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- From: wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes)
- Subject: Re: Standard model of QSOsex
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.112247.29716@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
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- Date: 12 Aug 92 15:22:47 GMT
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- njzy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (T. Joseph Lazio, Cornell University) writes:
- > From this description [and from other hints Tom has dropped], I infer
- > that he disagrees with the notion that gravitational and inertial masses
- > are equal. I would also infer that the inertial mass is larger. Hence,
- > in the Meta model, stellar masses which are derived from binary star orbits
- > are underestimates of the inertial mass.
-
- Hmmm, it's not clear to me that two stars of different (but "high") masses
- are going to even orbit elliptically. I have no idea how
- Tom claims the gravitational masses change with "amount of matter" (==
- inertial mass, I hope!), but I just tried a simple formula: gravitational
- mass = inertial mass ^ 0.9, and modified my old NBody simulator, and
- the orbits of two masses was NOT elliptical, not by a long shot. It's
- not even clear if the orbits would be closed. (I didn't run it long enough,
- but it was a weird enough orbit that I'm pretty sure they'd either spiral
- in or get tossed away... unless of course there's an equilibrium reached
- somewhere.) Alot more detail formulae and analysis would be necessary. So
- I don't think ANYTHING can be said about binary star orbits and masses
- until we know alot more about Tom's mass claims.
-
- > However, galactic rotation curves, derived from stellar velocity dispersion
- > measurements, are estimates of the inertial mass. These rotation curves
- > measure the velocity of the stars as they respond to an external force,
- > namely the gravitational potential produced by the other stars.
-
- > Thus, is this the explanation of dark matter in the Meta model? Dark
- > matter is nothing more than the difference between the gravitational
- > and inertial masses of stars?
-
- No, you've got it backwards, Tom's gravitational force is LESS than what it
- would be using "normal" physics; besides he claims the distinction is only
- apparent in very dense objects, and most of the stars and gas clouds in
- galaxies are not, so for the most part Imass == Gmass.
-
- > It is still not clear how extra interior matter increases stability. The
- > stability of a star depends upon its surface gravitational field.
-
- Depends what you mean by stability: if you mean no mass loss, then you're
- right. If, by "greater stability", Tom means "longer lifetime", then
- certainly he's right: if the gravitational mass of a star is far less
- than the inertial mass in the dense inner core, then the pressure would
- be less, hence the hydrogen would burn slower => longer lifetime. But
- then again, depending on how the Gmass changes with density, mass loss
- might start occuring on the surface... who knows. Again we need more
- formulae on how Gmass changes with density.
-
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