Timeline for Newton's First Law and things that are very old
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| May 8, 2019 at 22:14 | comment | added | buddhabrot | What I’m trying to do is probably against occam’s razor and could probably considered silly: add the effect that motion halts eventually in its own frame of reference, with a hitherto undetected factor, and see what it does to the rest of physics if this becomes fundamental rather than derived from the shape of the universe. | |
| May 8, 2019 at 17:13 | comment | added | user196418 | So, I guess I am a little confused about what exactly you are trying to do. Are you simply engaged in a thought experiment that you think leads to a paradox? Or are you after something else? | |
| May 8, 2019 at 17:12 | comment | added | user196418 | As for not being able to test for an effect that you put in? This is exactly where science stops! If it cannot be detected it may as well not exist! Now if we are seeing things that don't match current theory then we did, in fact, detect something new. But we don't add new things that have a null effect just because. String theory gets a lot of heat for this. Also David Bohm's reinterpretation of QM using a non-testable field to account for quantum effects is a non starter. | |
| May 8, 2019 at 17:09 | comment | added | user196418 | Are you referring to a damping of the expansion? If so then this would mean that the reference frames cease to distort, but that particles can still move relative to each other in a way that is locally consistent with SR, or even Newton. | |
| May 8, 2019 at 16:31 | comment | added | buddhabrot | It's still gnawing. Let's put it this way: suppose I add a correction to Newton's Law, that the motion eventually will halt, through a very very small slowdown factor. This is somehow related to a deep mystery in the universe. Suppose I add this, you would not be able to prove it's not true: your instruments lack the accuracy to do it, and you have not observed anything for a long enough period of time. What if this correction is exactly what we need for solving problems like the expected growth of the universe, unification, etc? | |
| May 8, 2019 at 16:07 | comment | added | buddhabrot | Thanks, this is a very powerful read, it redresses the situation in a way, well, that the dress disappears. I was indeed thinking about universal damping, an element that does appear in the theory of emergent gravity. I'll take some time to digest this further and see if I still have anything gnawing on my mind. | |
| May 8, 2019 at 14:16 | history | edited | user196418 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 8, 2019 at 10:51 | history | answered | user196418 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |