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April 23, 1962, Dr. William O. Davis presented a paper at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society, Washington, DC titled "Some Aspects of Certain Transient Mechanical Systems" It suggested that Newton's second and third laws of motion might not be exactly correct. He propose that the second law was not expressed by the equation:F = ma ("F" being force, "m" being mass, and "a" being accelleration)but rather:F = ma + A(da/dt)The "A" was defined as a resistance to a change in acceleration (Davis called "intractance") and "da/dt" was the first derivative of acceleration (often called “jerk” or “surge” by physicist).After reading about Dr. Davis' theory in the May 1962 issue of Analog (pp85+), I embarked on a multi-year research that ended in a science fair project that won first place at my local and regional science fairs. Here is my 1964 experimental results.I also communicated with Dr. Davis over several years asking him questions to help me in my research. He always answered me.In 1967, I received a final letter from Dr. Davis after he left research. His conclusion was there was little likelihood to prove his theory through a mechanical experiment. He suggested that the ultimate experiment would have to be done on an atomic level.The Strange Letter from "The Fastest Man On Earth"On February 20, 1964, I wrote a letter to Colonel John P. Stapp asking him to comment on a statement attributed to him by Dr. Davis. Col Stapp was a pioneer in studying the effects of acceleration and deceleration forces on humans. He was a colleague and contemporary of Chuck Yeager, and became known as "the fastest man on earth" from his famous rocket sled experiment. His Wikipedia bio is here and pictures of his rocket sled experiment are here. The letter I received from Stapp included a cryptic statement: “I strongly suspect that an extremely rigorous analysis of Mossbauer’s experiment, excluding wishful thinking and using the most rigid experimental discipline, would begin to yield physical evidence that would relate to proving or disproving Dr. Davis’ proposition.". At the time, I could not figure out how the Mossbauer effect had anything to do with Davis' theory. As far as I knew, Mossbauer's experiment dealt with spectroscopy.In putting this page together, I revisited Stapp's strange suggestion and found some very interesting recent research. In fact. Davis' speculation of an experiment at the atomic level might very well be correct.Prof. A. L. Kholmetskii conducted experiments recently (2009) on the Mossbauer experiment in rotary systems that produced results that cannot be explained by either General or Special Relativity. Here are some links to those results:My specialty was theoretical physics (like Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory TV show. ;-) ). I have to say, the above research papers have piqued my interest. An apparent violation of both the Special and General theories of relativity needs to be explored to see what consequences it has in other areas. This result has consequences beyond spectroscopy.
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