This is quite interesting though I haven’t really taken time to fully get into the papers at the website as of yet. I became interested in the foundational reasoning behind the work presented and I find this “long abandoned accumulation hypothesis, also known as the loading theory”, unique though the theory (Loading Theory) isn’t new. I was after three of the references provided in the paper you’ve linked.
Ref 9: “
On Cathode Rays” - PA Lenard 1906 Nobel Lecture
R.A. Miliken’s book “Electrons (+ and -): protons, photons, neutrons, and cosmic rays” is still available apparently and if I’m not mistaken the reference to page 253 is under the subheading called “The Nature of Radiant Energy”. I’d really like to read Milliken’s approach on this.
Lastly, I thought the following very ‘telling’, with regard to the ‘politics’ of physics, and the “abandoned accumulation hypothesis”. It is a July-December, 1914 copy of some sort of journal called “Current Opinion” with W. Crookes pictured entitled “
Must the wave Theory of Light be Abandoned?”. In the article and concerning “radiant energy” the differences of approach (“quanta” vs. “wave”) are briefly touched on and it mentions the mechanism of the alternate Loading Theory thus:
“The handing on of a quantity of energy intact from X-Rays to kathode-ray and back to X-Ray was used to support an atomistic view of the X-Rays themselves, until it was found that the same rules apply to the liberation of electrons by ultra-violet light itself (and probably all radiation is atomic, or there is some mechanism by which radiant energy can be absorbed until a definite quantity (proportional to the frequency) is accumulated, whereupon an electron is expelled. The remarkable thing is that this energy of the electron is actually derived from the light, so that the later does not simply liberate internal energy by some sort of “trigger action”.”
The above fundamentally describes the theoretical “mechanism” accounting for the emission of “quanta” per “loading theory” i.e. “continuous absorption; explosive emission” with “quantization” being the result of maximum threshold/ratio properties (solitons) of the mater-wave. The overall principle of Arps ‘ejection model’ generally comes to mind but at the quantum scale.
This is complementary with another theory that I like so I’ll be hanging about Reitner’s website for a few days to try and compare some things. Though it may be a stretch the theory you linked also seems to have implications with regard to the dichotomy presented with the nature of considering the universe as “quantized” which paradoxically runs counter to its apparent nature as that a Continuum.
Thank you for posting this. For weal or for woe I look forward to settling down with it a bit further over the weekend.
"Our laws of force tend to be applied in the Newtonian sense in that for every action there is an equal reaction, and yet, in the real world, where many-body gravitational effects or electrodynamic actions prevail, we do not have every action paired with an equal reaction." — Harold Aspden
