Re: Flaws wanted

From: FrediFizzx (fredifizzx_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/28/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 23:02:47 -0800

"RP" <no_mail_no_spam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3apgoeF6e3b84U1@individual.net...
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| OsherD wrote:
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| >>From Osher Doctorow
| >
| > I think that the original author of the thread asked to explain why
| > mass isn't a vector.
| >
| > Vectors in Euclidean geometry have directions in ordinary language.
| > For example, when you drive a car or walk in the street or on the
| > sidewalk, you go in a particular direction with a particular speed,
and
| > that defines a velocity vector v (written in boldface or with an
arrow
| > above it to indicate that it is a vector). Its magnitude is either
| > written /v/ or v in non-boldface print or without an arrow on top of
| > it. Since all vectors are parallel to vectors beginning at the
origin
| > (with tails at (0,0,0) in 3-dimensional Euclidean space), any vector
in
| > 3-dimensional Euclidean space can be represened as (x, y, z) which
is
| > the vector that starts at the origin (0, 0, 0) where the coordinate
| > axes meet and has its tip or arrowhead on the point (x, y, z) such
that
| > the perpendicular line segments from the point to the x-axis,
y-axis,
| > and z-axis respectively hit those axes at the points labelled x, y,
an
| > z.
| >
| > Nobody has found a direction for mass. Weight has a direction
| > (downward toward the Earth vertically roughly speaking) but weight
is a
| > force or pull of gravity near the Earth for example, and weight = mg
(m
| > times g) where m is mass and g is the acceleration due to gravity.
g
| > is constant near the surface of the Earth more or less.
Acceleration
| > is the change of velocity as time changes, and since velocity is a
| > vector and time isn't usually taken as a vector, acceleration is a
| > vector. Since mg already has g as a (relatively constant) vector,
mg
| > doesn't "need" a second "vector m" to have a direction.
| >
| > If you find a direction for mass, let me know. I have people who
will
| > pay top dollar for it. :>)
| >
| > Osher
|
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22transverse+mass%22&btnG=Google+Search

Heck, no wonder we haven't seen the direction. Dang stuff has been
going sideways on us. ;-)

FrediFizzx

http://www.vacuum-physics.com/QVC/quantum_vacuum_charge.pdf
or postscript
http://www.vacuum-physics.com/QVC/quantum_vacuum_charge.ps

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