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Saganic Observations
So there I was… sitting there on the ground, just looking up at the sky; trying to focus on the bigger picture. It was a quiet time. I’m sure that the normal variety of distractions existed, but for that one solitary moment I was oblivious. Ordinarily (given my tendencies toward the mundane), I might have pondered the acrimony resulting from the 3,000 vs. 6,000 mile oil change or some other weighty dilemma, but not today.
Today, I rode a train. I felt the tracks under me and the sudden jolts from side-to-side movements not accounted for during the engineering of the passenger compartments. For just a moment, I contemplated the quandary associated with the difficulty in standing while the train was moving.
That’s when it came to me. The inertial density of space-time itself is what knocks you down when you stand on a lurching train. Once you are in motion these inertial effects become less severe, like riding a bicycle. It only effects accelerating objects. In order for an object to break a rest state it needs to acquire enough energy to overcome the inertial density or universal gravitic gradient.
See, this explains why inertial effects occur with regard to accelerating objects but not to objects in uniform motion! A moving object, by definition, has a higher energy than its own ground state (duh!) and is therefore not subject to the effects of the universal ground-state gradient. Space has a density, a kind of gravity all it's own. It's caused because nothing ever holds perfectly still. No matter how much energy you take away from a system, as long as it exists, it will maintain a tiny level of energy called its ground-state. This ground-state is extremely stable (it takes a lot to disturb it, unlike certain cranky spouses).
All of the mass in the universe creates gravitational effects and all these effects attenuate at a fixed rate, but no matter how much they attenuate, they cannot drop below the ground-state of the universe itself. (Again, duh…) This ground-state does not propagate itself spatially, it is an instantaneous and local event; a delta-plus moment of extremely short duration between the moment of particle promotion to the instant of electron-positron annihilation. It is not a single system but rather a plenum of unbound systems that regulate energy-states in larger systems through discrete and local Planck scale transactions.
I shall try to remember this should I ever again ride a train. You might be wise to tuck this away somewhere, should you ever find yourself riding a train… with your spouse… and she’s cranky.
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