Re: Is Action fun ??(kst)


Ken S. Tucker wrote:
> ACTION....take 1
>
> Hey kids, do you want to have fun with relativity?
>
> {{yeah we do...yea!!}}
>
> Well ok then, Ken is in his secret laboratory with
> a big bag of marbles, all of which weigh the same,
> about 10 grams.
>
> Ken's bored so he's tossing a marble into a bucket
> everytime the clock ticks, 1 a second.
>
> His friend Fast Freddi happens to be passing Ken's
> lab at Fast Freddi speed, more than 86% speed of
> the speed of light.
>
> {{wow, yea for Fast Freddi}}
>
> Freddi tells Ken that Ken's tossing a marble every 2
> seconds, but they weigh 20 grams each.
> Well Ken and Freddi get in an arguement...:-(
>
> {{booo}}
>
> But then Ken and Freddi discover something called
> ACTION.
>
> They both agreed the
>
> (mass of the marble) x (the rate the marbles are tossed)
>
> is the same for both of them.
>
> {{yea!!!}}
>
> You see what happened was Ken was tossing a
> marble every second, but Fast Freddi saw that
> as a fat marble (a 20gm aget) tossed every 2 seconds.
>
> Both now know that ACTION is the same for both
> Ken and Fast Freddi, and everyone else.
>
> So everyone in the universe sees Ken tossing marbles
> into a bucket so that the
>
> (mass of the marbles) x (rate of marbles tossed)
>
> is the same for everyone in the universe!
>
> {{yea!!}}
>
> And that's called ACTION.
>
> ET phoned home and it's true there to...
>
> {{WOW}}...
>
> Would anyone like to see how that's done in relativity?
>
> {{No, I need to take a pee, Can I go home}}
>
> Sit down ET...you need to learn geometry,
> and General Relativity!
>
> Mr. Planck went to a lotta trouble to explain his
>
> h = 6.625 ergs * seconds = invariant ACTION units.
>
> He thinks the rate of the marbles x their mass going
> into the bucket Ken and Freddi see is the same for
> everybody, and called that Quantum Theory, just
> because Ken used a unit marble.
>
> Then some beatnik ahh, Einstein comes along
> and agrees with Mr. Planck, and Einstein gets a
> Nobel Prize for agreeing, so be agreeable.
>
> {{Yea! ... hmm}}
>
> Kids, wanna know how QT and GR work together?
>
> {{Yes, is tomorrow to soon?}}
>
> That's fine...
> Ken S. Tucker


OK, more about Action, by defintion,

Action = Work x Time.

or

Work = Action/Time.

Scenario: Ken & Lynne are unionized carpenters
who agree that every hammer hit on a 3" nail
drives it 1" into the standard spruce beam,
and further agree that only that hit will be
used by union rules, hit = h.

Ken works twice as hard as Lynne, he hits
twice for every one of Lynne's hits.

The big boss comes over and and noticed the
frequency of Ken's hits, is twice Lynne's and
decides to pay Ken at twice the rate of Lynne,
using the formula,

Work = hits per minute.

= hits x frequency.

Work being energy, the boss decides,

E = h*f == hit * frequency.

But the boss being a regular guy, with a stop
watch, decides at least two hits are needed
to establish the rate and frequency of hits.

Lynne hits at t=0 and then t=2.

Ken hits at t=0 and then t=1.

K(frequency) = 2*Lynne(f),

where a minimum of two hits are required
to establish frequency.

Regards
Ken S. Tucker

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