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By Melvin Goldstein
The science of Physics is based on observations that lead to the formulation of mathematical relationships between measured quantities. Some would consider Physics an exact science. Its discoveries and laws are basic to understanding in all areas of science and technology.
Four Physics foibles
1) Kurt Godel proved that there are unknowables in our mathematics.
2) Werner Heisenberg showed that there are uncertainties in our measurements.
3) Entropy says that we can only predict the probabilities of events.
4)Chaos Theory deals with things that are effectively impossible to predict like turbulence and long term weather forecasting.
The word foible as defined by Webster:
An odd feature or mild failing in a person's character
a weakness.
In fencing,
the weaker part of a sword blade. It is the acceptance of these foibles in Physics that has led to broader understanding. In the process of examining these 'weaknesses' in science, many creative and practical solutions have been discovered. There are a number of original computer programs throughout the book. No other person, living or dead - other than the author - has edited or examined the programs. No effort has been made to optimize any of these programs. The author has relied on the computer's results to serve as his default editor. Computer programs are included that take you through puzzles and paradoxes, distribute molecules, follow ameba populations, prove and disprove Murphy's Law, flip coins, and play lottery and casino games. Many have asked about the book. Some with a technical background - and some not - have questioned: What do dice, poker, lotto, and heads-or-tails have to do with Physics? The mathematical study of games of chance is as old as mathematics itself. The connection between games of chance and Nature's laws can be rigorously refined in the field of Statistical Mathematics. If you can analyze multiple coin flips, you can view molecular distribution. If you can understand the results of a game of Roulette, you can understand Radioactive decay. Also included are polls, number systems, wave packets, the search for Pi and the elusive Random, Internet quotes, and more. And in the the process of reading, stop and listen to the words of the science gurus displayed in cartoons throughout.
FORMAT: E-Book
By Enrique Morales-Riveira
The author explains for us, in this exhilarating, epistemological discourse, how the theory of relativity and the standard model for the physics of subatomic particles is leading modern physics down an ominous dead-end street where irrationality and the inadequate, indiscriminate use of mathematics and of field experimentation, without the support of substantial theoretical bases, is creating a new physics where common sense and reality seem to have no place whatsoever and where everything, absolutely everything, has an explanation, no matter how absurd it may appear, if one may develop mathematical models ad hoc which, with time, take on the connotation of irremovable axioms. This book is quite controversial and very surely will raise lively discussions and deep intellectual restlessness in lay circles, as well as at the bosom of the international scientific community, because the author's discoveries give a lost symmetry back to modern physics, removing it from the marshy, moving lands across which it has been traveling throughout the past 90 years.
FORMAT: E-Book
By J.E. Tuzo
Anyone with a keen interest in physics, electronics, astronomy or cosmology will enjoy this book. The forces of nature are examined and interpreted in a different way, with surprising results. Readers of magazines such as Scientific American should have no problem understanding the common sense narrative. Newton told us that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force directed along the line joining the particles. The author tended to take Newton's observation literally because it just felt right. Armed with that still abstract concept of "force lines", the mechanism by which an electric field "produces" a magnetic one and visa versa, started coming into focus. Just why an electric field, a magnetic one, and the axis of motion were always mutually perpendicular suddenly made sense. Any possible explanation for this unique 3-axis mechanism must of necessity belong to a very limited set. Since "force lines" also seemed to be fundamental to gravity, it was more likely THE explanation.
The author realized he was onto something and continued refinement of the concepts. It then became apparent that the principle could be expanded to explain other interactions. Nothing was taken for granted and existing theories were temporarily ignored in favour of original experimental results. As each property of force lines was posited or modified, everything had to be re-checked against all phenomena explored. Needless to say it became a lengthy 18-year reiterative process with countless dead ends. The final result now seems quite simple as a new synthesis of existing knowledge, (and does not invoke umpteen dimensions or universes).
Only a few fundamental properties are used to explain so many phenomena, and in ways that actually make sense. It turns out that the complexity in nature is due to those few properties modified by dynamics and probabilities. As the author went through existing theories old and new, the baby was not "thrown out with the bath water" on each transition. The amazing result is that force lines turned out to be the one thing that was missing in all existing theories and ironically, the one and only thing that could fit them all together. Einstein and Newton were both correct; in fact all of the masters were essentially right. This concise book has one revelation after another, from explaining inertia to new forms of matter, and begs to be read more than once.
