Research Article
Collisions, added mass, speed increase, and energy transfer via quantum entanglement
This paper (preprint) is the author’s analytical research of elastic and inelastic collisions (impacts) of two bodies in a linear motion. An experiment (inelastic collision) described in the paper is designed to understand how an additional mass can physically (not in physical formulas) make a final speed increase of one of two colliding bodies. A first body (big block), which is linearly moving at some constant speed, hits a second body (small block) which is motionless. Accelerations of and final speeds of the blocks, and the impact time are measured. Then, some additional mass is assembled to the big block so that a length of the big block can stay the same. Next, the big block (with an added mass) hits the small block keeping the initial speeds of the blocks the same. Accelerations of and final speeds of the blocks, and the impact time are measured. In according to the classical mechanics formulas, a final speed of the small block gets higher if a total mass of the big block is increased, even though the initial speeds of the blocks do not change. However, it is unclear how a mass, which is added to the big block, may physically make an increase of the small block final speed if the initial speeds of and lengths of the colliding blocks do not change. A speed of shock waves is the same in the two blocks if they are made of the same material. Based on the physics of collision, if a length of the small block is less than a length of the big block, then the small block must begin to move when its shock wave returns to the impact area before a shock wave in the big block returns to the impact area. In other words, the small block must begin to move at the same time in the collision with or without an added mass, so the initial speeds of and lengths of the two blocks do not change. Therefore, the physical impact time must be the same for the collision with or without an added mass. Hence, the blocks cannot squeeze each other faster or longer during the physical impact when an added mass is assembled to the big block. In such conditions, the final speed increase of the small block can physically happen in the way that the small block either gets a higher acceleration or accelerates for a longer time after the physical impact between the blocks (with an added mass) ends. The current physics does not explain how physically (not in the formulas) an added mass can make the small block accelerate faster or longer after the physical impact (contact) ends. Therefore, the current collision physics appears not to explain the collision process completely when the small block final speed becomes higher despite the same impact time. The author assumes that maybe the interactions between the particles in the experimental collision may be based on some sort of quantum entanglement, anisotropy, relativity, that is, without any fields, or the energy transfer between fields happens via some sort of quantum entanglement anisotropically. Though, such an assumption requires a supplementary experimental research.
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