<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear John D.,<br><br></div>You have posed some interesting ideas/models/scenarios.<br><br></div>let us try a few answers.<br><ol><li>The light emitted from inside a black hole is like going from a high refractive index to a lower one as you move out. As the mass of the potential well, or the depth of emission within a black hole, increases the critical angle for total internal reflection decreases and, from the center of a black hole, the light will reflect (like a wave from a beach) even when aimed straight out.</li><li>The black hole mass increases by 511 keV/c^2 when an electron, or a photon of that energy, falls into it. A photon is blue-shifted (frequency & energy increase) when going into a black hole (its wavelength decreases in another view). Frequency changes because time changes as you descend into the black hole.</li><li>Your description of gaining mass energy as you 'ascend' is the proper description of the increase of mass & charge during the creation of the electron-positron pair from a photon (a white hole?).</li></ol><p>Food for much discussion.</p><p></p><p>Andrew<br></p>_______________________________,<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 9:58 PM, John Duffield <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnduffield@btconnect.com" target="_blank">johnduffield@btconnect.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>John:</div>
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<div>Imagine we’re in gravity-free space. I shine a laser, and you measure the
frequency. Then you accelerate away along the line of the laser and measure the
frequency again. Light is experimentally redshifted. But that light didn’t
change one jot. Instead, <i>you</i> changed, along with your measuring
equipment. Now let’s repeat for the vertical light beam. You measure the
frequency at ground level, then you ascend to some great height and measure the
frequency again. Light is experimentally redshifted. But <i>that light didn’t
change one jot. </i>Instead, <i>you </i>changed, along with your measuring
equipment. </div>
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<div>That isn’t what’s taught, but think about this: if you send a 511keV photon
into a black hole, the black hole mass increases by 511kev/c<span><font style="font-size:11pt">². Not by any other amount. <font size="3">The descending
photon <i>doesn’t</i> gain any energy. Instead, when you descend, you lose it,
remember the mass deficit. And when you ascend, you gain it. If I lift you up, I
do work on you. I add energy to you. So you measure the photon to be redshifted
even though it isn’t. </font></font></span></div>
<div><span><font style="font-size:11pt"><font size="3"></font></font></span> </div>
<div><font face="Tahoma"><font style="font-size:10pt"><i>At this point I have a
problem with most other peoples view of a black hole (including, as far as I
understand it, some famous scientists portrayed in Oscar winning films) in that
, manifestly in this picture, more energetic (blue) light will reach this limit
at a different height (and for different gravitational potentials). So there is
no particular "event horizon". In this picture, something which is a "black
hole" for radio is not so for a visible photon. This is a semi-classical picture
of a black hole. It is the way I look at it at the moment, but am very open to
having my mind changed by a convincing argument to the contrary.
Please.<br></i><br><font face="Calibri"><font style="font-size:12pt">Well
spotted. Here’s a clue as to why I think that light doesn’t get
out:</font></font></font></font></div>
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<div><img title="EinsteinSpeedofLight" style="border-width: 0px; border-style: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px;" alt="EinsteinSpeedofLight" src="cid:6020BD520F1441B68EEE5015C2FA3595@HPlaptop" border="0" height="335" width="484"></div>
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<div>Regards</div>
<div>John</div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="John.Williamson@glasgow.ac.uk" href="mailto:John.Williamson@glasgow.ac.uk" target="_blank">John Williamson</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 23, 2015 1:49 PM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org" href="mailto:general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org" target="_blank">Nature of Light and
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<div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:tahoma;color:rgb(0,0,0);direction:ltr">Hi
John (D),<br><br>What happens depends on the theoretical mantle one chooses to
wear for the argument. I think all our wordy speculations (we call them
theories) are not really worth anything when compared to experiment. Faraday
called all theory "speculation" and he was right.<br><br>John D your scenario is
lacking in the consideration of one crucial experimental fact. Light is,
experimentally, red-shifted as it works against the action of, even a modest, a
gravitational potential. This is the argument in Martin's paper "light is
heavy", amongst other places, but is easy to measure just by looking at light
from and to space.<br><br>This is not my field but ,as Martin and I would day,
unhindered by any knowledge (ongehindered door enige kennis) I will have a go at
elucidating this from several different perspectives ..<br><br>As I see it, the
light does not "slow down" but it does redshift, getting redder and redder as it
goes up. That wonderful magic wand of yours (can I have one?) simply makes the
photons redshift faster.<br><br>Black hole-ness then occurs when the photon
redshifts all the way down to zero frequency. At this point it has used up all
its initial (positive) energy in trying to get out of the (negative
gravitational potential energy of the ) black hole.<br><br>At this point I have
a problem with most other peoples view of a black hole (including, as far as I
understand it, some famous scientists portrayed in Oscar winning films) in that
, manifestly in this picture, more energetic (blue) light will reach this limit
at a different height (and for different gravitational potentials). So there is
no particular "event horizon". In this picture, something which is a "black
hole" for radio is not so for a visible photon. This is a semi-classical picture
of a black hole. It is the way I look at it at the moment, but am very open to
having my mind changed by a convincing argument to the contrary.
