Ask any question you want about Physics

originally posted by: Bedlam

originally posted by: ImaFungi
a reply to: dragonridr

LOL.

All those different things placed in between the light source and the eye; and you think this is you showing me evidence that you know what light is fundamentally?

It's telling you something. Why does that work the way it does, should be an immediate question.

And right off the bat, it tells you something about there not being an aether that EM propagates in. Right there, in one handy demo.

All discovered from a carrot No less.

originally posted by: ImaFungi
a reply to: Arbitrageur

There are so many problems in physics, there are so many PHD physicists not solving them.

Lets be scientific and try another approach. I can solve some problems in physics, with a 5+ hour conversation in front of a blackboard, with a very smart and passionate theoretical physicist who was interested in a large variety of fundamental problems.

Question: Then why haven't you done it? If you want to sit in front of some smart people while you whittle away at the blackboard, this is a very easy thing to do. Write up a one page abstract of your ideas, send it along to Cambridge, Oxford or wherever you may be, and request a time slot to present your hypothesis to the Physics department. It may be unusual, but every so often someone walks in off the street with a very innovative idea.

Alternatively, you can make a YouTube video to present your ideas. Send it along with a brief abstract to a couple of dozen physicists who you think might understand your hypothesis and/or be interested in it.

If your idea has legs and you can explain your hypothesis coherently, someone might well pick it up.

As Captain Kirk said: "Make it happen Mr. Spock!"

originally posted by: Bedlam

originally posted by: ImaFungi
a reply to: dragonridr

LOL.

All those different things placed in between the light source and the eye; and you think this is you showing me evidence that you know what light is fundamentally?

It's telling you something. Why does that work the way it does, should be an immediate question.

And right off the bat, it tells you something about there not being an aether that EM propagates in. Right there, in one handy demo.

So what would happen if I put a polarizing sheet over the sun perpendicularly as it casts its light over earth?

How does that correlate to what I see around me? How does light through a prism differ from light through liquid crystals?

originally posted by: ImaFungi
a reply to: dragonridr

Did you just say that;

One electron;

Given momentum;

Does not create photons?

Your robot arm can shake it until it falls apart it's not going to effect our electron. You need to add energy to our electron to get it to emit a photon.Now put that electron into a gun and you have something. This is why you just need to ask your questions instead of the thought experiments because they well are stupid.

originally posted by: Rosinitiate

originally posted by: Bedlam

originally posted by: ImaFungi
a reply to: dragonridr

LOL.

All those different things placed in between the light source and the eye; and you think this is you showing me evidence that you know what light is fundamentally?

It's telling you something. Why does that work the way it does, should be an immediate question.

And right off the bat, it tells you something about there not being an aether that EM propagates in. Right there, in one handy demo.

So what would happen if I put a polarizing sheet over the sun perpendicularly as it casts its light over earth?

How does that correlate to what I see around me? How does light through a prism differ from light through liquid crystals?

Well sunlight isn't polarized unless it reflects off something adding Spin. Now what would happen if we polarized the sun. Well since our atmosphere is polarized at right angles to the sun you could make it very dark on earth. Now light in a prism is diffusion think of it as scattered photons. Well polarized is we actually cause our photons to Spin. Polarized lenses are set to eliminate glare when sunlight bounces off a street or the ocean our photons line up horizontally and the glasses done let that light through. Someone early mentioned tilting your head you change the orientation and than you can block light vertically.

Now remember light is waves so let's look at a picket fence if we could see light waves place a picket fence in front only light that fit would go between are slats. Horizontal light waves would be blocked not fitting as the wave hits our slats. Vertical light can pass through without hitting our slats. Turn the fence and we can allow horizontal only.

originally posted by: Phage

How have you gained intelligence? How many IQ points?
I know that gaining knowledge is very doable.

If 'intelligence' is something, and not nothing;

Is the something that your intelligence is, the same amount of something as when you were born?

originally posted by: dragonridr


Your robot arm can shake it until it falls apart it's not going to effect our electron. You need to add energy to our electron to get it to emit a photon.Now put that electron into a gun and you have something. This is why you just need to ask your questions instead of the thought experiments because they well are stupid.

