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Title: How does one calculate the escape velocity starting at the center of a planet?
Post by: jeffreyH on 05/02/2014 10:05:05
I am looking for an equation that will always result in a value of 1 above a certain value. So if we have a range between 0-n, n will be the value above which the result will always be 1. Am I asking too much?
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: RD on 05/02/2014 10:41:18
A limit of a sequence could converge to 1 as n increases ...
e.g.   n sin(1/n)

Quote
n      n sin(1/n)
1       0.841471
2       0.958851
...
10      0.998334
...
100    0.999983
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limit_of_a_sequence

n=1000000 ,    n sin(1/n)=0.999999999999833

[ the formula uses sin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sine) in radians (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radians) not degrees ]
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: CliffordK on 05/02/2014 11:03:22
All of your limit equations approach 1, but never quite equal 1.  Is that what you want?

Did you say your equation has to equal anything other than 1?

Y = 1x

One could also have an equation like:

Y = 1 + |x| - x

If you want to shift the point where it becomes 1, then you just add in another factor:
Y = 1 + |x-n| - (x-n)

Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: jeffreyH on 05/02/2014 11:16:54
I don't think what I am asking is possible. At least not without horrendous mathematics. I have worked round the issue. The jpeg attached shows what I was doing. The tipping point is at the spherical surface. The figures used are rough estimates of values without spherical components. I am working on that part of the calculation. So don't take these as correct.
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: evan_au on 05/02/2014 11:17:20
Software notation gives us a very compact notation for describing a function like this.

Depending on the computer language, it could be as simple as "(n>N)", where:
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: jeffreyH on 05/02/2014 11:30:44
Internally this function bears a remarkable similarity to the atomic asymtotic freedom principle. The plateau effect nearing the surface is also interesting. If we take this as an analogy of the atom then electron orbitals would congregate around this plateau.
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: CliffordK on 05/02/2014 12:01:39
I think Evan is right, some kind of if-then-else statement would be easiest. 

My absolute value equation above will give you a nice linear progression that you could use, but it would just make all of your equations unnecessarily complicated.

As far as your escape velocity calculation, I think there is a problem. 
Say you start 1000 miles below the surface of the Earth.  The gravity at the starting point is less than at the surface, but to actually escape from the planet, one has to travel up the hole to the surface, and continue through the atmosphere and into space.  Thus, starting at the bottom of the hole, the escape velocity must be greater than it would be starting at the surface.
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: jeffreyH on 05/02/2014 12:26:46
I think Evan is right, some kind of if-then-else statement would be easiest. 

My absolute value equation above will give you a nice linear progression that you could use, but it would just make all of your equations unnecessarily complicated.

As far as your escape velocity calculation, I think there is a problem. 
Say you start 1000 miles below the surface of the Earth.  The gravity at the starting point is less than at the surface, but to actually escape from the planet, one has to travel up the hole to the surface, and continue through the atmosphere and into space.  Thus, starting at the bottom of the hole, the escape velocity must be greater than it would be starting at the surface.

If gravity cancels at the centre then movement upwards is easiest surely and increases in an exponential manner from there. You have to take into account the partial gravitational cancellations all the way up to the surface. This is still a work in progress and once I have the proper spherical terms the profile may look rather different so any conclusions will have to wait. I have no idea how to test this but if true it would show that gravitation has the same properties as some of the atomic mechanisms. Of course I may also be talking rubbish.
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: jeffreyH on 05/02/2014 12:38:30
Take point P0 to be at the centre of gravitation. Take point P1 to be n diatance from Po. As long as n < r then it should get harder to move from P0 the nearer we get to distance n. If n > r then this situation is revered and assumes an inverse square formula. So to get to P1 from P0 will be easier and require less energy than moving from P1 to Pn. Again Pn must reside at a distance less than r from the centre.
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: jeffreyH on 05/02/2014 12:42:47
I think Evan is right, some kind of if-then-else statement would be easiest. 

My absolute value equation above will give you a nice linear progression that you could use, but it would just make all of your equations unnecessarily complicated.

As far as your escape velocity calculation, I think there is a problem. 
Say you start 1000 miles below the surface of the Earth.  The gravity at the starting point is less than at the surface, but to actually escape from the planet, one has to travel up the hole to the surface, and continue through the atmosphere and into space.  Thus, starting at the bottom of the hole, the escape velocity must be greater than it would be starting at the surface.

Sorry I see your point. This is an escape velocity gradient. This is not saying that if you start at point P within the mass there will be a constant escape velocity. Internally this is an increasing vector function requiring more input of energy the further out one travels. This makes it HARDER to escape from an internal gravity well and not easier.
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: jeffreyH on 05/02/2014 12:54:14
Just out of interest the function I have worked out as 1 - f(n) where n approaches zero.
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: JP on 05/02/2014 13:55:25
The function you're looking for is the Heaviside step function H(x).  Or to get the effect you want, 1-H(x).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaviside_step_function
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: jeffreyH on 05/02/2014 16:33:27
The function you're looking for is the Heaviside step function H(x).  Or to get the effect you want, 1-H(x).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaviside_step_function

I may yet need this so thanks for the link.
Title: The similarities between a model of gravity and the atom
Post by: jeffreyH on 05/02/2014 18:53:55
I will be posting some results here in advance of posting a paper to a uk.arxiv.org.
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: RD on 05/02/2014 19:46:59
Snap ?

(https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenakedscientists.com%2Fforum%2Findex.php%3Faction%3Ddlattach%3Btopic%3D50254.0%3Battach%3D18456%3Bimage&hash=77ae57461797f134d0a3c6ad731b9693)

(https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2F5%2F50%2FEarthGravityPREM.svg&hash=819e98d66ce97de5d4533b0262610941)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_of_Earth#Depth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_of_Earth#Depth)
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: jeffreyH on 05/02/2014 21:07:54
Snap ?

(https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenakedscientists.com%2Fforum%2Findex.php%3Faction%3Ddlattach%3Btopic%3D50254.0%3Battach%3D18456%3Bimage&hash=77ae57461797f134d0a3c6ad731b9693)

(https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2F5%2F50%2FEarthGravityPREM.svg&hash=819e98d66ce97de5d4533b0262610941)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_of_Earth#Depth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_of_Earth#Depth)

The plateau profile is more rounded on the wiki graph as I haven't added the spherical geometry calculations to mine. As the wiki graph relates to density then my original assertion that mass-energy density affects gravitational feedback must have some credence.
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: JP on 06/02/2014 00:07:37
What do you mean by gravitational feedback?  The effects due to nonlinearity of Einstein's field equations is going to be negligible (and is ignored in these graphs).
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: jeffreyH on 06/02/2014 00:36:49
What do you mean by gravitational feedback?  The effects due to nonlinearity of Einstein's field equations is going to be negligible (and is ignored in these graphs).

I am not saying they are not negligible.
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: jeffreyH on 06/02/2014 00:38:12
A new graph but with the spherical geometry. This plot doesn't start from the centre of gravity. It is off centre so I need to correct that. Very unhelpfully Excel seems to continue the line.
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: JP on 06/02/2014 01:09:53
What do you mean by gravitational feedback?  The effects due to nonlinearity of Einstein's field equations is going to be negligible (and is ignored in these graphs).

I am not saying they are not negligible.

Ah, but they are.  Unless you're planning on replacing general relativity with your own theory.
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: jeffreyH on 06/02/2014 02:25:13
What do you mean by gravitational feedback?  The effects due to nonlinearity of Einstein's field equations is going to be negligible (and is ignored in these graphs).

I am not saying they are not negligible.

Ah, but they are.  Unless you're planning on replacing general relativity with your own theory.

Now that would be silly.
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: JP on 06/02/2014 02:34:17
What do you mean by gravitational feedback?  The effects due to nonlinearity of Einstein's field equations is going to be negligible (and is ignored in these graphs).

I am not saying they are not negligible.

Ah, but they are.  Unless you're planning on replacing general relativity with your own theory.

Now that would be silly.

Indeed, and it would belong in the New Theories section of the forum.  :)
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: jeffreyH on 06/02/2014 12:31:06
I have just saved a PDF of the PREM results. I am going to look at the core data to see what conclusions were reached. I did notice they mentioned one unexpected result. It would be better if my calculations were able to follow the PREM results. Oh Joy more fun mathematics.
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: jeffreyH on 06/02/2014 17:16:19
There was an error in the other plots. I picked up the wrong value for the Gravitational Constant. OOPS! So here is a new plot. I have zoomed in to investigate nearer the centre of gravity but that is not shown in this plot as the number of errors due to rounding made the data questionable. The pink line on the attached plot shows the point where we reach the spherical surface. Here it translates to the usual inverse square relationship. There is a sharp drop in Ve towards the centre. My hunch is this will coincide with the Schwarzschild radius. I still have to find a method to confirm this. If I find a match with rs then this should validate the model.
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: jeffreyH on 06/02/2014 17:35:36
This is a first attempt at a zoom with less uncertainty. The x axis shows metres from the centre of gravity.
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: jeffreyH on 06/02/2014 18:23:14
Now these calculations are either right or wrong. If wrong then it's back to the drawing board. If right then the striking thing is the Schwarzschild radius is invariant and always resides at the same point within a mass. If the Ve figures are right then the internal escape velocity at the central well is not c for an uncompressed mass. It can be seen from this that mass compression would have to have an amplifying effect on the gravitational field in order for this value of Ve to increase to c at the appropriate limit. For the Planck mass the radius is 2 Planck lengths. This puts the ultimate Schwarzschild radius within the elementary particles themselves. This is akin to quark confinement.
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: jeffreyH on 06/02/2014 18:44:18
Woo Hoo and there is the Earth's Scwarzschild gravity well.
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: jeffreyH on 06/02/2014 19:01:31
This also means that it is an exponential energy input function that traps objects in the black hole. You need an exponentially increasing amount of energy to make progress outward from any point past the horizon.
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: CliffordK on 06/02/2014 20:45:20
If you have the acceleration function, then the "escape velocity" (ignoring wind resistance) should be simply an integral.

