| Research into the physics of machining |
| Intro This part of the site concerns one of my interests in physics, the machining of metals and metal composites. My main interests in physics are dynamics and material properties. I am less interested in quantum-mechanics in general and particle physics. This has a lot to do with inconsistencies in the postulates causing even more problems trying to understand the theory. Relativity says you can't send information faster than the speed of light. Quantum mechanics defies this in the phenomenon of wavefunction collapse, to name one example - and the scanning tunnelling microscope uses quantum-mechanical tunnelling which as far as I can see is a change of position of a particle with no apparent time dependence. Teleportation. My number-one aim used to be to make a teleportation machine. I was convinced it was possible based on experiments I had heard about and simple theories I knew, and tried to extend beyond my knowledge in my head. When I came to study more about quantum mechanics, I became less sure that this was the way to progress. A real way for mankind to progress would be to eliminate current major problems before hedging bets on something relying on a breakthrough, like teleportation. In view of this, I believe the use of different energy sources for the bulk of our requirements and the abolishment of BURNING OIL to be the way forward. Burning oil only takes it away and makes plastic way more expensive/impossible to obtain. Without plastics, we will never get anywhere. I think that improving battery technology or in some way the introduction of the mass-use of electric vehicles is a great goal to aim for. I think battery energy density has to be increased by possibly an order of magnitude before this can happen for real. Then people will see the real benefit of electric cars, and maybe road going 1:1 scale versions of the Proto1 speed car will be cruising the streets at 200MPH. |