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    <small>John D.:<br>
      <br>
      when we do physics we have the choice either to do algebra or to
      accept the goal to understand physics. <br>
      <br>
      It was a new direction in the physics of the 20th century to
      replace the work on physics by working on algebra. Albert Einstein
      started this way to develop relativity as a mathematical construct
      (whereas later he did not like this way any longer), Werner
      Heisenberg followed this way very strictly (and got in this way
      into conflict e.g. with Schrödinger, who still tried to work with
      an understanding of physics itself). <br>
      <br>
      If we intend to work on relativity using physical understanding,
      as Hendrik Lorentz did, we have to find a cause for relativistic
      dilation; not only a mathematical solution for the constancy of c.
      And the only cause of dilation which I know is the fact of a
      permanent motion at c inside of elementary particles. Schrödinger
      found this fact in the Dirac function (and it had to be found, as
      the Dirac function describes the relativistic behaviour of
      electrons) and gave it this funny name "Zitterbewegung" (because
      he had bad feelings about it).<br>
      <br>
      Louis de Broglie always had the position to tread particle
      behaviour as a </small><small>task about </small><small>physics,
      not as a task of developing a working algebra. It is quite funny
      that just his first great step was a piece of paper where he
      developed a deduction of the (de Broglie) wavelength by doing
      algebra. But it honours him - in my
      view - that he criticized this way in the same paper as he stated
      that the idea behind his result is not really physics. <br>
      <br>
      I am aware that "Zitterbewegung" is explained in a different (i.e.
      less physical) way by quantum theorists. But it is my experience
      that we can have great progress in understanding the nature of
      matter by going back to understand physics rather than doing
      algebra. Algebra can, of course, be of a great help to describe
      physical processes which are already understood. But it is not a
      proper replacement of understanding.<br>
      <br>
      Best regards<br>
      Albrecht<br>
      <br>
      PS: A</small><small> Möbius strip is a funny and interesting
      geometrical construct. But its existence is no explanation why
      (i.e. by which force) something on this path is kept on this path.<br>
    </small> <br>
    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 13.10.2015 um 00:06 schrieb John
      Duffield:<br>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Albrecht:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">It’s

            easier to dwell on the bones of contention rather than share
            the wide acres of common ground. See the Wikipedia <a
              moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zitterbewegung">Zitterbewegung</a>
            article:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">
              <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p><span lang="EN">The resulting expression consists of an
            initial position, a motion proportional to time, and an
            unexpected oscillation term with an amplitude equal to the
            Compton wavelength. That oscillation term is the so-called
            "Zitterbewegung". Interestingly, the "Zitterbewegung" term
            vanishes on taking expectation values for wave-packets that
            are made up entirely of positive- (or entirely of negative-)
            energy waves. This can be achieved by taking a <a
              moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foldy-Wouthuysen_transformation"
              title="Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation">Foldy Wouthuysen
              transformation</a>. Thus, we arrive at the interpretation
            of the "Zitterbewegung" as being caused by interference
            between positive- and negative-energy wave components.</span><span
            style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"
            lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><span
              style="color:windowtext">I don’t like the idea of
              negative-energy waves myself. But I do like the way the
              Dirac equations is a wave equation. And I like that the
              Compton wavelength. And the wave packets. And how we make
              electrons and positrons out of light waves in pair
              production, then diffract them, then annihilate them to
              get our light waves back. And how in the </span></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"
            lang="EN"><span style="color:windowtext">Foldy–Wouthuysen
              transformation article you can read this: <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"
            lang="EN"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
            lang="EN">In optics, it has enabled to see the deeper
            connections in the wavelength-dependent regime between light
            optics and charged-particle optics (see <a
              moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_optics"
              title="Electron optics">Electron optics</a>).</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><span
              style="color:windowtext">There’s something going round and
              round in there. And it </span></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#001966;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#001966;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a
              moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="https://www.google.co.uk/#q=zitterbewegung+rotation"><span
style="color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><span
style="color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">sure

                  as hell ain<span
style="color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">’<span
style="color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">t
                      cheese</span></span></span></span></a></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><span
              style="color:windowtext">.  Draw a sinusoidal waveform on
              a strip of paper, then cut it out so you’ve got a piece of
              paper like this:</span></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#5B9BD5;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><img
              id="_x0000_i1031"
              src="cid:part5.08000608.05070001@a-giese.de" height="82"
              width="487" border="0"></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><span
              style="color:windowtext">You’ve got a positive curvature
              followed by a negative curvature. Now make a M</span></span><em><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;font-weight:normal"><span
                style="color:windowtext">ö</span></span></em><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><span
              style="color:windowtext">bius strip. It ought to be a 
