An associate of mine has a position in a University that is embedded
with QM folks. To steal a term from Benj, he knows that QM is “bogus.”
While browsing Wikipedia, he noted a Wiki page stating that Standard
Physics suffers from a large number of unsolved problems and unanswered
questions.
The page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_physics
My associate selected several and has answered them using the data from Dr. Randy Mills’ comprehensive re-writing of physics to explain what an electron is, and what the implications are for the Standard Model.
(The entire Mills book can be found here: http://www.blacklightpower.com/theory-2/book/)
My associate now finds himself “all dressed up with nowhere to go,”
I volunteered to post some of his thoughts on this group. I also will post them to my “Scientific Dogma” blog.
For brevity, he has reworded some of the questions in terms of Standard Physics. He then supplies the answer as defined by GUT-CP.
Here’s the First (that I have chosen) Wikipedia Question: “Why does the predicted mass of the quantum vacuum have little effect on the expansion of the universe? Quantum field theory predicts that the vacuum has a very large energy associated with it, possibly due to the sea of virtual particles that are thought to appear and disappear continuously. This is about 10130 electronvolts per cubic metre. Observations made by the Voyager spacecraft have been used to place an upper limit on the vacuum energy of about 1023 electron volts per cubic metre. This is 107 orders of magnitude less, an error that has been called the *worst theoretical prediction in the history of physics.*”
And the First Answer: “Mills’ theory does not require nor accept Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. Heisenberg’s Principle allows virtual particles to happen because it says that there is a limit on how accurately the Universe can know a particle’s mass over a very short interval of time. Thus, particles can appear out of the vacuum and disappear before their mass-energy is ‘missed’ by the Universe. Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle is not a valid description of reality. Virtual particles cannot be spontaneously created out of the vacuum. Without Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, matter and energy must be conserved at all time. There can be no quantum vacuum with virtual particles and so there is no vacuum energy to contradict the Voyager experiments.”
I look forward to any comments or questions!
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Friday, July 17, 2015
Plate Tectonics
When
I was in grade school -- 4th or 5th grade -- the class was studying basic
geography. I noticed that the western edge of Africa and the eastern edge of
South America looked very similar. I pointed out my "finding" to the
teacher.
He COULD have acknowledged the similarity and then explained (using the then-current understanding of the Earth's construction) that this was simply a coincidence.
Instead, in front of the entire class, he ridiculed me for being so stupid as to think that the Earth's continents could actually move!
That was my first encounter with what happens when someone questions "established" science. Unfortunately, it was not the last, as later posts will show.
Today, we understand the concept of Plate Tectonics, and recognize that continents not only can drift around, but that they are doing so at this very moment!
He COULD have acknowledged the similarity and then explained (using the then-current understanding of the Earth's construction) that this was simply a coincidence.
Instead, in front of the entire class, he ridiculed me for being so stupid as to think that the Earth's continents could actually move!
That was my first encounter with what happens when someone questions "established" science. Unfortunately, it was not the last, as later posts will show.
Today, we understand the concept of Plate Tectonics, and recognize that continents not only can drift around, but that they are doing so at this very moment!
Displacement Current
The issue of Displacement Current is a bit complicated, but is
associated with one of the biggest errors in modern Electromagnetism.
Unfortunately, many Scientists and Engineers still believe in the fallacy
discussed below.
During the 19th century, Scientists and Experimenters became fascinated by the properties of electricity. Among their studies, they learned that:
1. When a wire was connected between the poles of a battery, it gets HOT (sometimes disastrously so)
2. When a wire is connected between the poles of a battery, a compass will be attracted to the wire. This effect is increased if the wire is coiled up
3. If the wires are connected a set of metal plates that are close to each other, thus setting up an Electric Field between the plates, the above two phenomena are seen for a very short time when the wires are connected OR disconnected to the battery. Further experiments showed that if the battery voltage is varied up and down, the same results are seen for as long as the voltage is changing.
4. If a magnet is moved near a coil of wire, thus applying a changing Magnetic Field to the coil, electricity is generated in the wire.
There were many other discoveries, of course, but the above were among the most important. The Scientists and Experimenters also noticed that there were specific relationships between the voltage supplied by the battery and the current flowing in the wire. From these relationships, they deduced a number of equations for describing what happened when the above interconnections were made.
Unfortunately, none of these individual equations “worked” under all the conditions. The primary “sticking point” was the equations’ inability to describe how current could flow through the OPEN CIRCUIT metal plates described above.
In the late 1800s, the British Scientist, James Clerk Maxwell developed equations that included a postulated DISPLACEMENT CURRENT that “flowed” through the gap between the metal plates.
Not only did Displacement Current complete the equation set, it PREDICTED that RADIATION was possible from an electrical circuit! Not long after the equations were published, the German Scientist Hertz demonstrated the existence of RADIO!