Please.<br><br>The standard Schwartzchild theories, it seems to me, envisage a
hypothetical massive lightspeed particle not observed in Nature. I could be
wrong here though- that is just what the maths of the argument looks like to me.
The limit is calculated in classical Newtonian gravity- look it up!. <br>I would
have thought that this ought to be taken as being a serious problem but it seems
not be thought so in some quarters. There seems to a lot of talk, or talk about
talk, but few seem to look at the actual calculations, and properly consider
what they really mean and what the basis of the whole argument really is. I must
admit to finding this truly astonishing. It does not seem to me to fit properly
with the calibre of some of the people propounding the arguments.<br><br>If one
goes to general relativity, which should be better, one runs into further
serious problems. Amongst other things if one does the maths correctly there is
really no such thing as a black hole (see Crothers ... though he has had a lot
of trouble getting his stuff published his maths looks right to me). We should
talk to this guy! The best accepted work seems (to me) to mix Newtonian and
Einsteinian ideas up at different points in the argument. I would really like to
see this discussion go to proper level.<br><br>Quantum gravity has the problem
that the gravitons responsible for the interaction should also travel at
lightspeed, so if light cannot get out neither should they.<br><br>Coming back
to the universe, the (redshift) limit for the universe as a whole is just the
same formula as for the (standard as-above) black hole boundary. Martin
calculated this a long time ago and it puzzled us for a while, until we realised
that that is just about what is observed. The "edge" of the universe is just the
point where the (Hubble constant redshifted) energy of the light, or any massive
light-speed particle, reaching us just goes to zero. <br><br>Ok, that is quite
enough pontificating on my part because one of us, Viv Robinson, knows much more
about this than I do. He has written a brilliant paper on it. In doing so he has
had to fight much obfuscating nonsense widespread in the media (both in "common
knowledge, on the internet, in science fiction, and even in much of the
peer-reviewed press -not to mention in such authoratitive sources as
hollywood!). One of his ideas is (correct me if I am simplifying this
Viv), no matter where light starts from - in an infinite uniform universe it
still has to negotiate a gravitational potential which it must climb out of. For
what it is worth I think this is fundamentally correct. It is worth noting that,
despite the intrinsic value of his ideas, he has had loads of trouble getting
this published as well ... but it is out (thank goodness). This is a task quite
as hard as Andrew's from his perspective. I think this problem has been
experienced by several of us- I have submitted a dozen papers in the last few
years, none of which have managed to get into the peer-reviewed press. Others of
us have been more successful in getting controversial stuff seen. I'm thinking
of Richard and Chandra. I'm hoping to learn from you guys!<br><br>On this note -
as well as the general email discussion forum-is it perhaps worth setting up a
(more or less secure) server on which we can share, and comment on, some of the
pre-prints we have all been writing? These are likely to contain much more of
substance that the general discourse we can contribute in an
email.<br><br>Regards, John W.<br>
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[general-bounces+john.williamson=<a href="mailto:glasgow.ac.uk@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org" target="_blank">glasgow.ac.uk@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org</a>]
on behalf of John Duffield [<a href="mailto:johnduffield@btconnect.com" target="_blank">johnduffield@btconnect.com</a>]<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday,
February 23, 2015 11:33 AM<br><b>To:</b> Nature of Light and Particles - General
Discussion<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [General] the edge of the
universe<br></font><br></div>
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<div>Martin:</div>
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<div>I tend to draw parallels between the universe and a black hole, but in my
humble opinion there are some issues with the way black holes are usually
described. I like to think that this little gedankenexperiment helps to tease it
out: </div>
<div> </div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman">You're standing on a gedanken planet holding a
laser pointer straight up. The light doesn't curve round, or slow down as it
ascends, or fall down. It goes straight up. Now I wave my magic wand and make
the planet denser and more massive. The light still doesn't curve round, or slow
down as it ascends, or fall down. I make the planet even denser and more
massive. The light <i style="list-style-type:decimal">still</i> doesn't curve
round, or slow down as it ascends, or fall down. I make the planet <i style="list-style-type:decimal">even</i> denser and more massive, and take it
to the limit such that it's a black hole. At no point did the light ever curve
round, or slow down as it ascends, or fall down. So <i style="list-style-type:decimal">why doesn't the light get out?</i></font></div>
<div> </div>
<div>Regards</div>
<div>John D</div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="martin.van.der.mark@philips.com" href="mailto:martin.van.der.mark@philips.com" target="_blank">Mark, Martin van
der</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, February 22, 2015 4:36 PM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org" href="mailto:general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org" target="_blank">Nature
of Light and Particles - General Discussion</a> </div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [General] the edge of the universe</div></div></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">Guys,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">The
universe has an edge in some sense, it is in fact a black hole, nothing can
escape (even by definition). It tries to expand, light it going outwards but is
held back just as in a “common” black hole.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">It
is impossible to reach the edge. But would you manage to get there somehow, the
new edge has shifted a bit further…it is our good old horizon again!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">Cheers,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> General
[mailto:<a href="mailto:general-bounces%2Bmartin.van.der.mark" target="_blank">general-bounces+martin.van.der.mark</a>=<a href="mailto:philips.com@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org" target="_blank">philips.com@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>John Duffield<br><b>Sent:</b> zondag 22 februari 2015
