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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Thank you John D and Martin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>This is what I also thought. Light must have a very small contribution to the universal gravitational field. After all, it is made of the same “stuff” as everything else.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Chip<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> General [mailto:general-bounces+chipakins=gmail.com@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mark, Martin van der<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, July 04, 2015 8:13 AM<br><b>To:</b> Nature of Light and Particles - General Discussion<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [General] Physics in 100 years according to Wilczek<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Hi Chip,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Yes it does, but the total mass in all the radiation in the universe is far less than that of matter, in the present era. In the first 300.000 years after the big bang (whatever that was), the universe was plasma and radiation dominated. I would have to look into the details again to tell you more.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>As I am typing this I see John D giving a good answer as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Cheers, oh and thanks for the compliments about my paper. I will remove some typo’s and deal with some questions in a later edition this week.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Martin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy'>Dr. Martin B. van der Mark</span><span lang=DE style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy'>Principal Scientist, Minimally Invasive Healthcare</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:navy'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy'>Philips Research Europe - Eindhoven</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy'>High Tech Campus, Building 34 (WB2.025)</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy'>Prof. Holstlaan 4</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy'>5656 AE Eindhoven, The Netherlands</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy'>Tel: +31 40 2747548</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> General [</span><a href="mailto:general-bounces+martin.van.der.mark=philips.com@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>mailto:general-bounces+martin.van.der.mark=philips.com@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Chip Akins<br><b>Sent:</b> zaterdag 4 juli 2015 14:38<br><b>To:</b> 'Nature of Light and Particles - General Discussion'<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [General] Physics in 100 years according to Wilczek<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Hi Martin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Energy in space, which comprises light, has momentum, is affected by gravity, and when confined, can demonstrate all the observable effects of mass that fermions display.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Light is affected by gravity, but a question for you, do you think that light also creates a gravitational field? Does light contribute to the gravitation of the universe?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Chip<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> General [</span><a href="mailto:general-bounces+chipakins=gmail.com@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>mailto:general-bounces+chipakins=gmail.com@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mark, Martin van der<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, July 04, 2015 7:18 AM<br><b>To:</b> David Mathes; Nature of Light and Particles - General Discussion<br><b>Cc:</b> </span><a href="mailto:jgw@elec.gla.ac.uk"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>jgw@elec.gla.ac.uk</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [General] Physics in 100 years according to Wilczek<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Dear David, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>thanks for the reply.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>You have a preference regarding mass and energy that, indeed, I definitely do not share.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>The essence is in fully grasping “light is heavy”. After that one will never accuse the photon of being massless and still having momentum, as if it were a mystery.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>You provide me with even more evidence that “light is heavy” is a paper that I should try to publish in a real Journal, not just a conference. It is, implicitly, the very basis of ALL the electron models people are proposing in this discussion group. By the way you are in the same league with Frank Wilzcek, regarding this point at least.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>For the coupling, I am sorry to let you down a bit, but you may have noticed the announcement of my second paper on topological solutions and 4-current. That will bring it closer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Actually, one of the things required for the knots to be stable is some form of self-interaction that could be calculated from Hamilton’s principle, as a starting point see paper: </span><a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.6072"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.6072</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>, another essential ingredient for particles made out of pure fields.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Then of course it is perfectly well allowed to come up with your own idea, and I would be very interested. The answer remains elusive, still …<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Very best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Martin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy'>Dr. Martin B. van der Mark</span><span lang=DE style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy'>Principal Scientist, Minimally Invasive Healthcare</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:navy'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy'>Philips Research Europe - Eindhoven</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy'>High Tech Campus, Building 34 (WB2.025)</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy'>Prof. Holstlaan 4</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy'>5656 AE Eindhoven, The Netherlands</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy'>Tel: +31 40 2747548</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> General [</span><a href="mailto:general-bounces+martin.van.der.mark=philips.com@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>mailto:general-bounces+martin.van.der.mark=philips.com@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>David Mathes<br><b>Sent:</b> vrijdag 3 juli 2015 19:58<br><b>To:</b> Nature of Light and Particles - General Discussion<br><b>Cc:</b> </span><a href="mailto:jgw@elec.gla.ac.uk"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>jgw@elec.gla.ac.uk</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [General] Physics in 100 years according to Wilczek<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435942677697_6735"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Martin</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435942677697_6735"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435942677697_6735"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>A very stuffy paper. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435942677697_6735"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435942677697_6735"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Mass and energy equivalence in this paper seems a bit one sided as if mass dominates the universe, a thoroughly Machian view. Except Machian is not a local view. </span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>While I enjoy the Machian view that this paper and Rañada's work provide , </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>the difficulty is the mass-energy relationship you have proposed seems a bit one sided as if mass reigned supreme above energy. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435942677697_6735"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435942677697_6735"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>p. 2 all energy has the same “essence”: it is mass </span><span style='font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:black'>𝑚</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435942677697_6948"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435942677697_6870"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>I prefer to thing the opposite. All mass has the same essence which is energy, not that all energy has mass. </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Mass is simply a special case of energy density or energy-momentum. After all, a massless photon has momentum.