Why Quantum?

Steve,

Yeah, I like to keep it simple too, and I have long thought that naivety is somewhat under-rated these days, but only if it is informed. And like an old Gordon Lightfoot tune: "I never came to borrow / I only came to learn." Tom Ray got through to me early on, and it took a while to see the method in Pete's madness, and people like Eckard and a number of others have been tolerant at least of my deficiencies of acquired knowledge, which I greatly appreciate. This forum is about as close as I might hope to get to august company. I guess, intellectually I'm in the School of Errorstotal - Alas, none but geometers may enter here! jrc

I just pummeled some atheists on a spiritual forum with this idea, but I wanted to share the idea with you in the physics community.

Basically, I believe that the physics constants and the laws of physics are written upon aether, an invisible substance, as if it were computer script. The invariance of the speed of light does not make sense unless there is some invisible substance that interconnects everything. I believe that wave functions really do exist, and that the physics constants and laws of physics are written or otherwise imprinted upon them. In principle, it might be possible to gain access to this invisible substance and alter the laws of physics and/or physics constants.

Basically, I believe that God wrote the first script, creating the physics constants/laws of physics. It resulted in the big bang. If we take a much closer look at wave-functions as something that really does exist, we might be able to alter the laws of physics and physics constants.

One point that I think is a mistake to make when people give examples on "entropy" (which by the way I don't think of as a fundamental law) is to single out things/states where a shattered mug doesn't spontaneously reassembles into an intact mug, or water doesn't reassemble into a perfect ice cube, or ...

Well EVERY single microstate is unique! Just because the reassembled mug has some meaning to people doesn't make it special. Saying it is special is a biased point of view, a human biased view. A shattered mug might not reassemble into an intact mug but it also doesn't "reassemble" into a 'gazillion' other states either.

How long will it take the physics community to figure out how the laws of physics and physics constants are implemented? A century? A millennia? An age?

I think we (Peter J, Eckard, JRC, Steve,...) are more less agreed that photons are divisible and that the Raman scattering pointed out by Peter J. rivals the Compton scattering very well without resorting to particle nature of light. Even in the particle picture, we see that based on the aim of Jon Barrett and Matt Leifer to "promote the second law of thermodynamics as an axiom and a compelling postulate", QM fails as I have suggested in an earlier post on Jul. 15, 2014 @ 14:40 GMT, using Penrose's analogy of the second law.

Another reason why there is difficulty letting go of QM, despite its many imperfections and oddities is the claim that it provides accurate descriptions for many previously unexplained phenomena such as stable electron orbits.

Going by the attraction force between the electron (-) and the proton (), the atom is supposed to be unstable and collapse. QM suggests a theoretical mechanism that prevents this collapse.

However, on the macro-scale, there is an attraction force as well between, e.g. between a planet and the sun. Yet this orbit too is stable. What we see is that a planet moves closer to the sun at perihelion and is seemingly repelled from further collapse as the planet starts moving in a direction opposite to that of the gravitational attraction force! How could this be? It is sometimes claimed that the increased orbital speed at perihelion makes the planet want to escape hence the moving away from the sun. But a little thought shows that this increased orbital speed cannot be the answer to orbital stability. The orbital speed can increase, yet the planet can keep moving inwards rather than outwards, so to speak, spiraling inwards at increasing speed eventually crashing into the sun. But this does not happen.

Again, if we look at orbits energy-wise, the total energy of a satellite or planet (both kinetic and potential) of mass, m in orbit about the sun of mass, M is given by

-GMm/2r,

(K.E. in orbit = GMm/2r, P.E. in orbit = -GMm/r). The minus sign shows that when orbital radius reduces and objects fall under gravity, total energy is lost like when a satellite crashes to earth). Objects speed up as they fall because K.E. increases as orbital radius, r reduces (K.E. = GMm/2r), while P.E. reduces (-GMm/r). Total energy (-GMm/2r) at aphelion is more than that at perihelion. When energy is therefore lost in one-half of the cycle from aphelion to perihelion, from whence is the energy regained such that the orbit is replenished? The QM orbit-preserving mechanism will not operate on this scale. Could the mysterious stabilizing agent in gravitational orbits therefore not be the same agent stabilizing atomic orbits, instead of resorting to QM which is giving rise to so many paradoxes and absurdity? Recall that Sommerfeld atomic model was elliptical as well meaning that like gravitational orbits, the electron would alternately oscillate about some equilibrium distance in the atom. What could this energy-replenishing, anti-attraction stabilizing agent be, since it would be more economical if it were to be the source of orbital stability at both micro- and macro-scale?