17:29<br><b>To:</b> 'Nature of Light and Particles - General
Discussion'<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [General] the edge of the
universe</span></p></div></div>
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<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Chip:</span></p></div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"></span> </p></div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Now you mention it, I
think the universe has to have some kind of edge. I wrote something speculative
about it <a title="http://bogpaper.com/science-sundays-with-john-duffield-edge-of-the-universe/" href="http://bogpaper.com/science-sundays-with-john-duffield-edge-of-the-universe/" target="_blank">here</a>. WMAP says the universe is flat, <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.5086" target="_blank">Planck has found no evidence
of any curvature or any toroidal topology</a> , and IMHO an infinite universe
can not be an expanding universe, because then the energy-pressure would be
counterbalanced at all locations. If it isn’t curved round on itself and if it
doesn’t go on forever, there’s not a lot of options left: it has to have some
kind of edge. Such that there is no space beyond this edge, there <i><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">is</span></i> no beyond it. As for
what it’s like, I don’t know. Maybe the universe is some kind of hall-of-mirrors
thing, like mentioned <a title="http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/05/24/universe.wide/" href="http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/05/24/universe.wide/" target="_blank">here</a>. Maybe there’s some kind of event horizon, maybe it’s
none of the above, I don’t know. But what I do know is this: cosmologists use
the surface of a sphere as an example of something without an edge, even though
there is no evidence whatsoever of any higher dimensionality. It occurs to me
that they’re like the old flat-Earth guys in reverse. It is alleged that in
ancient times people could not conceive of a world without an edge. Nowadays
cosmologists can not conceive of a world <i><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">with</span></i> an
edge. </span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"></span> </p></div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Regards</span></p></div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">John
D</span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"></span> </p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"> <a title="chipakins@gmail.com" href="mailto:chipakins@gmail.com" target="_blank">Chip
Akins</a> </span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Sent:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">
Sunday, February 22, 2015 3:43 PM</span></p></div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">To:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"> <a title="general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org" href="mailto:general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org" target="_blank">'Nature
of Light and Particles - General Discussion'</a> </span></p></div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Subject:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"> Re:
[General] gravitation</span></p></div></div></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"></span> </p></div></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Hi Stephen</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Thank you for the
insight.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">What I am saying however, is that
emission of a photon, may not be dependent on there being a pre-identified
absorber. But rather, that if the local field conditions of the emitter allow
emission in a specific direction, then a photon could be emitted. The local
field herein would be defined as the area around the emitter wherein the fields
from absorbers are still strong enough to be even slightly sensed by the
emitter.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Since we do not yet know if there
is an “edge” to the universe (meaning an “edge” of space-time), nor do we know
the nature of such an “edge” should it exist. It may not add clarity to our
perceptions to try to contemplate the possible actions of photons in that
location. But my feeling is that, if we envision an edge exists, the void beyond
would present no fields to an adjacent particle sufficiently close to that edge,
and therefore no condition for emission would be presented.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">What I am having some trouble
digesting is the concept that, regardless of distance or time, an emitter and
absorber are pre-identified prior to photon “exchange”. I understand the
concept, but the implications do not seem to be a description of our universe.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">For, if every photon in flight, at
this instant, had identified its specific absorber prior to or at emission, then
the exact location of all absorbers, the future position of every particle or
atom, meaning our exact fate, was known and established billions of years
ago.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Is there another way to look at
long distance photon “exchange” which does not present this problem?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Chip</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">
General [<a href="mailto:general-bounces+chipakins=gmail.com@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org" target="_blank">mailto:general-bounces+chipakins=gmail.com@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Stephen Leary<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, February 22, 2015 2:30
AM<br><b>To:</b> Nature of Light and Particles - General
Discussion<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [General] gravitation</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"></span> </p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Hi Chip, </span></p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"></span> </p></div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I request you add the following
question to your thinking and see how it fits in. Consider matter at the "edge"
of the universe (by that i mean that there is no matter beyond and make that
explicit assumption). Is that matter allowed/able to emit photons in any
direction regardless of whether they are ever absorbed?</span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"></span> </p></div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">IMHO they cannot do this.
