Dear CeruleanJackal, thanks for the good wishes. I return them to you.
You write "...fundamental theories should begin with discovered phenomena and laws that appear in experiments...."
But don't we deduce laws that come from experiments; inertia, conservation laws? Interesting question: are laws discovered, deduced or formulated? How did Newton get his laws?
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ApricotPony
PPaul Klevgard
- Apr 5, 2023
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Great article; it deserves a prize! Finally an essay offering more than the usual anodyne, commonplace suggestions.
It hits home. I too have been reassigned to "physics.gen-ph" and have had two published papers blackballed with no explanation given.Thank you FlaxTern and KhakiHeron for positive remarks. Your ideas are interesting, but I cannot reply fully right now. I am on a cruise ship with intermittent Internet connection. Plus, your knowledge in some areas exceeds mine; I am merely an ontologist: I analysis what [physically] exists and what occurs and how these objects [entities] make use of dimensions. I also don't conflate entities with the events they occasion! These topics are NEVER taught to physicists. I might reply more fully in a few days; I get back home on the 18th. You two have open minds which really I appreciate... :-)
KhakiHeron: My thoughts need expanding and 'dressing up' with some current mathematics. Whether you are the person to do that is not for me to judge. But I do appreciate your enthusiasm!!!!Dear KhakiHeron; many thanks for your time: both for reading my essay and responding thoughtfully. Unlike you, many a reader has not been able to comprehend these new/unfamiliar concepts. Physicists keep interpreting the photon as a unitary object which leads to a paradox (duality). This constitutes a dead end so they simply move on to lesser issues that are more career advancing.
As you understand, E = mc2 gives any quantized entity (either space-stationary particle or time-stationary photon) two identities: 1) a kinetic/essential identity, and 2) a potential/stored identity.
For a space-stationary atom (say Carbon-14) its mass resides in space while its potential identity (its stored energy) advances probabilistically in time toward release (decay).
For the photon, its kinetic energy resides in time (as pure oscillation) and its potential identity (its stored/relativistic mass) advances in space toward release (reception). And release is always via an event at a point in space-and-time imitating particle impact with no particle involved.
So, any entity has its kinetic identity residing (i.e., occupying an interval) in one dimension while its potential (stored) identity advances probabilistically in the opposite dimension toward possible release (either particle decay or photon reception).
And yes, for an electron moving in space, its kinetic energy is still in time but that energy has its potential identity as a wave packet (in space) of stored (relativistic) mass surrounding the electron’s rest mass. And the wavy momentum vector of the packet interacts with the momentum vector of the electron’s rest mass. Hence electron de Broglie waves!This essay makes a number of points. That mathematics is not foundational to physics; instead, it is one’s view of what is physically real that has primacy. That the guide for foundational inquiry should be symmetry and the equalities of special relativity. That our current physics is contingent upon a set of assumptions derived from classical physics plus the institutional inertia and pressures characterizing later decades. Finally, a revision of our current physics is offered.