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435942677697_6882"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435942677697_6883"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>The flavors of mass need some clarity not addressed - gravitational, inertia, EM, and quantum. If one insists on using the strong force for an an example, then add strong mass. </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>As to coupling, I was hoping that the level and type of coupling would have been addressed if only as a prelude to working with multiphysics programs such as COMSOL. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435942677697_7113"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435942677697_7113"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>David<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #1010FF 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt;margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:3.75pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt' id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435942677697_7091"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435942677697_7094"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435942677697_7093"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435942677697_7112"><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><hr size=1 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> "Mark, Martin van der" <</span><a href="mailto:martin.van.der.mark@philips.com"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>martin.van.der.mark@philips.com</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>><br><b>To:</b> David Mathes <</span><a href="mailto:davidmathes8@yahoo.com"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>davidmathes8@yahoo.com</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>>; Nature of Light and Particles - General Discussion <</span><a href="mailto:general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>> <br><b>Cc:</b> "</span><a href="mailto:jgw@elec.gla.ac.uk"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>jgw@elec.gla.ac.uk</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>" <</span><a href="mailto:jgw@elec.gla.ac.uk"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>jgw@elec.gla.ac.uk</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>> <br><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435942677697_7371">Sent:</b> Thursday, July 2, 2015 8:44 AM<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [General] Physics in 100 years according to Wilczek</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435942677697_7092"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div id=yiv5713156330><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435942677697_7098"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435942677697_7097"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435942677697_7114"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>David,</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435942677697_7096"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>As promised, my paper. This is the philosophical one.<br>Protons and electrons are built from a continuous light-speed circulation of energy. That energy must take part in at least the electromagnetic interaction. Perhaps it is just knotted light? In any case, quarks, gluons, strings, super-symmetrical particles, Planck-scale physics: all bullshit…well not entirely; the quark symmetry is there and should be there.</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435942677697_7099"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435942677697_7101"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>The other one paper is pure mathematics and it shows how Maxwell’s equation support topological solutions (knots of fields) that may be charged, and how the knots are behaving as quantum mechanical objects (the knots are also solutions to the Dirac or Klein-Gordon equation), I am in the process of drafting the text around it. A non-linear condition makes that the solutions must also obey a null-condition (invariant, being a proper spinor). All that together with the winding numbers of the knots should give enough conditions to select out only a minor number of possibilities to survive…haven’t proven that yet.</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435942677697_7103"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>I will sent this second one in a few weeks time… actually it should be ready in two…</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435942677697_7105"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Cheers, Martin</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435942677697_7106"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435942677697_7108"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435942677697_7107"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Dr. Martin B. van der Mark</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435942677697_7110"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Principal Scientist, Minimally Invasive Healthcare</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435942677697_7115"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435942677697_7116"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Philips Research Europe - 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General Discussion<br><b>Subject:</b> [General] Physics in 100 years according to Wilczek</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_9091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_9091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_9091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>All, <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_9091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_9091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>As I look at all these different models of the electron, we have all carefully grasped the elephant somewhere on the outside in an attempt to figure out what's on the inside. In our quest to determine the heart of the electron, we have compared present day notes in hopes of future results. So any description of the elephant called electron can be reduced to a series of experimental results that already exist and a limits can be placed to confine any model to reasonableness.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_9091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_9091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest...oh, forget that. What I want to know...what does the future hold for quantum and quanta and is there at least a roadmap in physics.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_9091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Specifically, w</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>hat does the future hold in terms of photon models and photon-based electrons? </span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_9091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_9091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>That is a question open to interpretation but Wilczek at least provides a framework with a few directions in his paper published in March 2015.</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Summarized in a brief article on PBS website, Wilczek came out with a rather bold paper on musings and wishes available on Arxiv.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_13852"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_12092"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_9091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>A quick article from PBS...from<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_9091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/physics/in-100-years/" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>How Physics Will Change—and Change the World—in 100 Years — NOVA Next | PBS</span></a><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_9091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_9091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>The full paper....