[geocentrism] Re: CAM and CoE
- From: Mike <mboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:15:08 +0100
>>Gary L. Shelton wrote:
>> > Mike, I have one question on the topic you and Dr. Jones have been
>> > discussing. If you agree that the earth is losing energy to
>> > dissipation to space (if I have understood rightly), would the
>> > eventual loss of energy finally at some time result in a loss of AM?
>> > I mean, we're talking billions of years of earth history here. Isn't
>> > AM a manifestation of energy?
>>
>>No. Imagine you're floating is space, if you twist something you can't
>>help twisting yourself in the opposite direction so that the total AM of
>>you and thing you twisted is the same as it was before you twisted it.
>>You both then have have kinetic energy where you didn't before, but your
>>total AM hasn't changed. If you are in friction with the thing you
>>twisted then eventually you and the object will no longer be spinning
>>relative to each other, all the kinetic energy will be disapated as
>>heat. The total AM will not have changed throughout. If you think it
>>would have changed, which direction do you think it would have changed in?
>>
>>Regards,
>>Mike
>
> Gary 10/16: Mike, I guess I understand what you're talking about with the
> Angular Momentum being conserved between two bodies well enough. For every
> action there's an equal and opposite reaction, I suppose. With the two
> things involved it is a closed kind of deal.
But the point is this isn't completley closed. The kinectic engergy is
disapted as heat while the angular momentum remains constant. I was
showing you that loss of kinetic energy is not necessarily loss of
angular momentum. Do you agree with that statement?
> I think my question centers around the fact that I'm not imagining a second
> body in my question. I'm thinking about the predictable amount of energy
> loss from the earth due to friction with aether (if such can be agreed
> upon), or friction with the sun's gravity, the moon's attraction, solar
> wind, the drag of man-made satellites, rocket launches, or a number of other
> things I probably am unaware of that could affect the earth's rotational
> speed. I am thinking that such effects would be outside of any "closed"
> system between the earth and any other specific body. And some of them have
> no doubt been continuing for billions of years. Wouldn't this loss of
> energy due to friction cause a proportionate loss in AM?
>
> I hope that makes sense.
It does but it's no use us continuing to more complex considerations
until we agree on what happens in the simplist case imaginable.
Regards,
Mike.
Other related posts:
