Shock waves
small shock waves visible in sand
Schlieren Imaging of Supersonic Shockwaves
Shock waves
small shock waves visible in sand
Schlieren Imaging of Supersonic Shockwaves
Shock waves
small shock waves visible in sand
Fascinating. Not shock waves, but a brilliant introduction to the dilatory (ie. anti-thixotropic) properties of wet sand.
larger explosion shock wave
That’s a real shock wave, and a real mushroom cloud. Six seconds after the explosion, watch the ground.
Schlieren Imaging of Supersonic Shockwaves
This is on a real F/A-18 and F-15 aircraft. I didn’t believe it was possible. I saw many Schlieren images of supersonic shock waves back in the 1980s, the images had been made in the 1950s, but they were all in wind tunnels.
3D shockwave
I wish I had the source code for that, it would have been fantastic for my former computational fluid dynamics work. Good for supernova simulation.
Sun Shock Waves: New Theory Could Predict When Planets Form
I’d heard about this, chondrules in meteorites show signs of extremely rapid “shock” heating, these proposed shock waves are the simplest explanation for how this extremely rapid heading occurred.
Sonic Shock
I have a copy of a technical article about this sort of stuff somewhere. Possibly in hardcopy. Would be difficult to find now.
Is the rigidity of the leading edge of a supersonic shock-wave defined by SR rather than GR?
mollwollfumble said:
Sun Shock Waves: New Theory Could Predict When Planets Form
I’d heard about this, chondrules in meteorites show signs of extremely rapid “shock” heating, these proposed shock waves are the simplest explanation for how this extremely rapid heading occurred.
If this is so shouldn’t it also be likely that the development of internal shock-waves during BB expansion have led to the spawning of SMBH’s and proto-galaxies?
Postpocelipse said:
mollwollfumble said:Sun Shock Waves: New Theory Could Predict When Planets Form
I’d heard about this, chondrules in meteorites show signs of extremely rapid “shock” heating, these proposed shock waves are the simplest explanation for how this extremely rapid heading occurred.If this is so shouldn’t it also be likely that the development of internal shock-waves during BB expansion have led to the spawning of SMBH’s and proto-galaxies?
Wasn’t it irregularities in the shockwave that created clumping of matter that later formed proto-galaxies and first generation stars,
Cymek said:
Postpocelipse said:
mollwollfumble said:Sun Shock Waves: New Theory Could Predict When Planets Form
I’d heard about this, chondrules in meteorites show signs of extremely rapid “shock” heating, these proposed shock waves are the simplest explanation for how this extremely rapid heading occurred.If this is so shouldn’t it also be likely that the development of internal shock-waves during BB expansion have led to the spawning of SMBH’s and proto-galaxies?
Wasn’t it irregularities in the shockwave that created clumping of matter that later formed proto-galaxies and first generation stars,
That seems kinda post expansion to me. There must be a mechanism that triggers BB and another that slows it to the observable. At various points during expansion thresholds are exceeded that provide mass with permanent stability. I expect that these thresholds create shock-waves of their own within the greater BB expansion shock-wave that apply’s braking resistance on it’s expansion.
Postpocelipse said:
Cymek said:
Postpocelipse said:If this is so shouldn’t it also be likely that the development of internal shock-waves during BB expansion have led to the spawning of SMBH’s and proto-galaxies?
Wasn’t it irregularities in the shockwave that created clumping of matter that later formed proto-galaxies and first generation stars,
That seems kinda post expansion to me. There must be a mechanism that triggers BB and another that slows it to the observable. At various points during expansion thresholds are exceeded that provide mass with permanent stability. I expect that these thresholds create shock-waves of their own within the greater BB expansion shock-wave that apply’s braking resistance on it’s expansion.
The size of SMBH’s makes greater sense as the result of primordial shock-waves AFAICT.
Postpocelipse said:
Postpocelipse said:
Cymek said:Wasn’t it irregularities in the shockwave that created clumping of matter that later formed proto-galaxies and first generation stars,
That seems kinda post expansion to me. There must be a mechanism that triggers BB and another that slows it to the observable. At various points during expansion thresholds are exceeded that provide mass with permanent stability. I expect that these thresholds create shock-waves of their own within the greater BB expansion shock-wave that apply’s braking resistance on it’s expansion.
The size of SMBH’s makes greater sense as the result of primordial shock-waves AFAICT.
I guess one way of looking at it might be that the BB shock-wave is the enforcement of SR and a subsequent GR shock-wave is required to balance that out. Haven’t worked out the detail there to any extent but it allows a degree of freedom for assessing DE/DM data.
Particle mass itself only appears to be a suspension between shock-waves from most perspectives.
Postpocelipse said:
Particle mass itself only appears to be a suspension between shock-waves from most perspectives.
Which is where the leading edge of a supersonic shock-wave comes in. If mass is a suspension between SR/GR shock-waves then there has to be degrees of EH for every force threshold which should make the components of a shock-wave defined by the elementary forces. That is the way my brain holds all the recorded information together so I guess I should take that information and get more detail on shock-wave theory.