<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_9091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><a href="http://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.07735.pdf" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>http://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.07735.pdf</span></a><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_12460"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_9091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>The paper was a fun read in spite of the physics and mathematics involved. Here is one of my favorite quotes:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_9091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_11877"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_11876"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_11875"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_11874"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_11873"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><i><span style='font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>"When Leon Cooper, on behalf of Brown University, asked me to contribute to their 250</span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-family:CMTI8;color:black'>th </span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>anniversary by giving a talk </span></i></b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_11873"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><i><span style='font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>about the next 250 years of physics, I of course accepted immediately. Then I thought about it. I soon realized that </span></i></b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_11873"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><i><span style='font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>I’d taken on a task that is way beyond me, or (I suspect) anyone else. So as a first step I renormalized 250 </span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-family:CMSY10;color:black'>→ </span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>100."</span></i></b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_9091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><i><span style='font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>"Here I indulge in wide-ranging speculations on the shape of physics, and technology closely related to physics, over the next one hundred years. </span></i></b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><i><span style='font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>Themes include the many faces of unification, the reimagining of quantum theory, and new forms of engineering on small, intermediate, and large scales."</span></i></b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_13905"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_9091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>My take is that given the rapid advances in quantum computing, and Kurzweil's pending Singularity, we should consider the Wilczek paper a roadmap good for at least 20 years. </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>We should also consider this paper somewhat as guidance to modeling photon and electron.</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_9091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10095"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10094"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10093"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10092"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Before looking forward, Wilczek summarizes the history of physics and mathematics where there has been unification. In the computer industry including Apple, HP, IBM and Microsoft, unification is also called integration. And in finance, mergers and acquisitions. But I digress.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>From history, Wilczek provide a summary of</span><b id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_15382"><i id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_15380"><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> unification</span></i></b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> in specific fields. I'm sure there are others but these will do.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_9091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><i><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>"Names are attached not as credit but a shorthand for developments:</span></i></b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_9091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10189"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10188"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10187"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10186"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><i><span style='font-family:CMBX10;color:black'>– </span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>Unification of algebra and geometry (Descartes)</span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-family:CMR8;color:black'><br></span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-family:CMBX10;color:black'>– </span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>Unification of celestial and terrestrial physics (Galileo, Newton) </span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-family:CMBX10;color:black'>– </span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>Unification of mechanics and optics (Hamilton)<br></span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-family:CMBX10;color:black'>– </span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>Unification of electricity, magnetism, and optics (Maxwell)<br></span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-family:CMBX10;color:black'>– </span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>Unification of space and time (Einstein, Minkowski)<br></span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-family:CMBX10;color:black'>– </span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>Unification of wave and particle (Einstein, de Broglie) </span></i></b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10347"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10346"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10345"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10363"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><i><span style='font-family:CMBX10;color:black'>– </span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>Unification of reasoning and calculation (Boole, Turing) </span></i></b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10363"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10363"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><i><span style='font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>end"</span></i></b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10363"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10363"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>So he continues on the theme of unification with the Standard Model and eventually leads us into Supersymmetry (SUSY). <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10363"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10569"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10568"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10567"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10583"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10582"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10581"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10580"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-family:CMR9;color:black'>"<i id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_15086">For reasons I’ve detailed in an Appendix, I think the most sensible procedure is to use “Standard Model” in its original sense, to mean the electroweak theory only. "</i></span></b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_13958"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_13958"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:CMR9;color:black'>That's interesting since most of the electron models don't even mention electroweak and prefer classical or semi-classical form of EM. However, there are couple models that have the guts to go GUT and encompass the four basic forces (or five if one treats the B field separate from E) as well as declare there is a bottom, and it is spacetime. </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>As background, note that the Standard Model can typically be summarized using symmetry groups as </span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10095"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10094"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10093"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10092"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10569"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10568"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10567"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10566"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:CMMI10;color:black'>SU</span><span