Akinbo

By the way, I just listened to the FQXi podcast, of Jon Barrett and Matt Leifer explaining to reporter Colin Stuart. http://www.fqxi.org/community/podcast/2014.06.30

Akinbo,

A good point about the quantum assumption of stable orbits which expects the electron mass quantity to be somewhere, sometime, measurable. But also assumes that it is also always a discrete differentiated mass like a tiny moon orbiting the always differentiated nucleus. Vis-à-vis; the solar system(s) orbitals which while improved in accuracies by General Relativity, still frustrate attempts to solve the 'three body problem'. And of course there is the elephant in the room of both Newton and Einstein planetariums of, "so just 'why' is the gravitational constant 'that' empirical numeric value?".

In the podcast, SR was noted as essential to the developments of both QM and GR, and the two postulates are necessary to universal quantitative physical entropy. It has long bothered me that Lorentz is rationalized by Einstein's famous gedanken of riding a beam of light and recognizing that 'time stopped'. Impossible. Rather the subtle distinction should be made that light velocity is coincident with the greatest rate of propagation of time, it is not that it ends at light velocity or there would be no time for light. The variable rate of time 'flow' is at the heart of Bill Unruh's theoretics and he offers an application to Quantum Mechanics in general towards finding a rationale for quantum gravity. I'll post following this, the link to one such paper. jrc

Akinbo,

to follow up... The Unruh paper link was posted by Marcel-Marie LeBel on April 8, 2014 in the 'Time and the Nature of Reality' blog, as an attachment listed as: Unruh-Prob-time.pdf

MARCEL my apologies, I missed that and only came across it browsing last evening. Thank-you very much. How would Bill Unruh think your abstract to akin to Pilot Wave theory, other that 'unequal flow of time' can smooth a curve out into a linear function?

Also on Entropy & Superposition, google, Chladni Plate experiments and let your intuition transpose the macro harmonic resonance to the spacetime continuum. jrc

John, Steve,

"...it's not clear how it makes a quantum gravity" - "And a quantum gravity will do away with black hole singularities and give us back an absolute or proper time."

There's a link between the helical Gottfried-Jackson angle (Cos Theta GJ) (between the lab frame Higgs and a photon modulated to the resonance rest frame) and Quantum Gravity. But perhaps best read this first http://arxiv.org/pdf/1211.3658.pdf and I'll just write about how (Absolute) Proper Time also simply emerges independently anyway. (I actually did that in the 2012 "Much Ado..." essay).

When inertial (rest frame K) systems meet the Higg's process condenses fermions (electron, positron proton pure plasma) in BOTH frames. From each rest frame the OTHER is considered 'virtual'. But they are both real, just as two cars are both real before they collide! 'Yours' is at rest in Maxwell's 'Near field' the other the 'Far field'.

The plasma meets and cancels across the Debye length (after a lot of hydrodynamic turbulent mixing!) but not before it's done it's job as a two-fluid plasma and converted all EM fluctuation crossing it (both ways) to the new local c (K/K') by absorption and re-emission. Ergo; One rule; Electrons only know ONE speed c. Their own! So c in K is the same as c in K' but wrt K and K' NOT each other! That's a simple Doppler shift (limited by the Lorentz factor as max plasma density approaches at K-K'

Pete,

That's digestible, though I'll need to learn enough to use chop-sticks to get a wrap on the Higg's mechanism. 'Two fluid' plasma is comprehensible from the condensed matter paradigm, and I think you are correct in examining the TZ for tracing how relativistic spacetime might determine the metamorphis of a continuous energy emission into a distinct quanta wavelength package in the far field. I think there is a linkage between Unruh time and the evanescent waves which reflect entirely back into the electronic energy volume, and which have an exponential rate of dissipation, where in the near field the electrostatic intensity follows a cube root dissipation rate while the magnetostatic intensity drops by the familiar inverse square. It suggests that the exponential rate prevails in the first half of the first wavelength distance in the near field, and governs the change of electro rate in the near field to the inverse square value in far field. The right angle relationship between electric and magnetic influence at 'c' might thus resolve into the far field, and Maxwell is found in the 90 degree out of phase relation (linear) at relative nil velocity, which is in phase at 'c'. Unruh time might be worth a look as that 'rate of time' phase shift would be exponential. At nil, 90*, the proper length is half again the proper length at 'c' where mag and elec fields are in phase linearly. What do you think?

Pardon my feeble attempts at interpretation of your discrete field dynamics. jrc

Okay, geez louise, let's see if we can do a simple mind experiment. Let DFM do a beamsplitter on a single photon, 50% to path A and 50% to path B. Now, we observe the single photon on path A...does that mean the photon was always on path A? Or was it a superposition of paths A and B and never on just one path? Do possibilites exist that are unknowable or is the universe deterministic?

These theories get so unwieldy that it is nearly impossible to tell left from right and up from down without simplicity.