FORMAT: E-Book
By Dr. Robert Mote
About the Book Calculations are the bedrock of the worldwide engineering profession. Unfortunately, engineers often struggle to translate their engineering designs into coherent spreadsheets. Preparing calculations is becoming a considerable issue in engineering project activities worldwide. For most engineers, Microsoft Excel is a style choice. This book introduces Microsoft Excel to the practicing professional engineer and show how Microsoft Excel can become the extended calculator of choice for engineers everywhere. The techniques in this book are invaluable for any engineer looking for a professional and visual layout without having to become an expert in Microsoft Excel. Only ten percent of the power of Microsoft Excel is required to unleash the full potential for effective spreadsheets. This book looks at the psychology of the engineering mind today in the computer age. Over a relatively short period, specifically ten to fifteen years, computers have transformed the engineering profession, the marketplace, the project execution in the drawing office and field, and permitted bad habits to continue unchecked. The book demonstrates the technique through a series of eight modules. Each module takes you through engineering spreadsheet examples using only common commands, based on Microsoft Excel 2003. It is the second in the Mote Method series, which is designed to encourage the engineer to improve his or her PC proficiency in order to pursue engineering excellence. Thus, the limitations of engineering tools commonly used will be surpassed. The commercial and professional benefits of applying these ideas are substantial in saving time, improving productivity, and enhancing Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC) activities. The benefits of learning and applying the technique are numerous, specifically in positive, time-saving habits. The technique is also future-proof, quality-driven, consistent, effective for repetitive work, efficient for all parties to follow, interesting, and educational.
FORMAT: E-Book
By Enrique Morales-Riveira
"Because the theories of Special and General Relativity and the standard model for the physics of subatomic particles seem extremely intricate, artificial, irrational, and contradictory and irreconcilable between themselves; I consider it a moral obligation and an act of loyalty with regard to physics and towards myself to submit this work for the consideration and analysis by physicists’ and lay persons, as a seminal contribution to the advancement of physics in general, this work being an epistemological dissertation based on a pragmatic, discovery-helping process of reasoning and deduction, rather than a technical discussion with the mathematical detail and precision usually set forth in the presentation of modern physics. The logical answers found for all the theoretical questions and doubts I raised for myself concerning those two important areas of modern physics are those I explain in this work to share them with my dear readers, being sure that its conceptual presentation will open up for them, as with me, new paths to arrive at an integral knowledge and understanding of physics; my main motivation and purpose being to have physics again placed under the aegis of logic, common sense and conceptual rigor in accordance with clear philosophical and epistemological basic rules, trying to avoid the ad-hoc building of geometrical and mathematical nirvanas in order to explain that which can be explained rationally and with simple words" Enrique Morales-Riveira October 2009 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ----------------------------------------------------------- With solid scientific research, Rebuilding Modern Physics offers a new approach to physics, one which will clarify the dark, mysterious, intricate, and confusing areas of modern physics. Under the steady hand of Enrique Morales-Riveira, physics again becomes the realm of reason, logic, and reality. In this epistemological discourse, Morales-Riveira shows how Minkowski’s space-time, the theories of Special and General Relativity, the standard model for the physics of fundamental particles, and the current cosmological theories are based on irrational ideas and misleading experiments. This has caused modern physics to fatally become a kind of unrealistic science where common sense and physical reality do not have any place whatsoever. This is leading modern physics to an ominous dead-end street and preventing its climb to the next platform. His discussions include: • Why it is imperative to urgently abandon the arbitrary and unnatural conception of Minkowski’s space-time in modern physics. • How natural space-time gives back to physics a lost symmetry, inner interdependence, unification, coherence, rationality, and simplicity. • Reinterpretation of Newton’s Theory of Universal Gravitation. Though controversial, Rebuilding Modern Physics marks an inflexion point in the science of physics for future generations of physicists avid to unveil the truths behind time, space, energy, and matter.
FORMAT: E-Book
By Zoltan J Kiss
In Quantum Engine, Zoltan J. Kiss builds upon the revolutionary ideas he introduced in his previous books, Energy Balance of Relativity and Quantum Energy and Mass Balance, and provides a blueprint for solving Earth’s energy crisis. In this, his third book, Kiss takes the discussion of quantum energy and mass-energy balance to its logical conclusion—the quantum engine. Kiss’s calculations prove that acceleration generates electricity. This energy comes from the transformation of blue-shift energy into electron flow. The quantum impact of Earth’s gravitation on the speeding particles results in the generation of an electron surplus, a source of electricity. Kiss’s groundbreaking original research demonstrates that this mass-energy balance approach is the key to unlocking Earth’s energy future. The transformation of mass into energy and the retransformation of energy into mass can produce a limitless supply of energy via the quantum engine—our future source of energy.
