Re: A Hitchiker's Guide to FORCE.

In sci.physics.relativity, HW@....(Henri Wilson)
<HW@>
wrote
on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 23:30:03 GMT
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On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 22:18:27 -0800, The Ghost In The Machine
<ewill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In sci.physics.relativity, HW@....(Henri Wilson)
<HW@>
wrote
on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:59:42 GMT

Because of inertia, of course.

OK, that's a start.
I want to know more about this 'inertia'.

What makes mass hard to accelerate?

If we knew that, we might learn a lot more about what mass actually is..

As far as I can tell, mass is an agglomeration of stuff, mostly quarks
and leptons. Under normal densities the leptons -- electrons -- orbit
the quarks, which resolve themselves into protons and neutrons. Gluons
keep the protons and neutrons together. Mass distorts space, causing
gravity.

That's arguably the best I can do; did you have a different answer in
mind?

Yes.
You haven't explained what the above particles are made of.

We've not figured that out yet. Quarks are extremely
small. Electrons are almost as small. It will take a
very powerful accelerator indeed to figure out if there
are smaller bits in an up or down quark (the known prime
constituents in a proton or neutron), or an electron.

Unless you wanted to go with Improved Relativity
Theory/Model Mechanics, which postulates E-strings in
an S-matrix?


It doesn't have to strain. It has to pull.


It has to do both. The strain and the pull are intimately mixed.

Dig deeper, Ghost.

What's so special about mass that makes it difficult to move?
How can it exert a reactive force on whatever tries to move it?

Pauli Exclusion Principle, presumably.

Sorry I don't see the connection.

It's quite simple. Protons and electrons are fermions, and therefore
have half-spin. For various reasons two half-spin particles of the
same type cannot occupy the same state.

(I don't know regarding neutrons, but I believe they are fermions as
well.)


I'd have to look
to be sure but bonds, like springs, also have a "natural
length"; presumably this distance is a combination of
factors. (In QM the bond lengths are probably taken to
be a function of e, m_e, m_p, m_n, and Planck's Constant.)

Stop fantasising Ghost.


You are welcome to postulate a different explanation as you like.

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