style='font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>(3) </span><span style='font-family:CMSY10;color:black'>× </span><span style='font-family:CMMI10;color:black'>SU</span><span style='font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>(2) </span><span style='font-family:CMSY10;color:black'>× </span><span style='font-family:CMMI10;color:black'>U</span><span style='font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>(1) </span><span style='font-family:CMSY10;color:black'>× </span><span style='font-family:CMMI10;color:black'>SO</span><span style='font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>(3</span><span style='font-family:CMMI10;color:black'>,</span><span style='font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>1)</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10583"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10582"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10581"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10580"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>Keep in mind that Barrett using the appropriate extensions to Maxwell's equations (Maxwell 20) confines his "Topological Electromagnistim" to</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:CMMI10;color:black'>EM only ... SU</span><span style='font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>(3) </span><span style='font-family:CMSY10;color:black'>× </span><span style='font-family:CMMI10;color:black'>SU</span><span style='font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>(2) </span><span style='font-family:CMSY10;color:black'>× </span><span style='font-family:CMMI10;color:black'>U</span><span style='font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>(1)</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10752"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10751"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10750"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10749"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-family:TimesNewRomanPS;color:black'>Topological Foundations of Electromagnetism </span></b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><a href="http://aflb.ensmp.fr/AFLB-26j/aflb26jp055.pdf" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"CMR10",serif'>http://aflb.ensmp.fr/AFLB-26j/aflb26jp055.pdf</span></a><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>I have two noteworthy additions to the SM. Electrons can be spin coupled, and there is the question of phat photons, So I've wondered if the proper investigative path might be</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:CMMI10;color:black'>N^2 hv == SU(4) X SU</span><span style='font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>(3) </span><span style='font-family:CMSY10;color:black'>× </span><span style='font-family:CMMI10;color:black'>SU</span><span style='font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>(2) </span><span style='font-family:CMSY10;color:black'>× </span><span style='font-family:CMMI10;color:black'>U</span><span style='font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>(1) </span><span style='font-family:CMSY10;color:black'>× </span><span style='font-family:CMMI10;color:black'>SO</span><span style='font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>(3</span><span style='font-family:CMMI10;color:black'>,</span><span style='font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>1)</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>Any comment or correction on this view may be of help. And yes, I have seen the equations of the universe.</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>From Sean Carroll</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><a href="http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/01/04/the-world-of-everyday-experience-in-one-equation/" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>The World of Everyday Experience, In One Equation</span></a><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div style='margin-top:3.75pt;margin-bottom:3.75pt' id="yiv5713156330enhancrCard_1"><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td colspan=8 style='background:#E5E5E5;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:1.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></td></tr><tr id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_11603"><td width=1 rowspan=5 style='width:.75pt;background:#E5E5E5;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:1.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></td><td width=168 rowspan=5 style='width:1.75in;background:black;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;min-height:168px' id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_11602"><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/01/04/the-world-of-everyday-experience-in-one-equation/" target="_blank"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=168 height=58 id="_x0000_i1027" src="http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Everyday-Equation-1024x353.jpg" alt=image></span></a><o:p></o:p></p></td><td width=1 rowspan=5 style='width:.75pt;background:#E5E5E5;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:1.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></td><td width=14 rowspan=5 style='width:10.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></td><td colspan=2 style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;min-height:6px' id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_14234"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_14233"><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:6.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></td><td width=20 rowspan=5 style='width:15.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in' id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_11611"><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:20.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></td><td width=1 rowspan=5 style='width:.75pt;background:#E5E5E5;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in' id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_14238"><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:1.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></td></tr><tr id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_11610"><td width=285 colspan=2 style='width:213.75pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in' id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_11609"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_11608"><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_11607"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.4pt'><a href="http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/01/04/the-world-of-everyday-experience-in-one-equation/" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>The World of Everyday Experience, In One Equation</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_11606"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#999999'>Longtime readers know I feel strongly that it should be more widely appreciated that the laws underlying the physics of everyday life are completely understood. 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</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>Or could it be the unification of spacetime and waves that provides the key insight and breakthrough? </span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10344"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10344"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>Could it be we need to rethink how we think about things, and perhaps relearn a new way on how we learn how to learn? </span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10344"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10344"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>And what is inside the photon?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10344"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10344"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10348"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>Best Regards,</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10348"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_10348"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"CMR10",serif;color:black'>David</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div><div id="yiv5713156330yui_3_16_0_1_1435792424476_9091"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:gray'>The information contained in this message may be confidential and legally protected under applicable law. 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