A(x) = acceleration due to gravity at distance X from the center of the Earth.

aedd69d5cdec402976ff0c7cc9d35389.gif  for a starting point d from the center of the earth.

If you have two distinct equations, then you can simply add them together.

6cdc3811441e57805f59e50603c52d0f.gif  +  5b9f68bf78667c685f2ae638f7f0dec4.gif 

Are you using some kind of a numerical approximation of the area below the curve?

I'm not sure about the magnitude, but the shape of your curves are looking a bit more like what I would expect.
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: JP on 06/02/2014 21:47:11
Woo Hoo and there is the Earth's Scwarzschild gravity well.

It's great that you've gotten excel plots, but what exactly are you plotting?  How did you calculate this?  What equations did you use?
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: jeffreyH on 06/02/2014 21:50:49
I won't be discussing it in the open but I will send you a copy of the paper when it's done. I also have to investigate time dilation the same way and that should be testable. At that point the model can be verified or falsified easily. I also need to take back something I said in an earlier post on this forum. I said I believed Karl Schwarzschild made a mistake in his radius calculation. I did him a disservice. He was spot on. I now can even believe in the possibility of a singularity. Unless of course I can disprove it. Now that I am above the radar I might be posting a bit less frequently.
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: JP on 06/02/2014 21:52:45
Ok, Jeffrey.  But if you're going to be publishing plots of your own calculations without telling us what you're doing, could you please keep it to the New Theories section?  This part of the forum is for open discussion of the science behind "mainstream" ideas in physics, such as Einstein's field equations or Newtonian gravity.
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: jeffreyH on 07/02/2014 05:22:14
Ok, Jeffrey.  But if you're going to be publishing plots of your own calculations without telling us what you're doing, could you please keep it to the New Theories section?  This part of the forum is for open discussion of the science behind "mainstream" ideas in physics, such as Einstein's field equations or Newtonian gravity.

OK then I'll post them. I suppose here is as good as anywhere. We want to find Ve both internally and externally to a mass. So first we have Ve = f(M)/r. At the surface and beyond f(M) will simply return M as we have no internal gravitational cancellations to take into account. Internally we have f(M) = M*s/v where s/v will give us our effective mass once we have cancelled equivalent opposing field strengths. v is the total mass volume so s = (v-vs)/v. vs is our cancelled mass.    First we get the volume behind the direction of travel = v0 = (pi/6)h(3c^2+h^2).
c = SQRT(h(2r - h)). vs then equals v - 2(v - v0). I can post the spreadsheet somewhere for any interested parties. This gives the earth's Schwarzschild gravity well at just under 1 cm which agrees with the rs calculation. This shows the internal gravitation for a non compressed mass to follow a logistical curve rather than exponential. The curve will then go exponential when the rs compression limit is reached.

The values for h and c can be found at this page.

http://keisan.casio.com/exec/system/1223382199
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: jeffreyH on 07/02/2014 06:47:39
I've just done a time dilation calculation for the earth and for 99.99 % of the radius from the surface to the core there is less than 1 microsecond's worth of time dilation. Not easily testable which is disappointing. This is why planets never ignite as stars do.

Correction there are 8 microseconds difference.
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: evan_au on 07/02/2014 08:10:30
The latter graph seems to show the escape velocity decreasing when you reach 10m from the center of the Earth.

Assuming a spherically symmetric Earth, the gravitational force would be the attraction of a 10m radius sphere (possibly with a significant content of gold, osmium or other dense materials). You would be effectively weightless (if you weren't instantly crushed by thousands of kilometers of iron and rock).

This 10m radius sphere does not have enough density to form a black hole.

I think the graphed reduction of escape velocity near the center of the Earth is not [edit] a real effect - I think it might be some sort of underflow error.
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: jeffreyH on 07/02/2014 08:40:08
The latter graph seems to show the escape velocity decreasing when you reach 10m from the center of the Earth.

