Playing with Tensors.

Playing with tensors.

I have this amazing intellectual desire to study the theory of relativity again, but this time in the original language it was conceived, german.

So I have been studying german for the last sixty months in order to accomplish my intellectual desire.

But before, should I complete my master in electromagnetism, which I commenced twelve months ago.

Electromagnetism is the proper introduction before studying the theory of relativity, since the Electromagnetism mathematics are the foundation for the theory of relativity, specifically the Maxwell and Lorenz equations and vectors.

But, the good news, we experience both forces, gravity and electromagnetism in our daily life, so we can use our common sense to play with those forces, somehow.

So, I invented a very elegant excuse to design and build a space elevator.

The structural engineers only use the gravity force when they design and build structures.

Unlike our own body, which uses an electrochemical signal from the brain to activate the muscles and make those faster and stronger, our buildings only use muscles ( aka columns and beams) without any electromagnetic leverage.

So the field of the Smart Structures was born to place a brain in our buildings to manage the external forces ( Earthquakes, Hurricanes, terrorism attacks, and so on and so forth) in a faster an more efficient way.

During my research about the Smart Structures, I found out this beautiful equation, the inertia reduction (in function of time) equation, which tells the required electromagnetic's force magnitude and direction to counterbalance an earthquake event.

So, for our space elevator, we are going to use both forces to design and build it.

So let me explain to you the nice trick which I hope will help us to build our space elevator, by using an analogy:

Think about a huge waterfall, the trick is to freeze the waterfall to climb it and to unfreeze it in order to use the waterfall's huge potential energy to compensate the amount of energy we used while climbing it.