[General] Questionnaire

Fri Jul 31 21:03:05 PDT 2015

Dear John M,

Looking forward to talking w you at the conference.

I recognized that most of us have too much to say on most of the items.
Could you perhaps provide chapter or page of sections of your book that
pertain to the questions? That would give an interested party a handy guide
to the more detailed info and to your book.

Andrew

On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 6:02 PM, <john at macken.com> wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
>
>
> I am currently in Iceland and starting tomorrow I will be in Greenland for
> 7 days. Most of that time I will definitely be out of email contact and the
> rest of the time it is questionable if I will have any internet. I will be
> returning to the US just before the conference. I will arrive in San Diego
> about noon on Monday, Aug. 10. Therefore I will miss the Sunday night
> get-together.
>
>
>
> I have found it very hard to write the concise answers required for the
> questionnaire. The reason is that I have much more detailed answers for
> each of the questions than most other people in the group. For example, I
> have just finished what I believe is the final substantive draft of my book
> titled “The Universe is Only Spacetime”. It is now over 400 pages. The
> portion of the book addressed by the questions extends from chapter 4 to
> chapter 11. This is a total of 134 pages. Furthermore, I get into
> substantial quantitative detail and proofs which make short answers
> impossible.
>
>
>
> For example, with electrons I have explained and quantified two components
> of the electron model. This model does not derive either the electron’s
> Compton frequency or the fine structure constant. However, if these two
> numbers are provided, I can derive the electron’s energy, inertia,
> gravitational curvature of spacetime, gravitational force with another
> fundamental particle, and electrostatic force with another fundamental
> particle. This derivation comes from the properties of spacetime and the
> particle model. If I just proceed from first principles, I generate the
> electrostatic force if both particles had Planck charge rather than
> elementary charge e. In an earlier email, John W. considered this to be a
> defect. He said that I had missed the correct value by more than a factor
> of 100 (missed by 1/α). This is ironic because I was quite happy with
> this answer. I was calculation the force assuming a coupling constant of 1,
> not the electron’s force with a mysterious coupling constant of alpha (α).
>
>
>
>
> I believe that this is the first time that a model of a fundamental
> particle has been able to generate the gravitational force and the
> electrostatic force even assuming a coupling constant of 1. If you know of
> any other model which has passed this test, I would be interested in
> hearing about it.
>
>
>
> I have not mentioned it before, but my model also generates the strong
> force. The model also produces asymptotic freedom when quarks are bound
> together into hadrons and explains why the strong force increases as the
> separation distance is increased beyond the natural distance which produces
> asymptotic freedom. (all in the book.)
>
>
>
> On another point, I believe that any model of particles that does not
> include waves which modulate the rate of time will never be able to
> generate either curved spacetime or the gravitational force. It is my
> understanding that Chandra’s CTF model only involves the 3 spatial
> dimensions without involving time. If he introduces time into his model,
> then my model and his model would be very close.
>
>
>
> Finally, I object to characterizing an electron as being a confined
> photon. I believe that a photon and an electron are both made of the same
> fundamental building block. Therefore photons can be converted to
> electron/positron pairs and vice versa. They are closely related, but
> saying that an electron is an oscillating confined photon implies that a
> photon is the fundamental building block of the universe or at least
> particles. It also implies that we will never be able to understand an
> electric field, a magnetic field or a charge in terms of a distortion of a
> more fundamental component.
>
>
>
> I explain all of these in terms of a distortion of energetic spacetime. I
> claim that an electric field, a magnetic field and even a gravitational
> field have both an oscillating component and a non-oscillating component.
> I give equations for these in the book. I show that the oscillating
> component gives the correct energy density to the electric and magnetic
> field. I also propose that a gravitational field has an energy density. I
> combine this with the energy of the spacetime field and show how the
> interaction generates a black hole when the energy density of the
> gravitational field at a particular frequency matches the energy density of
> spacetime at that frequency.
>
>
>
> While I have finished this most recent revision of the book, it has not
> been loaded onto the website yet. There is a problem with the website that
> is preventing new material from being loaded onto the website. This problem
> is being worked on by one of my sons and should be fixed in a few days.
>
>
>
> John M.
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Andrew Meulenberg" <mules333 at gmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 10:57am
> To: "Nature of Light and Particles - General Discussion" <
> general at lists.natureoflightandparticles.org>
> Cc: "Mary Fletcher" <marycfletcher at gmail.com>
> Subject: [General] Questionnaire
>
> Dear Folks,
>
> We have 4 contributors so far. It is very illuminating. I hope that at
> some point we can get convergence on at least some of the questions. John
> W. has added a question that everyone can add to the end of the list:
> QUESTION 14: By what mechanism is the electron confined?
> I do not have time to answer the good comments in the individual emails
> right now (wife and premature twins, Grant and Remington, are in the
> hospital and all doing well). However, I hope to have time at the
> Conference to do so in person for those present.
>
> I will not be arriving until 8:16PM on Sunday evening, so I cannot join
> the group (where ever) until about 9PM. Please do not wait until then to
> get started. I will be leaving Friday evening.
>
> My time and schedule are somewhat constrained by that of Bob Hudgins and
> Mary Fletcher, who will arrive earlier in the day. We are planning on
> renting a car and staying at a motel in South Bay where the rates are more
> reasonable. if anyone else is doing something similar, please let me know.
>
> Best to all,
>
> Andrew
>
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