Jun 15 2010

Muonic States

Published by under Quantum Mechanics at 06:04 am

In converting the graviton energy to mass, we can apply 5.011 x 10-11 J = mgc2, or mg = 5.575 x 10-28 kg, though due to relativistic effects the graviton is never converted completely to mass in the natural world.  The muon mass, mμ = 207 me = 1.86 x 10-28 kg ([1], Compl. Av, 4.c., pg 527), is mg/3 and mp/9, where mp is the mass of the proton.

To quote the Frenchmen: “A muon μ which has been slowed down in matter can be attracted by the Coulomb field of an atomic nucleus and can form a bound state with the nucleus.” ([1], Compl. Av, 4., pg 525).  Before going any further then, and at the risk of sounding trite, like the quark and positron, the muon’s real identity may be that of a graviton.

Taking the concept of mass further, a conjugate wave graviton would slow down much more when passing through a proton or another nucleus than when it passes through an electron.  This increased compaction helps explain why the proton mass is 1836.5 times the electron mass.

Again relating to the muon, “the spread of the ground state, if the well were perfectly parabolic, would be on the order of: √(ћ/(2mμω)) ≈ 4.7 x 10-13 cm” ([1], Compl. Av, 4.c., pg 528).  This of course is very close to the wavelength of a free graviton: 3.965 x 10-13 cm.

The frequency of a muon is also close to that of a graviton:

ω ≈ 1.3 x 1022 rad. sec-1  ([1], Compl. Av, 4.c., pg 527),

whereas equivalent units for a graviton come out as:

ωg = (7.562 x 1022 Hz) (2π rad/cycle) = 4.75 x 1023 rad. sec-1

It cannot be overlooked that the rotational component of a conjugate wave graviton passing through a fundamental particle may be zero when considering gravity alone.  Similar to the metal pump tops sold in the ‘50’s and ‘60’s, of which I remember operating one as a boy, the pump action is linear and the top spin rotational.  Should there be a rotational action of a pass through graviton, it may be related only to Coulomb field production.  This Coulomb field action, produced by charge, is in total balance.  Griffiths states it this way: “… plus and minus charges occur in exactly equal amounts, to fantastic precision, in bulk matter, so that their effects are almost completely neutralized.  Were it not for this, we would be subjected to enormous forces: a potato would explode violently if the cancellation were imperfect by as little as one part in 1010.” ([2], pg xiv)

While it is difficult to find in books or on the web how fast the Coulomb force is transmitted, my guess is that it is nearly instantaneous, transmitting through the gravitational field in wave packets at group velocity, by phase shift and chirality, the combination of which determines positive and negative charge.

 

[1] Cohen-Tannoudji, Dui, Laloë, Quantum Mechanics, Hermann, 1977, Paris, France

[2] Griffiths, David J., Introduction to Electrodynamics, Third Edition, c. 1999, Prentice-Hall, Inc.

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May 21 2010

Google Pac-Man

Published by under Quantum Mechanics at 10:10 am

Google has a live Pac-Man game as their logo today to mark the 30th anniversary.  For kids, Pac-Man can be thought of as an electron gobbling up gravitons, except he does not spit them out at a turn as he would if really an electron in an atomic orbital.

The ‘ghosts’ in the game try to stomp on the theory.

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Apr 09 2010

Origin of Mass

Published by under Quantum Mechanics at 06:40 am

In the complex number system (a – bi) is the conjugate of (a + bi).  For a wave function, e-ikx is the conjugate of eikx, where:

eikx = cos kx + i sin kx, and

e-ikx = cos kx – i sin kx

Gravitons passing through an electron, proton, or neutron create potential wells for the standing waves inside these particles, which internal waves are in bound states.  To borrow from Kronig-Penny Hamiltonian math, in the “well domain of the potential array” ([1], pg 295) we may have:

φI = Ae^ik1x + Be^-ik1x,

and in the “barrier domain”:

φII = Ce^ik2x + De^-ik2x,          ([1], (8.65), pg 307)

The speed of a conjugate wave graviton slows to less than the speed of light in a vacuum as it passes through an electron or a nucleus.  Its frequency stays the same while its amplitude increases.  Coming free out the other side, the graviton resumes the speed of light in a vacuum and returns to lower amplitude.  Gravitons arriving isotropically, with the exception of those absorbed and becoming mass, help cradle the particle mass and, in summation, gravitational pressure at the boundary between the well and barrier domains holds particle mass together and keeps it from flying apart.