              double loop, like a line drawn around a M</span></span><em><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;font-weight:normal"><span
                style="color:windowtext">ö</span></span></em><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#1F4E79;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><span
              style="color:windowtext">bius strip, then you’ve got two
              things orbiting each other. Then everybody’s happy. But
              that’s one for another day.  <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">John

            D<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"
                  lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"
                lang="EN-US"> General [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="mailto:general-bounces+johnduffield=btconnect.com@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org">mailto:general-bounces+johnduffield=btconnect.com@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org</a>]
                <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dr. Albrecht Giese<br>
                <b>Sent:</b> 12 October 2015 22:02<br>
                <b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
                  href="mailto:general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org">general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org</a><br>
                <b>Subject:</b> Re: [General] nature of light particles
                & theories<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Dear John,<br>
          <br>
          great, I almost agree. But replace "light going around" by
          "zitterbewegung". Because zitterbewegung is the cause of
          special relativity, it acts like the parallel-mirror light
          clock.<br>
          <br>
          Regards<br>
          Albrecht<br>
          <br>
          PS: Will come back to your previous mail soon.<br>
          <br>
          <br>
          <span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"
            style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Am
            12.10.2015 um 22:28 schrieb John Duffield:<o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">When

              it comes to the muon, I think it’s simplest to think of it
              as <i>light going round and round and round</i>. And then
              to say it does so for circa one zillion revolutions before
              the muon decays. Only if it’s moving fast it isn’t going
              round and round and round in a circle, it’s helical
              instead. Hence the one zillion revolutions take longer. So
              the muon lifetime is extended.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><img
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Then

              once the muon has decayed and a more-or-less massless
              chargeless neutrino has departed at the speed of light,
              all you’re left with is light going round and round. We
              then call it an electron. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">As

              regards symmetrical time dilation, I agree it’s akin to
              perspective. When we are separated by distance, I say you
              look smaller than me, and you say I look smaller than you.
              But we don’t then say <i>whoa paradox!</i> Nor should we
              say that when we are separated by relative motion. Our
              time is just the number of reflections on our <a
                moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation#Simple_inference_of_time_dilation_due_to_relative_velocity">parallel-mirror

                light clock</a>. And the light in that clock either
              looks like this | or it looks like this /\/\/\/\/\. It’s
              like the circle and the helix viewed from the side.
              Special relativity works because of the wave nature of
              matter, as per the attached <i>The Other Meaning of
                Special Relativity</i> by Robert Close.    </span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Regards</span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">John

              D</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
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                    lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span
                  style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"
                  lang="EN-US"> General [<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:general-bounces+johnduffield=btconnect.com@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org">mailto:general-bounces+johnduffield=btconnect.com@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org</a>]
                  <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Williamson<br>
                  <b>Sent:</b> 12 October 2015 19:11<br>
                  <b>To:</b> Nature of Light and Particles - General
                  Discussion <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org"><general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org></a><br>
                  <b>Cc:</b> Nick Bailey <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:nick@bailey-family.org.uk"><nick@bailey-family.org.uk></a>;
                  Ariane Mandray <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:ariane.mandray@wanadoo.fr"><ariane.mandray@wanadoo.fr></a>;
                  Anthony Booth <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:abooth@ieee.org"><abooth@ieee.org></a>;
                  ARNOLD BENN <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:arniebenn@mac.com"><arniebenn@mac.com></a><br>
                  <b>Subject:</b> Re: [General] nature of light
                  particles & theories</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal"
              style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
                style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"
                lang="EN-US">Gentlemen,<br>
                <br>
                I detect a tendency to act as though physics is a kind
                of chocolate box from which one can discard the flavours
                one does not like. Not so. It all has to fit together
                and all has to agree with experiment.<br>
                <br>
                Everything - however you mess up your view of it - has
                to stay consistent with experiment. A safe way of doing
                this is keeping with some fundamental principles, never
                known to violated, such as the absolute conservation of
                energy.<br>
                <br>
                Sorry Chandra, you just cannot "discard Special
                Relativity" and keep GR, since SR is in GR as an element
                of it (in the diagonal of the metric tensor). Agree with
                the standing on shoulders of giants bit though (and with
                most of the rest of what you say).<br>
                <br>
                Al, Albrecht is right. There is no contradiction - just
                something you need to understand about the symmetry. You
                seem to see a contradiction where there is none present.
