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swansont

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  1. Not even that long, I suspect. Dense-packing the trees seems to stimulate growth for the few years observed, but what happens as the trees (literally) branch out? Will the proximity impede growth? What happens as their root systems start interfering with each other - will you run into issues if water is scarce?
  2. Such as the timing of peak cherry blossoms in Tokyo https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/date-of-the-peak-cherry-tree-blossom-in-kyoto?facet=none
  3. True for a single magnet, because you induce a magnetic field in the material, but your system would induce opposite fields which would tend to cancel. i.e. the field halfway between the magnets is small, so the induced field is also small.
  4. So it depends on M and r. Which means one could say that mass causes gravity.
  5. Only because of the objects. If you didn’t have visual cues, you could not tell if you were moving relative to them. More than useful. Absolutely necessary. I wasn’t aware that this a requirement for it to be a dimension. This does not differentiate it from the spatial dimensions.
  6. I give up. GR can apparently only be explained using GR Every time i look into GR it’s like pulling teeth; I come away convinced that nobody does a numerical calculation because none of the math is ever presented in a way where that’s possible. I’ve read that GR reduces to Newtonian gravity, but have never been able to find a worked example of that, because nothing is ever presented but the tensor mathematics. Along the line of my frustration, I recall a seminar (on Lie algebra, IIRC) in grad school where the prof was asked what the difference was between contravariant and covariant, and the response was something like “contravariant means the indices are along the top” which is true but doesn’t do anything to advance anyone’s understanding.
  7. And what are the boundary conditions of those sets?
  8. The Coulomb field is static; that’s the 1/r^2 field. EMR intensity drops off as 1/r^2 from a point source, but intensity is the square of the field strength.
  9. How? Usually there’s only one solution for a given set of boundary conditions.
  10. You can only sense the expanse of space because of objects in it, i.e. the observables are objects, not length itself. Just like the fact that your location changes lets you sense the passage of time.
  11. “Allows” doesn’t mean these exist. How would one get a gravitational wave absent energy-momentum? (Maxwell’s equations allow EM waves, but classically you aren’t going to get one in a situation where you don’t have a charge somewhere) The scenario has two parts, the earth influencing geometry and the location. You only addressed the latter. Does mass cause a particular geometry to exist? It’s my understanding that it does. The geometry you have depends on whatever mass (as a first-order approximation) you have.
  12. That wasn’t the whole point, though. The geometry tells the mass how to move, but does it cause the mass to exist?
  13. Excellent arguments for why it should not be recognized as a dimension; if it’s in your mind I can’t observe it or measure it.
  14. How about ‘mental space’? Or ‘imagination’? Or ‘the twilight zone’? No. It’s not physical, so it doesn’t belong there. Such things are studied already. In neurology, psychology, and other fields.
  15. How does your conclusion follow from the quote? What kind of radiation is it?
  16. Isn’t the sun’s (or earth’s) field approximately a solution to the Schwarzschild geometry? They are equal, but isn’t that a static solution? And if you perturb the energy-momentum, don’t you get a lightlike fluctuation in the curvature? How is it not local? Gravitational waves are a dynamic effect, though. What if we limit ourselves to a static configuration?
  17. Isn’t the separation of momentum-energy and curvature lightlike? The fluctuations (gravitational waves) propagate at c What’s the curvature of the Schwarzschild solution? I’m confused. “The Schwarzschild geometry describes the spacetime geometry of empty space surrounding any spherical mass” https://jila.colorado.edu/~ajsh/bh/schwp.html
  18. This implies that lightlike separations are not causal.
  19. Length is a concept, “observable” as an interval between objects. But you need the objects, like you need events to measure time.
  20. What is the algebraic form of that component?
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