On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 8:43 AM Mason Green <masonlgr...@hotmail.com> wrote:
* > It looks like the best hope now might be for a breakthrough or paradigm > shift in cosmology and/or physics. * This is certainly no breakthrough but suppose you had a rod and some beads with holes in them, you thread the beads on the rod and then put some glue or something on the rod to make it slightly sticky. The chemical bonds in the rod would keep the atoms in it from getting further apart but the beads would be free to slide along it, but because the rod was sticky the sliding would generate heat from friction, and you could run a heat engine with that and get work out of it. As we got closer to the Big Rip the rod would get shorter because Dark Energy would start to tare it apart, but that's OK because even though the rod is shorter the acceleration is greater so the heat production would (perhaps) be constant. By the way I got the sticky bead idea from Richard Feynman who used it to show that Gravitational Waves have energy. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