                You make some statements as though they are fact which
                are not fact. <br>
                For example you say >>><br>
                <br>
              </span><span
                style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"
                lang="EN-US">"Two entities cannot at once be both be
                dialted in the other's view and not their own." <br>
                <br>
                <br>
                Yes they can. Yes they must, it has to be symmetric!
                Saying something does not make it true, however sensible
                it may seem to the sayer. There is no actual dilation.
                The existence of another entity somewhere has no bearing
                on the local properties elsewhere. All is as viewed, all
                is perspective (good word). If this is what you are on
                about then we agree.<br>
                <br>
              </span><span
                style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"
                lang="EN-US">It seems to me though that is not all those
                textbook writers that are missing something but you.
                Both observers DO see each other clocks running slow.
                The Muon in the muon decay sees the earth as approaching
                it at near lightspeed  -in its primary stillness and
                pure stationary state. The Earth it observes is still
                round - but as round as a pancake. The muon decays in
                2.2 microseconds, in its frame, as usual. This layers
                multiple kilometres into the earth in the earth frame
                though. This is because the muon thinks the earth is as
                flat as a pancake. No  contradiction - no problem. If it
                were two earths colliding, with muons in them, each muon
                in each earth would see the other earth as flat.
                Perfectly symmetrically. Both sets of observers (as
                their last act in this case) would observe muons to live
                longer when moving fast in their frame.<br>
                <br>
                This is all symmetric. The base reason (for space and
                time contraction) is explained in the first of my two
                papers to SPIE (where gamma is derived from photon
                energy transformations E=H nu) , and arises, simply,
                from the linearity and conservation of energy. It is
                just derivative of the Doppler shift of photons. Dead
                simple. Do the maths! You can discard SR if you like,
                but you must also lose energy conservation and the
                relation E=h nu if you do. SR is that relation which
                maintains energy linearity and conservation of energy
                for light.  Chandra is right: there are some things that
                are simply more fundamental than other things. Energy
                (and hence frequency) is, apparently, more fundamental
                than space and time scales. You need to get this! Read
                my paper!<br>
                <br>
                Regards, John (W).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                      lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span
                    style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"
                    lang="EN-US"> General [<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:general-bounces+john.williamson=glasgow.ac.uk@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org">general-bounces+john.williamson=glasgow.ac.uk@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org</a>]
                    on behalf of Roychoudhuri, Chandra [<a
                      class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
                      href="mailto:chandra.roychoudhuri@uconn.edu"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:chandra.roychoudhuri@uconn.edu">chandra.roychoudhuri@uconn.edu</a></a>]<br>
                    <b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 12, 2015 5:30 PM<br>
                    <b>To:</b> Nature of Light and Particles - General
                    Discussion; <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                      href="mailto:phys@a-giese.de">phys@a-giese.de</a><br>
                    <b>Subject:</b> Re: [General] nature of light
                    particles & theories</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                <div>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"
                      lang="EN-US">Hello Everybody: </span><o:p></o:p></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"
                      lang="EN-US">Not being a theoretician, I stay away
                      from theoretical arguments. But, my outright
                      opinion is that we should discard Special
                      Relativity; in contrast to ride on the shoulders
                      of GR and QM to develop much better theories for
                      future; which again should be discarded and
                      advanced by the next generations; and so on. GR
                      and QM have captured some kernels of ontological
                      reality. But, they should be advanced to deeper
                      levels of ontological realities by constructing
                      newer theories by re-building the very
                      foundational postulates behind the current
                      theories. It must be continued for a long time to
                      come. It is about time to openly learn to get rid
                      of our mental Messiah Complex and move forward to
                      keep on evolving as thinking species.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"
                    style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span
                      style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-US">In many of
                      my papers [</span><span lang="EN-US">Down load
                      paper:  <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                        href="http://www.natureoflight.org/CP/"
                        target="_blank"><span
                          style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#0070C0">http://www.natureoflight.org/CP/</span></a>;
                      summarized in the book, “Causal Physics”, CRC,
                      2014], I have repeatedly underscored that we must
                      be alert about the parameters we use while
                      building an equation regarding their existence as
