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Unread post by BecomingTesla » Fri Oct 16, 2015 8:49 am

Hey everyone, just wanted to share some really awesome looking resources with you, found here: https://www.futurelearn.com

They're offering three free courses that would be a valuable learning tool for everyone here, each running six-weeks long and all three coming up very soon:

(1) Gravity! From the Big Bang to Black Holes - This course specifically goes into Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, in a non-math intensive way, and all of its applications in present day astrophysics. Now, regardless of what you think about GR and its validity, the best possible way to construct a well-thought out, and legitimate critique of the theory and its limitations is to study the theory in earnest, and this course seems like a perfect primer for anyone. Particularly if you couple it with Einstein's "Relativity: The Special and General Theory."

(2) Cracking Mechanics - The title says it all; a crash course of mechanics. It reviews critical engineering mathematics skills, as well as the fundamental concepts of mechanics like force, energy, motion, etc. Nature is not a mathematician, She's an engineer. And to understand Nature, you need to understand rational mechanics.

(3) Electrify: An Introduction to Electrical and Electronic Engineering - Enough said ;)

I've signed up for all three, and I'll be sharing my notes with the forum.

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Re: Free Courses You Can Take

Unread post by D_Archer » Fri Oct 16, 2015 11:28 am

NO
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Re: Free Courses You Can Take

Unread post by BecomingTesla » Fri Oct 16, 2015 11:55 am

My nephew is three years old - he also screams no while having a tantrum.

I'm not sure who you're supposed to be in this forum, but your constant rudeness is obnoxious. Never mind the fact that you've contributed nothing to this thread.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with people taking classes and studying, whether it's General Relativity or not. And frankly, an unwillingness to study it is a willingness towards ignorance. If you don't agree with GR, fine - neither do I. I've made it explicitly clear in multiple posts throughout this forum that as a mechanical theory of celestial motion, GR doesn't take us any closer to understanding than Newtonian gravitation. You know why I know that? Because I've taken the time to study GR.

The idea of anyone rejecting GR before they've even *studied* it, is completely ridiculous. It's as simple as "know your enemy."

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Unread post by querious » Fri Oct 16, 2015 12:50 pm

D_Archer wrote:NO
In another post you said...
ps. i am still digesting the Thornhill talk, he has E/M to work with, so he looks at what the electrons do, but to really solve this gravity problem and tying it to matter, we should incorporate the physical charge photon from Miles Mathis. The Earth has charge outflow at the surface, could this create the dipole moment? This would remove the circular reasoning.
Given the above proof of your lack of understanding of even basic physics, you might want to seriously reconsider that "NO".

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Re: Free Courses You Can Take

Unread post by BecomingTesla » Fri Oct 16, 2015 12:59 pm

Miles Mathis? The gentleman who is convinced that pi equals 4?...

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Re: Free Courses You Can Take

Unread post by David » Fri Oct 16, 2015 8:44 pm

BecomingTesla wrote:
Hey everyone, just wanted to share some really awesome looking resources with you, found here: https://www.futurelearn.com
Let me be the first to say, thank you for the information. And by all means, share your class notes with this forum; any useful knowledge, please toss our way.

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Unread post by BecomingTesla » Sat Oct 17, 2015 7:35 pm

@David: Absolutely happy to help. I'm a very big supporter of the ideas in the EU framework, and this community, and I'd like to do everything I can to give a hand. There are really great ideas here - most, barely even fleshed out. But I believe, in earnest, that the ideas growing here about a mechanical, electromagnetic universe are the future of astrophysics and cosmology.

A snippet from the course info, that I find particularly interesting:
The theory of gravity, Einstein’s theory of relativity, was published exactly 100 years ago. This course presents in a simple manner the main ideas behind this theory, before explaining why “gravity is the engine of the Universe.”

This, ultimately, is my issue with Newtonian gravitation and General Relativity: they do not consider the mechanism of the Universe as it actually exists. In Newtonian gravitation, the orbits of the planets around the Sun occur through a completely vacuous solar system, where there is no hypothesized matter or physical connection bridging the planets and the Sun together in their motion. The force of gravity alone, dependent upon nothing but the distance of the two objects and their "mass", results in gravitation - action at a distance, which even Newton himself rejected. However, we understand now that this physical axiom for gravitation is actually false. The largest distribution of matter in the solar system actually exists in the interstellar medium, a plasmatic ocean swirling around the Sun, driven by the Sun's rotation, and shaped into a vortex of electric current. Currents flow through this ocean and directly connect the Sun to the planets. Magnetic bubbles wrap themselves around certain planets as magnetospheres, celestial objects have electrostatic charges, and every celestial object is actually oscillating in space - inside this plasmatic medium. All the while, this is occurring within the natural vacuum chamber of the heliopause. Positive currents in the form of cosmic rays are being driven into the poles of the Sun, which carries an immense positive charge and is discharging in the chamber as an anode.