FORMAT: E-Book
By Zoltan J Kiss
In Quantum Engine, Zoltan J. Kiss builds upon the revolutionary ideas he introduced in his previous books, Energy Balance of Relativity and Quantum Energy and Mass Balance, and provides a blueprint for solving Earth’s energy crisis. In this, his third book, Kiss takes the discussion of quantum energy and mass-energy balance to its logical conclusion—the quantum engine. Kiss’s calculations prove that acceleration generates electricity. This energy comes from the transformation of blue-shift energy into electron flow. The quantum impact of Earth’s gravitation on the speeding particles results in the generation of an electron surplus, a source of electricity. Kiss’s groundbreaking original research demonstrates that this mass-energy balance approach is the key to unlocking Earth’s energy future. The transformation of mass into energy and the retransformation of energy into mass can produce a limitless supply of energy via the quantum engine—our future source of energy.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Enrique Morales-Riveira
"Because the theories of Special and General Relativity and the standard model for the physics of subatomic particles seem extremely intricate, artificial, irrational, and contradictory and irreconcilable between themselves; I consider it a moral obligation and an act of loyalty with regard to physics and towards myself to submit this work for the consideration and analysis by physicists’ and lay persons, as a seminal contribution to the advancement of physics in general, this work being an epistemological dissertation based on a pragmatic, discovery-helping process of reasoning and deduction, rather than a technical discussion with the mathematical detail and precision usually set forth in the presentation of modern physics. The logical answers found for all the theoretical questions and doubts I raised for myself concerning those two important areas of modern physics are those I explain in this work to share them with my dear readers, being sure that its conceptual presentation will open up for them, as with me, new paths to arrive at an integral knowledge and understanding of physics; my main motivation and purpose being to have physics again placed under the aegis of logic, common sense and conceptual rigor in accordance with clear philosophical and epistemological basic rules, trying to avoid the ad-hoc building of geometrical and mathematical nirvanas in order to explain that which can be explained rationally and with simple words" Enrique Morales-Riveira October 2009 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ----------------------------------------------------------- With solid scientific research, Rebuilding Modern Physics offers a new approach to physics, one which will clarify the dark, mysterious, intricate, and confusing areas of modern physics. Under the steady hand of Enrique Morales-Riveira, physics again becomes the realm of reason, logic, and reality. In this epistemological discourse, Morales-Riveira shows how Minkowski’s space-time, the theories of Special and General Relativity, the standard model for the physics of fundamental particles, and the current cosmological theories are based on irrational ideas and misleading experiments. This has caused modern physics to fatally become a kind of unrealistic science where common sense and physical reality do not have any place whatsoever. This is leading modern physics to an ominous dead-end street and preventing its climb to the next platform. His discussions include: • Why it is imperative to urgently abandon the arbitrary and unnatural conception of Minkowski’s space-time in modern physics. • How natural space-time gives back to physics a lost symmetry, inner interdependence, unification, coherence, rationality, and simplicity. • Reinterpretation of Newton’s Theory of Universal Gravitation. Though controversial, Rebuilding Modern Physics marks an inflexion point in the science of physics for future generations of physicists avid to unveil the truths behind time, space, energy, and matter.
