The Trouble With Physics.
11 Nov., 2016
I don't, often, have the opportunity to talk physics with anyone. When I do, it can often be with people who seem intent upon proving to me how much they have read, not how much they think. Anyhow, yesterday I had an opportunity to talk about my Electrons being the measure that sets the speed of light, with a young man with some physics education and who seemed quite interested in theoretical thought.
I think he got the concept... it's pretty easy if you understand physics and have understanding of frequency, wave lengths, and energy concepts vs motion... relativity, as it were. Everything is relative, which is what makes observing anything, with accuracy, difficult, sometimes. Anyhow, I realized, when we talked about the size difference between quarks and electrons, that there is a lot of confusion out there about that kind of thing.
To clear it up... in conventional physics, nobody gives a crap... they are considered point sources and any issues with size, or relativity, or time... Plank can take care of it, somewhere in the math... i.e. Max Plank, who gave us a kind of ruler, of measure, of what is zero and how we might measure things from there, by means of wave length. Wave length, by definition, takes care of the time issue... unless you live in a reality where the speed of light is not the same as here, on Earth.
One must assume that the speed of light is pretty constant, in open space.
Keep in mind, it bends towards stars. Whether by gravity, or curved space... take your pick, it's pretty much going to happen... light bends. Remember that when thinking about expanding universes... the farther the light, the exponentially farther it has to travel, the farther out it is, because of all tha bending, and bending, and bending, and bending, and bending... I think you might get my drift.
But, it is important, when I start talking about electrons having shape, and that there are smaller particles, actual physical particles, smaller than the electron, I'm not talking about Quarks. It takes, at least, three quarks to make a proton, or neutron, and there, yet, heavier quarks than UP/DOWN Quarks. Mass is important, and our best shot is the electron volt mass times the speed of light squared. It gives some measure of size and, if you check the numbers, electrons are the smaller of all quarks, by that measure.
My concern, in the world of physics, is that nobody pays much attention to electrons because they are so much a part of our life we don't think of them as unusual... electricity/magnetism is anti gravity, as it were, and we haven't noticed, yet. This ignoring, of electrons, has many thinking of quarks as being the smallest 'particles' in existence. It's important to remember that these quarks have lives so short, they barely exist, as themselves before being absorbed back into atoms, or converted to another form of energy as they dissipate back into the background of electronic noise that surrounds us. But... I alluded to 'The Trouble With Physics" and that trouble is this....
In both particle and quantum physics, the electron and the quark are both considered as point sources, singularities as it were... but they occupy space. Giving them Plank values helps, but it avoids the issue of size and shape, most particularly shape, That is, in my opinion, a serious issue and we must come to assume that there are physical particles the size of gamma rays... of that wave length, and that they have shape and volume in space... they are HERE and THERE 'at the same time' for themselves... unto themselves they are a singularity, but not vs the background.
Is there a zero space? There must, logically, be a point, at which, there is no space, at all. The trouble with physics is the failure to reconize that there are physical particles smaller than electrons, together with a solid definition of time... what time actually is. Measuring time vs the speed of light, which might vary, will cause variable errors in all mathematics involving the speed of light... i.e. variable outputs relative to some unknown constant value. We can never find where X marks the spot, as it were. Did you get that?
When God said "Let there be light", in Genesis, remember, there was only water, everywhere. What was light? Did God invent light? Remember, light is just a narrow band of frequencies about one micron wide... conveniently the same length as your nerve cells, and nerves in your eyes... to resonate with those frequencies.
Maybe God just turned on a flashlight. He had yet to come up with the idea of a sky, or the sun, or moon, or night and day. Very weird, don't you think? I'm an atheist, by the way. I think religion is superstitious nonsense. I have a traditional, orthodox Jewish approach to life... there is no heaven, nor hell... when you're dead, you're dead, as in forever. As a physicist, I am aware that time is a kind of illusion of physical size, so it's hard to say, exactly, what time really is, anyway. Have a nice day.
Oh...in case you didn't hear... I say the speed of light is set by the physical size of electrons. Electrons are the yardstick of space and time for us. The half spin is a half wave length and that is the measure of time vs space. The resistance to that motion, both physically and electronically to motion, can be calculated with the Plank Constant. The resistance to motion of one electron to displace or spin another, is one Plank unit, as it were. Over space/time there will come a point where there is no amount of energy that will move you faster, or quicker.
