Posted on 06/01/2015 12:19:56 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Hmmm...
-PJ
I only got as far as E=C2M.
-PJ
high school *teacher*
Now THAT is a great conspiracy theory!
Reptilian Aliens, Black Holes, Inadvertent Time Travel; that one has everything!
A simplified explanation of Planck’s constant:
Imagine that you are pouring water into a pan, and you discover that, rather than flowing as a continuous stream, the water was actually composed of droplets so small that they looked like a stream. No matter how fast or slowly you poured, the water always came out in droplets.
So you tried to pour out as little water as you could, to see if you could get a half of a droplet, or a quarter-droplet, etc. What you find is that tipping out the water, either none comes out, or a single droplet, or multiples of that single droplet. So it turns out that water has a minimum sized droplet that can be poured out. So we’d like to measure the size of that droplet, so that I can now describe the amount of water poured out in terms of the number of droplets.
Now, this is not true for water (unless we are talking water molecules themselves). But it IS true for energy. Energy can only be released or absorbed in “droplets” (known as “quanta”). And Planck’s constant helps describe the minimum size those “droplets” of energy can be.
Make sense?
Also, since gravitational force and motion-based acceleration are equivalent (can’t really tell one from the other), one would experience the same time-dilation, length-contraction and mass increase effects as one would while accelerating. In fact, GPS technology takes BOTH effects into account for its positioning calculations. ie, the effects of the high speed of the satellite PLUS the Earth’s gravitational effects on the GPS device on the ground. Since gravity is strongest nearer to the ground, the Earth-bound GPS device experiences stronger gravity-based effects (its clock would tick more slowly than the satellite’s), while the speedy satellite of course would experience greater motion-based effects (its clock would tick more slowly than the GPS device on the surface). Surprisingly, the net result is that the gravitational effect wins out over the effect due to the speedy motion of the satellite.
Are you confusing Planck’s Constant with The Plank Length?
Time may not exist on a chalkboard equation, but there’s a conspiracy against the calculation in my leg joints.
bttt
(from The Big Bang Theory)
No. The amount of energy contained in a photon (one of those “droplets” of energy) is always a multiple of Planck’s Constant.
This is why electrons have the orbitals they do in atoms. An electron can only absorb or emit energy in quanta (determined in part by Planck’s Constant), meaning that they can only jump from one orbital to another. This is what Einstein got his Nobel Prize for... his description of black-body radiation via quanta.
Thanks for the explanation. Are you in the field?
I have been a Physics teacher in the past... ;)
Yes, if Sheldon hasn’t come up with the answer...no one will.
Except maybe Leonard, who actually has a better grasp on those things.
right... Physics III was many moons ago.
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