So far, so good. :-)
But a number of Scientists were fascinated by the implied relationship between discovery 3 and discovery 4. If a moving magnet “causes” an electric current, then doesn’t it follow that a moving Displacement Current “causes” a magnetic field.
For over a century, textbooks and have contained statements more or less to this effect.
However, despite many attempts, including ultra-sophisticated experiments utilizing superconducting elements, NO ONE HAS EVER SUCCEEDED IN MEASURING THE MAGNETIC FIELD “CAUSED” BY DISPLACEMENT CURRENT!
In the late 80s, Dr. Oleg Jefimenko (now Professor Emeritus in physics at the University of West Virginia) looked at this issue from the standpoint of CAUSALITY.
The principle of Causality is very simple. If “A” causes “B” then “A” MUST precede “B” in time.
But all of Maxwell’s Equations contain terms that are occurring AT THE SAME TIME. Therefore, Jefimenko reasoned, Displacement Current cannot possibly be causing a magnetic field. Similarly, he noted, changing Magnetism cannot be causing an electric current, since they also happen at the same time.
Instead, he learned that charges and the motion of charges caused both the Electric Field and the Magnetic Field. The equations associated with this finding are called “Jefimenko’s Equations” and can be viewed online at: Jefimenko's Equations
They were also developed independently by Panofsky and Phillips in the 1960s but appear to have been largely ignored by the dogmatic physics community. It is not clear if Jefimenko was aware of them.
So, contrary to what is taught in today’s classes, a magnetic field does not cause an electric field/current AND Displacement Current does not cause a magnetic field
During the 19th century, Scientists and Experimenters became fascinated by the properties of electricity. Among their studies, they learned that:
1. When a wire was connected between the poles of a battery, it gets HOT (sometimes disastrously so)
2. When a wire is connected between the poles of a battery, a compass will be attracted to the wire. This effect is increased if the wire is coiled up
3. If the wires are connected a set of metal plates that are close to each other, thus setting up an Electric Field between the plates, the above two phenomena are seen for a very short time when the wires are connected OR disconnected to the battery. Further experiments showed that if the battery voltage is varied up and down, the same results are seen for as long as the voltage is changing.
4. If a magnet is moved near a coil of wire, thus applying a changing Magnetic Field to the coil, electricity is generated in the wire.
There were many other discoveries, of course, but the above were among the most important. The Scientists and Experimenters also noticed that there were specific relationships between the voltage supplied by the battery and the current flowing in the wire. From these relationships, they deduced a number of equations for describing what happened when the above interconnections were made.
Unfortunately, none of these individual equations “worked” under all the conditions. The primary “sticking point” was the equations’ inability to describe how current could flow through the OPEN CIRCUIT metal plates described above.
In the late 1800s, the British Scientist, James Clerk Maxwell developed equations that included a postulated DISPLACEMENT CURRENT that “flowed” through the gap between the metal plates.
Not only did Displacement Current complete the equation set, it PREDICTED that RADIATION was possible from an electrical circuit! Not long after the equations were published, the German Scientist Hertz demonstrated the existence of RADIO!
So far, so good. :-)
But a number of Scientists were fascinated by the implied relationship between discovery 3 and discovery 4. If a moving magnet “causes” an electric current, then doesn’t it follow that a moving Displacement Current “causes” a magnetic field.
For over a century, textbooks and have contained statements more or less to this effect.
However, despite many attempts, including ultra-sophisticated experiments utilizing superconducting elements, NO ONE HAS EVER SUCCEEDED IN MEASURING THE MAGNETIC FIELD “CAUSED” BY DISPLACEMENT CURRENT!
In the late 80s, Dr. Oleg Jefimenko (now Professor Emeritus in physics at the University of West Virginia) looked at this issue from the standpoint of CAUSALITY.
The principle of Causality is very simple. If “A” causes “B” then “A” MUST precede “B” in time.
But all of Maxwell’s Equations contain terms that are occurring AT THE SAME TIME. Therefore, Jefimenko reasoned, Displacement Current cannot possibly be causing a magnetic field. Similarly, he noted, changing Magnetism cannot be causing an electric current, since they also happen at the same time.
Instead, he learned that charges and the motion of charges caused both the Electric Field and the Magnetic Field. The equations associated with this finding are called “Jefimenko’s Equations” and can be viewed online at: Jefimenko's Equations
They were also developed independently by Panofsky and Phillips in the 1960s but appear to have been largely ignored by the dogmatic physics community. It is not clear if Jefimenko was aware of them.
So, contrary to what is taught in today’s classes, a magnetic field does not cause an electric field/current AND Displacement Current does not cause a magnetic field
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Scientific DOGMA
There is a sentiment today that
if enough scientists agree with a concept, it becomes "Settled
Science," and should not be subjected to any scrutiny. In this blog, I
will discuss various examples wherein the scientific community got it wrong.
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