[RascalPuff]

Dear Lloyd:
You clarified 'mass increases with velocity'; for me. I had previously considered that that statement contributed to the fact that a flashlight beam for example, grows wider as it distances itself from its source. The frontal of a beam of light grows wider with distance and I associated that with mass increasing with velocity. I now understand the difference.
The enlargement of a light frontal is important in my discussion about time dilation, where larger coordinate systems of the future go by different time standards than the same coordinate system at earlier - smaller - moments.

Re: mass field doppler effect, the contraction of masses does not occur from inside - but rather is observed from the outside - of a given coordinate system. With two coordinate systems passing one another in opposite directions, each sees the other as contracted while neither perceives or experiences any contraction from inside their respective systems. This is related to Lorentzian contraction as applied to systems other than microcosmic.

I see posts claiming that there is no time dilation, that gravity isn't a force, that there is no gravity and that the entire theory of relativity is wrong. I see posts chastizing Newton for alleging gravity to be an impelling/pulling force of attraction. I see posts that claim there is no explanation for gravitational action at a distance; that there is no work associated with the weight of anything resting on the earth's surface.


For all the would-be exposes about gravity, I don't see any disagreements with particle physics. Whereas, there are no discontinuous surfaces containing any of the sub atomic 'particles'; it is well established that there is no surface to surface 'contact' among any particles because contact requires surface to surface interaction and there are no surfaces. 'Particles' are charges of electricity that fullfill the definition for matter, i.e., they occupy three dimensions to themselves, possess inertia and disallow the simultaneous occupation of their space by any other system. Two billiard balls in collision, for example, never actually 'touch' by reason of action at a distance effected by constituent field forces which only become more dense as you approach the center of a given 'particle'.


I realize the condensed quality of the above blog, Lloyd, but these are some of the unresolved issues that are popularly stirred up in many different discussions, and this is a sampling of the issues my work deals with.

I expect that you have questions and answers and when you find time please let me know how you wish to approach the issues of the above blog (there's much more).

Regards,
-RP

P.S. Are you familiar with Misner, Thorne and Wheeler's Gravitation? What do you think of it?