and this. All a bit of a problem.... as there are two components in the discussion that remain misunderstood. Time..and..gravity.
Now, if we take the slinky into an environment where gravity is different, we get a different result. The 'action' across 'time' (we are immersed in time so we are forced to use the analogy, forest and trees and all that, and at the same time, just what the heck is an observer, anyway?), this action across time, occurs differently.
Since the observer is immersed in 'time' as a reference point, the incorrect analogy of what time MIGHT be is brought to the table of the zero gravity experiment, and the results are explained in away that disassociates time and gravity from their actual fundamental. this is due to the loss of one frame of reference,and thus the 'observer' and contemplator of the experiment..tries to retain the other frame of reference (kittens do cling to legs when one stands up, nothing new there-the reactionary animal alive and well), time, and then explain the result in those terms, from that reference.
What the observer seems to fail to understand, is that the knowledge of the retained reference is only in the context of the two as a set. As in time -in a gravity well (pair). This analogy and position cannot be taken to the explanation of what happens to the slinky in the zero gravity space, as the equation is incorrectly surmised.
We must return to the original context, which is that we do NOT understand the origins of gravity and we do NOT understand the origins of time.
And thus there is NO real and workable remaining analogy in math and formulation that can be taken to the observed results in zero gravity. We see a difference but we cannot inject the ground based or earth based or 'time/gravity well' composite formulation into the zero gravity result. we can do so if we want to, but in that moment, we limit ourselves to the ground based observation as being injected into a situation which is wholly different.
Wholly different, as the explanation found, leaves out reams and reams of OTHER data that remains completely unexplained by the proffered frameworks. This frameworks of a formulation...the explanation that arose from bringing one half of a frame of reference into an experimental observation, where that frame does not apply.
http://phys.org/news/2012-12-falling-slinky.html





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