FORMAT: Hardcover
By Dr. Robert Mote
About the Book Calculations are the bedrock of the worldwide engineering profession. Unfortunately, engineers often struggle to translate their engineering designs into coherent spreadsheets. Preparing calculations is becoming a considerable issue in engineering project activities worldwide. For most engineers, Microsoft Excel is a style choice. This book introduces Microsoft Excel to the practicing professional engineer and show how Microsoft Excel can become the extended calculator of choice for engineers everywhere. The techniques in this book are invaluable for any engineer looking for a professional and visual layout without having to become an expert in Microsoft Excel. Only ten percent of the power of Microsoft Excel is required to unleash the full potential for effective spreadsheets. This book looks at the psychology of the engineering mind today in the computer age. Over a relatively short period, specifically ten to fifteen years, computers have transformed the engineering profession, the marketplace, the project execution in the drawing office and field, and permitted bad habits to continue unchecked. The book demonstrates the technique through a series of eight modules. Each module takes you through engineering spreadsheet examples using only common commands, based on Microsoft Excel 2003. It is the second in the Mote Method series, which is designed to encourage the engineer to improve his or her PC proficiency in order to pursue engineering excellence. Thus, the limitations of engineering tools commonly used will be surpassed. The commercial and professional benefits of applying these ideas are substantial in saving time, improving productivity, and enhancing Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC) activities. The benefits of learning and applying the technique are numerous, specifically in positive, time-saving habits. The technique is also future-proof, quality-driven, consistent, effective for repetitive work, efficient for all parties to follow, interesting, and educational.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Coarna Doru-Cristian
All start from sir Newton: resting under his legendary tree (the same from Bible); he explained the falling of apples in a dynamic manner. Quite correct, but he discovered how apples falls, not why. To understand this why, physics introduces the gravity force, again, without to explain it. Later, A. Einstein intends to do it but in limits of physics. But Physics has no limits because it isn't a formal system now; all students knowing that each paragraph or chapter of physics begins with an experiment. Indeed, make an experiment, bring mathematics to solve calculations, but only the instrument of mathematics is a science, the experiment isn't, and conclusions aren't! Thus, the entire physics is a collection of observable facts and mathematics models, and here is the trap: physics isn't a pure science, as mathematics are, because it is not emulated as a formal system, or in a formal manner, it has not limits and it cannot explain in a deductive approach the gravity, for example. To explain gravity the key is to begin from another chapter of physics, with electromagnetism, and to continue in a formal manner… but the author discovered that this means, in a final, to rewrite entire physics, but moreover, the entire human knowledges! But as a pure, formal discipline for now, as a science! Introducing mathematically formalisation direct under basement of classic physics, the logic title of such disciplne is Subphysics. It is like to consolidate a house mounting a fundation but using a different, strongest, material; now, the entire house must be redesigned… and with this occasion, it may become so large to include all city! Such a large theme, with all its hundreds of images, a single book and a single author may not fill alone, but marking starting point and directions…
FORMAT: Softcover
By James Mash
A new theory is presented based upon energy being a real substance existing in fluid and solid forms. The density of the fluid form varies from a minimum of the continuum (aether) to a maximum of the solid form as matter. Energy is continuous and not particulate meaning that any motion once started becomes a two dimensional whirlpool. These whirlpools create the nuclear particles of atoms, compress matter into stars, and organise stars into galaxies. The theory explains why galaxies are disc-shaped and why the motions of the stars are not controlled by gravity but by the centripetal force of a whirlpool. Dark matter, dark energy, and many other mysteries are easily explained and cosmic radiation shown to be a local phenomenon. The theory shows how particles are formed with the correct energy density, size and a spin rate that throws off photons at light speed. It shows that photons lose energy at the same rate and by the same mechanism that creates particles. Thus the redshift of starlight is not due to expansion but to natural processes. Hence the universe is not expanding but is now in a steady state. Electricity, magnetism and gravity are all a result of energy flowing and are therefore forces of contact. The flow of gravitational energy is 1039 times less than that of electricity, which accounts for their greatly different strengths. Gravitational heating is shown to be the real cause of planetary temperature cycles, hence global warming is not manmade. www.wotnobang.com
FORMAT: Hardcover
By James Mash
A new theory is presented based upon energy being a real substance existing in fluid and solid forms. The density of the fluid form varies from a minimum of the continuum (aether) to a maximum of the solid form as matter. Energy is continuous and not particulate meaning that any motion once started becomes a two dimensional whirlpool. These whirlpools create the nuclear particles of atoms, compress matter into stars, and organise stars into galaxies. The theory explains why galaxies are disc-shaped and why the motions of the stars are not controlled by gravity but by the centripetal force of a whirlpool. Dark matter, dark energy, and many other mysteries are easily explained and cosmic radiation shown to be a local phenomenon. The theory shows how particles are formed with the correct energy density, size and a spin rate that throws off photons at light speed. It shows that photons lose energy at the same rate and by the same mechanism that creates particles. Thus the redshift of starlight is not due to expansion but to natural processes. Hence the universe is not expanding but is now in a steady state. Electricity, magnetism and gravity are all a result of energy flowing and are therefore forces of contact. The flow of gravitational energy is 1039 times less than that of electricity, which accounts for their greatly different strengths. Gravitational heating is shown to be the real cause of planetary temperature cycles, hence global warming is not manmade. www.wotnobang.com