The letter k is used for wave number, which is in units of radians per meter.  Since k1 > k2, the full wavelength is shorter in distance for φI compared to φII, the conjugate wave graviton then being compacted within a subatomic particle.  The conjugate graviton would also have a rotational component in phase with a corresponding rotational component constituent to the mass and earlier written [2], in the well domain.

In terms of a Fourier transform of dimension inside the particle mass we have:

d(x-x0)  =  (1/(2πћ)) ∫ dp eip(x-x0)/ћ  =  (1/(2π)) ∫ dk eik(x-x0)           ([3], (34), pg 1473)

where x0 is the position of the particle, k is k1 from above, and p is the momentum of a graviton otherwise known as pg [2].

As some gravitons escape into deep space, entropy in the universe is always increasing from a state of original creation, – no “big bang”.  The force we have all been aware of our entire lives may be associated with the single source of all energy and mass.

 

[1] Liboff, Richard L., Introductory Quantum Mechanics, Fourth Edition, Addison Wesley, 2003

[2] https://www.fruechtetheory.com/blog/2008/04/01/wave-function-transfer-2-2/

[3] Cohen-Tannoudji, Dui, Laloë, Quantum Mechanics, Hermann, 1977, Paris, France, Appendix II

 

PS: The Dirac delta symbol and plus and minus infinity limits of integration in the Cohen-Tannoudji, Dui, Laloë equation do not transfer into this blog properly.  Go to reference [3] if you want more clarity.

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Mar 29 2010

CERN LHC

Published by under Nuclear Physics,Quantum Mechanics at 06:44 am

According to what one reads, the CERN LHC is set to start colliding 3.5 TeV proton beams tomorrow, if they can get the beams, running for days now, lined up by then.  The LHC will obtain a variety of downscattered energies, however photons of the same energy and phase can add together in the same measurement.  In terms of discrete photons, it should be a continuous spectrum with a peak near the highest energy that the instrument can effectively measure.

With particle masses on the other hand, nobody knows for sure.  It could be an extension upon the “zoo of elementary particles that the experimentalists were discovering in their particle accelerators” * prior to the development of the Standard Model of particle physics.

In some ways it would appear easier to work with one elementary particle instead of sixteen or more.

 

* Smolin, Lee, The Trouble with Physics, Houghton Mifflin Company, c. 2006, p. 54

(The Standard Model of particle physics was not the main focus of Smolin’s book.)

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Mar 17 2010

Magnetic Moment of the Electron

Published by under Quantum Mechanics at 12:36 pm

Using Tipler’s notation starting on page 917, we begin with a particle of charge q and mass M, in a circular Bohr orbit of radius r.  Never mind that there is no such thing as a circular electron atomic orbit; the results are valid.

Particle velocity, v, and orbital period, T, are related by:

vT = 2πr

The charge traveling in a circle produces a current of:

I = q/T = qv/2πr

Multiplying this current by the enclosed area, the magnetic moment is obtained:

m = (qv/2πr) πr2 = (qvr)/2                    [1], 39-16, pg 918

Angular momentum for the mass is:

L = Mvr = M (2m/q)

Rearranging and writing magnetic moment and angular momentum vectors in bold type:

m = (q/2M) L                                        [1], 39-17, pg 918

Having used a circular orbit of a particle with charge and mass to obtain this formula, it can also be used when spin angular momentum is inserted for L.  For the electron, the spin angular momentum is known to be ћ/2.  Also, still following Tipler, we can now insert e for the charge of the electron in place of q, and me for the mass of the electron in place of the general mass M.  There is just one problem when doing this however.  “For electron spin, the magnetic moment is twice that predicted by this equation.  This extra factor of 2 is a quantum-mechanical result which has no analog in classical mechanics.” ([1], pg 918)

The extra factor of 2 is the electron spin g factor, and is more precisely found to be:

ge = -2.002 319 304 3622        [2]

The magnetic moment of an electron can then be written as:

m = ge (e/2me) (ћ/2),

or equivalently:

μS = geμB(S/ћ)         [3]

This extra factor of 2.002 319 304 3622 shows that the gravitons which pass through electrons, and are not absorbed, serve as conjugate wave functions that double the expected magnetic moment of the electron.

