Gord_in_Toronto
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Gord_in_Toronto -- First off I apologise for not having the patience and will, to the best of my ability, try and sort out for you the fiction of your advanced education.
Why thank you. Though I have found in my life to date that it seems to explain reality quite well.
Bruce Voigt said:Particularly at this time of year and gazing into the fire place you may wonder what it is that causes fire to rise and dance,
Well I don't actually. The exothermic reaction between the fuel warms the surrounding air which then expands according to the Ideal Gas Law (PV = nRT). This expanded air is less dense and thus is displaced by the cooler (and more dense) air and is forced upward. The key to this is the gravitational field of the Earth.
Bruce Voigt said:Oh for **** sake turn your bloody TV on and watch fire place.
I rather like my TV. I have spent a moderately sufficient time looking at fires to determine that the appear to work pretty much as Non-Bruce Voigt Science tells us they do.
Bruce Voigt said:"Patience Bruce"
Let me say I second this wish.
Bruce Voigt said:OK, so you have seen the astronauts experiment with fire
I seem to remember seeing such demonstrations. You can demonstrate the same thing by dropping a burning candle in a free fall without leaving our planet. What you will find is that the flame will go out as the combustion products (in particular CO2) block the inflow of Oxygen because they are not carried away by the convection process I outlined above.
Bruce Voigt said:and with out the interaction of forces excreting from Earth the fire in space is (like the Sun) just a ball of light.
The Earth does not excrete any forces. The Sun does not shine by combustion. And, far from being "just a ball of light" is a very complex system that is at least partially understood by regular science.
Bruce Voigt said:Experiment 605
I hesitate to ask this, but, are your other experiments (1 through 604) documented anywhere?
Bruce Voigt said:One BB sized ball bearing
Does this have to be magnetic?
Bruce Voigt said:One bread and butter knife
I only have access to a cheese knife? Does this have to be made of steel? Will a plastic one do?
Bruce Voigt said:One magnet
Big? Small?
Bruce Voigt said:Attach bearing to either pole of the magnet
Attach? With glue?
Bruce Voigt said:Attach bearing and magnet to center of knife
Is this another bearing? Attach how?
Bruce Voigt said:Make a few bets to what the bearing stays or attaches to when pulled apart
I think I can only make one bet. The choice seems to be binary.
Bruce Voigt said:With the bearing hanging on the knife, place the knife on the likes of a bowl.
I hope the bearing has strong arms and can hang on. For "the likes of a bowl" can I use an actual bowl? What sort of bowl should I use? After checking my kitchen, it appears I have a choice of materials.
Place the knife where on the bowl? On top? Inside? On a edge? ??
Bruce Voigt said:Undisturbed the bearing stays with the knife indefinitely
Why I suppose it does. Good ol' Newton and his Laws of Motion seem to still be working.
Bruce Voigt said:My experiment 605 is a very important scientific discovery
Possibly.
Bruce Voigt said:Can you think of a way that the above technology could be used to warrant it being an important scientific discovery?
If you use a bowl to put things in, they won't spontaneously fall out. I can see how this could be very useful.
Bruce Voigt said:"Let me help with this," if you take the technology of the electromagnetic crane in the scrap metal yard and apply this technology to produce a hand held on off magnet you can then take this all to outer space enabling a quick and easy way to assemble things.
Wouldn't moving the scrapyard crane to outer space require a big rocket? Or do you have a way of doing this too?
Bruce Voigt said:Bruce Voigt Science
Possibly you could answer a few of the questions I asked you about seismology earlier in this thread?
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