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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: Mass as a distortion of space
« on: 27/12/2015 00:35:54 »
First I would like to thank all of you that have spent your time with my thought. It is truly humbling to know that there are people that are willing to entertain such questions.
Secont I think I may have to write a few more things to explain and further question my line of thought.
Let me start with the magnet example. As an electrician I was told the electromagnetic field extends in space even if there is no medium for it. So, even if there are no ferromagnetic particles, the field around the magnet exists and if it is disturbed by a ferromagnetic object, a force will appear to be applied to the object (attractive or repulsive) due to the existence of the field. Therefore the field must be present and propagated by something beyond the mass of the magnet. The only available explanation to me is that the empty space has some property(ies) that makes it conduct the electromagnetic field. In fact, since light is a form of electromagnetic energy and since it is propagated at the highest speed known to us, space would need to be in some way a 'conductor' of electromagnetism. This idea of conductivity I call "field". I may be ignorant but as I was told that light behaves both as matter and as wave and since I was also told that matter cannot travel at the speed of light, I take the liberty of assuming that light travels at c only as a wave. I do need to see the sea in order to imagine the wave. Is that wrong?
Now there seems to be yet another miscommunication. I never said that the field forms the matter. I said the distortion of the field establishes/concentrates/generates enough energy in one point in space for us to see it as mass. I happen to read and watch every popularised science article/video I can put my eyes on and I recently heard that in a way "Matter is Energy in high density". What type of matter we see is something I would leave for those that could prove a theory based on these thoughts but it would probably be connected to the type of the distortion of the field and other factors. In that I will add the curl of the distortion which is a vector and can maybe give more characteristics to the concentrated energy than I can think of.
One last thing for tonight, I have read about different forms of matter but in all those readings, I never once read about different forms of mass. I must admit I have developed an understanding that the two are not the same. Matter to me has mass but different types of matter do not have different types of mass since mass sounds like a scalar measure of one characteristic of Matter. I'm sorry if I have failed in my understanding and again I wish to thank you for even reading my thoughts.
Secont I think I may have to write a few more things to explain and further question my line of thought.
Let me start with the magnet example. As an electrician I was told the electromagnetic field extends in space even if there is no medium for it. So, even if there are no ferromagnetic particles, the field around the magnet exists and if it is disturbed by a ferromagnetic object, a force will appear to be applied to the object (attractive or repulsive) due to the existence of the field. Therefore the field must be present and propagated by something beyond the mass of the magnet. The only available explanation to me is that the empty space has some property(ies) that makes it conduct the electromagnetic field. In fact, since light is a form of electromagnetic energy and since it is propagated at the highest speed known to us, space would need to be in some way a 'conductor' of electromagnetism. This idea of conductivity I call "field". I may be ignorant but as I was told that light behaves both as matter and as wave and since I was also told that matter cannot travel at the speed of light, I take the liberty of assuming that light travels at c only as a wave. I do need to see the sea in order to imagine the wave. Is that wrong?
Now there seems to be yet another miscommunication. I never said that the field forms the matter. I said the distortion of the field establishes/concentrates/generates enough energy in one point in space for us to see it as mass. I happen to read and watch every popularised science article/video I can put my eyes on and I recently heard that in a way "Matter is Energy in high density". What type of matter we see is something I would leave for those that could prove a theory based on these thoughts but it would probably be connected to the type of the distortion of the field and other factors. In that I will add the curl of the distortion which is a vector and can maybe give more characteristics to the concentrated energy than I can think of.
One last thing for tonight, I have read about different forms of matter but in all those readings, I never once read about different forms of mass. I must admit I have developed an understanding that the two are not the same. Matter to me has mass but different types of matter do not have different types of mass since mass sounds like a scalar measure of one characteristic of Matter. I'm sorry if I have failed in my understanding and again I wish to thank you for even reading my thoughts.