So go for it...
Here is an experiment for you then...walk into a door. Feel anything? That is telling you something is there. Are you suggesting it is nothing?
Indeed, that tells you something is there, but believe it or not, it is NOT strictly mass that is causing the effect you feel when you walk into a door, but the effects of electromagnetism (broadly speaking).
If you look at
matter (not mass) from a purely point-particle perspective, then an atom is roughly 99.9999999999999% "empty" space. This isn't the entire picture, of course, because we need to delve into the quantum mechanics that Bohr and others figured out, as well as the Pauli exclusion principle, to describe it further, but the reason you cannot walk straight through the door is not due to the fact that is has mass per se. In a similar sense, its also why you can't push the north poles of two strong magnets together, another example of EM fields putting up a barrier, in case you were doubtful of the explanation.
Incidentally, if a neutrino hits that door, it may well pass straight through. The problem you're encountering is the very human one of viewing and encountering things only on the macroscopic scale...the "something is there" scale. The 20th century has shown us that this scale is really not the way the universe works on the fundamental, quantum level and understanding it will be the next great technological breakthrough - think quantum computers (not very far off) and much more beyond.
The world and sun and moon and stars....do they count? I am talking about the level of reality. What you think you understand is another matter.
Those things count as human descriptions of phenomena that have the
property of mass and we describe as "matter". But "mass" still isn't what you think it is...
No. If God and Jesus set up the laws of physics, are they bound by them? This could digress into a separate topic...
Of course our forces are a drop in the bucket. They are here in this temporal state for our benefit only.
Ah, anthropic arguments, the offspring of Ptolemy and others. Most times that we have decided that things are set up 'for our benefit' and that we are the center of the universe, we've come to the crushing Copernican realization that we're wrong. You just have to look at the Pale Blue Dot image to realize how insignificant we are in this universe. We shouldn't be sad about it, but we shouldn't be under any illusions either.
Incidentally, the fundamental forces aren't 'ours'...frequently, they very much act against us, as anybody who's parachute has failed on a skydiving attempt, or anybody who has been struck by lighting would be happy to relate...
Lastly, the forces don't act 'in' a temporal state in quite that way. Gravity for example can actually curve space-time - i.e. far from being temporal itself, gravity can and frequently does itself
affect time, and that's been confirmed experimentally. It's also another aspect of General relativity.
A precision measurement of the gravitational redshift by the interference of matter waves : Abstract : Nature
Loaves and fishes. Is mass involved in them?
You didn't answer the question. I'll let people draw their own conclusions from that...unless you want to say what you think mass 'is made of', or you can cede the point that mass
isn't like that, in which case you'd be correct.
OH!!?? Correction....lensing is happening! I would like to see you prove it is either gravitational, or gravitational in a way that equals earth gravity??
General relativity predicts the
exact amount of lensing that should happen caused by gravity in a given situation, a
testable prediction. It happens to the same degree in both very distant objects (including some of the most distant known) and in very close objects (the sun in fact, gravitationally lenses almost all the light reaching the earth).
If it was anything else other than gravity acting here, we should see a different amount, or none. The predictions so far match to an accuracy level of around 99.7%, but the discrepancy is due to local systematic effects that we can't get around down here. We
can however get around them from space.
The GAIA mission will be able to test it from outside our atmosphere, to a far greater precision, and that launches next year. The sample size it will use is around a billion stars mapped out over the entire sky, all measured extremely accurately, so if there's any flaw in GR, we'll know...
That is all near earth. Pluto is in our fishbowl.
Can you define where the fishbowl ends? Does the fishbowl expand as we learn more about the universe, and does it therefore obey some kind of quantum observational law, such that once we can observe the universe, all the particles suddenly obey a certain set of rules? It's an interesting idea but completely untestable and unfalsifiable, of course...
It happens!
How about this....time is involved in light speed
Ah, ok, clearer now. How about
this - observing from the perspective of a photon, even in our earth 'fishbowl', there is
no such thing as time. A photon, an excitation of an EM field, in a general sense has absolutely
no experience of time.
To describe this properly you have to get into differential geometry and null geodesics, but I don't want to digress too far. Plenty of resources about it out there if you're interested.
Ha. Yes...math equations. They all have little symbols or letters that represent stuff....time, light speed...mass...etc etc. If you run the numbers assuming that all the universe is the same, or the far past, or future, then we need to look at the letters and symbols and meanings.
So what? Physics frequently does not assume that things were always the same, especially when you get into the deeper reaches of cosmology and Planck time theoretical physics. The mathematics of what we know yields predictions about what we should observe. If those don't match, then we change the model until it fits, and then extrapolate more predictions, and so on and so forth. That's how it works, and the fruits of that work over centuries has yielded the computer in front of you and yielded a probe that is currently leaving our solar system, just for starters.