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Calculating Distance Using Only Velocity

Question:

Is it possible to calculate the position of an object relative to two or three other objects, using only the velocity of the object relative to the other two or three?

One of the problems when looking at the velocity of an object in relation to another object is that we come at it from a ‘MiddleWorld‘ point of view. To us, velocity is the result of how far an object travels from or to another object multiplied by the time it takes. We think of the velocity of light like this too. We can see light travel from one MiddleWorld object to another so we think of the ‘velocity’ as being only an indicator which gives us information about the relationship between the objects. But what if we take another perspective. What if we lived in a universe where we thought of velocity as the ‘object’ and thought of ‘MiddleWorld objects’ as things you calculated?

Questions and Answers

I am getting this down because I need to. This is the beginnings of my writing. I have put it off for long enough. I began thinking about life and other things, I don’t know when. I suppose it was only seven or so years ago. Before that I think I just went through life or life went through me. Maybe I had the beginnings of it before then, but I can’t be sure. I never really applied myself to it until then. Now I can’t stop. My mind is constantly filled with notions, possibilities. A free flowing exchange of ideas, like a chemical reaction. Ideas of the way the world, the universe is, should be. I have my own ideas. I have been too lazy to really study the ideas of others. It seems easier to get together my own ideas then try to prove them later by taking what I want from those that have already been accepted by the public. I think that this has served me well up until now. Sometimes learning too much, I think, can stop one from thinking for themselves. This is why I think I have chosen now. I was just watching a documentary on Satre. I’ve heard his name and knew he was a philosopher. I had also heard of existentialism before but never really knew what it meant. That is why I am here. I think some if those ideas may tie in with my own. What is so amazing about these ideas? They are ones which have floated around my feeble brain for years. The idea that we are selfish beings. This is just one of my concepts. Yes mine. Maybe I am a philosopher. I need to write this down to find out if I really am. Whether my thoughts have any meaning. Are my thoughts worth anything to anyone else? Who knows. What a powerful thing they are to me. They drive me insane from day to day.

I was just called to duty. A duty that I love but just one of the many duties of existence which breaks the flow of my thoughts. The ones which I have trouble grasping, holding onto. My son is a driving force in my life. Why? That seems obvious and it is. The thing is I want to know what drives us to think the way we do. Why do we love? What drives me to even want to know. The mind, the world, the universe is so complex. It would be easier to let it just happen. Many do. Go through it without even a thought about why. The questions, the possibilities are the things which drive me insane. Insane in short bursts. The thing which drives me to habitually blurt out unfinished questions and affirmations then struggle to think about the subject, any subject which might flow from that inspiration. My mind is a trap. A trap from which there is no escape. I don’t want to. I want to live forever in the hope that one day I might understand……something. Not the sort of understanding that comes from hearing a recitation of how an internal combustion engine works. The sort of understanding that comes from knowing. Just knowing something. Intangible, but truly understanding something as fact without knowing the details. I think that this is the key for me. I want to know and I want to know it all. I don’t need wealth, although it would be nice. It would be nice because maybe it would allow me the time to get to understand why I am here. Whether we are just meaningless. I think I am going mad. Maybe writing all of this down will fend off the inevitable. I can see myself huddled in a corner with just tiny sparks of the meanings of everything flashing off constantly in my head. Everything in the universe passing through my thoughts at once and unable to hold onto any of it. Maybe this is something that I almost wish for myself sometimes. To know for a certainty even a tiny bit the way things are. To know that what I know is not the misunderstandings of someone else just spinning around and repeated in my imaginings, but the truth. That is what I am here for. The truth. That is what I want to know. Why? Not how. When, is a fact. Who, is a fact. How, can be known, even if difficult, but why? That is something that we could ask forever with no answer. To know for yourself is the only way. You cannot know by reading this or anything else but I think that that is what I want. Yes I think so. Ultimately. But I hope that understanding even a part of those other questions might help. Maybe they will just help me to understand what my question is. But I start here. Yes, here.

On The Iraq War

copied and pasted from my posts on PhysicsForums)

Ahhh, mmmmmm, errrrr. I have a hard time dealing with the hardcore, pro-war stance.

“A world court, world government or any international body restricting the activities of the USA in protecting its citizens and interests is a complete anathema to me.”

I don’t think that anyone believes otherwise. The debatable point is whether Iraq posed a direct threat to US citizens to protect against.

“In all matters, the USA will try to proceed in a manner agreeable to the 45 nations who supported us in the war.”

