E=MCsquared        ENERGY EQUALS THE SPEED OF LIGHT SQUARED
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                           OTTAWA DESCRIPTION '85
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              A cloud event seen in '85 was a circular white wispy
              patch centered directly over the sun in the afternoon
              of an otherwise bright sunny cloudless summer day. The
              wispyness was spreading out in a perfect circle around
              the Sun, with the Sun the centerpoint. Effectively the
              white wispy high atmosphere cloud was centered perfectly
              between the Sun, and myself, sitting alone selling sweet
              corn at a table by the side of a local highway 35 klicks
              west of Ottawa.

              The very white very wispy perfectly circular cloud was not
              enormous at all, occupying about as much space as an auric
              halo around a streetlamp in fog, or a better analogy - the
              halo around streetlamps after a long swim and the eyes are
              blurred by waterlog. The unusual nature of this cloud was
              that its circumpherence was propigating outward at a speed
              that was uniformly diminishing, the rate  slowing  at the
              outer edges in step with an expanding radius. During the
              time, radians of cloud texture (similar to color streaks
              in a human eye but more actually like frost forming around
              a larger and larger area on a cold window), could be seen
              to be continuously eminating from the center point (the
              Sun) uniformly out in all directions, in the filling of
              the ever so slowly expanding area within the circle.

              The cloud stayed centered over the Sun for about half an
              hour, gradually starting to fade after about 10 minutes of
              its initial expanding phase. It was frosty white the whole
              time, not of normal cloud texture at all, it was frosty.


              E=MCsquared        WHAT is   'THE SPEED OF LIGHT SQUARED'
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              It gave me a telltale model as to how to think of MCsquared
              in the equation  E=MCsquared.  How is it possible to think
              of the speed of light squared?  The model is that I now
              think of something filling an area at the speed of light,
              the same flow of fill pouring in but propigating outward
              uniformly in all directions at the speed of light, wherein
              the rate of propigation will inexorably slow at the outer
              edges as the area of the circle expands. In which case you
              do have the speed of light squared. This is the way the
              area of a flat circle fills uniformly at a constant rate,
              the fill media slowing as the radius of the circle expands,
              until a point is reached where the radius is large enough
              that no more fill can be seen to enter, when the fill keeps
              a a constant flow input rate. The flow fills into the area
              of an expanding circle which, being flat, is squared.

              You take it from here, to determine that the mass is
              eqivalent to quantity  pouring in to the centerpoint
              (and is not the velocity since it is a constant) and
              that in the greater equations, the mechanics have to
              have a pi R squared factor. All deemed to put action
              to the abstract equation E=MCsquared. The perception
              that more pouring in at a constant velocity, results
              in a larger area of larger filled circle, is correct
              to depict more energy, when there is greater mass.

                                       Regards: GREYDON MOORE  1996.

                                        e-mail  greydon@look.com