Similarly for long distance photons I don't see the issue. It just reduces the
likelyhood of interaction. </span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Regards</span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Stephen</span></p></div></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 6:29 PM,
Chip Akins <<a href="mailto:chipakins@gmail.com" target="_blank">chipakins@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Hi All</span></b><span style="color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Following John Duffield’s
comments regarding photon’s relation to “time” and reading “The Other Meaning
of Special Relativity”, still leaves a few questions (for my feeble mental
processes), relating to correlating theory to experiment.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">My approach has been precisely
as described by Robert Close, regarding the photon constituted mass carrying
particles, clearly displaying relativistic properties naturally, due to their
wave (photon) structure.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">There appears to be a
significant amount of evidence supporting such an approach.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Underlying that approach, and as
an implication of the results, is the suggestion that there is (even if we
cannot detect it) a reference rest frame in space. Close therefore remarks,
<i>“What has not been generally recognized is that special relativity is a
consequence of the wave nature of matter and is entirely consistent with
classical notions of absolute space and time.”</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:black"></span></i><span style="color:black"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">So, like John D., I am still
looking for, and willing to exhaustively pursue, any possible explanations for
experiment, which are built on such an approach, before abandoning such a
robust, simple, and elegant, causal approach. But I cannot ignore the
compelling arguments from John Williamson, Martin van der Mark, Stephen Leary.
So at this time certain issues remain (for me) unresolved.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">While our discussions of the
photon and possible various relativistic interpretations, to describe
experiment, are quite stimulating and thought provoking. In my current
view, the idea that a photon can feel its entire future, at one point in
spacetime, raises more problems than it solves. While the “one point in
spacetime” approach, may in fact turn out to be the actual nature of physics,
I feel it is required to look for other explanations, and there are many
possibilities we can explore, before accepting any answer to best describe
experiment.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Hi Stephen</span></b><span style="color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Thank you for the analogy.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Of course to test any idea, we
need to look at the full range of applications of the idea.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I can understand the photon
exchange, hinted by your analogy, for a distance which is easily within the
field of the emitters and absorbers, or a distance where the mutual field
strength is sufficiently above the “background” noise floor. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">However for me it does not seem
to hold for large distances. In other words, I feel that for close range
photon exchange, the fields are sufficiently strong to have an influence on
such photon exchange. Tony Fleming has created a model for the hydrogen
atom using a variation of such an approach, which is very accurate at
predicting the properties of this atom. “<u>Electromagnetic Self-Field Theory
and Its Application to the Hydrogen Atom</u>” Anthony Fleming 2005.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">However for very large
distances, it seems to me that photon “exchange” is not a pre-required
condition, and that photon emission is quite acceptable even if the eventual
absorber is not already known at emission. I do not yet feel, that a photon
can only exist, if the absorber is already “known” by the photon.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Hi John D.