Assuming a spherically symmetric Earth, the gravitational force would be the attraction of a 10m radius sphere (possibly with a significant content of gold, osmium or other dense materials). You would be effectively weightless (if you weren't instantly crushed by thousands of kilometers of iron and rock).

This 10m radius sphere does not have enough density to form a black hole.

I think the graphed reduction of escape velocity near the center of the Earth is a real effect - I think it might be some sort of underflow error.

Hi Evan This is a gradient equation. What it says is at any point P you can find the velocity needed to escape the gravitational field. It shouldn't be viewed as a representation of a 10m mass. This is 10m from the centre of the earth. The well at the centre is not an error and matches the event horizon if and only if the mass of the earth were concentrated at that point which it isn't in this equation. This iss a view zoomed in to the core. The mass is at normal density.
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: jeffreyH on 07/02/2014 18:38:20
I am going to modify the model to use the sun's mass and radius. I want to see if the Scwarzschild radius matches for that. If so I think I can be confident that the model is actually showing a gravity well at the centre and not a mathematical error. Can I attach zip files here? I want to post a couple of Excel spreadsheets. Otherwise I'll post them on a website.
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: jeffreyH on 07/02/2014 18:43:49
Can someone help with a time dilation equation with respect to escape velocity. I have thought since t = 1/SQRT(c^2/c^2) would be 1 second then 1/SQRT((c-Ve)^2/C^2) should then give me the dilation for a particular point within a mass. Or would it be g rather than Ve?
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: jeffreyH on 07/02/2014 19:05:37
The central well looks like an artifact rather than real data. For the sun the Ve at the core is given as 756708 m/s. Where on earth can I check this value??
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: jeffreyH on 07/02/2014 19:48:05
I have just modified the model to plot g down to the core and it is very interesting. The value of g at the earth's surface is 9.819297 so I know it works there but take a look at what happens internally. The image of the Excel plot is attached. This in combination with escape velocity would explain a lot.
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: jeffreyH on 07/02/2014 20:04:38
Notice that the g force at the centre of gravity is equivalent to escape velocity at the surface. Maybe I am doing something bizarrely wrong. At this point I just don't know.
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: alancalverd on 07/02/2014 21:39:43
Escape speed  at a distance r from the center of mass of a sphere is

se= sqrt (2gr)

where g is the gravitational acceleration at r. At the center of a sphere both g and r are zero, and increase smoothly (if the sphere is homogeneous) to the surface. For the nonhomogeneities of the earth, see the plot of g versus r given in the Wikipedia reference, which takes account of the depth/density profile of the planet.   
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: jeffreyH on 07/02/2014 22:48:48
Escape speed  at a distance r from the center of mass of a sphere is

se= sqrt (2gr)

where g is the gravitational acceleration at r. At the center of a sphere both g and r are zero, and increase smoothly (if the sphere is homogeneous) to the surface. For the nonhomogeneities of the earth, see the plot of g versus r given in the Wikipedia reference, which takes account of the depth/density profile of the planet.   

Have you a link for the wikipedia reference. I can't find it?
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: CliffordK on 07/02/2014 22:54:46
RD posted a couple of models for the internal gravity of the Earth (http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=50254.msg430176#msg430176).  The gravity should go to zero at the middle of the body.

Were you looking at theoretical singularities with all the mass concentrated at a single point?  That is a completely different beast than a planet with the mass surrounding a person as one bores towards the center.

Your escape velocity should always increase as you move towards the center of the body.  I.E.  no jagged lines as you have on some of your graphs. 

I threw this chart together last night. 
Acceleration Due to Gravity.
I drew a linear line from the center of Earth to the surface, which I believe is indicative of a constant density of Earth.  Current theories indicate an iron core, and greater density in the center of Earth, but for the purposes of my estimate, this was good enough.

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Equations:  (d is the distance to the center of Earth).
From center to surface:
Acceleration due to gravity is:  9.8*d/(6371 km)

From the surface into space,
Acceleration due to gravity is:

2729ff81ad1aa07236f4885e14eef1ef.gif

I'll try to convert my "acceleration" to a "velocity" soon.
Title: Re: An impossible equation?
Post by: jeffreyH on 07/02/2014 23:09:41
RD posted a couple of models for the internal gravity of the Earth (http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=50254.msg430176#msg430176).  The gravity should go to zero at the middle of the body.

Were you looking at theoretical singularities with all the mass concentrated at a single point?  That is a completely different beast than a planet with the mass surrounding a person as one bores towards the center.

Your escape velocity should always increase as you move towards the center of the body.  I.E.  no jagged lines as you have on some of your graphs. 

I threw this chart together last night. 
Acceleration Due to Gravity.
I drew a linear line from the center of Earth to the surface, which I believe is indicative of a constant density of Earth.  Current theories indicate an iron core, and greater density in the center of Earth, but for the purposes of my estimate, this was good enough.

