Recent content by TheTuringTester

TL;DR Summary: Using the surrounding airflow to deduce the physics around UAP/UFO Now that NASA is in the mix for investigating UAP/UFOs - I started wondering at what their approach might be. I'm thinking they might be able to work from the outside in, toward the object/sensor(y) artifact...

I think the root cause of my question is that I am trying to understand is if gravity is not a force, it's just the result of curved spacetime - do we have a name for the force that bends space and slows time and it is the same force acting equally - does time slow in exact proportion to space...

Given that we know experimentally that time slows and space bends in the presence of matter, what is the actual physical mechanism that enables matter to bend space and slow time?

Sorry about that. I didn't mean to come across as so negative. My vocabulary has fallen victim to all the books I've read referring to the Copenhagen Interpretation as the "Shut Up and Calculate" Interpretation. What I meant to express is that I hope we don't ever give up on trying to understand...

Nugatory, Thank you. I was not expecting "No one knows." It was never explained in any of the popular science books I read and now I know why. Thanks for taking the time to answer some of my questions and clarify some new ones to explore. In a lot of the books, they start with classical physics...

I think I'm getting closer to an understanding and Nugatory and Peterdonis have made me look at it a different way. I believe that energy and matter are equivalent as far as their effect on spacetime distortion, so I'll stick to just asking about matter. If space is distorted, curved, by matter...

I just remembered my fifth question...I will try not to cram any more questions in a single thread, but in a way, they all are similar in the sense that they ask about very fundamental properties of the Universe and this way anyone not interested can just skip the thread instead of 4 or 5...

I think my misunderstanding is even more fundamental than I thought. I still don't understand how spacetime can pull on subatomic particles. I assume my concept of friction or grip is flawed, but I don't know what to replace it with.

I listened to the audiobook version of The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch on a recent vacation. I'll always associate the drive from Seattle to Gold Beach, Oregon with Physics! I've read some of Stephen Hawking's and Brian Greene's books, but the way David Deutsch worded some of his...

Thanks again. I'm just beginning my learning on the subject (as a middle-aged adult) and I now see I am going to have to undo all those hours of science television and popular physics books that I'm sure have led to a head full of oversimplifications and incomplete analogies.

Thank you for your reply. I want to make sure I'm clear on this. Regular mass distorts spacetime and we call that gravity. Relativistic mass does not distort spacetime and increase the gravitational field. If so, I vote we stop calling both of those properties mass. We can call one mass and the...

I saw a thread that asked the same basic question as I'm asking, but the explanation was beyond my current knowledge. Please consider answering my question as if you were being interviewed for a Discovery Channel special and had to make it comprehensible for a general audience. Thanks! For me...