I know Australia’s one but the vast majority of the population of Oz wouldn’t agree. The US also has unilateral agreements with other nations which effectively exempt them from being accused of war crimes. Who is manipulating the UN and does the US really care if they do things which are agreeable? (I also marched in a 100,000 protest)

“The Palestinians must have a secure and economically viable homeland. Israel must help economically and be much less rigid in its policies. An economic partnership of Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon and Israel would be a wonderful thing.”

Agreed.

“N. Korea is not an immediate threat to the USA. It is an immediate threat to its neighbors, who must act in their own self-interest to avoid preemptive action by the USA.”

Huh???

“Iran, with some covert help from the USA, is likely to align itself with the USA once it achieves a totally secular government.”

What the…???

“Well Zero, I would like to agree with you. Other peoples, however, have interests in violent opposition to our interests. What course of action do we follow when peaceful means fail?”

I’m in shock and awe???

I don’t usually resort to this and I know that this is not an argument which holds much water, but you are obviously on drugs. Or maybe it’s me and your post is all just an hallucination. Seriously, wake up and smell the public opinion.

In answer to the original questions

Will the Iraqi people be free to decide the fate of their oil?

Of course not. The majority of oil will go to the US under rules set down by the US. After they put US contractors in, they will probably change the food for oil program into a oil for rebuilding program.

“Do they have the right to have it traded in EU Dollars after the ‘rebuild’?”

Seems like a fair question. Why anyone should think they they should trade in US dollars is beyond me. The US does not own the world, even though they might hold them to ransom

“Who should be the ones deciding?”

After the disaster of the war, that’s a difficult question to answer. Iraq will probably be split into a whole heap of political factions, but should free elections be held then it would be logical that the new Iraqi government do it.

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I was actually saying that saying he was on drugs wasn’t an argument, but the drug induced reference was based on the quotes I posted. Have a look at them again. You mustn’t have read them the first time. The comments range from extreme fantasy to completely missed irony.

I don’t agree with terrorism. It is a horrible thing. The US government is out and proud about it though under the guise of a war against it. It is a frustrating and all too real joke. If the US directed the money they are putting into this war into more helpful programs, maybe we wouldn’t have come to this. We could have won the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people long ago. Maybe they would have had the courage to overthrow the government themselves. At the risk of sounding melodramatic, the US is flexing it’s muscles to make the rest of the world terrified. What ever you do don’t cross the US decision makers. They are nuts. If I was a conspiricy theorist I would almost say that the US government is deliberately putting the US at risk in order to justify it’s gradual taking over of the rest of the world. But I’m not, so I won’t

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It’s very unlike me to resort to name calling. This situation unfortunately reduces me to a childlike state. I sit in complete wonderment at how this situation has arisen for any other reason than American financial interests.

I saw today that the coalition troops had found a store of chemicals. If the footage they showed was this store, it was basically a shed with 20 or so 44 gallon drums. The soldiers wore gas masks but not chemical suits. How bad could it actually be.

The WOMD are simply not there. Even if they were, it would seem that there is no way that the Iraqis could deliver them. The Al Samoud missiles that were destroyed before the beginning of the conflict had a range, from memory, 13kms beyond the maximum allowed under the UN charter.

I saw some footage this morning of Basra, where locals were cheering on the coalition troops. Thank god someone is happy.

I am no supporter of dictatorships. Especially tyrranical dictatorships, but that is not the reason this war has been waged. It has been waged because the US government is not interested in working with Islamic states to become self sustaining without having control over them, so they need to set up a base within the middle east. The fact that they are weak, that Saddam was not particularly liked by his neighbours, and that they have heaps of oil, is a huge bonus as well.

If American people want to believe that they are not complicit in an empire building project, or recognise it and think it’s a good idea, that is a sad thing. It is also of grave concern to anyone who actually values freedom.

Like I said before, don’t cross the US.

Socialism Seven

I don’t agree. Needs and wants are different I admit but somewhere in there lies the majority of things that, as far as material possessions and services go, I think you can fit most in. Like I said, some things you need to compromise on. We already supply and administer most of these things to an extent just the need stuff isn’t enough and the want stuff is owned by capitalists.

About the other bit. I’ve read the Tao Te Ching too. Like most things of philosophical/religious I find some stuff that is good and some stuff that is bad. The bible, the Koran, different buddhist texts, all suffer from the same affliction. This one I don’t agree with, unless it is meant to be sarcastic.

Here is another translation

Not praising the worthy prevents contention,
Not esteeming the valuable prevents theft,
Not displaying the beautiful prevents desire.

