Classical Values :: The Quantum Mechanic.
Thanks to that post I discovered this book. Haven’t looked through it yet, but the impression I get as that the author, Johan F. Prins, disagrees with the physics community whereto how things work. I’m posting this to tell you about the book, and to post again on a topic I’ve posted on before.
I’m re-posting this information because my previous iteration is no longer available to me. Here I address a small problem I see with String Theory, namely, that strings vibrate. That don’t make sense to me, so I came up with the following. Below the fold
Unfolding the Universe
Let us start first with the smallest distinct object we know of, the Universe. The Universe is a an object some 40 billion light years in diameter composed solely and entirely of a substance we’ve come to know as space-time.
But, I can hear you ask, don’t we dwell within the universe?
No contradiction, for we are made up of space-time. Let me explain.
The Universe is space-time, compressed space-time. Because of this compression space-time exists in one of two states, flat and folded. A fold is a volume of space-time where space-time is in a higher energy state than flat space time. It’s sort of like a pip in the universe. But, a fold is not a distinct object, merely a bit of space-time. Folds also move, but it is not a distinct bit of space-time that is moving, but the state.
That is, the space time that was once folded becomes flat and an adjacent volume of space-time becomes folded. So it appears as if the fold were moving. From the right vantage point it would appear as if the fold were a line snaking through space-time.
At this point let us consider two laws. First, space-time can be neither created or destroyed, only switched between one state and another. Second, space-time resists change. The faster the change and the greater, the greater the resistance.
So space-time curves. that is, bends. The end result is that folds travels slower through a particular volume because space-time has effectively become denser. All because of the presence of a fold in apparent motion. We call this phenomenon mass, and it is this fact which leads to my one and only equation; m = g. That is, mass is gravity.
So a fold in motion curves space-time, producing the phenomenon we call mass. Which, in turn, produces the phenomenon we call gravity. Now what does this have to do with the observable Universe.
Fibers and Threads and Strings Oh My
As a fold move through space-time it encounters other folds. Because each fold curves the space-time around it that curvature affects any other fold it encounters. Just as the other fold affects the motion of the fold in question. From the view point of an outside observer the motion of the fold curves to follow the curvature of space-time produced by the other fold. If matters happen just right the two folds will attain a state of equilibrium in which the two orbit a common center of mass. Less often three, four, or even more folds will come to orbit a common center of mass, producing a object called a fiber.
A fiber is a collection of folds orbiting a common center of mass. Two or more fibers orbiting a common center of mass form a Thread. As does one or more folds orbiting a fiber Two or more threads form a string, and that’s where String Theory comes into the picture.
But can’t a fold orbit another?
No, for a fold in motion curves space-time, and the faster the fold moves the greater the curvature. A fold orbiting another does not occur because the orbiting fold would at times be more massive than the fold being orbited. The stable configuation is two or more folds orbiting a common center of mass. When a fiber, thread, or string comes into the picture the greater mass of the larger object means that an object smaller in mass can orbit it.
Electromagnetism etc.
With threads and strings we see another phenomenon, a more acute curving of space-time. When we get to quarks we see the phenomena we call electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force.
That is the difference between gravity and the other forces, the degree of curvature. With mass the curvature is gradual and gentle. The slope is shallow and never gets above a few degrees. Thus gravity is weak on the atomic level. Electromagnetism etc. are produced by a more extreme curvature of space-time. It is this to gives us the greater strength, and the much shorter range of each force, and allows for the various mediating particles.
Because mass is the result of such a gradual curvature of space-time, mass has no mediating particle. In short, no graviton. We are affected not by anything like a graviton, but merely by the curvature of space-time we call gravity, which curvature is the result of the movement of folds and higher order objects comprised of folds.
I’ll stop here and continue in my next post with a look at how this all affects us. To sum up;
A fold is a volume of compressed space-time in a higher energy state.
A fold in apparent motion curves space time. This curvature we call mass and it is this mass that produces the phenomenon we call gravity.
Folds orbiting a common center of mass produce fibers, fibers orbiting a common center of mass produce threads, and threads orbiting a common center of mass produce strings. A higher order object can also be produced by a higher order object being orbited by a lower order object. Such as a quark being comprised of a string orbited by a fold.
Folds in motion produce the slight curvature we call mass. Fibers etc. produce more abrupt curvatures that result in the phenomena we call electromagnetism, strong nuclear and weak nuclear. This three become apparent a that string stage, and manifest with the quark.
And that’s my idea. The consequences of it later.
