[Physics] Viscosity

[Tom Hollings]

Mike, as space is not empty, but full of gas at varying temperatures and densities, and moving in differing directions, would that not cause the viscosity to vary?
Tom Hollings



> On 02 May 2020 at 15:47 mikelawr at freenetname.co.uk wrote:
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> 
> Arend,
> 
> In my earlier response I forgot to mention that E and (shear) vicosity 
> both have the same dimensions, being Y^9. So it could be considered that 
> mechanically an electric field is like having viscosity through which 
> waves must travel. Equally, from my point of view, adjusting Maxwell to 
> include the effects of background viscosity would be equivalent to 
> simply adjusting the value of E in any equation - although it could 
> equally well be argued that the value of E already contains the 
> viscosity effect because we have not yet recognised it.
> 
> Cheers
> Mike
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> 
> 
> On 2020-04-30 16:30, Arend Lammertink wrote:
> > Hi Mike,
> > 
> > On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 6:08 PM <mikelawr at freenetname.co.uk> wrote:
> >> 
> >> The paper shows that SI units actually hide that the strength of mass
> >> and charge fields are the same at the fundamental level.
> > 
> > That's very interesting, because I believe the electric field is one
> > and the same as the field causing the gravitational force (as
> > experienced on the surface of a planetary body) via the pushing/shadow
> > gravity principle Paul proposed.   Will take a look at your paper.
> > 
> > Greetz,
> > 
> > Arend.
>