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It doesn’t make sense to me that something which emanates outward can in any way cause things to move inward. It just seems to violate logic itself. I find it m
by deytempo 8y ago
It doesn’t make sense to me that something which emanates outward can in any way cause things to move inward. It just seems to violate logic itself. I find it more likely that there’s some fundamental aspect of space itself we are missing which is a purely inward phenomenon. I suppose that force itself too could be described as a wave but more in the way that you can describe pulling on an elastic rope that’s tied to something can be described as a wave. Also if we did live in a holographic universe, there could exist forces which are simply there and are completely unexplainable from within the hologram.
- claudiawerner 8y agoDoesn't a field emanate outwards from a point, but may draw things inwards? Both the gravitational and electric fields can attract. Of course the fields don't work as waves but they is emanation restricted to waves?
- wlesieutre 8y agoChanges in an electric field propagate outward at the speed of light, otherwise you could instantaneously transmit data over a distance by changing the strength of the field. I'd say that counts as emanating.
- EliRivers 8y agoIs this logic also violated by seeing a magnet pick up a piece of metal? Something is clearly emanating outwards from the magnet, yet the piece of metal is attracted inwards. It doesn't have to make sense to you, but the experimental evidence seems pretty solid. some fundamental aspect of space itself we are missing which is a purely inward phenomenon A fundamental aspect of space... purely inward phenomenon... That sounds like gravity, as described by general relativity.
- DEADBEEFC0FFEE 8y agoMagnets are still magical for me.
- deytempo 8y agoNothing Eminates from the magnet. The magnet is distorting a field that exists with or without the magnet
- EliRivers 8y agoSo a distortion emanates from the magnet? So there is something emanating from the magnet; a distortion. That said, in the particle model, there are force carrier particles.
- wuliwong 8y agoA simple example i'm thinking would be to imagine a flat road with a ball on it at x_ball. (x_ball > 0). Starting at x=0 a machine begins raising the road, adding gradually as it moves in the x-direction (creating a sloped road). Once the bulldozer raises the road under the ball it would roll towards x = 0. This machine moving in the positive x-direction is kind of "emanating outward" but it results in the ball rolling towards the origin.
- empath75 8y ago> It doesn’t make sense to me that something which emanates outward can in any way cause things to move inward. If it doesn't make sense to you, that's normal. It doesn't make sense to a lot of people. It's very unintuitive. You should probably make the effort to actually learn the math and physics behind it before just dismissing it, though.
- deytempo 8y agoLogic is not something that can be easily violated
- CamperBob2 8y agoThrow a rock in a pond sometime, and watch what happens to the weeds when the waves reach them.
- deytempo 8y agoYou have me curious now