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Electric field:
"Can be attractive or repulsive"
Gravitational Field
"Always attractive"
Here is our first major deviation between the two. I believe however that it is all in how one looks at the situation.
Everything seems to want to sit in a zone of equal potential, this seems to be universal. If you move out of an equal potential area, work has been done and a force appears which brings you back to equal potential.
let me take this interesting quote from a tutoring website.
"If you follow a path along an equipotential, your Ep doesn't change. Therefore you don't lose or gain energy. No work is done.
That's the theory behind why satellites can remain in space without always using energy to stay there. They follow equipotentials. It also applies to the Moon orbiting the Earth and the Earth orbiting the Sun. They all follow equipotentials (almost!).
In fact, it can be shown that:
Potential gradient = gravitational field strength, g.
Or, for the mathematicians amongst you:
"
This would imply that if the moon were brought out of its area of equal potential, it would experience a force to return it. If we moved it further from the earth, it would experience "gravity" and fall back into place, if we moved it closer, it would experience...opposite gravity, and move outward radially, much like buoyancy.
The problem that gravity leaves out, is that its ALL about environment (which will be talked about below concerning charge). If you have a centrifuge, and have various materials of various densities, the spin, gives an acceleratory force which as we showed earlier is essentially the same thing as gravity which is also an acceleratory force. The materials inside will separate out, less dense heading in one direction, more dense heading in the other. Here we have an acceleratory force moving things in TWO directions. The earth does this as well, This is why hot air balloons go up. Because they are in an acceleratory field, all the materials of earth have separated out in their giant centrifuge, with dense materials on one end of the spectrum, and voluminous materials on the other end. Heavy materials want to move towards the center, others towards the periphery until an equipotential zone is found!
Put in other words, Buoyancy can be thought of as an effect of gravity, and so, things depending on their density, can move in both directions.
Now we can see that electric field and gravitational field can both push or pull.
This gets even more interesting to go off on a little tangent.
We say that like charges repel.
This is true, with one HUGE caveat that is never mentioned. The charges must be "alike" WITH RESPECT TO THEIR ENVIRONMENT. This may seem obvious for some, but it makes a huge difference, and play perfectly into this conversation.
For example, say we have a charge of +20culombs and another at +40. These would have very strong repulsion to one another because they are both positive WITH RESPECT TO THEIR ENVIRONMENT. Say you bring the local zero up so that all the ambient area is now charged to +30.
Now one sphere appears to be -10 and the other seems to be +10, and now they want to attract! and we have not changed a thing about them, all we have done is change the environment they sit in!
This means that when we are looking at particles like earth, we would think from the "like charges repell" statement that their composition would all just want to push apart, therefore the nucleus is not possible. Therefore we need to incorporate the "nuclear" forces to account for the adhesion.
However looking at it from my bent, the nucleus exists because like charges do not necessarily attract or repel, in reality they just try to get to a place where all charge from the local environment around them is equal, so they have not net force. Very Dense material, (which should have high energy density)will not push apart from other high energy density material, rather it will try to surround itself with it in an acceleratory field.
To re-iterate the question. What is the difference between an acceleratory field and a potential field?
I believe looking at this from an electrical standpoint can do away with the nuclear forces
Electric field:
"Can be attractive or repulsive"
Gravitational Field
"Always attractive"
Here is our first major deviation between the two. I believe however that it is all in how one looks at the situation.
Everything seems to want to sit in a zone of equal potential, this seems to be universal. If you move out of an equal potential area, work has been done and a force appears which brings you back to equal potential.
let me take this interesting quote from a tutoring website.
"If you follow a path along an equipotential, your Ep doesn't change. Therefore you don't lose or gain energy. No work is done.
That's the theory behind why satellites can remain in space without always using energy to stay there. They follow equipotentials. It also applies to the Moon orbiting the Earth and the Earth orbiting the Sun. They all follow equipotentials (almost!).
In fact, it can be shown that:
Potential gradient = gravitational field strength, g.
Or, for the mathematicians amongst you:
"
This would imply that if the moon were brought out of its area of equal potential, it would experience a force to return it. If we moved it further from the earth, it would experience "gravity" and fall back into place, if we moved it closer, it would experience...opposite gravity, and move outward radially, much like buoyancy.
The problem that gravity leaves out, is that its ALL about environment (which will be talked about below concerning charge). If you have a centrifuge, and have various materials of various densities, the spin, gives an acceleratory force which as we showed earlier is essentially the same thing as gravity which is also an acceleratory force. The materials inside will separate out, less dense heading in one direction, more dense heading in the other. Here we have an acceleratory force moving things in TWO directions. The earth does this as well, This is why hot air balloons go up. Because they are in an acceleratory field, all the materials of earth have separated out in their giant centrifuge, with dense materials on one end of the spectrum, and voluminous materials on the other end. Heavy materials want to move towards the center, others towards the periphery until an equipotential zone is found!
Put in other words, Buoyancy can be thought of as an effect of gravity, and so, things depending on their density, can move in both directions.
Now we can see that electric field and gravitational field can both push or pull.
This gets even more interesting to go off on a little tangent.
We say that like charges repel.
This is true, with one HUGE caveat that is never mentioned. The charges must be "alike" WITH RESPECT TO THEIR ENVIRONMENT. This may seem obvious for some, but it makes a huge difference, and play perfectly into this conversation.
For example, say we have a charge of +20culombs and another at +40. These would have very strong repulsion to one another because they are both positive WITH RESPECT TO THEIR ENVIRONMENT. Say you bring the local zero up so that all the ambient area is now charged to +30.
Now one sphere appears to be -10 and the other seems to be +10, and now they want to attract! and we have not changed a thing about them, all we have done is change the environment they sit in!
This means that when we are looking at particles like earth, we would think from the "like charges repell" statement that their composition would all just want to push apart, therefore the nucleus is not possible. Therefore we need to incorporate the "nuclear" forces to account for the adhesion.
However looking at it from my bent, the nucleus exists because like charges do not necessarily attract or repel, in reality they just try to get to a place where all charge from the local environment around them is equal, so they have not net force. Very Dense material, (which should have high energy density)will not push apart from other high energy density material, rather it will try to surround itself with it in an acceleratory field.
To re-iterate the question. What is the difference between an acceleratory field and a potential field?
I believe looking at this from an electrical standpoint can do away with the nuclear forces
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