1. Jordan Pierson
Space-Time Friction
1/5/2
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Space-time is a flexible fabric of the
cosmos which is an arena in which
planets, stars, comets, dark matter,
Higgs Field, and other things of that
nature all sit in. All the matter that
sits in space-time warps it giving a
gravitational attraction. However
space-time also has friction that
holds galaxies, orbiting planets,
moons and other things of that nature
together.
The
Earth has a gravitational force of
9.80665meters per second squared.
2. If you drop a baseball ignoring air
resistance that is how fast it will fall.
If you were to throw the baseball fast
enough to escape Earth’s gravity and
orbit the planet, you would have to
throw the baseball 11,176meters per
second with no air resistance and
nothing in the way to block the ball’s
travels. This baseball would be
orbiting the earth never to hit the
ground again. The amount of mass
wouldn’t matter but the speed would.
This baseball would be falling toward
the earth but never actually hitting it.
But
is that actually true? Is the baseball
actually falling? I believe it is just
following the path of warped space-
time with friction that keeps the
3. baseball from falling toward earth at
9.80665meters per second squared
and/or away from earth. The faster
an object is thrown the slower it falls
toward earth. The baseball would
have to be thrown at
1,139.63484meters per second for
every one meter per second squared
it fell slower toward earth.
If you
were to throw the ball one meter per
second it would fall
0.00087747meters per second
squared slower toward earth.
Meaning for every one meter per
second you subtract 0.00087747
from the gravitational force so the
thrown baseball falls at
9.80577253meters per second.
While the baseball being dropped
4. falls at 9.80665meters per second.
Of course theoretically speaking
everything would have to be perfectly
accurate with the ground perfectly
level and in a vacuum. Calculating
the measurements with just one
meter per second is extremely hard
to do, but increasing the speed would
make it easier to calculate.
So how do you calculate space-
time friction, and how does it
behave? Well space-time friction in
case you are wondering does not
heat up an object at all, but like the
friction we are familiar with, it does
resist an outside force. Space-time
friction does not push but resists a
push. No space-time friction does
NOT resist an object in motion
5. weather its moving or falling. It only
affects the gravitational pull on an
object when its in motion.
So how do you measure
space-time friction?
By using the Equation.
.
G
STf=1,139.63484m/s-------------
.
1m/s2Fr
In
this equation STf stands for space-
time friction, the speed in meter per
6. second after the equal sign is the
speed needed to have a one meter
per second squared resistance force.
The G stands for the gravitational
force, and Fr stands for the friction
resistance. It doesn’t matter what the
gravitational force is, the friction
resistance will be the same according
to the speed in which the object
moves.
So
what would it be like if there was no
space-time friction? The baseball
being theoretically thrown at
11,176meters per second with no
wind resistance or objects in the way
would fall toward earth at
9.80665meters per second squared.
Any faster than that and the object
7. would simply cover more distance
until it hit the ground but it will always
fall at free fall speed. Now lets say
you throw the baseball
200,000,000meters per second on
earth with no space-time friction or air
friction. The baseball would still fall
at 9.80665meters per second
squared but in one second it would
be past the satellites, and in three
seconds past the moon. At that point
the baseball would be traveling
through space-time freely at its fixed
speed however its direction would
have change from when it was
thrown because of the gravitational
influence.
Without space-time friction
8. there would be no such thing as orbit
planets and moons.
With no space-
time friction, the moon would spiral
down toward earth. The spiral would
be like that of a nail shell. The
reason being is because every
second the moon would fall faster
toward earth while moving forward.
All the planets would spiral into their
stars and all the stars would spiral in
toward the center of the galaxies,
causing galaxies to collapse in under
their own weight. With space-time
friction, life as we know it would not
exist.
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