Like a diesel engine, doesn’t compression initiate ignition or expansion?
roughbarked said:
Like a diesel engine, doesn’t compression initiate ignition or expansion?
For myself the alignment forcing in SR is a compression wave.
Postpocelipse said:
roughbarked said:
Like a diesel engine, doesn’t compression initiate ignition or expansion?
For myself the alignment forcing in SR is a compression wave.
I suspect that every acceleration of any magnitude within a vacuum forces the same shock-wave delineation a supersonic jet or bullet creates through the air, upon the quantum foam(as moll puts it). Within an atmosphere this is dispersed quickly as friction but in a vacuum it remains until the kinetic energy of the object is depleted.
Postpocelipse said:
roughbarked said:
Like a diesel engine, doesn’t compression initiate ignition or expansion?
For myself the alignment forcing in SR is a compression wave.
Take the aberrational speeds at the periphery of elliptical galaxies. If you consider the EH of our SMBH as the leading edge of our galaxy’s shock-wave then it has to have trailing component edges with differing compression.
Postpocelipse said:
Postpocelipse said:
roughbarked said:
Like a diesel engine, doesn’t compression initiate ignition or expansion?
For myself the alignment forcing in SR is a compression wave.
Take the aberrational speeds at the periphery of elliptical galaxies. If you consider the EH of our SMBH as the leading edge of our galaxy’s shock-wave then it has to have trailing component edges with differing compression.
DM is shock-wave foam. DE is the varying compression rates we can observe space through.
Postpocelipse said:
Postpocelipse said:
Postpocelipse said:For myself the alignment forcing in SR is a compression wave.
Take the aberrational speeds at the periphery of elliptical galaxies. If you consider the EH of our SMBH as the leading edge of our galaxy’s shock-wave then it has to have trailing component edges with differing compression.
DM is shock-wave foam. DE is the varying compression rates we can observe space through.
Since our galaxy is moving through a vacuum it is accelerating toward a phantom Great Attractor due to the shape of our shock-wave on the vacuum. This is how I believe the quantum vacuum thruster operates.

sorry, wrong thread.
Postpocelipse said:
Postpocelipse said:
Postpocelipse said:Take the aberrational speeds at the periphery of elliptical galaxies. If you consider the EH of our SMBH as the leading edge of our galaxy’s shock-wave then it has to have trailing component edges with differing compression.
DM is shock-wave foam. DE is the varying compression rates we can observe space through.
Since our galaxy is moving through a vacuum it is accelerating toward a phantom Great Attractor due to the shape of our shock-wave on the vacuum. This is how I believe the quantum vacuum thruster operates.
Build your QVC out of a particularly dense metal bonded with a Vantablack coating on the interior of the vessel and I’d take a small bet the thrust would be increased.
Postpocelipse said:
Postpocelipse said:
Postpocelipse said:DM is shock-wave foam. DE is the varying compression rates we can observe space through.
Since our galaxy is moving through a vacuum it is accelerating toward a phantom Great Attractor due to the shape of our shock-wave on the vacuum. This is how I believe the quantum vacuum thruster operates.
Build your QVC out of a particularly dense metal bonded with a Vantablack coating on the interior of the vessel and I’d take a small bet the thrust would be increased.
I think if you made a centrifuge disc out of Vantablack in a chamber of pressurised helium you could probably generate the effect I was looking for with the quantum tunnelling generator.
Postpocelipse said:
Postpocelipse said:
Postpocelipse said:Take the aberrational speeds at the periphery of elliptical galaxies. If you consider the EH of our SMBH as the leading edge of our galaxy’s shock-wave then it has to have trailing component edges with differing compression.
DM is shock-wave foam. DE is the varying compression rates we can observe space through.
Since our galaxy is moving through a vacuum it is accelerating toward a phantom Great Attractor due to the shape of our shock-wave on the vacuum. This is how I believe the quantum vacuum thruster operates.
So I’m going with “Space is flat and mass is curved. Disparity between particles registers as a forcing of curvature on space(quantum foam) which mitigates this action through gravitation”.
Postpocelipse said:
Postpocelipse said:
Postpocelipse said:DM is shock-wave foam. DE is the varying compression rates we can observe space through.
Since our galaxy is moving through a vacuum it is accelerating toward a phantom Great Attractor due to the shape of our shock-wave on the vacuum. This is how I believe the quantum vacuum thruster operates.
So I’m going with “Space is flat and mass is curved. Disparity between particles registers as a forcing of curvature on space(quantum foam) which mitigates this action through gravitation”.
Gravitation is the rejection of curvature by space.
Postpocelipse said:
Postpocelipse said:
Postpocelipse said:Since our galaxy is moving through a vacuum it is accelerating toward a phantom Great Attractor due to the shape of our shock-wave on the vacuum. This is how I believe the quantum vacuum thruster operates.
So I’m going with “Space is flat and mass is curved. Disparity between particles registers as a forcing of curvature on space(quantum foam) which mitigates this action through gravitation”.
Gravitation is the rejection of curvature by space.
Yes I understand that is little different to “space is curved by mass”.