Looks like the break has to be postponed for a bit as this crackpots time is ticking. Time is the only limited resource in the universe, not oil, not money but time. In fact I predict that time will even become the currency of the future, how that will work I leave for a different time or others to figure out.
So I hope people can keep up with the increased pace as things are about to accelerate and become a bit more advanced, acceleration is what makes things interesting too
. However let me start with structuring the lessons from now on and a recap so things are not all over the place. I also hope the previous remarks and experiment are not ignored either. Sadly I will be skipping over things due this time limit in the hope my monkey brain can trigger smarter monkey brains to fill in the gaps.
So
recap time, here we go.
Lesson 1: FrictionWe know friction as something that produces heat, energy losses, decay, disorder or as the physicist would say "entropy". However when there is a positive there also should be a negative in nature. Therefore negative entropy or rather negative friction must also exist.
Lesson 2: Lines and CirclesLines and circles representing two completely opposing ideas, one always straight and the other forever circular. The argument is that these two "things" are akin to the lego building blocks of the universe. Almost like binary code. However unlike binary code these two can interact producing a whole universe that we are a part of. Everything we see around us can be categorized by these two, we can call these two polar opposites the true "forces" of nature.
Or in more engineering terms, forces can either be linear or non-linear. However the universe is not only binary strictly divided by these two. If it was then it would be completely cold and dead. But we know it isn't because there is a whole transitioning spectrum between these two. This "spectrum" is friction mediated by something higher up the chain we call "time". Friction brings these two polar opposite together and makes them interact. This interaction in turn produces an infinitely complex universe big and small, forever repeating and thus being a fractal. In essence friction allows us to jump from the binary to the analog if we use computer science terms.
What I havent mentioned earlier is that these two concepts also have special (or in math terms transcendental) numbers attached to them:
- Pi (or more correctly 2*Pi): The Circle
- Euler's number e: The line
This mathy stuff is important too but for now I leave you with the equation of the universe that many have sought after and was in plane sight for so long. The equation that brings the circle and line together in one elegant beatifull equation, thanks to monkey brain Euler.:
e^i*pi = -1 (in next lessons we will go over what the "imaginary" number i is)
Another important property of lines and circles is directionality. On a line you can either go forward or backwards, on a circle this translates to clockwise or counter clockwise. No other properties are needed as dimension only have meaning when something changes and we need something that transcends both to define such change, that which we call "time" in our universe. A whole different beast for a different time.
Please dont form cults and start calling people lines and circles as its the spectrum and friction between them that builds our vast diverse universe.
Lesson 3: ElectromagnetismGoing back to engineering so we can build stuff with this crazy lines and circles stuff. Electromagnetism represent ALL the forces of nature. Everything we see, big or small is electromagnetism.
Electrostatics: Linear, or the line. Always acts in straight paths. Or as physicists would say, is a "central" force. This affects the
linear momentum of the stuff in the universe.
Magnetism: Non-linear, or the circle. Always acts side ways on things. This affects the
angular momentum of the stuff in the universe.
Not only can we divide them in this binary ideas but we can literally model them as such so engineers can build things with them. All we need is the new concept of direction and how like directions attracts and unlike directions repel. Then we see its a matter of lines and circles attracting each other where their, albeit tiny, directions meet. In other words where the line is tangent to the circle. This closest point of interaction is where all the magic happens in the universe, also called friction.
Using this concept we can model all forces of electromagnetism without using calculus in a more "analog" way. However, and what I call the "digital" approach, using force model equations is more suited for our current computers which give us more direct answers over an entire
discretized space rather then the
analog method which gives us exact answers for exact points in
continuous space. Both have their pros and cons in simulation software. But knowing when to use either is key.
The irony of the fractal nature of the universe is if you dont watch out you end up getting trapped in the fractals and down endless rabbit holes of new forces and effects such as dark matter, virtual particles, Higgs fields, quarks and so on. However if you understand the fractal you can zoom in and out freely and make sense out of everything, if things get too weird. Just zoom out again and get back "home" safely like you do if you have played with the Mandelbrot set. But its all the same thing on a different level of the fractal. Also what I havent expanded on either and what I alluded to before is how time affects these two, essentially making them "expand" and interact giving rise to the wave like nature of everything. But time is strange and so far not understood by anyone including myself.
Lesson 4: Back to frictionIn the world of friction we know for things to interact they need to come close to each other. Whether this is the electron orbiting close to the proton, rubbing your hands together, or your car wheels rolling over the ground to get you to places. Friction allows two separate things to interact on their boundaries. Friction is usually seen as a by product that produces heat and losses but the truth is more fascinating than that. As we know the proton and electrons are stable for many many billions of trillions of endless years yet they are continuously interacting with each other exchanging energy seamlessly forever without "decaying". So what friction truly is the interaction of two things that come close to each others boundaries. These two things can be like and like, for instance the line sliding over another line. Or a circle rolling over another circle.
In physics we call this interaction exchange, transfer of momentum. And its
REALLY important to always remember that momentum is
ALWAYS, no matter what, conserved in the entire universe. So sorry there is no magical reactionless space drives that produce momentum without interacting with
something else, but who needs space drives if we can travel through the medium of the universe by breaking its speed barrier at will through friction, as we do here on earth with the sound barrier that was long held as the ultimate speed barrier. If we only understood what friction truly is then ejecting the very essence of the universe out of our asses, or any direction we please, would be childsplay. Obviously we would need ultra dense and structured materials to do so or else it would feel like going mach 1 in a paper airplane but I am no engineer to figure that one out.
So back to the types of frictions. When like meets they exchange momentum and therefore energy. We are told that this always comes with energy losses. But I dont like the term "losses" either and we should address rather the forms of energy. Some are dissipative and cause disorder and others are kinetic and potential in nature and cause more order to occur. However as I started out, if there is a positive there is also a negative. Things ALWAYS come in pairs. Since linear and angular momentum is the only conserved property in the universe, energy therefore can become
directional as well! So first we will always conserve momentum, AND, depending on the type of friction we either transfer this momentum in orderly (kinetic or potential) or disorderly (heat) types of energy. Sounds crazy right, well not for the universe apparently.
However the orderly type never happens when 2 likes interact. For instance when you slide a flat surface onto another they will never increase their orderly energy through momentum transfer, the same goes for rolling two wheels against each other. However the real magic occurs when we bring two unlike things close together. Such as the circle and the line, or again in engineering terms,
linear and non-linear interactions. Textbooks also calls this "rolling friction". Such interactions produce no heat, decay, or disorder and rather the opposite. The momentum transfer that occurs can in fact produce energy in the form of kinetic and potential energy.
Ok that's it for the quick recap things are going to become a bit more advanced from now on so please keep up.
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