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Equations:  (d is the distance to the center of Earth).
From center to surface:
Acceleration due to gravity is:  9.8*d/(6371 km)

From the surface into space,
Acceleration due to gravity is:

2729ff81ad1aa07236f4885e14eef1ef.gif

I'll try to convert my "acceleration" to a "velocity" soon.

I appreciate that. My view is that gravitational cancellation is a gradient. If it all cancels out at the centre then this cancellation should decrease going outward but it is not a straight line. It can't be. The straight line approach makes no sense when the external field is inverse square. The cancellation must describe a curve with a particular functional description.

Moreover I believe that the current view of internal forces is inadequate. The only way to say which position is true is via experimentation. This is a thorny problem.
Title: Re: How does one calculate the escape velocity starting at the center of a planet?
Post by: CliffordK on 07/02/2014 23:44:34
Technically you can divide your sphere into cubes, and calculate the acceleration due to gravity to each sub-cube, or perhaps one could do it with concentric rings or shells. 

According to RD's Notes (http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=50254.msg430176#msg430176), the linear line represents the acceleration due to gravity if the planet or body has a constant density.

Anyway, it should be good enough for a crude estimate.  Otherwise one would need well defined acceleration or density functions.
Title: Re: How does one calculate the escape velocity starting at the center of a planet?
Post by: jeffreyH on 07/02/2014 23:54:00
Technically you can divide your sphere into cubes, and calculate the acceleration due to gravity to each sub-cube, or perhaps one could do it with concentric rings or shells. 

According to RD's Notes (http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=50254.msg430176#msg430176), the linear line represents the acceleration due to gravity if the planet or body has a constant density.

Anyway, it should be good enough for a crude estimate.  Otherwise one would need well defined acceleration or density functions.

I'm just thinking how many times in physics things have been counter-intuitive. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, general relativity etc. I think g will increase with depth and fall sharply at the very core. I know this runs counter to common sense but this is exactly the point. An experiment to determine g in a deep mine shaft would resolve the issue. If it decreases linearly then my position is wrong. If it increases, however, we have a whole new view of gravity that may aid in a quantum theory of gravitation. Isn't that worth determining. I was as surprised as anyone when the figures went the wrong way but it makes sense when you think about partial field cancellations.
Title: Re: How does one calculate the escape velocity starting at the center of a planet?
Post by: jeffreyH on 08/02/2014 00:16:29
Now this is interesting.

http://davidpratt.info/gravity.htm
" In 1981 a paper was published showing that measurements of G in deep mines, boreholes, and under the sea gave values about 1% higher than that currently accepted.4 Furthermore, the deeper the experiment, the greater the discrepancy. However, no one took much notice of these results until 1986, when E. Fischbach and his colleagues reanalyzed the data from a series of experiments by Eötvös in the 1920s, which were supposed to have shown that gravitational acceleration is independent of the mass or composition of the attracted body. Fischbach et al. found that there was a consistent anomaly hidden in the data that had been dismissed as random error. On the basis of these laboratory results and the observations from mines, they announced that they had found evidence of a short-range, composition-dependent ‘fifth force’. Their paper caused a great deal of controversy and generated a flurry of experimental activity in physics laboratories around the world.5"

Now does this 1% increase agree with my model? That is the interesting question.

"As mentioned above, measurements of gravity below the earth’s surface are consistently higher than predicted on the basis of Newton’s theory.13 Sceptics simply assume that hidden rocks of unusually high density must be present. However, measurements in mines where densities are very well known have given the same anomalous results, as have measurements to a depth of 1673 metres in a homogenous ice sheet in Greenland, well above the underlying rock. Harold Aspden points out that in some of these experiments Faraday cage-type enclosures are placed around the two metal spheres for electrical screening purposes. He argues that this could result in electric charge being induced and held on the spheres, which in turn could induce ‘vacuum’ (or rather ether) spin, producing an influx of ether energy that is shed as excess heat, resulting in errors of 1 or 2% in measurements of G.14"
Title: Re: How does one calculate the escape velocity starting at the center of a planet?
Post by: JP on 08/02/2014 00:59:43
Jeffrey, while I appreciate that you're discussing gravity and making calculations using your model, we have a strict policy here that we don't allow new models to be proposed and discussed outside of the New Theories sub-forum.  A major reason for this is that this is mostly a science Q&A board and users who come here seeking answers (without any scientific background) will find the forum very confusing if new theories are mingled in with accepted theories. 

I'd like to ask that you keep this thread to asking questions about Newtonian gravity, general relativity and perhaps some questions about peer-reviewed theories of quantum gravity.  Please keep posts discussing your own models and their results to a thread in the New Theories section.

