Requiem for Relativity

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<br />Hi Joe, ...cosine of the natural log of the Lorentzian. ...
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I agree with your strategy of using these important, "elementary" mathematical functions, because they give "dimensionless" quantities that are likelier to be valid. Reference books like the CRC Math Tables or the compact Cambridge math tables have "infinite series" approximations of these functions. Maybe the lowest-order term or two of the infinite series, or series of a series, would give another expression that could be recognized in experimental or observational data.

<b>[Joe Keller] "However, my estimate showed that the magnitude, duration and number of these anomalies would be extremely unlikely unless the number and mass of Kuiper belt objects were much more than believed. Also, the anomalies occurred near the Kuiper belt dropoff, not near the densest part of the belt."</b>

DRP expects the local elysium to be entrained by local massive objects such as stars planets and moons. But as you move farther away from such entraining masses there will have to be a "transition zone" between the entrained mass of elysium and the larger background mass of elysium through which the average mass and its entrained elysium are moving.

For purposes of visualizating this transition zone, imagine something like the magnetopause around Earth, where the solar wind (analogous to the flow of background elysium) interacts with the Earth's magnetic field (analogous to the locally entrained elysium). This observationally verified transition zone has pockets of turbulence in it, as will any transition zone between two media, or between two regions of one medium that have velocity and/or other differences in properties.

Anomalies such as you describe might be evidence of this predicted transition zone. It ought to be spherical to a first approximation, but have a tail like a rain drop or that magentopause I mentioned above. We expect to see turbulence and/or chaotic flow patterns that would show up as, for example, odd twinkle patterns of the background stars, intermittent distortions of larger background objects, unusual and intermittent delay or advance patterns in EM waves sent to and from spacecraft within or beyond the zone. And so on.


Regards,
LB

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...DRP expects the local elysium to be entrained by local massive objects...there will have to be a "transition zone"...odd twinkle patterns of the background stars, intermittent distortions of larger background objects, unusual and intermittent delay or advance patterns in EM waves sent to and from spacecraft within or beyond the zone. ...
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This hits the nail on the head. I'll try to think along these lines.

Sled dogs

If another "Younger Dryas" is here, it might be good to have sled dog(s). Here in rural central Iowa, despite a large and well-manned fleet of county snowplows, plus privately owned tractors and four-wheel drive pickup trucks, with attachable scoops and blades, roads and driveways often have been impassable this winter due to snowfall and drifting. If we lose our petrol supply, then the foregoing will be useless, as will snowmobiles.

From my research, I gather that almost any medium-sized to large, athletic dog with warm fur, can pull a sled over the snow, though some breeds are better adapted than others. Nansen, Scott and Amundsen apparently preferred Samoyeds. Modern competitive sledding seems to use mainly Siberian Huskies and Alaskan Malamutes, but I gather that Samoyeds are more docile and safer as pets.

I gather that in N. America, all our Samoyeds are descended from about 20 animals, mainly survivors of Arctic expeditions, and though they were originally good stock, the lack of genetic diversity has led to four serious genetic diseases: hips, retina, kidney, and severe diabetes. Breeders screen for the first two of these, but apparently it's difficult to screen for the latter two diseases, because they don't appear until after reproductive maturity. It might be best to cross Samoyeds with compatible similar breeds in the "Spitz" dog family, to defeat these genetic diseases, which seem to be mainly recessives.

A neighboring farmer had a "Spitz" type dog (he got it at a shelter and thought it might be a Norwegian elkhound) which was extremely well-behaved around people. Apparently these dogs are not really of "wolf" (dangerous) ancestry. Unfortunately Spitz dogs tend to be hard to train to stay out of the road, he didn't believe in tying the dog (at least not for very long), couldn't afford to fence the dog, and eventually another farmer's tractor couldn't stop in time and ran over it.

Dr Joe, The gravity of the proton must somehow depend on its radius. So how can that be nailed when dense matter like gold has many more protons(and neutrons)than hydrogen for example? It seems to me your approch is mostly smoke and mirrors so far(bad QM at best). The dog post is a good Don Quixote type interlude.

Hi Joe, I was thinking about what Robert Carroll said, after I read your post on the proton. He says that we should have half of the energy as the particle's "space." There's a fourth power fall off of this to infinity. We can write E = 0.5mc^2 + 0.5mc^2

But if that's e.m. energy, and there's a phase change at the speed of light, then we have to consider that the e.m. energy has to be added to the gravitational energy, and that gravitational energy is half and half as well. So E = 0.25mc^2 + 0.25mc^2 + 0.25mb^2 + 0.25mb^2 where b is the speed of gravity.

This has to raise some questions about momentum. A radius of one gravitational second is much much larger than a radius of one light second but it's informationally a smaller "size."