In this manner the sage governs people:
Emptying their minds,
Filling their bellies,
Weakening their ambitions,
And strengthening their bones.

If people lack knowledge and desire
Then they can not act;
If no action is taken
Harmony remains.

…just for interests sake.

It actually reminds me of a bit of a part in the Koran when one of Mohammeds desciples (is that the term??) says that their women are going off tap and mohammed says that they should go home and sort them out. Maybe if Mohammed hadn’t given women their rights, to not be treated like the slaves of men, to have the right of inheritance and start women thinking like they had any rights at all, there wouldn’t have been any problem in the first place. But he gave them something that was rightfully theirs and the women felt like they had some control. Mohammed probably, wasn’t trying to take back what he had given them, or say that it was OK to beat women. It could be interpreted that he wanted peace and the result of what he had done was unexpected. That’s how people work though. You can’t keep people in ignorance just so they don’t desire. You have to put all old texts in the context of the time. I’m an athiest, but if Mohammed was really the prophet of god and saw that some people had not progressed any further in creating peace and equality in the world, I’m sure he’d be pissed. I’m sure the same could probably be said of Lao Tse. Siddhartha Gautama, being a spoiled rich kid that abandoned his wife and child ’cause life got a bit too real and never lifted a finger for the rest of his life, I’m not so sure about.

This one’s probably applicable to the Anarchic topic

Let your community be small, with only a few people;
Keep tools in abundance, but do not depend upon them;

Appreciate your life and be content with your home;
Sail boats and ride horses, but don’t go too far;
Keep weapons and armour, but do not employ them;
Let everyone read and write,
Eat well and make beautiful things.

Live peacefully and delight in your own society;
Dwell within cock-crow of your neighbours,
But maintain your independence from them.

and this to the socialist

Honest people use no rhetoric;
Rhetoric is not honesty.
Enlightened people are not cultured;
Culture is not enlightenment.
Content people are not wealthy;
Wealth is not contentment.

So the sage does not serve himself;
The more he does for others, the more he is satisfied;
The more he gives, the more he receives.
Nature flourishes at the expense of no one;
So the sage benefits all men and contends with none.

Socialism One

(cut and pasted from my Physics forum posts)

To think that Anarchism can work in a large, condensed industrial society is naive to say the least. As has been said time and time again, people are just not like that. There are too many greedy people. I’m not talking really evil people, but people who can’t be bothered doing good for others or not getting that extra peice of the pie when they can. Communism hasn’t worked not just because of poor economic management but because the countries generally started out poor and had no goods nor the infrastructure to distribute goods and services. There are apparently parts of China that have no idea they are under communism to this day.

Marxism is a paranoid form of socialism. It implies a conspiracy on behalf of the rich against the poor. The reality is that your economic status or ethnicity has nothing to do with how much of a knob you are. Get 100 people from any demographic and I will guarantee that you will find the same amount of bad to good (no particular benchmark used).

I consider myself a socialist. I believe in state ownership of major industry. I also believe in democracy. Why democracy is always associated with capitalism is beyond me. We should be able to chose what it is we need and have the government supply it. At the same time, people need to realise that we all need to spend some time working in a job that we don’t particularly enjoy, for the greater good. The pay off is knowing that when I’m shovelling sh*t, my bills are getting payed, I have housing and healthcare, my kids have a good education etc. In a capitalist society your pay is scaled by the stuff you are shoveling. Shovelin’ sh*t, sh*t pay. I don’t necesarrily believe in entirely equal pay. Some jobs I think require a different level of stress or hard manual labour. Restricting hours of work might be ok to equalise wages in this case but some jobs require continuity. It’s not easy.

To answer the inital question. I would love to work on a project to develop a system which provides adequate goods and services to people, probably based on socialist concepts but with small scale capitalistic, highly taxed, enterprises to fill niche markets which are impracticle to cover with goverment industry and allow some creativity in employment. Capitalism works with the idea that everybody can be a millionaire. Clearly they can’t, but an ideal socialist system started in a resource, infrastructure rich country could possibly feed the consumerist society so they lived like millionaires, only everyone would have to work.

Noah Theorem

Introduction

I’m taking the time now to try to put down some of the ideas I have been thinking about for some time into some sort of order. The reality is that these ideas might, or to be more accurate, probably won’t amount to anything but, in the happy event that they do mean something I want to have some sort of record.