Thanks!
Title: Re: How does one calculate the escape velocity starting at the center of a planet?
Post by: jeffreyH on 08/02/2014 01:14:38
Jeffrey, while I appreciate that you're discussing gravity and making calculations using your model, we have a strict policy here that we don't allow new models to be proposed and discussed outside of the New Theories sub-forum.  A major reason for this is that this is mostly a science Q&A board and users who come here seeking answers (without any scientific background) will find the forum very confusing if new theories are mingled in with accepted theories. 

I'd like to ask that you keep this thread to asking questions about Newtonian gravity, general relativity and perhaps some questions about peer-reviewed theories of quantum gravity.  Please keep posts discussing your own models and their results to a thread in the New Theories section.

Thanks!

Is it possible for this thread to be moved into new theories?
Title: Re: How does one calculate the escape velocity starting at the center of a planet?
Post by: jeffreyH on 08/02/2014 01:17:33
BTW I am looking for a better site for evidence of g underground. That one was pseudoscience at its worst.
Title: Re: How does one calculate the escape velocity starting at the center of a planet?
Post by: jeffreyH on 08/02/2014 01:41:43
Before this thread is transferred or I move posts into new theories I have this:

http://earthdynamics.org/papers-ED/2010/2010-Steinberger-etal-Icarus.pdf

This discusses investigations of gravity anomalies with respect to density variations so is not new theory material but I will be looking into this further.
Title: Re: How does one calculate the escape velocity starting at the center of a planet?
Post by: alancalverd on 08/02/2014 02:30:25
Have you a link for the wikipedia reference. I can't find it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_velocity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_velocity)

The equation I quoted is about 2/3 of the way down the article
Title: Re: How does one calculate the escape velocity starting at the center of a planet?
Post by: jeffreyH on 08/02/2014 03:17:44
Have you a link for the wikipedia reference. I can't find it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_velocity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_velocity)

The equation I quoted is about 2/3 of the way down the article

I'd already sorted the Ve calculations I was more interested in a plot of Ve from the centre of gravity. I am transferring posts on this subject to here if anyone is interested in carrying on the debate.

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=50260.0
Title: Re: The similarities between a model of gravity and the atom
Post by: jeffreyH on 08/02/2014 03:25:39
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If we consider a spherical mass as being made up of a gradient of internal spheres going down to the core we can treat each one as a separate gravitational source working out from the centre. At the very centre all gravitation cancels. At any point P out from the radius we will have a sphere at which P will be coincident with a spherical surface. We could treat our source of gravitation as being concentrated within each of these spheres as we move outwards and calculate Ve using this method. I will show the problems with this approach over the following posts.
Title: Re: The similarities between a model of gravity and the atom
Post by: jeffreyH on 08/02/2014 03:34:51
The image below as posted previously by Cliffordk shows the first problem with the internal spheres method. These images firstly only take into consideration the gravitation radiating outwards. Gravitation radiates in all directions even internally. This multi-directional radiation needs to be taken into account when considering gravitational cancellation.
Title: Re: How does one calculate the escape velocity starting at the center of a planet?
Post by: CliffordK on 08/02/2014 03:47:28
I went ahead and moved this discussion to New Theories.
Your new topic appears to be related to atoms and not planets, so I didn't merge the two topics.

As RD had mentioned quite a while ago, if the core is denser than the crust, then the acceleration due to gravity does increase slightly as one descends through the crust, or deeper into the ocean.  We currently do not have any technology that would allow drilling into the mantle, or core of the planet. 

See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_of_Earth#Depth
Title: Re: How does one calculate the escape velocity starting at the center of a planet?
Post by: jeffreyH on 08/02/2014 07:01:16
I went ahead and moved this discussion to New Theories.
Your new topic appears to be related to atoms and not planets, so I didn't merge the two topics.

As RD had mentioned quite a while ago, if the core is denser than the crust, then the acceleration due to gravity does increase slightly as one descends through the crust, or deeper into the ocean.  We currently do not have any technology that would allow drilling into the mantle, or core of the planet. 

See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_of_Earth#Depth

Sorry forget the other thread and we'll stick with this one. Well there must be another way other than drilling down that far. If I'm wrong then I'd rather know that sooner than later.

I'm not sure I agree with the method of gravitational cancellation used in the wikipedia entry. I'll have to put together an illustration of exactly what I mean by that. I can see how it makes sense with the internal spheres idea but I think it is slightly different than that.
Title: Re: How does one calculate the escape velocity starting at the center of a planet?
Post by: alancalverd on 08/02/2014 09:33:36

I'd already sorted the Ve calculations I was more interested in a plot of Ve from the centre of gravity.

