balls. (Sorry! I couldn't resist!) A thick coating of dust covers all the
balls.
We strike the first ball, and as the traveling wave progresses, it shakes
the dust off of all the other balls. This reduces the mass of each ball.
Again, the reaction is not the same as the action.
So... if Newton is incomplete, as it seems to be, then we need to modify
the
rules/formulae. The modification must accomodate retardation, deal with
changes in angular momentum, and handle situations where the starting and
ending m***** are not the same!
These issues are im****tant in planetary systems. There, we have distances
that are large WRT the speed of gravity, we have bodies that possess
angular
momentum, and (like a comet whose mass changes as it travels by) bodies
whose mass is not constant with time.
A gravitostatic model does not work in a gravitodynamic environment.
> In the vacuum, we really do not know the propagation method
True
>and there are various proposed mechanisms including aether and virtual
>phonons and the delay depends on the velocity of light. (or gravity --
they
>are not necessarily the same, although they SEEM to be)
> These all appear to be attempts to cope with mechanical forces at
> distances by some essentially fully mechanical coupling. Why?
Because we seem to be wor****ping at the shrine of St, Isaac rather than
looking -- as Heaviside did in 1893 (!) -- at the facts.
> Do the delays make Newton's law of action/reaction invalid?
Not invalid. Just incomplete.
...After all, this
> was developed without consideration of delays. Timo points out the
> Heaviside view-all reactions are local. -
True! But all actions are not!
Bill
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