Change of State
(Motion)
It seems reasonable to say all entities of matter in our Universe are in motion. Hubble had pretty good reasoning to say the Universe is expanding. The astronomers tell us galaxies travel through space; as well as rotate. Stars move and rotate. Planets revolve in orbit around the Sun. Moons orbit about planets. Comets follow orbit paths. Our Earth rotates with all its earth, people, plants, animals and atmosphere. Rain falls. Wind blows. River of water and lava flow. Our heart pumps blood to course through our arteries and veins. We walk, run, breathe, and dance. Molecules and atoms have motion. Birds fly, fish swim, and gophers dig. Material matter expands and contracts with temperature changes. We have ocean tides and waves... It appears to me there is "a whole lot of shake-n going on"!
Light appears to have motion. We can observe and show light starting from an origin, and arriving at another location a distance away, and science has measured how fast it goes. Remember, light includes all the electromagnetic phenomenon we call light...visible, heat, X-ray, radio, gamma, cosmic, and etc. Even though we cannot look at a single corpuscle of light, we can measure the pressure of the something we call light, and can detect it in the quanta called a photon.
Space... Does Space have motion? Possibly. There are some different ways of considering possible motion of Space...
Space might just be changing values as electromagnetic charges. This would be like a region of Space having some electromagnetic more or less charge... and something of matter coming near would react to or fro... This would mean that there would be changing of charges... I envision this as a bar of Iron changing its electromagnetic magnetic charge... which can be accomplished through Space with electromagnetic waves being emitted from a source__ crossing space__ arriving at the body of iron__ permeating the iron and changing the condition of the iron__ and the iron, or the internal Space of the iron, radiates some kind of magnetic electromagnetic phenomena that has a polarity to affect any other nearby bodies that are susceptible to magnetism. In order for this scenario to work something has to cross space, and in some situations continue to cross space to maintain the condition. It very well may be that this 'something', may be the intimate conditions or properties of Space, with Space, in space. Waves in the ocean basically just move up and down in a focused pattern that has water progressively move up and down across short distances; but the water, as a whole, does not cross the long distance. But, if given more thought, water molecules do cross distance in the first wave that cause motion, and keep doing this, with a final result of a wave washing up on the beach at the end of the long distance. It is like the Domino Effect... When a row of erected dominos are lined up adjacent to each other... and then one end block is pushed into the next__ this succession continues until the last block of the row falls over some distance later. Each block moved, some distance to accomplish the natural progression as focused. But, keeping something charged would require the source to continue being in motion or having repetitive actions... as a flag waving in the wind. All this is mostly just descriptive, and analogies... It basically would need the wave in Space to be an entity itself, or Space would have to be something with attributes that can react to the pressures of the waves.
I__ and I think others, tend to get focused on Outer Space, when we get deep into our thinking about Space... That is why I came up with Inner, and Intermediate Space, to go with outer Space.. I make the assumption that inner, intermediate and outer Space all have some attributes, properties, and or abilities in common. These three regions, do however, have their differences, such as the density of matter, strength, and type of electromagnetic phenomena in and about each region.
To keep planets in orbit, and subscribe to the theory that there is only pressure action forces in the Universe... I subscribe to the notion that Space within the atoms and molecules of molecules can move with their associated matter. I don't think this Space is 100 % contained within matter, but is focused together, possibly by radiated electromagnetic fields. I think this grouping can extend into regions as our Solar system, and then a grouping of all within our Milky Way galaxy, and etc. Thus each of these matter grouping regions has its own Space, so to speak. There would be Space ahead of our Solar system with a continuous charge with enough strength to turn the planets in their orbits, that otherwise would keep going into outer Space.
I further carry the thoughts that the sub atomic particulates are held together with Space on the micro level. And, the Earth and all upon, within it, and of it are held together by conditions of Space.
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In my opinion and with much observable evidence, I state all the material Universe is in Motion, and probably Space is in motion, or at least it Changes State continuously.
The enormous question at this point would seem to be... How does or can everything in the Universe continually be, or stay in Motion? Well, after a goodly amount of thought... I think it better to ask first why wouldn't everything in the Universe be in Motion? The answer is we never lose anything... it only changes. The total amount of motion stays constant... it is moved by the ability to do work, which is measured as energy. If while doing work, or after, some of the motion causes photons of light... it is still motion... (As you know I don't like how science uses the word energy... but this scenario of no loss, is what is generally called the Principle of Conservation of Energy)
Irregardless of any motion, or not, of Space... it appears to me that all other entities of the Universe are in motion. And, It seems Space, or the electromagnetic within it, at a minimum, has the ability to change state, and is continually doing so. Thus motion is a reality... which is changing of state, of Universal entities.