                      a physical variable involved in the phenomenon we
                      are modeling. The parameters can be primary (leads
                      the interaction process and measurable); it can be
                      secondary (measurable, but exists only in
                      association with the primary parameter); it can be
                      indistinguishable whether it is primary or
                      secondary because of our limited understanding; it
                      can be a tertiary parameter (human logics needs it
                      as a variable based on the current limited
                      knowledge, etc.), etc. A simple example is ν = c/λ
                      and the associated velocity relation c=√(1/εμ).
                      Here I claim that, from the standpoint of
                      functional “INTERACTION PROCESS”, “ν” is the
                      primary parameter (intrinsic oscillation of the
                      source dictates the frequency). But “c” is also a
                      primary parameter given by intrinsic set of
                      properties of nature; we cannot do anything more
                      than complain about that! Whereas, “λ” is a
                      secondary parameter defined by the first two
                      parameter already mentioned.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"
                      lang="EN-US">      However, to measure </span><span
                      lang="EN-US">“c”, we need to introduce another
                      highly functional and CONCEPTUAL parameter, the
                      “time interval”, δt from our daily experience of
                      v= δx/ δt. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">      Let us
                      not forget that we can never directly measure the
                      time interval δt, or its CONCEPTUAL big brother,
                      THE “RUNNING TIME”, “t”. Smart humans figured out
                      how to measure both “δt” and “t” using the real
                      physical parameter, “f”, the frequency of diverse
                      kinds of natural oscillators, be it a pendulum or
                      an atomic clock. We smartly set “δt” =(1/f); “f”
                      being a real physical parameter; we are still
                      “grounded” to gather “evidence based” results!! We
                      measure “f”, invert it to get a time interval “δt”
                      and a longer time interval “Δt”~N.“δt”, where N is
                      big number representing so many complete
                      oscillations of the “Pendulum” we use.
                       Operationally speaking, “Δt” is the closet we can
                      get to the concept of “running time”.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">      The
                      running time “t’, not being a real physical
                      parameter of any physical object within our
                      control; we must not dictate nature as to how she
                      ought behave based upon human invented “running
                      time”. The “running time” cannot be “dilated” or
                      “contracted”. However, the physical frequency of
                      any and all “pendulums” can be “dilated” or
                      “contracted” with appropriate changes in the
                      environment of the “pendulum”. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">      There is
                      SPACE, defined as “ether”, by most of the
                      physicists who constructed the foundation of
                      classical physics over centuries. Based upon,
                      modern understanding, I have improved upon the
                      “ether” concept to CTF (Complex Tension Field)
                      that accommodates Non-Interaction of Waves (NIW)
                      all across the cosmic space. The NIW removes
                      wave-particle duality and most of the non-causal
                      postulates thrown into QM to make it “nobody
                      understand…”. QM is understandable and it has many
                      realities built into it and hence it can now lead
                      to scientific platform to re-build QM as a higher
                      level theory. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">      The
                      definition <b><i>mass</i></b> “m” is another
                      parameter that must be eliminated from physics,
                      not because it is unreal like the running time,
                      but because we have known for quite some time that
                      “m” (=E/c<sup>2</sup>) represent energy, not some
                      “substance”. We measure its value out of its <b><i>inertial

                          behavior</i></b> when it is forced to move in
                      the presence of some potential gradients. We do
                      not measure the content of the “substance” it
                      holds; rather the <b><i>kinetic behavior</i></b>
                      of the enfolded energy as resonant oscillations of
                      the CTF. Kinetic motion (associated with another
                      harmonic oscillation; a de Broglie oscillation
                      rather than de Broglie “Pilot Wave”) adds further
                      additional energy on to its structural
                      (oscillating) energy. I would not call it
                      “Relativistic Energy” as this energy increase
                      happens for all velocities.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">      In my
                      personal view point, it is time for us to leave
                      behind the romanticism of hanging on to the
                      successes of the twentieth physics, (albeit being
                      absolutely correct); but, a la Newton, let us
                      boldly ride on the shoulders of the formulators of
                      these theories to move on and allow our
                      knowledge-horizon to expand and allow
                      evolution-given perpetual enquiring minds to keep
                      on evolving. Our job is to build that cultural
                      platform for our next generations to come, instead
                      of focusing on the transient Nobel Prizes; which
                      did not even exist before 1900. But science was
                      steadily maturing staying focused on understanding
                      the interaction processes that give rise to the
                      measurable data for “evidence based science”!