The following is a Manifesto of sorts. It describes my personal beliefs and gut feelings about the way the universe works. I must also say that as far as mathematics and the deeper intricacies of physics go, I’m a bit lacking. I love both but just haven’t had the education in either. I try to pick up what I can here and there but, although I would like to, I don’t have the time required to learn what I need. Maybe the years to come will offer me more. Because of this, I work with analogies which give a vague idea of the concepts without providing mathematical proofs. Where I can I’ll try to identify elements that I feel need to be included or might be connected from my fairly basic understanding. When it comes down to it though, I don’t pretend I have the slightest idea of what I’m talking about. This is all a bit of fun. A geeky game of fantasy. At the absolute worst, they may be some interesting sci-fi concepts. At best they might trigger an idea in the mind of someone who does have a clue. This is what I think reality is.

I originally started thinking about this stuff inspired by a dream. I had been trying to teach myself chemistry at the time and was just starting to get a grip on it. After the dream I started reading about cosmology which lead me onto theoretical physics. Because I had no mathematics background I started with Cosmos by Carl Sagan and got some other books that were expressed in lay term. I think Dancing Wu Li Masters was my greatest inspiration. It described all sorts of amazing things it terms I could sort of understand. One of the things that came up was an experiment, the results of which were described as ’spooky action at a distance’. From memory, the experiment basically resulted in two remote particles reacting instantaneously with each other. I finished the book and started to think about the different things that had come up. One of the first things I thought about was this spooky action. Another thing that had come up was anther experiment where a particle seemed to split into two identical particles. Something coming from nothing. My first conclusion, from these two experiments was that perhaps they were the same particle and that some force for an instant had made it appear in two places at once.

As time went on I started to learn bit by bit, more about the current ideas about particle wave duality and other elements of physics. My ignorance was matched by my enthusiasm if not by my ability to fully understand what all these things meant.

Just yesterday I started reading a book called Genius. It is a biography of Richard Feynman’s life and discoveries. I was all fairly standard stuff until, about 100 or so pages in I read something that nearly made me fall off of my chair. Some of the stuff I had come up with had already been considered by Feynman himself. Some was different but other bits were so similar it was, well…spooky. I had been searching for anything similar to my ideas for what was coming up to years. This was almost the same amount of time that I had had the book in my house. I have a two year old son and with work and him I had not had the time to read it thinking it was a pure life biography. It talked about things that he had considered but discarded so there was possibly no way that I would have ever found it had I not read this particular book. The weird thing is that I had just started to add some changes to my concepts that seemed to tighten them further but had some, well lots of gaps to fill. I think I now might be able to move things forward. I’m going to try to hunt down what I can and get some physics geeks through a friend to apply what seem to be some novel additions to the equations.

Here’s the story so far.

Matter as Waves

Matter as Waves

This is the first step in understanding the concepts that I believe underpin reality. The idea that matter or ‘particles’ have associated waves is not a new one. Quantum physics relies on wave/particle duality. When it was found that at certain frequencies, light ‘waves’ behaved like particles it didn’t take long for waves to be associated with other ‘true’ particles. I believe that our physical experience and scientific history has led us to the conclusion that traditional particles, however wavelike, are particles none the less. I think this is the flaw. It is my proposition that, fundamentally, ‘particles’ have wave properties that manifest in our universe as particles with a matter-like physical presence. These waves carry sub waves that manifest as light and other energy but fundamentally, the main wave carries information about the ‘particles’ location relative to other ‘particles’. Some of the sub waves interact and can also affect the main carrier, the ‘particle’ itself.

 Colocation of Matter

Colocation of ‘Matter’

This is really the next hinge point of my theory. The idea that matter waves are not actually separated but that the relative location of matter in ‘observable space’ is a result of an element of their wave functions. Ok, now here comes the first analogy. To set things up, try to forget dimensions for a moment rather, thinking about the concept as a whole, independent of dimensionality. Here we go.

Think of all of the radio stations that you can pick up in your local area. Here I have a hundred or so. If you want, include TV and private transmitters too and you’ll start to get into the thousands. Now think of your receiver. You can tune into any of these frequencies by turning the dial. Even though there are all of these frequencies occupying the same space, they are still entirely independent of each other. They are separated by frequency and amplitude.

This is the basic concept of matter collocation. I will say at this point that collocation might not be an ideal word to use. Perhaps ‘underlying connection’ would be more accurate but hopefully you get the gist. Basically, matter overlaps all other matter and the perception of distance is created by differences in an element of it’s wave function. Other sub waves can also influence the ‘positional wave’

 On Light