Quantum Physics
Quantum Physics is a term used to describe Dr. Einstein’s work “On a Heuristic Point of View Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light.” Quantum is the smallest discrete quantity of an entity. This paper is also known as the “photoelectric effect” paper, which garnered the good Doctor his Nobel Prize. Within a few decades the phrase quantum mechanics came to mean other, very different, things.
Dr. Einstein considered physics incomplete because there was no coherent theory to correlate particle theory and field theory. His label for this future theoretical step was prescient. He called it the Unified Field Theory.
I would be lying if I pretended not to be proud to present a contender for the Unified Field Theory, even if it’s a century late. I became enamored with positron generation as I worked at a major nuclear instrument company while attending the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Five decades and two degrees later I would like to present a contender for the next step in particle theory.
In the 1970s, I worked on instruments that presumably detected electron-positron pair generation of certain radioisotopes. This particle pair just happens to eject a pair of 511 Kev photons in directly opposite directions. Why did the two particles have exactly the same energy; and why did they travel in exactly opposite directions? I had formed the concept of spherical oscillations. I had no idea what the ether consisted of (I still don’t), how it propagates these spherical oscillations (I have a guess) and why these spherical oscillations would travel off in opposite directions. It was the opposite direction concept that mystified and entranced my imagination. How could two particles be ejected in opposite directions and at the same energy? “Photons must not be particles!” was the best explanation I could muster. In that case, it seemed that particles are not really particles but packets of waves.
Electronic technicians learn a lot about waves but in a simplified context. Textbooks reduce most problems to single variable solutions (algebra level) for electronic technicians. I did not have the math tools to further the concepts so I worked on a heuristic concept of spherical oscillation. After a knowledgeable electronics technician learns engineering math, he also learn the tricks of reducing the number of variables in order to simplify a problem. Although I took a few math courses over the years, I never took the time to apply enhanced math skills to theoretical physics. To be honest, I still don’t have the skills of a first class physicist.
My first physics dissertation was on the Stern-Gerlach experiment. I wrote about it first because it gave me a bit of confidence in my spherical oscillation theory. I first read about the Stern Gerlach experiment in popular literature. As I finished the description of the apparatus, I predicted the result. But I didn’t know it until later. The popular literature discussion was very discouraging. I couldn’t believe I could be so wrong so I looked up the actual original paper. I can only tell you it was VERY difficult to find.
When I saw the experiment’s output slide with its fat lip shape and laughed aloud, which is very rare for me. I got it right before I saw the result. The result was supposed to be a close mouth shape that would have resembled a kissing pout. Instead, the result resembled the open-mouthed promiscuous promise of prominence and prestige that only a premiere non-null experiment can provide. Stern-Gerlach was not a null result experiment; it was simply misinterpreted.
I discuss the experiment and my alternative explanation of the results here.
My second dissertation is on photons in the Ether, which I present here.
I decided to completely engulf myself as only a an obsessive-compulsive, manic-depressive can. I approached the project the same way I write my books. I created an outline of sequences and started filling in the details. I would write a lot of paragraphs getting myself in a corner I couldn’t escape, get frustrated and switch to another problem and return to the positron problem.
Oddly enough, I was doing some work on weather generation theory and where I was thinking of the atmosphere as a large spherical field reacting to the Earth’s gravitational field. I awoke one morning and in that transition from sleep to consciousness, I had my eureka moment about weather theory. The very next week I had a eureka moment about spherical oscillations. Long story only slightly shorter I finished my Tangential Weather Field theory (along with a patent to reduce or eliminate cluster tornados) and IMMEDIATELY transitioned to working on the Ether – after a discussion with my mentor daughter.
Don’t go crazy over the word ether. In subsequent research, I recently found that Dr. Einstein discussed the possibility of the ether in some detail and even hinted that it might be the key to unifying field theory with particle reality. I am bringing back the ether but I call it the Ether since it is the all pervasive substance of the universe we perceive.
My concept of the Ether is the field in which spherical oscillations exist. Once over the hurdle of having something in which spherical oscillations could oscillate, I was able to begin assigning physical features to the Ether and subsequently to spherical oscillations. I can’t tell you how many times I had to rework the basic concepts.
The result of my work is a theory of particle generation, interaction, accumulation into more complex particles and their movement within the Ether. The most significant result is a novel theory of gravity. Ironically, the most difficult part of the photon paper was explaining why the particle doesn’t exhibit (much) gravity when its companion particle, the electron, does.
I have finished some work on the third dissertation and can tell you that spherical oscillation explains the quirky results of the slit experiment. You see the slit experiment doesn’t have a problem with the location of the fringes with and without covering the second slot. It has a problem with the photon counts in the fringes with a single slit. I believe that I’ve explained the fringe problem without any “freaky action at a distance”. I am a fervent believer in Dr. Einstein’s belief that all math in physics should be based on demonstrable physical phenomena.
Since I’ve learned most of my particle physics from Dr. Einstein and Dr. Feynman, I would like to think they would be proud of me. I could be very wrong about almost everything and still advance the science if only one part of my theory is correct. Science and especially physics progress in tiny steps not all of which are errant.
dh
12/2023