Quote: "You've got a PhD in Physics Raven? Where did you do it?"
2years UCLAN
2years Irvine(Bayview) University
2years UCLA
I was quite fortunate with it given, my employer (EA) actually helped me out by talking to the Universities each time I moved so that I could continue my course without it disrupting my work schedual. Usually when you move mid-way through a degree they tend to tell you to start from square one again, which would've been a bitch as it would've extended both my Masters and Doctrate degrees by a year each. So I would've only just finished last September heh
Interestingly for the first 2years, it was my dad who was teaching me; as he was the physics professor there.
Found it funny what he said when I told him I had passed, was like "It's a great achievement, but you'll never find a job that will require it so ultimately pointless boy."
Quote: "I never thought how weird it is that steam rises, there's more surface area so wouldn't gravity have more of an effect, but then you talk about mass and it becomes a bit clearer. Does the effect of gravity based on mass have anything to do with energy? I was thinking that steam could be rising because its particles are pushing against the force of gravity, whereas a water has much less energy and so succumbs to gravity's force."
Well mass and energy have a direct relationship, I wouldn't say that it is entirely mass based though; or that the extra energy provided causes the movement to break free so to speak. It is more in terms of that it causes an inbalance due to the state change.
This is what causes the break away effect, or atleast helps attribute to it given there are numerous other factors.
In the most basic form, there are 3 states.
+1, 0, -1 (+ = Attract, - = Repel, 0 = Neutral)
The attract will basically, pull everything. Where-as the Repel does the opposite, only it doesn't affect neutrals.
If we have the make-up, of one of each.. you would end up with the Attract and Neutral together with the Repel orbiting them. (simple physics
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What is interesting about that though, is while the attract will pulls atoms in; the repel is orbiting causing a field where other atoms can get close.
So then these other atoms will be attracted and pushed away at the same time, and the larger the area the repel takes up, the larger it's field becomes.
Hopefully that makes sense so far heh
So when there becomes more of the repels orbiting, this not only makes the field they expand to stronger; but also it causes an inbalance if the internal field wasn't large enough to accomidate it. This causes the group to slowly break their "orbit" so to speak.
I mean I could go further in to this by mentioning that there is a scale to the attraction but not the repel based on what sort of state each atom is in. Even more so as each atom is in-turn built up of smaller blocks themselves, that create a variance in the role they play; so it ends up as more of a sliding scale.
Quote: "As for the big bang theory and "why is the universe still accelerating?", maybe we are still in the very beginning of the big bang. Is the universe actually accelerating or is it just expanding?"
No one is quite sure on this, there just isn't enough evidence to support anything conclusively.
I believe that it is expanding, simply because of my previous theory on how things work at the atomic and sub-atomic levels.
I mean if you look at other aspects in the universe, as Star gathers materials, reactions cause it to expand over time until the reaction outside can no longer contain the reaction inside. Hit critical mass and then explodes, spreading debris to restart the process; and 9/10 a super nova != black hole, in-fact there are around 6 possible outcomes; with a black hole being only one of them. In all cases though material ends up creating a new star, that restarts the entire process.
It is very likely this is how the universe works as well.
Although just like stars, each time the process restarts more material is created allowing the process to become larger the next time.
Aleast that is my belief.