  

[1] Tipler, Paul A., Physics, Worth Publishers, Inc., 1976

[2] http://physics.nist.gov/cgi-bin/cuu/Value?gem|search_for=g+factor

[3] https://www.fruechtetheory.com/blog/2008/01/05/electron-g-factor/

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Feb 21 2010

Stern-Gerlach Experiment

Published by under Quantum Mechanics at 08:31 pm

In the Stern-Gerlach experiment, originally performed in 1922, vaporized silver atoms in a high temperature oven are allowed to leave through a small opening, some then passing through a collimating slit so as to travel in a straight line along a horizontal axis.  Next in the path of the silver atoms is created a magnetic field, symmetrical with respect to the yOz plane ([1], Figure 1, pg 388) and having a significant gradient in the z direction which is perpendicular to the surface of the earth.  Beyond the magnetic field in the path of the silver atoms is placed a condensing surface which in the original experiment was a cold metallic plate.  The whole apparatus is placed inside a high vacuum.

The electron configuration of silver is [Kr] 5s1 4d10, with the outer 5s electron giving silver a quantized magnetic moment of one Bohr magneton, μb.  Straight from the periodic table, silver atoms are of neutral charge, so there is no Lorentz force on the atoms passing through the magnetic field.  The only force involved is

Fz = μz ∂Вz/∂z = – ( μb ∂Вz/∂z ) cos θ,

where θ is the angle between the z axis and the magnetic dipole moment of each atom, the group of which, in a time interval, would be expected, according to Quantum Mechanics texts, to race through the magnetic field of the apparatus oriented isotropically, and a continuous vertical pattern to condense on the plate.  Instead, what happens is that half of the atoms condense at the upper bound, and half at the lower bound, with none condensing in between.  Instead of a statistical pattern centered on the y axis, there are two patterns, centered at each of the expected upper and lower bounds, N1 and N2 ([1], Figure 3, pg 391).  The width of each of the two separate spots “corresponds to the effect of the dispersion of the velocities and of the width of the slit F” ([1], A.1.c., pg 391).  Evidently, there are only two discrete forces acting on the atoms as they traverse the magnetic field:

Fz = ± μb ∂Вz/∂z                                       [2], pg 525

Sz “is a quantized physical quantity whose discrete spectrum includes only two eigenvalues. … these eigenvalues are + ћ/2 and – ћ/2” ([1], A.1.c., pg 392).

One thing that puzzles me about what is found in text books is the classically expected pattern of the Stern-Gerlach experiment.  Since silver atoms are paramagnetic, I don’t understand why it would not have its center skewed off the y axis in the z direction.  Nevertheless, it is the quantum result, not the classically expected (which doesn’t happen anyway), that I would like to make an attempt at explaining.

What appears to be happening here is that the nuclei of the free silver atoms make effort to line up with the gravitational field in one of two spin orientations, in order to minimize energy, and to aid in the pass through of the gravitons that are not absorbed, which help pump nuclear spin.  Additionally, the orbiting electrons make effort to get out of the way of the highest flux density of gravitons, making orbital angular momentum also aligned as much as possible with the z axis, and monitored in two patterns, mirror images of each other, each relating to one orientation of the nucleus.