"Electromagnetic waves are produced whenever charged particles are accelerated"

"Electromagnetic waves are produced whenever charged particles are accelerated"

"Electromagnetic waves are produced whenever charged particles are accelerated"

"Electromagnetic waves are produced whenever charged particles are accelerated"

"Electromagnetic waves are produced whenever charged particles are accelerated"

"Electromagnetic waves are produced whenever charged particles are accelerated"

originally posted by: dragonridr

originally posted by: Rosinitiate

originally posted by: Bedlam

originally posted by: ImaFungi
a reply to: dragonridr

LOL.

All those different things placed in between the light source and the eye; and you think this is you showing me evidence that you know what light is fundamentally?

It's telling you something. Why does that work the way it does, should be an immediate question.

And right off the bat, it tells you something about there not being an aether that EM propagates in. Right there, in one handy demo.

So what would happen if I put a polarizing sheet over the sun perpendicularly as it casts its light over earth?

How does that correlate to what I see around me? How does light through a prism differ from light through liquid crystals?

Well sunlight isn't polarized unless it reflects off something adding Spin. Now what would happen if we polarized the sun. Well since our atmosphere is polarized at right angles to the sun you could make it very dark on earth. Now light in a prism is diffusion think of it as scattered photons. Well polarized is we actually cause our photons to Spin. Polarized lenses are set to eliminate glare when sunlight bounces off a street or the ocean our photons line up horizontally and the glasses done let that light through. Someone early mentioned tilting your head you change the orientation and than you can block light vertically.

Now remember light is waves so let's look at a picket fence if we could see light waves place a picket fence in front only light that fit would go between are slats. Horizontal light waves would be blocked not fitting as the wave hits our slats. Vertical light can pass through without hitting our slats. Turn the fence and we can allow horizontal only.

So we could theoretically put several (very large) sheets suspended between earth and the sun with a polarizer, color filter, TFT glass and polarizor and produce an image on earth (with proper pixilation) to appear as real to the naked eye?

originally posted by: ImaFungi
How are photons created then?

If you have a machine that is just a motor and a robot arm with hand and fingers at the end, and the fingers can hold in between them 1 electron;

You lost me already, as I don't know how to make a robotic hand that can grab one electron.

originally posted by: ImaFungi
Is the something that your intelligence is, the same amount of something as when you were born?

IQ tests aren't an exact science; nonetheless, a lot of research has been done on them, and they tend to give relatively stable results over a persons lifetime, in comparison to one's peers of similar age. So if you're trying to compare the IQ test of an 8 year old with a 20 year old, you don't understand how IQ tests work.

There are exceptions to the stability of the test results, but I can give you a story behind why my score jumped way up when I re-took the test a couple months later, it was simply because I got a good night's sleep, about 7 hours before the second test and only about half that before the first test. I don't think my intelligence changed at all but I did learn how much a good night's sleep can improve mental acuity, at least in my case (and I suspect in others also). Here's an interesting article about that topic:

IQ

These results are illustrative of what psychologists find over and over again. IQ tends to remain relatively stable over the lifespan. The key word here is relative. IQ researchers are interested in explaining differences. Developmentally speaking, an individual's intelligence is not fixed at birth. Although rank ordering of scores tends to remain stable (relative change), scores within individuals fluctuate quite a bit (absolute change).

originally posted by: Rosinitiate
So we could theoretically put several (very large) sheets suspended between earth and the sun with a polarizer, color filter, TFT glass and polarizor and produce an image on earth (with proper pixilation) to appear as real to the naked eye?

It's not TFT glass, the display typically works based on 2 polarizers attached to sheets of glass, with electrically activated liquid crystals sandwiched in between them. You can use different light sources, in fact my LCD displays are not made using the LEDs shown in the video dragonridr posted, though those are probably common in laptops. My displays are capable of getting much brighter because they use more powerful lights. The sun would work as a light source though the images on my monitor don't look real to me so I doubt the images would look that real in what you're describing either.

originally posted by: Arbitrageur
You lost me already, as I don't know how to make a robotic hand that can grab one electron.

Well I have attempted to go down such theoretical routes before, the essence of my inquiry is what is important.

The entire thought experiment I proposed is to, as I have time and time attempted to get you people to think about;

An electron.

How. How... How.... how how how how

When when when when

An electron.

Accelerates.

Photons.

Which did not exist prior to the electrons acceleration.

Exist.

1 electron.

No photons.

1 electron accelerates.

Photons.

Where do the photons come from?

How do the photons come from?