                       Unfortunately, we now know that “evidences”
                      always bring limited information; they do not
                      provide complete information about anything in
                      nature. Thus, all theories must be iterated on and
                      on!  </span><o:p></o:p></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                      name="_MailEndCompose"><span
                        style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-US">Sincerely,</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"
                      lang="EN-US">Chandra</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                        style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"
                            lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span
                          style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"
                          lang="EN-US"> General [<a
                            class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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                          <b>On Behalf Of </b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
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                          <b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 12, 2015 10:44 AM<br>
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                          <b>Subject:</b> Re: [General] nature of light
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                                lang="EN-US"> Montag, 12. Oktober 2015
                                um 15:13 Uhr<br>
                                <b>Von:</b> "Dr. Albrecht Giese" <<a
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                                <b>An:</b> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                                  href="mailto:af.kracklauer@web.de"
                                  target="_blank">af.kracklauer@web.de</a>,
                                "phys >> Dr. Albrecht Giese" <<a
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                                <b>Betreff:</b> Re: [General] nature of
                                light particles & theories</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                                    lang="EN-US">Hi Al,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                                    lang="EN-US">Hi Albrecht:  </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                                    lang="EN-US">AK:  From your comments
                                    I can't be sure if we disagree (as
                                    it seems your are saying) or not.
                                     Some responses below may get this
                                    issue.<br>
                                    <br>
                                    I do not see any conflict if the
                                    situation with synchronized clocks
                                    is obeyed as I explained it in my
                                    last mail (see below). Those clock
                                    assemblies show dilation, but do not
                                    present any logical conflict.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                                    lang="EN-US">AK: An interval for one
                                    party cannot BE (appearances are a
                                    different matter!) origianl length
                                    (per his clock) and forshortened
                                    (per partner's clock) at the same
                                    location and termination with one
                                    end at the same instant.  Obvious!
                                     Even text books point out that the
                                    interval is the same in both frames
                                    (per +/- Relativity Principle) and
                                    show a hyperbolic isocline
                                    intersecting the travelr's world
                                    line.  Thus, each for himself agrees
                                    on the length, and each for the
                                    other agrees on a dilated interval.
                                     Where else does this sort of thing
                                    happen?  PERSPECTIVE.  </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"
                                    lang="EN-US">Your argument makes
                                    sense only if it is taken that the
                                    virtual image (or its equivalent in
                                    space-time; where it can't be static
                                    as in Classical Optics) is
                                    dilated/contracted.  If that's what
                                    you mean, we agree.  Otherwise, what
                                    the texts say is pure contradiction
                                    or science fiction mystery.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                                    When looking at a real situation one
                                    has to identify the observed object
                                    on the one hand with a clock in the
                                    example, and on the other hand the
                                    observer with another clock or a
                                    sequence of other clocks. If we
                                    observe a moving particle (like a
                                    muon) in a laboratory, than the muon
                                    is represented by one clock in the
                                    moving system. In this case the
                                    observer is represented by a line of
                                    clocks positioned along the path of
                                    the muon. Because, if we think in an
                                    idealized way, we have first to note
                                    the time when the muon starts by
                                    looking at the clock which is close
                                    to the muon at start time. When the
                                    muon decays we have for the decay
                                    time to look to the clock which is
                                    close to the muon at that moment.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                                    lang="EN-US">AK: In experiments, NO
                                    lifetime measurement is made at all!