Just take the square root of the g/r plot. The PREM graph (see reply #14) is probably the best estimate for this planet. The shell integrals and presumed densities are all pretty much as I recall from undergraduate days.
Title: Re: How does one calculate the escape velocity starting at the center of a planet?
Post by: jeffreyH on 08/02/2014 18:23:24
Let's go back a bit. Schwarzschild radius rs=2Gm/c^2. This is what initially puzzled me. Where did the 2 come from. From Jim Baggott's book "Gravity" I got the answer. Look at Clifford's cubes example. Contributions criss-cross everywhere not only outwards from the centre. This gives a contribution of the form 1 + 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16. the limit of this sequence, or the more complex exact sequence, has a limit towards 2. This gives our multiplier of 2. While gravity kernels will upset this uniformity I am ignoring them in my model as they can be added later and will only complicate the model. As this derivation results in a uniform internal field distribution we can treat it as smooth and continuous. Any shell theorem will thus fail to describe the effects.

As an additional note before I finish this post. I will set out the method of proof in later posts.
Title: Re: How does one calculate the escape velocity starting at the center of a planet?
Post by: jeffreyH on 08/02/2014 21:57:20
I have an adjustment that needs to be made to the model which I hadn't taken into account. I need a distance function to be applied after the cancellation function. This should still describe a curve but should describe a smooth trend towards zero g at the centre. It is something I should have taken into account but hey this is a new theory so it is a work in progress. Once this is completed it should make more sense.
Title: Re: How does one calculate the escape velocity starting at the center of a planet?
Post by: jeffreyH on 08/02/2014 22:19:43
Houston we have a problem (minor issue). At the surface the plot doesn't match so I have to address this. There was a distance adjustment issue which I should have spotted. This now better resembles RDs data from PREM.
Title: Re: How does one calculate the escape velocity starting at the center of a planet?
Post by: jeffreyH on 08/02/2014 22:56:30
I have graphed the data for the earth compressed to a radius of just over 6 metres.
Title: Re: How does one calculate the escape velocity starting at the center of a planet?
Post by: jeffreyH on 09/02/2014 00:48:21
I will be updating this post to explain the diagrams below. The first things of note are the spherical domes described by s and c in figure 2. These are important aspects of the model. They visually describe gravitational cancellation methodology.

In figure 1 we see the situation where our mass is at the centre of gravity where all forces cancel. The vector direction of travel is shown by V. The mass marked as s as can be thought of as subtractive as its gravitation is in the direction of travel and can be cancelled by f = a - s. In figure 2 our mass is moving towards the surface and s, still needing to be cancelled, no longer equals a. We now need to cancel the equivalent force. Inverting this spherical dome gives c, where all mass distances are equivalent and so all forces equalize. Cancelling this way gives us a new portion of the mass at a. a now contains the only mass that can be considered as acting against the momentum of our moving mass. However a can now be thought of as having a different centre of gravity to be used in our Ve calculation. If this is not adjusted correctly then the plot of internal gravitation will not meet with the inverse square plot at the surface. The line L is the demarcation of the sum of positive gravitational vectors in s and negative gravitational vectors in a. Figure 3 shows that L is coincident with the spherical surface indicating that no cancellations exist as s is now equivalent with free space.
Title: Re: How does one calculate the escape velocity starting at the center of a planet?
Post by: jeffreyH on 09/02/2014 14:31:04
I now need to determine a calculus function to use in the adjustment to the original centre of gravity. This may take a while. I will also have to adjust for mass distances and volumes for force distribution. This final plot will differ from those illustrated so far. I am hoping this final version of the model can be modified to introduce gravity kernels so that the PREM data can be reproduced.
Title: Re: How does one calculate the escape velocity starting at the center of a planet?
Post by: jeffreyH on 09/02/2014 18:19:09
Here is an example of the problem from another viewpoint. See the attached figure of a hoop-shaped mass with lobes. For vector V0 the gravitational forces from both lobes are the same magnitude and in the same direction. In the case on V1 the two lobes oppose each other in an inverse square relationship. Due to the vector direction the force exerted by the right lobe will decrease with respect to distance travelled along V1. For the right lobe these forces will increase. At a stationary point at the centre of gravity all forces cancel.
Title: Re: How does one calculate the escape velocity starting at the center of a planet?
Post by: jeffreyH on 09/02/2014 22:14:38
The figure below shows the partial shells that need to be analyzed to obtain the overall gravitational strength at each distance from the mass moving along vector V. The sphere s1 can be considered to be in free space as all gravitation has been mathematically cancelled in this region. The sphere s2 touches the centre point of the spherical dome removed via cancellation and can also be considered to be in free space. These can be ignored. All outer spheres from this point up to a coincidence with the outer surface of the whole mass contain the portions of the mass to be considered as gravitation contributors. All shells have their centres coincident with the centre of the mass at vector V.
The calculation of a modified centre of gravity and the gravitational strength contributions are non-trivial functions.
Title: Re: How does one calculate the escape velocity starting at the center of a planet?
Post by: jeffreyH on 09/02/2014 23:10:05
Attached is the plot with centre of gravity corrected so the two parts of the plot meet at the surface. I will be sorting the calculus to derive a comparison plot to determine any differences between that and this simplified model.
Title: Re: How does one calculate the escape velocity starting at the center of a planet?
Post by: jeffreyH on 10/02/2014 01:59:36
Calculating for time dilation there is a 0.7 ns difference between the core and surface of the earth. This can be ignored and is unlikely to be verified experimentally. This results in a difference of 60.48 microseconds a day.
Title: Re: How does one calculate the escape velocity starting at the center of a planet?
Post by: jeffreyH on 11/02/2014 21:47:32
This model may be used to study gravitational collapse, at least in the early stages. By adjusting the value for the radius to the surface increases in escape velocity can be studied. As ordinary matter cannot travel faster than light then, when the escape velocity at the surface (event horizon) reaches c, the internal velocity should still decrease to zero at the centre. This may run counter to accepted theory but is indicated by the model.
Title: Re: How does one calculate the escape velocity starting at the center of a planet?
Post by: jeffreyH on 20/02/2014 03:57:46
The calculation of Ve from the centre of a mass in terms of gravitational cancellation can be reduced to a very simple formula for an idealized sphere with uniform density. Because the mass is moving away from the centre of gravity the shape of the mass that is left after removing those portions cancelled out is perfectly symmetrical. Thus only a small wedge-shaped slice that includes the centre of gravity need be considered for purpose of integration. This can then be multiplied by a factor based on the mass size to produce the total gravitational force operating on the mass moving away from the centre. While this simplified version of the calculations is perfectly suited to the situation where a mass is moving directly away from the centre of gravity in a straight line trajectory it will fail to model more complex situations. However, as a starting point, it can be adapted over time to model those more complex situations. The main objective of developing this model is to determine the exact nature of the curve for Ve away from the centre of gravity and whether it can be validated experimentally. A secondary objective is to determine if this model can be developed to model a mass under gravitational collapse and simplify some of the procedures currently used for this type of model.
Title: Re: How does one calculate the escape velocity starting at the center of a planet?
Post by: jeffreyH on 22/02/2014 21:58:18
I have saved this PDF http://www-gpsg.mit.edu/12.201_12.501/BOOK/chapter2.pdf

