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New Theories / Atmospheric pressure and its effect
« on: 01/05/2007 20:59:32 »
Ok. Fortified by agreeing on something…. and a glass of wine I would like to see if I can understand and find common ground on you atmospheric theory.
Weightlessness becomes a pointless term. It describes a situation about as well as happiness describes the physical state of your prefrontal cortex. We need a new term. Would low gravity environment (LGE) and ultra low gravity environment (ULGE) be acceptable. If your ship was stationary in deep space it would be in an ULGE. Everything would still have its own gravity but the values would be so low that any effects would be negligible. I agree if you have got mass you wont have zero G..just ultra low G. How does all that sound?
I am less convinced by your atmosphere/gravity argument but would this Earth based experiment help prove anything:-
Take a couple of bomb shaped cylindrical housings designed to drop nose cone first but not spin. In both the payload bays you have ½ kg aluminium blocks suspended just above the sealed nose cone. One of the bomb payload bays is a sealed vacuum (A), the other is open to atmosphere (B). The design of B is cunning so the block wont be effected by wind and induced air pressures as the bomb drops.
You release both bombs at 50,000 feet and simultaneously the
½ kg blocks inside are released.
If you are right I expect both bombs would accelerate at a uniform rate. In Bomb B the block would accelerate at the same rate but in bomb A the block would appear to float up inside the casing as the bomb accelerates. How does that sound?
Weightlessness becomes a pointless term. It describes a situation about as well as happiness describes the physical state of your prefrontal cortex. We need a new term. Would low gravity environment (LGE) and ultra low gravity environment (ULGE) be acceptable. If your ship was stationary in deep space it would be in an ULGE. Everything would still have its own gravity but the values would be so low that any effects would be negligible. I agree if you have got mass you wont have zero G..just ultra low G. How does all that sound?
I am less convinced by your atmosphere/gravity argument but would this Earth based experiment help prove anything:-
Take a couple of bomb shaped cylindrical housings designed to drop nose cone first but not spin. In both the payload bays you have ½ kg aluminium blocks suspended just above the sealed nose cone. One of the bomb payload bays is a sealed vacuum (A), the other is open to atmosphere (B). The design of B is cunning so the block wont be effected by wind and induced air pressures as the bomb drops.
You release both bombs at 50,000 feet and simultaneously the
½ kg blocks inside are released.
If you are right I expect both bombs would accelerate at a uniform rate. In Bomb B the block would accelerate at the same rate but in bomb A the block would appear to float up inside the casing as the bomb accelerates. How does that sound?