                                     The data consists entirely of
                                    counting the quanttity of muons at a
                                    given location.  Neither experiment
                                    provides any empirical information
                                    whatsoever about the muon generation
                                    instant or location---in any frame.
                                     These latter features are surmized
                                    or calculated given assumed theory.
                                     Thus, an alternate explanation must
                                    only account for the presense of a
                                    muon quantity at the measureing
                                    location compatible with those
                                    ESTIMATED using SR or whatever. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                                    This may look ridiculous as for the
                                    observer in the lab all clocks have
                                    the same indication. But from the
                                    "view" of the muon the clock at rest
                                    at the start looks advanced and the
                                    clock at the end looks retarded. So
                                    the muon has the impression that the
                                    time in the lab was slowed down.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                                    lang="EN-US">AK: If things only
                                    "look" to be dilated/contracted,
                                    then you are talking about the
                                    virtual image; in which case we have
                                    agreed from the start.  BUT, with
                                    this explantion the muon data cannot
                                    be explained.  To begin, the muons
                                    don't look or interact with any
                                    exterior observers.  Even the
                                    exterior observers look only at the
                                    number of muons in a location where
                                    they do not expect many.  This muon
                                    story does not involve two parties
                                    for whcih the appearance can be
                                    accounted for in terms of projective
                                    geometry in either 3-space
                                    (classical optics) or 4-space-time
                                    (SR hyperoptics, if you will).<br>
                                    <br>
                                    As a reminder: The equation for time
                                    transformation is:  t' = gamma* (t -
                                    vx / c<sup>2</sup>)  (i.e. the
                                    Lorentz transformation). Here is x
                                    the position of that clock which is
                                    close to the moving object at the
                                    time of observation. And that
                                    position is x = v*t if the observer
                                    it at rest. So, for this observer
                                    there is t' = t/gamma. For a
                                    co-moving observer there is v = 0,
                                    so the result is t' = t*gamma. Both
                                    results are covered by this
                                    equation, and there is no logical
                                    conflict.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                                    lang="EN-US">AK: Here again you may
                                    be confusing/mixing ontology with
                                    perception.  Typically clock
                                    readings are at different locations,
                                    so they have to be broadcast along
                                    light cones to the other
                                    party---this usually takes TIME!
                                     (This fact alsos leads to
                                    confusion, as there are two times
                                    involved, that of the event at the
                                    event and that of the news arival
                                    not at the event.) But a muon does
                                    not wait for a signal from anybody,
                                    it uses its clock, basta. It's
                                    interval is dilated only as seen
                                    from the (passive) observer's frame;
                                    about which the muon knows (i.e.
                                    waits for light rays from or sends
                                    to) nothing nor needs anything.
                                     Likewise, the observer on Earth
                                    doesn't know (measure) where or when
                                    the muon originated.  </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                                    lang="EN-US">AK: Anyway, we know
                                    cosmic rays reach the surface of the
                                    Earth.  So how many muons have those
                                    that almost get that far generated?