Steve,

Fair enough! Pete, you're up. jrc

JRC, Thanks for your comments. Will check the Unruh paper.

Peter, The much I agree with you is that by some mechanism 'c' can be modulated to a local value and in essence this results in Galilean relativity. Your preferred mechanism is by electron absorption and emission of light. But what of electron-free media, or don't they exist? What's your take on the cause of stability in orbits we can see (i.e. gravitational orbits)? Insights from that may help us understand orbits we cannot see (i.e. quantum). To put it this way: Why has the moon not fall on our heads despite billions of years of the earth and moon tugging at each other? What keeps them apart?

Akinbo

Steve,

"Do possibilites exist that are unknowable or is the universe deterministic?"

I don't know. i.e. 'unknowable' in the model as it only resolves one order of the hierarchy at a time (parameters may change at smaller scales). Godel's fuzzy logic and Chaos theory always apply. But the bits logically resolved include QM non-locality, SR, (with the LT 'limit' mechanism) and GR.

Annoyingly the 2nd half of my post is lost in cyberspace as I used a 'more than' chevron. At least that made is 'digestible'! There is ONLY 'Proper Time' (absolute rate) because SR only banned a SINGLE 'ether' frame, not many hierarchical local background rest states. The SR postulates and AE conceptions survive, the paradox ridden 'interpretation' is junked.

BEAMSPLITTER

The probability of getting precisely 50;:50 are the same as you chopping a sausage precisely in half blindfolded or not. Now look at a 2D cosine 'wave', strike a vertical line blindfold, and check the probability of hitting it precisely at the peak. It's infinitely small (remember the red dots on my 2012 essay Fig 4 rings). So rule one is there's always an energy imbalance.

Now also consider in terms (almost whichever you like but they overlap) of re-emissions at the surface (mirror or glass), Huygens construction, QED sum-over paths, and the non-linear Schrödinger equation. There is NO 'photon' as such following any 'path'. Our preconceptions are nonsense. There are spreading fluctuating energy distributions. If something physically interacts at any number of spatial positions a 'quanta' will however only manifest at ONE position, where any constructive interference is highest. (in kiddies terms, the 'path' the original positive charge took, which DID have a 50:50 random probability).

If a 2nd splitter is introduced to 'recombine' the patterns the same thing happens. BOTH patterns are requantized/re-emitted at the splitter. But NOW they BOTH have 'peaks and troughs' (2D simplification) so phase can be 'tuned' to create the positive energy peak in EITHER direction! i.e. by changing transit time/distance. (A bit more precise to think of playing with two representative twin helices, but less familiar!).

That solution is pretty well as Wheeler anticipated. As usual it's only silly starting assumptions that make nonsense of all that follows. The ontology is powerfully predictive across the board.

I think I also posted the application to cosmology, which suggests a cycle of galaxies and universes. When we look for the specific evidence we find it all lined up for us, presently 'anomalous'. There were two more new 'anomalous' findings this last week which were predictions of the model (satellite galaxy orbits, and anomalous large morphologies in the early universe)

Velocity anti-correlation of diametrically opposed galaxy satellites. and

Anomalous Galaxy Formation and Evolution(finding not interpretation!.

It seems now that even the Higg's may be better described as the 'dipole' the DFM suggests!? Twin Peak Higg's anomaly!

The cyclic evolution paper also derives galaxy bars. It's in print but preprint here (with other papers). None will of course get accepted by a 'big' journal as I'm not an academic, and they're on the 'big picture' not minutii. www.academia.edu/6655261/A_CYCLIC_MODEL_OF_GALAXY_EVOLUTION_WITH_BARS.

The model is as Freeman predicted, incomplete, imperfect and apparently confusing (as it's unfamiliar) but the basics couldn't be simpler (see my prev 3 essays, all top 10 scorers). It's open for all attach and falsification, as well as help to tidy up and help 'describe' in current doctrine terms!

Akinbo

Free protons also scatter EM energy, and provide most of the gravitational mass of pure plasma (dark matter). Parts of space with few electrons are big to compensate. There will always be a kinetic state and radius for any mass where centripetal and centrifugal forces balance. But electrons are not 'orbiting particles'. They may better be seen as an additional wider 'spin state' when 'bound' to a proton. It seems they then can't 'annihilate' with free positrons. Further evolution is then to the more complex bound molecular gases.

Best wishes

Peter

Good, DFM has prepared a superposition state of some sort to represent a beamsplitter. So it sounds like DFM is a lot like QM with a new basis set.

Next problem: What does DFM do with the inside of a black hole? Does time stop? what is the meaning of displacement inside of a black hole?

Peter,

I am okay with the part about EM scattering.

I will not contend QM orbits and whether or not electrons are not 'orbiting particles' since we can't see them. But we can see the moon orbiting the earth and the earth orbiting the sun, so lets start from there...

