Re: attraction

Alexei Sharov (sharov@VT.EDU)
Tue, 24 Feb 1998 13:57:32 -0500

Henry Cohen wrote:
>Attraction is nothing else than non isomorph pressure occuring
>between two items when their fields interrelate
>
>-how do they both "know" they should go one towards other ?
> the space between the two is a perturbated pressure zone
>
>- where does energy come from ? =
>
>it comes not from the oil (item) but the from water (medium)
>
>If this is true, it would mean that gravity (a field) exists because
>a medium of energy, or else, is around the mass creating gravitation.
>In other terms, mass (an item) must be immerged in a
>medium (unknown) to generate gravity

May be my views are rather heretic but I would
say that there is no other reality besides what comes from our
models. There is no sense to argue where energy "really" is
comming from. Evereything: energy, time, and space is nothing more
than our models that we can use and share.

If we have 2 models, and one of them is more universal than the other
we stick a label of "reality" to it. As we know more and communicate
more, we expand the boundaries of our reality. We don't just inhabit
the reality, we build it.

Returning to the Henry's message, it looks like his explanation of
gravity is very similar (or identical) to the general relativity
model of Einstein. But I am not a specialist in this area, so correct
me if I am wrong.

-Alexei
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