When the electron accelerates;

Does the photon travel away like a string, a fishing line that is moving up and down? Does the fishing line exist prior to being waved? Or what the electro accelerates, does it toss a bobbing ball away from itself? If you cant think of a good analogy, as to what would compare, to the object electron, accelerating, and photon propagating away from it;

YOU DO NOT KNOW HOW LIGHT EXISTS

originally posted by: ImaFungi

originally posted by: dragonridr


Your robot arm can shake it until it falls apart it's not going to effect our electron. You need to add energy to our electron to get it to emit a photon.Now put that electron into a gun and you have something. This is why you just need to ask your questions instead of the thought experiments because they well are stupid.

"Electromagnetic waves are produced whenever charged particles are accelerated"

"Electromagnetic waves are produced whenever charged particles are accelerated"

"Electromagnetic waves are produced whenever charged particles are accelerated"

"Electromagnetic waves are produced whenever charged particles are accelerated"

"Electromagnetic waves are produced whenever charged particles are accelerated"

"Electromagnetic waves are produced whenever charged particles are accelerated"

Your the fool that put our electron into some jiggling robots hand. Thinking un some way this does something. We need to get our electron moving at close to the speed of light not jiggle it by a robot. Your showing a complete lack of understanding of magnetic field. And sadly this is frustrating because I know I've explained this to you along with everyone else. The only way your electron held by your robot will do anything is if it throws it or another one placed a positron near it than at least we can form a diapole.

A blackhole is made by a low frequency and a compressed mass, my theory is actually right. But who the f*** cares
Sound bend light

a reply to: ImaFungi

Do any of you know how I could successfully contact the smartest most passionate theoretical physicist in the closest real physical proximity to where I live?

Yes. Be admitted to graduate school in physics in your local university. You'll have to learn and understand undergraduate physics first.

a reply to: ImaFungi

That's all baloney. Physics knows for sure.

The Lienard-Wiechert potentials give the exact answer for classical physics, which are expectation values for quantum physics in the usual limit of significant photon number occupation.

I've even pointed you to on-line real-time simulations for teaching which shows field lines (in 2-d) where you can move the charge around and see the effects on propagating fields.

Computing the exactly low photon count numbers need QED but the computations are exact, even if very difficult.

As people have said time and time again, there is no conservation law on photon number therefore photons don't have to "come from" anything other than accelerating charges or time-dependent elementary magnetic dipoles.

Where do the 'sound wave phonons' come from right when the band begins to play? Same place.

originally posted by: Rosinitiate

originally posted by: Bedlam

originally posted by: ImaFungi
a reply to: dragonridr

LOL.

All those different things placed in between the light source and the eye; and you think this is you showing me evidence that you know what light is fundamentally?

It's telling you something. Why does that work the way it does, should be an immediate question.

And right off the bat, it tells you something about there not being an aether that EM propagates in. Right there, in one handy demo.

So what would happen if I put a polarizing sheet over the sun perpendicularly as it casts its light over earth?

It would melt, of course.

How does that correlate to what I see around me? How does light through a prism differ from light through liquid crystals?

Prisms don't generally rotate the plane of polarization.

a reply to: dragonridr

Now, your REAL question should be...why aren't car windshields polarized horizontally, and headlights vertically?

originally posted by: Arbitrageur
You can use different light sources, in fact my LCD displays are not made using the LEDs shown in the video dragonridr posted, though those are probably common in laptops. My displays are capable of getting much brighter because they use more powerful lights. The sun would work as a light source though the images on my monitor don't look real to me so I doubt the images would look that real in what you're describing either.

I have thought of doing a steampunk display by stripping a transmissive LCD down and rigging it to a nice wooden picture frame sort of thing with a candle, brass reflector, diverger lens and a piece of ground glass or something, so you end up with a candle-powered display. I haven't got the look down in my head yet.

a reply to: ImaFungi

I read read read read this this this this and what I see see see see is that you're still trying to envision things as little painted wooden balls in your head. Stop that.

a reply to: Bedlam

Isn't seeing oncoming headlights a good thing?

originally posted by: GetHyped
a reply to: Bedlam

Isn't seeing oncoming headlights a good thing?

Sure - but if you made it a bit leaky on one side or the other, or turned them a bit off of 90 degrees, you could see the light bouncing off the road but not be blinded by the headlights themselves. You'd never have to dim them.