The entire physical picture imagined by Newton when he created gravitation was wrong. He had absolutely no idea what physical mechanisms existed in the solar system, or how elaborate a machine it actually is. Or the fact that it runs on electricity and magnetism. The closest anyone has actually come to understanding the machine of our solar system are Descartes, who predicted the presence of a physical, plasmatic vortex between the Sun and the planets, Tesla, who understood that the solar system was a vacuum chamber and that the Sun was a discharging anode, and Birkeland, who understood that electric currents are flowing throughout the entire solar system. Of course, Alfven is also deeply embedded in this history too.

Until we start experimenting with vacuum chambers, terrellas, sollelli, anodes, spherical oscillators, homopolar motors, etc., we're not going to have anything close to a genuine understanding of "celestial mechanics," or why the planets actually rotate around the Sun.

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Unread post by David » Sun Oct 18, 2015 8:43 am

BecomingTesla wrote:
The closest anyone has actually come to understanding the machine of our solar system are Descartes, who predicted the presence of a physical, plasmatic vortex between the Sun and the planets...
At the risk of leading this thread even further astray, here is Newton’s motivation for rejecting Descartes' vortices:
J. Bruce Brackenridge -- “The Key to Newton’s Dynamics” wrote:
Newton's implicit criticism of Cartesian philosophy is distributed throughout the Principia. As one scholar has expressed it, Newton's criticism of Descartes is "not absent but only hidden." A clear point of refutation of the Cartesian celestial system manifests itself in the Principia in Newton's investigation of the nature of motion in vortices. The Cartesian celestial system is based on the presumption that it is the swirling vortex motion of an all-pervasive celestial ether that collides mechanically with celestial bodies and thus carries the planets around the sun and the planetary moons around the planets.

In Proposition 52 of Book Two, Newton states that he has "endeavored in this Proposition to investigate the properties of vortices, that I might find whether the celestial phenomena can be explained by them.” He finds that vortices cannot explain the established relationship between the period and the radius of planetary satellites (the so-called 3/2 power law of Kepler). Thus, in Proposition 53 of Book Two he concludes that "it is manifest that the Planets are not carried round in corporeal vortices." But never does he mention Descartes by name, although it is clear that the Cartesian system is under attack.

Chapter 2, Section 2: Newton’s Debt to Descartes
http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpresseboo ... nd=ucpress

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Re: Free Courses You Can Take

Unread post by BecomingTesla » Sun Oct 18, 2015 9:40 am

I appreciate the source, it's a solid reference. However, Newton's argument doesn't change the fact that Descartes was correct in his hypothesis about the existence of the solar vortex. The heliospheric current sheet exists, no matter how strongly Newton wants to argue in the Principia. And as far as I'm concerned, it's significantly more likely that a vortical disk of plasma spinning around the Sun is the driver of celestial orbits than Newton's action at a distance. Nature pursues the simplest mechanisms, and I personally find it ridiculous to think that the solar system should employ a second force (gravitation) to cause a planet to orbit the Sun, when there is a perfectly efficient mechanism already at work in exact the right form of motion - and in the same direction - to cause the planets to orbit the Sun.

Just the same, hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics are not the same - the same is true in general for the fact that Descartes' theory never involved hydrodynamics at all, it is a case of plasma physics and electromagnetism. It simply stands as a historical issue that neither Descartes or Newton, or anyone else within the scientific domain, understood electromagnetism well until the 1800s - in the 1600s, Gilbert was just beginning to talk about magnetism and electrics. And neither one of them could have even imagined plasma physics.

As I'm reading through "The World" by Descartes (you can find my notes on the forum as well), the *physical* mechanisms he proposed to exist in the solar system do in fact exist: the heliospheric current sheet, the magnetospheres of the planets, and vortices/currents flowing through the space between the Sun and planets. I'd definitely say that any experimental vacuum chamber set-ups would seriously benefit from taking his ideas into account. I think he has been right this entire time.

Still, I'll eventually tackle the Principia, and I appreciate you pointing out an argument to focus on. Thanks!

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Re: Free Courses You Can Take

Unread post by Sco4444 » Fri Oct 23, 2015 1:17 pm

A few more free courses https://www.coursera.org/course/philsci
Current one on Philosophy of Science

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