Re: I just realized how little i know. If someone knows, could i get a little fact please?

From: Dirk Van de moortel (dirkvandemoortel_at_ThankS-NO-SperM.hotmail.com)
Date: 06/23/04 

Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:38:54 GMT

"Sintrinsic" <sin@dwwx.com> wrote in message news:8c0229af.0406230251.c47cb9e@posting.google.com...
> My education is roughly equivalent to that of a public high school
> freshman due to a few family complications around grade 10. I do, on
> the other hand, love anything involving nearly any science, and the
> fact that all my theories are based(i recently realized) on strings of
> possibly incorrect(surely uneducated) assumptions makes me doubt any
> knowledge i DO have. So if you edjakated folk wouldn't mind throwing a
> little fact my way, I'd appreciate it greatly.(please note: any
> incorrect terminology/understanding i throw out there is the result of
> my mind working without guidance for 20 years, and that i don't think
> myself a physicist or Einstein clone in any way.)
>
> 1.From what i understand of relativity, your increase in
> speed/energy/mass somehow effects your relationship with time. Why is
> that? Feel free to get as in-depth as you need to fully explain, but
> understand that i don't know sh--. Feel free to drop theory if the
> answer's not CLEARLY defined and proven, but be sure it's not
> displayed as fact.
>
> 2.I never fully knew the basis behind inertia/gravity/magnetics. An
> object will stay in motion, granted, but why(i remember reading
> something about zero point theory a couple years ago, but the article
> was sketchy at best.) Weather or not gravity and magnetics are based
> on the same concepts, i have no clue, but the public school system
> didn't answer my questions fully. Magnetics, especially, confuses me.
> Gravity i have some idea about, but what energy does magnetism base
> its attraction on, and what causes the field to occur?
>
> Sorry, but at 6am my brain starts to wind down, and i can't think of
> anything else i couldn't find out on my own. If you want to tear apart
> any of the theory skittering around in my head, feel free to ask in a
> post or msg me. AIM=sintrinsic YAHOO=intrinsicsound . I check emails
> less than a rap artist checks grammar, so there's no hope getting me
> there. Thanks, if you happen to know, and be willing to edify the
> underprivileged.

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Dirk Vdm