</span></b><span style="color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Thank you for the references to
photon models. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Having toyed with certain photon
models, the one described by Drozdov and Stahlhofen has been very close to my
preferred model. But it leaves questions raised by some experimental
observation unanswered. However I have not looked closely at the
full set of implications regarding the possibility that a viable photon model
may also exist, encompassing multiples of its wavelength. To explore, we might
be able to model the emission duration for certain events, and compare that
estimated duration to the emitted photon wavelength. Meanwhile, I will
run some math to explore further.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Hi Chandra</span></b><span style="color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I agree with your approach and
comments regarding our quest.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">And referring directly
to…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">“If we do
not explicitly frame our questions to access reality of nature; we will never
find it!”</span></i></b><span style="color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black"></span><span style="color:black"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">The group has
begun addressing specific issues, from different viewpoints, which enhance our
individual, and therefore collective, ability to look more clearly at the
problems, and the implications of different views, and therefore review the
possibilities in a more complete manner.</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black"></span><span style="color:black"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">Thank you for
your tremendous assistance and contribution to this process.</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black"></span><span style="color:black"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">All</span></b><span style="color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">It appears we have a consensus
for material substance (mass carrying particles) from light.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">If we do have a consensus for
building matter from light (photons), then it seems we must better understand
the photon, for the photon then becomes the foundation for everything. So that
misconceptions in the understanding of the photon, would propagate to the
entire concept.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Chip</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"></span> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">
General [mailto:<a href="mailto:general-bounces%2Bchipakins" target="_blank">general-bounces+chipakins</a>=<a href="mailto:gmail.com@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org" target="_blank">gmail.com@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org</a>] <b>On Behalf
Of </b>John Duffield<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, February 21, 2015 9:46
AM<br><b>To:</b> Nature of Light and Particles - General
Discussion<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [General] gravitation</span><span style="color:black"></span></p></div></div>
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"></span> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Andrew:</span><span style="color:black"></span></p></div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"></span><span style="color:black"></span> </p></div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">It’s a mystery to me
why people don’t know about this kind of stuff. Einstein said </span><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.rain.org/~karpeles/einsteindis.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">a field is a
state of space</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">. Susskind said the
same in his video lecture. And there aren’t two states of space where an
electron is.</span><span style="color:black"></span></p></div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"></span><span style="color:black"></span> </p></div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">As for the strong
force, it’s supposed to be fundamental. So ask yourself this: <i><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">where does the strong force go in
low-energy proton-antiproton annihilation to gamma photons? </span></i>And
ask yourself this: <i><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">what
is it that makes the electromagnetic wave propagate at c?</span></i>
Alternatively, imagine you can hold this electron in your hands like a bagel.
</span><span style="color:black"></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"></span><span style="color:black"></span> </p></div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><img alt="toroidalphotonsmall" src="cid:D777F8876B2443BC89BE3CF4C90D95EA@HPlaptop" border="0" height="192" width="265"></span><span style="color:black"></span></p></div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"></span><span style="color:black"></span> </p></div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Imagine it’s
elastic, like the bag model. Try to pull it apart. You will find that you
cannot. You can’t pull this kiddie apart either:</span><span style="color:black"></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"></span><span style="color:black"></span> </p></div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"></span><span style="color:black"></span> </p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><img alt="trefoil" src="cid:BABB14437D0A459F830B0B5E910D4AB6@HPlaptop" border="0" height="229" width="229"></span><span style="color:black"></span></p></div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"></span><span style="color:black"></span> </p></div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">It’s made of three
parts, three partons. See </span><span style="color:black"><a title="http://www.ipmu.jp/webfm_send/1053" href="http://www.ipmu.jp/webfm_send/1053" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">http://www.ipmu.jp/webfm_send/1053</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> and note page 11
where Witten mentions knot crossings? Trace round it clockwise starting at the
bottom left calling out the crossing-over directions: <i><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">up up down</span></i>. When you
do eventually break this thing, you don’t see three things flying free.
</span><span style="color:black"></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"></span><span style="color:black"></span> </p></div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Regards</span><span style="color:black"></span></p></div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">John D </span><span style="color:black"></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"></span><span style="color:black"></span> </p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"></span><span style="color:black"></span> </p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">
</span><span style="color:black"><a title="mules333@gmail.com" href="mailto:mules333@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Andrew
Meulenberg</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">
</span><span style="color:black"></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Sent:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">
Saturday, February 21, 2015 6:41 AM</span><span style="color:black"></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">To:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">
</span><span style="color:black"><a title="general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org" href="mailto:general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Nature of Light
and Particles - General Discussion</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">
</span><span style="color:black"></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Subject:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">
[General] gravitation</span><span style="color:black"></span></p></div></div></div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"></span><span style="color:black"></span> </p></div></div>
<div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Dear John
D,</span><span style="color:black"></span></p></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">I wonder why this
concept has not been developed?</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"></span><span style="color:black"></span> </p></div>
<div style="margin-left:30pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">"The clockwise and
anticlockwise twists don’t quite cancel. The rubber sheet is subject to a
tension that diminishes with distance. That represents the hydrogen atom’s
gravitational field."</span><span style="color:black"></span></p></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">I came to this
conclusion several years ago that gravitation was the long-range,
non-torsional, 'residue' of the strong EM fields composing the net-neutral
charge fields of matter. This came from thinking (non-mathematically) about
the differences between the E & M forces as distortions of space & how
relativity affects them.</span><span style="color:black"></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">I hope to write-up a
paper on strong-gravity (after the conference in August), that describes the
nuclear strong force as resulting from the interacting short-range (multipole)
fields of the relativistic electron-positron 'clusters' (triplets?) called
quarks.</span><span style="color:black"></span></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Andrew</span><span style="color:black"></span></p></div></div></div>
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