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Page Relevant Quotes
" The atoms of a solid are not standing still__ they are vibrating..." Principles of College Physics, Shortley & Williams
"From the variety of complex motions in the world around us we choose as our first example uniform motion. This is the simplest, because there are no external forces acting. Uniform motion can, however, never be realized; a stone thrown from a tower, a cart pushed along a road can never move absolutely uniformly because we cannot eliminate the influence of external forces." Physics; Edited by; Samuel Rapport & Helen Wright
"In fact, there can be no such thing as a perfectly rigid body in nature. If a golf ball were that rigid, and the entire ball began moving at once, then the shock wave would have to travel through the ball at an infinite velocity. This is forbidden by Einstein's special theory of relativity, which states that no signal or casual influence can travel at a velocity greater than that of light." The Edges of Science; Richard Morris
"Speed is measured in derived units such as mi/hr or m/s, but the statement of a velocity must include a direction. All velocities are relative. The velocity of a body is always relative to another body. When the other body is not mentioned it is understood to be the earth." Principles of College Physics; George Shortley, Dudley Williams.
"Why is the equivalence of the practically-rigid body and the body of geometry-which suggests itself so readily-denied by Poincare and other investigators? Simply because under closer inspection the real solid bodies in nature are not rigid, because their geometrical behaviour, that is, their possibilities of relative disposition, depend upon temperature, external forces, etc...
"There it is at last: Warmth is motion... Heat is the invisible random jiggling of invisible atoms and molecules that constitute material substances." Rainbows, Snowflakes, and Quarks; Hans C. von Baeyer.
§"Entity__ 1. thing with distinct existence. 2. existence or essential nature of a thing regarded distinctly. Synonyms: 1. object, element, unit, being, organism, specimen, individual, body. 2. life, being; essence, quintessence. (Oxford Dict.)"
LAW I
"Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it."
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, By Sir Isaac Newton.
"...laws of motion... The story began with Galileo... Of all his discoveries, the greatest was that a body upon which no outside force is acting will continue in its state of motion; if it is at rest, it will remain at rest, but it will maintain any velocity that it originally has. This is the principal of inertia, the first of the great principles of physics of which the general statement was probably given by his contemporary Rene′ Descartes." Quanta: J. Andrade e Silva, G. Lochak
"In the Special Theory of Relativity, Einstein studied the phenomenon of motion and showed that there appears to be no fixed standard in the universe by which man can judge the 'absolute' motion of the earth or of any other moving system. Motion can be detected only as a change of position with respect to another body." The Universe and Dr. Einstein; Lincoln Barnett
"It is painfully clear that the idea of an isolated micro-system is very far removed from reality, but we are forced to admit that there must be a deeper level of reality in which atomic systems are in a never ceasing fluctuation. This will be called sub-quantum medium. The laws of quantum mechanics, then cannot by themselves be a complete system, and any efforts to include them in a mechanistic scheme will be doomed to failure in advance." "Because of their very nature, it is impossible to give a detailed description of these fluctuations. Both the perturbations due to the sub-quantum medium and those produced by the interactions between atomic systems must be regarded as random, and this means that the jumping of the corpuscle will also be a random process. Even a knowledge of its initial position would be of little value, because the motion at any given instant could not be predicted with any exactness. All we could find out would be the probability of it occurring at any particular point." Quanta: J. Andrade e Silva, G. Lochak
"From the point of view of the atomic theory, we can at once say that heat energy is nothing but the energy of motion (to which must be added in some cases the potential energy) of the molecules of which matter is composed. Let us consider a gas, for instance. It consists of molecules, more complex in some gases, less in others, but in all cases about a hundred-millionth of an inch across, with comparatively large spaces between, moving about in all directions with an average speed measured in hundreds of yards a second. The molecules collide with one another, and lose or gain in speed at collision, so that all velocities from very small to very great are represented. ...The hotter the gas the more lively is the motion of its molecules, or, more precisely put, the greater the average energy of the molecules. ...If the vessel be closed the more lively beating of the gas molecules against its sides produce the rise in pressure which we know takes place when a gas is heated in a sealed space.
In a liquid we likewise have energy of motion of the molecule... In a solid the molecules are anchored to definite spots... and vibrate about that spot like balls held by springs. In all cases, however, the heat energy is simply the energy involved in different modes of motion of the molecules." An Approach to Modern Physics; E. N. da C. Andrade
From the variety of complex motions in the world around us we choose as our first example uniform motion. This is the simplest, because there are no external forces acting. Uniform motion can, however, never be realized; a stone thrown from a tower, a cart pushed along a road can never move absolutely uniformly because we cannot eliminate the influence of external forces." Physics; Edited by; Samuel Rapport & Helen Wright
As I understand, the following scenario is where credit is given for eliminating ether as a physical medium of Space.
"Classically, absolute zero was often described as the temperature at which all motion ceases. Quantum mechanically, there is no such temperature. Atomic motion never does cease. That precise a zero would violate the uncertainty principle." Genius, The life and Science of Richard Feynman, James Gleick