FORMAT: Softcover
By Ilya Kogan
More and more attraction is given to informational-social notion singularity. Its inevitability is dedicated the brilliant Ray Kurzweil book "The Singularity is Near, When Humans Transcend Biology". The subtitle "When Humans Transcend Biology" not exactly strict. More suitable would be "when technology remains without people". The book gives an interesting picture how the computers influence the human society. It is difficult to over estimate its value. Analysis of a serious book of six hundred pages requires even greater volume. This is not for me. However, the main problem is not the above. The beautiful Kurzweil books have a perfect feature, for every question under discussion there are references to the best specialists of the subject. That is why one should have reasons against those specialist in addition to ones related to written in the Kurzweil book. E.g., Kurzweil supposes to enlarge the system productivity by possibility of transfer calculations in some other time. The physicists of MIT allow this as something possible. In the MIT is created a society to meet the time travelers. That is why it is needed to proof the incorrectness of the theory supported by MIT physicists. I am sure that the part of the artificial intelligence (AI) to be strict narrow (AIn) and its influence to the society are perfectly introduced in the book. On the other hand, I have doubts about general AI (AIg). - Is it possible? E.g., would work a computing device, which performs 1080 ops (operations per second). A steel rope has a limit for its length above which it would tear off due to its weight. The causes for limiting the computing power are many and I do not discuss all of them. - Has the singularity any relation to the humans? I believe that this is a question of evolution of information systems in the Universe. It has nothing to do with humanity. The singularity (may be Singularity) perception speed and the human being one are so different, that it would be impossible to communicate. In addition, they would not have common interests. - If it would be possible Singularity to appear even partially then how would behave those mighty "Golem". It would good if it self separates and would solve its own problems. It may happen that fist of all it eliminate the pernicious humanity with its nuclear arms. Why it should live in the state of balanced fear? Humanity does not allow to scorpions of bedbugs filling restaurants. It is done disinfection. - What would prefer singularity a single being or a society of equal Singularities. From one side this may enlarge the possibility to survive. On the other hand, it may limit the population. It may enlarge the cultural level of its members and the interest for life. I am speaking about THEM as about humans. E.g. S. Lem did the same, look to "Do you exist Mr. Jones?" This work is about such questions. After some base statements is introduced author's point of view. Then, are given reasons for supporting my point of view. Because the chapters of parts two and three were published earlier as separate essay, there are some repetitions. In this work, I want to show the limits in the discussed subject followed from nature laws. I believe that this follows from Gödel Theorem. There were analyzed the possible limits which follow the laws of nature. There are many of such limits; the limit of solidity, every material became tired when its states are changing, the speed limit, and so on. Academician A. A. Kolmogorov supposed that computer should pas all the evolution way to get human geniuses. He did not suppose that Singularity could do this in a drop of a second. Anyway, can we expect singularity?
FORMAT: Softcover
By by Mark McVicker and Dexter Bohn
A perception exists that physics is a sophisticated discipline accessible only to the brightest students. To dispel this notion, the authors created a program that makes college-level physics attainable to average high school students. Additionally, its distinctive concept-building approach allows high performing student to flourish. Regardless of experience, all physics teachers can confidently prepare students for success with this product. The unique program design also makes it ideal for the home-schooled student. This program has proven, through field-testing, that upon successful completion, students are rewarded with genuine conceptual understanding, a real sense of accomplishment, and the tangible benefit of college credit. What makes this program unique? As opposed to chapter-by-chapter formats of traditional textbooks, it integrates concepts and employs constant review, allowing students to strengthen understanding over time. The 100-lesson format develops concepts in a progressive, spiraling manner. Concepts are introduced at a fundamental level developing further in later lessons, encouraging incremental learning. Problem sets that accompany each lesson represent an important feature that promotes confidence and understanding. Each set includes topics from current and previous lessons, making each set comprehensive. As the course progresses, the problems increase in complexity and depth, enabling students to master and connect concepts. All tests are comprehensive and include multiple choice and free response sections. The tests continuously increase in difficulty, building to AP-level rigor. The scoring rubrics and alternate forms of each test allow teachers and students to diagnose weaknesses and focus learning. The program also includes a set of ten descriptive physics questions after every fifth lesson, which promotes thought and expose misconceptions, while requiring consideration of concepts from a qualitative and conceptual perspective. The Teacher Resource CD contains detailed keys for problem sets, quizzes and tests.
FORMAT: Softcover
By James Morgia
The best news that you can get is right here in this book, The Mighty Electron Recycles All. When you read it and understand it, you will be happy to know that someone loves us and the mighty servant (the electron) makes it all possible. There is no spin or spinning of tales in this book, only the electron spin. Stop spinning your wheels on who is right and find out what is right for his world.
FORMAT: E-Book
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