                                     SR texts don't address this. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                                    lang="EN-US">AK: We haven't even got
                                    to Eherenfest yet!!!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                                    lang="EN-US">AK:  ciao,  Al<br>
                                    <br>
                                    Best wishes<br>
                                    Albrecht<br>
                                    <br>
                                    <br>
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                                          lang="EN-US">Hi Albrecht &
                                          Curious:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                                          lang="EN-US">Overlooked in my
                                          previous responce:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                                          lang="EN-US">If, as is done in
                                          virtually all text books on SR
                                           (I just checked Rindler, for
                                          example) time dilation is
                                          discussed in terms of the
                                          dialtion happening to a
                                          concrete objects (as it must
                                          if the Muon story is to make
                                          sense) then there is an
                                          obvious inconsitency and sever
                                          conflict with the relativity
                                          principle.  Two entities
                                          cannot at once be both be
                                          dialted in the other's view
                                          and not their own.  The real
                                          trick here is explaing how
                                          this is not obvious to authors
                                          of text books!  Maybe, to
                                          paraphrase Weinburg:  That
                                          stupid people say dumb things
                                          is natural, to get smart
                                          people to say dumb things, it
                                          takes physics!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                                          lang="EN-US">Your explantion
                                          (or my prefered version:
                                          perspctive) renders the
                                          objection both mute and
                                          sterile wrt muons, however. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                                                lang="EN-US">Gesendet:</span></b><span
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                                              lang="EN-US"> Sonntag, 11.
                                              Oktober 2015 um 22:55 Uhr<br>
                                              <b>Von:</b> "Dr. Albrecht
                                              Giese" <a
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href="mailto:genmail@a-giese.de"><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:genmail@a-giese.de"><genmail@a-giese.de></a></a><br>
                                              <b>An:</b> <a
                                                class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org">general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org</a></a>,
                                              "A. F. Kracklauer" <a
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href="mailto:af.kracklauer@web.de"><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:af.kracklauer@web.de"><af.kracklauer@web.de></a></a><br>
                                              <b>Betreff:</b> Re:
                                              [General] nature of light
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                                                lang="EN-US">Hi Al,<br>
                                                <br>
                                                about time dilation.<br>
                                                <br>
                                                The problem is that time
                                                dilation looks
                                                inconsistent at the
                                                first glance. But it is
                                                not. I shall try to
                                                explain. It has to do
                                                with clock
                                                synchronization. (I try
                                                to do it without
                                                graphics, which would be
                                                easier, but a problem in
                                                an email.)<br>
                                                <br>
                                                Assume that there are
                                                two inertial systems, I
                                                call them A and B. Both
                                                move in relation to each
                                                other at some speed v.
                                                Now assume that there
                                                are clocks distributed
                                                equally over both
                                                systems. And of course
                                                in both systems the
                                                clocks are synchronized.
                                                Now there comes a
                                                relativistic effect. If
                                                the observer in A looks
                                                to the clocks in B, he
                                                finds them
                                                desynchronized. The
                                                clocks which are in
                                                front with respect to
                                                the direction of motion
                                                are retarded, the ones
                                                in the rear advanced.
                                                Similar in the other
                                                system. If an observer
                                                in B looks to the clocks
                                                in A, he finds them also
                                                desynchronized in the
                                                way that the clocks in
                                                the front are retarded
                                                and the clocks in the
                                                rear advanced. Shall I
                                                explain why this
                                                happens? If you want, I
                                                can do it. But next time
                                                to keep it short here.<br>
                                                <br>
                                                Now, what is dilation in
                                                this case?<br>
                                                <br>
                                                If the observer in A
                                                takes one of the clocks
                                                in B and compares it to
                                                those clocks in his own
                                                system, which is just
                                                opposite in sequence,
                                                then the clock in B
                                                looks slowed down. But
                                                if he takes one clock in
                                                his own system, A, and
                                                compares it to the
                                                clocks in B which are
                                                opposite in sequence,
                                                the clocks in B look
                                                accelerated.<br>
                                                <br>
                                                Now it looks in a
                                                similar way for the
                                                observer in B. If the
                                                observer in B does the
                                                equivalent to the
                                                observer in A just
                                                described, he will make
                                                just the same
                                                experience. No
                                                contradiction!<br>
                                                <br>
                                                In the case of the
                                                muons: The muon which
                                                will decay is in the
                                                position of a clock in
                                                the muon-system, and
                                                this clock is slowed
                                                down as seen from the
                                                observer at rest as
                                                described above, and
                                                this is no violation of
                                                symmetry between the
                                                systems. If an observer,
                                                who moves with the muon,
                                                looks to the clocks of
                                                the system at rest, he
                                                will find those clocks
                                                accelerated. No
                                                contradiction. Correct?<br>
                                                <br>
                                                Albrecht <br>
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