Nov 30 2010

Seminars

Published by under General at 11:32 am

Should there be any open higher mathematics or physics seminars at colleges or universities that you think I may be interested in, notifying me by email would be greatly appreciated.  As has been the case for some time now, in the company of physicists I have had no desire whatsoever to bring up my physics theory.  I normally introduce myself as an engineer and occasionally a physicist or two has asked me engineering related questions.

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Nov 29 2010

Lensing Answer

Published by under Astrophysics at 09:14 am

Received an email back from Doug Finkbeiner with a reference and a calculation.  I did have to look up the definition of a parsec and multiply by 180/pi to get his parsecs per degree factor and understand better.  In any case, lensing does not need to be considered with the gamma ray bubbles of the Milky Way.

The answer was detailed, informative, and polite.  Could be enough encouragement for me to continue contacting scientists again.  Emails sent out Friday and Saturday were the first in over two years; for a long time I was too discouraged to even click a send button.

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Nov 25 2010

Light Lensing and the Gamma Ray Bubbles

Published by under Astrophysics at 11:52 am

Something that needs to be considered relating to the size of the massive gamma ray emitting bubbles at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy is light lensing, – gravitational, and by many other wavelengths.  This is because light bends light.

Doug Finkbeiner of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Harvard graduate students Meng Su and Tracy Slatyer “made the discovery while processing publicly available data from NASA’s Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT).” *  So as not to make assumptions, the three may have already considered light lensing, and the massive bubbles of the Milky Way may indeed be 50,000 light years across as published.  If not considered, on the other hand, the bubbles may be smaller than thought, though still quite massive.

As is already estimated by scientists, the bubbles volumetrically are mostly gas, with rocks, dust, stars, and other items intermixed in places.  If scientists are spectrum analyzing for the gaseous elements present, that will be very interesting and we can all look forward to the results.

* http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101110/sc_afp/usastronomy

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Nov 15 2010

Giant Bubbles

Published by under Astrophysics at 03:31 pm

Just bubbles of mass with atoms and molecules present:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/news/new-structure.html

These bubbles would help keep the spiral structure of the Milky Way on a plane.

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Nov 04 2010

Coulomb Force by Phonon Transmission

Published by under Astrophysics,Quantum Mechanics at 11:27 am

After seven years of study, five involving gravity, and pretty much getting ostracized by the physics community in 2010, I have started to ramp down my math and physics study time.  Helping students is still a fairly common occurrence and I am hoping this, with the engineering also, will be enough to keep me sharp.

One thing that I may not get to in the near future then is the concept of the Coulomb force by phonon transmission through a gravitational field, similar to phonon transmission in a crystal.  It was alluded to earlier with the phrase “shouldering through the gravitons in a highly relativistic sense” *, and the mathematics, I suppose, would utilize that already existing within quantum mechanics relating to phonon transmission.

In areas of deep space where the gravitational field is very weak, the Coulomb force may not transmit effectively.  Nevertheless, it is irrelevant because protons and electrons cannot exist without enough gravitational pressure. 

* http://www.fruechtetheory.com/blog/2009/03/15/electric-charges/

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Nov 04 2010

Mathematical Proof

Published by under Quantum Mechanics at 11:26 am

When a PhD researcher in Finland found in the early 1990’s that a gravitational field is altered by a strong magnetic field, he lost his job and sort of went into hiding, – no mathematical proof that gravity is electromagnetic at the time.  On this web site is mathematical proof, and I did not know about the Finland experiment until around January 2006.

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Oct 07 2010

The Standard Model

Published by under Nuclear Physics at 05:55 pm

Even if gravitons are the fundamental quantum unit, it is beyond obvious that many other electromagnetic waves and particles have their own functions in the physical world.

Electrons, along with protons, alpha particles, and a few other nuclei are stable, whether part of atoms or free.  They are synchronized with a gravitational field providing barrier pressure and conjugate wave functions.  Several other particles in the standard model typically have lifetimes shorter than a micro second, found often through scattering experiments.  Since we cannot call a time so short an ‘existence’, one occasionally finds statements by physicists that these particles have never been found in the free state.

With gravitons coming in at all polar angles to a subatomic particle or to a nucleus, combinations of mass, angular momentum, parity, isospin, and charge, to maintain a nucleus or to produce intermediate particles, are needed in order to produce the four fundamental forces of nature.  In other words, understanding in terms of internal and free gravitons, with their wave functions and conjugates, is simply not enough.  The uncertainty principle prevents us from obtaining a clear picture of the inside of an atomic nucleus or an electron at any instant in time.

Many of the gamma rays emitted through nuclear fission or a scattering experiment are in the tens and hundreds of keV in terms of energy.  For nuclear fission, it is nuclear multipole vibrations and moments, and internal wave functions that provide the spring action to eject particles from a nucleus.  In scattering we can add incident particle energies.

As far as internal gravitons, no matter how many are involved with an ejection, recoil energy expenditure and other effects can cause the 312.76 MeV gamma rays to reduce in energy down into the keV range when emitted, – which are of course then no longer gravitons.  Internal wave functions with transverse momentum to the ejection of a particle from a nucleus, which would be most of them, may acquire angular momentum or circular or elliptic polarity in the process, in both the remaining nucleus and in the resultant scattered particles, whether it be alpha or beta decay, or the short lived quark, gluon, pion, ω meson, ρ meson, kaon, W± boson, Z boson, or the hyperon and other strange baryons, to name a few.

As far as free gravitons captured as they enter a nucleus, some may be used to manufacture W± and Z0 bosons in order to maintain the weak nuclear force.

We cannot go forward with physics by throwing out the standard model.  It must stay, and only be revised by agreement of the physics community as a whole.

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Sep 12 2010

Next topics

Published by under General at 09:36 am

The two or three next topics for writing have been tentatively established, one for months now, however it has been a very busy summer with no open time periods long enough to put anything together.  The good news is that it seems I have reached the peak of my engineering career with success on major projects, – nothing done completely on my own of course, at my place of employment.

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Jun 30 2010

Goce satellite

Published by under Astrophysics at 05:08 pm

Hi Dan,

Traveling and the email does not go through.  Thanks for the BBC article link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8767763.stm

Since the earth has a magnetic field and gravitions like to follow magnetic field lines, it makes sense that the gravitational field varies slightly over the surface of the earth.  The article says that gravitational acceleration varies from 9.78 m/s^2 (minimum) at the equator to 9.83 m/s^2 (maximum) at the poles.  Looking at a typical pattern of magnetic field lines of a dipole magnet, one would expect a greater gravitational acceleration at the poles of the earth compared to the equator.

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Jun 23 2010

Nu

Published by under Quantum Mechanics at 06:45 pm

It happened again; a Greek letter did not come through properly.  In “Subatomic Particle Structure” it was the letter nu.  I try to be very careful when copying referenced formulas into the blog, and the character was not a mistake, just a software incompatibility.  Sorry.

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