There are some theories in physics that make me feel uncomfortable. I tend to be a contrarian, always looking for alternative explanations. Underdogs appeal to me. Sometimes I think about putting all of physics into a symbolic math package so that I can change assumptions or make other modifications and run the implications throughout the…
Category: Physics
Crazy ass thoughts while awake after getting up at 2:30am to see Geminid meteor shower
2018-12-14 3:52 am I’ve been thinking about spacetime and the idea of a warp drive. If you replace the Sun with a one solar mass black hole, then the orbits of the planets do not change. The gravitational field is the same, right? No big deal. Doesn’t help with propulsion across the Galaxy. Even the…
Spheres and parallel lines
A popular idea in popular books on physics and math is to illustrate the failure of Euclidean geometry on the surface of a sphere. Parallel lines do intersect! Well, that’s being loose with definitions and examples. Meridian lines of longitude are tangentially parallel at the equator and converge at the poles. Why are those considered…
This post is false
I’m reading “The Universe and the Teacup” and am reconsidering thoughts I previously had in mathematics. One example is the popular idea that there’s something contradictory about the following statement. This sentence is false. When I was young, I simply accepted this logic of this, without thinking more deeply about it. Now I see the…
Thoughts about in situ observations of stellar cores through entanglement
The photons and other particles that traverse the galaxy to reach our observatories provides a continuous stream of information and matter. If there was some way to travel up the beam, which is an old science fantasy concept, faster than the speed of light through the spooky action at a distance of entanglement, then we…