In section 2.2 I have found that I should be able to use zonal spherical harmonics with assumptions of latitude perpendicular to the direction of Ve. From what I have read so far the contributions should be greater nearer the surface than at the centre of gravity as the distance from the non-cancelled mass declines as the escaping mass nears the surface. Calculations nearer the centre of gravity may as well consider the mass to be spherical and uniform and ignore mass distribution as it can be considered to be a greater distance away than the non-cancelled mass when approaching the surface.
Title: Re: How does one calculate the escape velocity starting at the center of a planet?
Post by: jeffreyH on 23/02/2014 07:20:03
As a quick estimation the following can be used to find the volume of a spherical segment with two bases. This ignores curvature with respect to the mass moving away from the centre of gravity but can provide an indication of the resulting curve profile.

V = 1/6pi * h(3a^2 + 3b^2 + h^2)

I will post results once done.
Title: Re: How does one calculate the escape velocity starting at the center of a planet?
Post by: jeffreyH on 25/02/2014 02:16:28
Just as a reference I have found a PDF of a 1939 paper by Einstein online.

http://www.cscamm.umd.edu/tiglio/GR2012/Syllabus_files/EinsteinSchwarzschild.pdf

Of particular interest is the statement on page numbered 928.

"Equation (14) represents a complicated relation between the particle density
n and the function a representing the gravitational field. The limiting case,
however, in which the gravitating particles are concentrated within an infinitely
thin spherical shell, between r = ro- A and r = ro, is comparatively simple.
Of course, this case could only be realized if the individual particles had the
rest-volume zero, which cannot be the case. This idealization, however, still is
of interest as a limiting case for the radial distribution of the particles"
Title: Re: How does one calculate the escape velocity starting at the center of a planet?
Post by: jeffreyH on 25/02/2014 03:12:30
Calculating the gravitational potential of a cube.

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&ved=0CFIQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthescipub.com%2Fpdf%2F10.3844%2Fpisp.2012.50.57&ei=3QcMU_uxKoir7Aayr4DoDg&usg=AFQjCNFVWsjr4uP2vgxds8d_eqMI_Sg_5Q&sig2=r_8jC_XdyGl1Ex9Ei73cxw&bvm=bv.61725948,d.ZGU