 

[1] Cohen-Tannoudji, Dui, Laloë, Quantum Mechanics, Hermann, 1977, Paris, France, Chapter IV

[2] Liboff, Richard L., Introductory Quantum Mechanics, Fourth Edition, Addison Wesley, 2003

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Jan 31 2010

Mediation of the Gravitational Force

Published by under Quantum Mechanics at 07:37 pm

It has been said that the Coulomb force is the final mediator of the gravitational force.  What this means is that in the final analysis we find that the force that produces gravity is the Coulomb force.  This is because “as an electron in an atomic orbital passes its closest to the nucleus it continues to exist in a graviton absorption mode and, if traveling toward a gravitational source, continues to increase in mass, magnetic dipole moment, and charge until it comes time to make a turn.” *  Thus we can see that it is not until the electron passes its closest to the nucleus, in graviton absorption mode, that it activates the gravitational force in the direction that the nucleus is pulled the most.

Emission of gravitons during a turn process, and at the end of a spin-flip, serves to put the brakes on the electron in the direction of travel through conservation of momentum.  The Coulomb force then begins to bring the electron on another path back toward the nucleus.  Momentum balance is taken care of by the graviton, and the positron is not needed.

To sum it up, the Coulomb force produces the gravitational force, and the gravitational field produces the force that holds subatomic particles together.

With all this going on, it was a much more manageable problem to try to figure out the cause of gravity using the principles used to calculate blackbody radiation in the days of Rayleigh, Jeans, and Planck, than to try it, let’s say, by using the Dirac equation internal to subatomic particles, and the Schrödinger equation external.

  

* https://www.fruechtetheory.com/blog/2008/08/07/the-lamb-shift/

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Nov 04 2009

Dear GSFC

Published by under Astrophysics at 08:46 am

Now that you and your consortium have proved my physics theory, please send my bonus check so that I can leave my engineering job and do physics research full time.

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Nov 02 2009

Pulsars

Published by under Astrophysics at 06:24 pm

In a January 6, 2009 article from Symmetry Magazine entitled “Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope discovers slew of new pulsars”, by Kelen Tuttle, we find the following text:

“The 12 newly discovered pulsars offer insight into the mechanism behind the gamma-ray emissions. The data show that the classic understanding of emission, whereby gamma rays are created in the same location as radio waves, is mistaken. Researchers now theorize that the radio beams form near the neutron star’s surface, while the gamma rays form far above.” [1]

Let us say there is a very large rock ‘far above’ a “rapidly spinning neutron star”.  Each time an intense area of the neutron star’s rotating magnetic field passes over and through the conventional interstellar mass, subatomic particles in the mass will fly apart into gamma rays.  This periodic pulse of gamma rays and other radiation is called a Pulsar.

As to why “gravitons like to follow gently arcing uniform magnetic field lines” [2], it works a little like the uncertainty principle.  The magnetic field of a graviton would like to line up with a very strong environmental magnetic field, however oscillating at 7.562 x 1022 Hz perpendicular to the graviton’s direction of travel, it cannot decide which way to turn, and therefore the graviton’s magnetic field actually ends up perpendicular to the intense environmental magnetic field.  The graviton therefore travels along the magnetic field lines of an intense magnetic field as long as the turns are not too sharp.

One thing we should keep in mind here is that the distances in interstellar space written of are typically orders of magnitude larger than our solar system for example.  I don’t know what distance is meant by “far above”.  The FGST people did not invite me to their symposium in Washington D.C. this week, and typically do not allow me into their discussion groups.  We were in Washington D.C. this summer anyway, and I don’t feel like going back so soon.

 

[1]  http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2009/01/06/fermi-gamma-ray-space-telescope-discovers-slew-of-new-pulsars

[2]  https://www.fruechtetheory.com/blog/2009/03/15/electric-charges/

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Oct 26 2009

Schrödinger’s Cat

Published by under Quantum Mechanics at 09:09 pm

Thirty five minutes before or after a quantum measurement, part of Schrödinger’s cat could be part of the planet Jupiter, because gravitons travel at the speed of light in a vacuum.  One point of view that agrees with gravity is that the cat is not the same cat, no matter the time differential, as long as the time differential is not zero.

Erwin Schrödinger came up with his thought experiment in 1935, and by now part of the original cat may be headed back.  Since the moon and Jupiter are in fairly close alignment right now it may end up part of the moon instead of part of the cat again.

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