On Aug 24, 2:55 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...***yahoo.com> wrote:
> Future presidents should at least know how to trap a long train inside
> a short tunnel:
>
> http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=nNgzqpKZwhE&feature=iv
> Professor Richard A. Muller, University of California Berkeley
> Physics for Future Presidents
>
> Pentcho Valev
> pva...***yahoo.com


<<Einstein published his theory of gravitation, or
general theory of relativity, in 1916. And so a new
paradigm, or set of beliefs, was established. It
was not until 1930 that Fritz London explained
the weak, attractive dipolar electric bonding
force (known as Van der Waals’ dispersion force
or the “London force”) that causes gas molecules
to condense and form liquids and solids. Like
gravity, the London force is always attractive
and operates between electrically neutral molecules.
And that precise property has been the most puzzling
distinction between gravity and the powerful
electromagnetic forces, which may repel as well
as attract.

So it seems the clue about the true nature of gravity
has been available to chemists – who are not interested
in gravity – and unavailable to physicists – who are
not interested in physical chemistry (and view the
world through Einstein’s distorting spectacles).
Look at any average general physics textbook and
you will find no reference to Van der Waals’ or
London forces. What a different story might have been
told if London’s insight had come a few decades earlier?
Physics could, by now, have advanced by a century
instead of being bogged in a mire of metaphysics. >>
http://www.holoscience.com/news.php?article=r4k29syp

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