Today I thought it might help me to organize some thoughts by entering them here. With the everyday stresses consuming or thoughts and time, we have little time to consider what our own thoughts are. Many of these will be random and unrelated. To those who don’t know me. I am college educated with a Biology background and a strong curiosity in Physics and Life processes. I am married once to my childhood sweetheart and have 4 children anyone would be proud to claim.  My heroes are my Parents, Teachers, Newton and countless people who paved the way to my current easy life. My greatest fear is a failure to do what’s needed.

DISTANCE    11/5/2016

Since high-school physics the concept of Distance has been troubling particularly in regard to waves such as sound, light, heat etc. For instance, the amplitude or intensity of a wave  decreases by the square of the distance or a factor of 4 as the distance from the source is doubled. Or another way is that the intensity of the wave or sound increases by a factor of 4 every time the distance is halved.

consider this graph.

if you are standing 4 units from a speaker the decibel loudness is 64 and at a distance of 8 it is 16 decibels. Likewise at a distance of 2 the loudness is 256 decibels. Seems reasonable, however, if we continue to get closer and closer to the source. And continue to cut our distance in half. At ‘infinity’ we reach the ‘source’ or surface of the speaker. At that point the loudness is infinitely loud. So no matter how soft a noise the speaker makes, at the source it will be infinitely loud. So all sounds, light, heat, waves ; if distance can always be cut in half, will be infinite at the Surface of the speaker….. So if distance can always be cut in half all noise,light,heat,waves would be infinitely great when made.

The only answer is that there is a smallest unit of distance. There is a distance which you cannot go beyond in smallness. So when a light bulb emits a light or a speaker makes a sound. The intensity of the sound varies at the first unit of measure and not the surface of the source. So in a sense then the world is not Analog but digital in its origin. Everything you see or touch or experience is digital or in correct parlance Quantum.

Accepting that a distance is the number of minimal units m.u. (the smallest measurable unit == m.u.) then movement of an object is not a smooth flowing event but more like a chain turning a gear with a clunk clunk clunk nature as the object ‘jumps’ the minimal units per unit of time. Lets consider movement.

MOVEMENT

When we look at a photograph, we interpret blurring as movement of the object. A camera with an older lens might have a frame rate of 1/32 of a second and a baseball or humming bird wing would appear as a smudge.

or If we improved the quality of the aperture and lens and kept reducing the time eventually the frame would appear ‘still’ with no blurring or motion artifact.

In fact I believe time also has a smallest unit which cannot be further divided. The flow of time is also like running a stick on a row of fence posts. At the smallest unit of time all object are frozen in space with no movement.  That is why an electron inhabits certain orbitals coinciding with energy levels. The electron never is seen between these defined levels. Simply at time A it is in orbital 1 ,and at time B (after stimulation) it is in orbital 2. Never in between. The answer is it never is in between. The movement of any object is its disappearance from the first location and its reappearance in the new location after a quantum of time.

So when one throws a baseball, the ball advances a certain number of minimal distance units per minimal time unit according to the force or speed of the ball. How does the ball ‘remember’ to move when the next unit of time comes along ,if all objects are frozen in time. ?  The answer is that the mass of the moving object increases when a force is applied to it, so relative to the unmoving object the mass is out of phase with the still object and advances to bring its mass back into the appropriate ‘size’. Einstein once conceptualized that any object approaching the speed of light, its mass would approach infinity. this concept becomes significant at about 1/2 the speed of light which is probably the maximum speed obtainable by a solid object.

So when a baseball is thrown, its mass or size increases relative to when it was still and it moves to reestablish is relationship with the surrounding still environment.

The concept of direction, how does the ball know which direction to move, is also from a distortion of the mass in the moving object. The moving ball is more massive at the rear then at the front forcing the ball to move forward. This also explains Gravity’s effect on Time and movement to be examined later.