Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Sylvia Else Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: The Fine Structure Constant causes space-time to be Flat Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 11:07:35 +1100 Lines: 11 Message-ID: References: <45e80cc0-e532-41d8-85b8-1a801c5aedbf@googlegroups.com> <7188aa5f-c188-4e33-8e35-e6c67c36e978@googlegroups.com> <9a29d228-b397-461b-ad7b-f0e888369ad5@googlegroups.com> <19d3e8cc-597d-41ed-b1a1-4803e52a173c@googlegroups.com> <4bb9e66e-798f-44a2-9a6a-6ea4aadedab8@googlegroups.com> <4c4682b7-6bf2-4745-9073-7774256f1aba@googlegroups.com> <986a7c3f-622a-4cf9-bff1-05481e476849@googlegroups.com> <645d524d-6150-4ab7-a674-1972d0eb042e@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net h5ojcVPTv6bXCmqMPLp50grV2EtjzYImQ3uBX3RZMNMrIN03NM Cancel-Lock: sha1:/mpkcrjrhUG9kEJulGaakWOGeEo= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 In-Reply-To: <645d524d-6150-4ab7-a674-1972d0eb042e@googlegroups.com> Xref: csiph.com sci.physics.relativity:400912 On 6/12/2016 2:35 AM, David (Lord Kronos Prime) Fuller wrote: > If you look at the gravity formula F = (G*(m1*m2))/r^2 it looks suspiciously like the Kinetic Energy formula Ke = (m*v^2)/2 inverted ... > Which leads to the concept ... space time can almost literally be considered Kinetic Energy > The kinetic energy formula is the first non-constant term in the binomial series expansion of the formula for relativistic mass; m0 / sqrt(1 - v^2/c^2). It is therefore an approximation and has no great significance. Sylvia.