You say, "There will always be a kinetic state and radius for any mass where centripetal and centrifugal forces balance.".

We know the centripetal force acting radially inwards, which is gravity

F = GMm/r2 = mrω2 = centripetal force

What is the cause of the centrifugal force, acting oppositely and radially outwards? For a sling whirled around, your swirling hand provides the centrifugal force radially outwards, while the tension in the string provides the centripetal force radially inwards.

In gravitational orbits, the orbiter's velocity is tangential to the orbit and not in a radial direction, so in my opinion it cannot fit the bill.

Why should the magnitude of forces be varying rhythmically, strongest at perihelion and weakest at aphelion? Does this not indicate the presence of a 'ghost'? To illustrate consider a swinging pendulum. When it swings downwards in an arc we are not surprised because we know of gravity. But suppose you are confronted with a pendulum bob, you will not be alarmed by a downward swing/ fall, since you know of gravity but you must surely tremble with fear if you see it swing upwards without a string attached to it! Unless someone like Jason points out to you that there is actually a string only that it was invisible. That is what I see in orbits. The earth swings downwards and falls to the nearest point to the sun at perihelion, then just as we expect it to continue falling further under gravitational attraction, it rises till it reaches aphelion!

It is that invisible string that makes it possible for planets to defy gravity that I want you or anybody with further insight to shed more light on.

It may be important quantum mechanically as I think the same agent is responsible for preventing the wedding of electrons and protons in the nucleus despite the strong electromagnetic affection existing between them.

Regards,

Akinbo

Pete and Steve,

I take Planck seriously, and simply.

A photon is one second worth of Quantums. An emission source that spits out a pulse one half second long that equals e=hv, will be two individual wavetrains. One will take path A and the other path B. jrc

Steve,

"What does DFM do with the inside of a black hole? Does time stop? what is the meaning of displacement inside of a black hole?"

Joined-up-physics means 'Black holes' and all the rubbish surrounding them are dumped and replaced with the simple active galactic nuclii (AGN's) we now know lots about (and the scale model in the Crab Nebula). It's all in the Cyclic Model Paper, overflowing with evidence.

Nutshell version; The AGN grows with intrinsic gyrokinetic rotation of matter in space, and speeds up with accretion of galactic matter (OAM). It's simply an EM toroid, but the tubular 'body' is interesting, behaving exactly as a nuclear tokamac (fusion reactor) where the accreted accelerated matter 'self organizes' onto contraflow 'windings' around the body (2 continuous opposing helices, one inside the other see the 'helicoil' reference). When at full power all is ionized (even Hi in the early universe and He at the ~z=2 peak) and 'spat out' at the 'z-pinch' or 'venturi' points which precess around each other, forming the quasar jets, measured trigonometrically at up to 46c in the HST rest frame.

Absolute time just carries on merrily as it has no physical presence. All 'EM signals' on the other hand (including those from emitters we decide to call clocks) are broken down. Only the stripped protons re-emerge, propagating nice fresh electrons and positron pairs in the jet pulse collimation shear planes. (just extreme 'bow shocks'). All the solid references are in the paper. The AGNs recycle almost all galactic matter, becoming a nice new blue open spiral when the 'column' starts to rotate on the new axis. (The Milky Way is at half cycle).

'Gravity' is interesting as the accretion (gravitational or centrepetal attraction to the core) is in the old disc plane but there's less force near the jet axis, where all the flow is outward. The new gravitational pattern is then 'longitudinal' for a while until the disc with virial radii 'steps' (of rotational velocity) re-forms. The 'bar' is the remains of the inner jet matter within the main virial radius.

The gravitational potential distributed in the oblate spheroid and halo around the main disc is from the electrons and free protons distributed there. There is no need for any 'exotic dark matter'. The densities found, well above assumptions, are just fine. And right there is all we need for QG and refractive 'space-time curvature' all in one simple mechanism.

Steve,

Planck loading theorem applies to bound molecular gas. Pure plasma is n=1. That means no delay. The 'only' refraction from pure plasma is then kinetic; 'JM rotation', 'Kinetic reverse refraction', lensing delays, and Stellar Aberration' etc. as found by the VLBA, and giving the birefringence and scintillation found.

You guys really need to read the papers. The real consistent evidence is overwhelming. Unless, like most, you don't look!

Best wishes

Peter

Pete,

As you keep saying, (we) guys really need to read your bibliography to participate in Your blog.

Does it pertain to the topic of This blog, and how so, without digressing to a point that (we) guys really would need to read Your bibliography. Or are you going to sound like a ping pong padel instead of a sounding board til Brandon shuts this topical blog down, too, and dedicates an FQXi blog to Peter Jackson?

Dammit. jrc