Solar wrote:"Continuous": without interruption
"Discontinuous": characterized by interruption
I'm also a bit curious here. Is it not the case that connecting every atom in the universe via electromagnetic serpentine ropes qualifies as a continuum (continuous) that also appears to allow the formation of other objects, such as molecules etc, (discontinuous) thereby presenting a "duality" as well?
This is the reason for going over from Bill Gaede's continuous rope to my chain. The individual links of chain are continuous and perfectly rigid. However have male/female ends that fit inside each other and so can rotate to confer overall flexibility to the whole chain. So the chain overall is discontinuous yet maintains its integrity (the male end can't leave the female socket) while the link is continuous yet confers overall flexibility by rotating in the socket. The chain justifies all these seemingly exclusive properties without invoking a duality. It's really quite elegant and I am proud of it. The universe is composed of discrete "particles" but they are inextricably joined
. A marriage of the discrete corpuscle and the "continuous aether" into a non paradoxical structure that justifies both push and pull (gravitation).
Solar wrote:Any comments on the Davisson-Germer Experiment? This was the experiment that supposedly demonstrated de Broglie’s "wave nature of matter". Are there any other interpretations of the results available?
The fact is, matter does "move like a wave". Take the ends of your straight bicycle chain in either hand and cross one arm over the other making a loop of chain. This represents the very simplest conceptual model of a "particle". Now, the loop does not move by a translating of the entire chain in a single direction, each link moving in unison. It moves link by link. Holding either end of the looped chain in each hand, tilt your hands first to the right and then to the left. The loop will "move". In the real chain there does not even have to be any tilting. One link collides with the link in front of it, which hits the link in front of it and so on until this momentum is transferred to a link in the loop. The link moves to the side while hitting the link in front of it, which moves to the side while hitting the link in front of it, etc. It's quite amazing how similar this motion looks to the archetypal "wave-packet" motion often illustrated in the particle-in-a-box problem of quantum. This motion can also be understood by analogy to a slinky (thank you webolife). If you and your friend each hold the end of a slinky, and one of you gives it a little push, the first ring in the slinky will hit the next which hits the next etc. etc. It looks like there is a "wave moving" but actually its just each individual link moving foward, colliding, and moving back into place. It's just a little ripple along the slinky (or the chain). De Broglie was absolutely correct in hypothesizing that particles have a "wave nature", he and his contemporaries just couldn't quite figure out how to justify this
physically. I think I've done that.
Solar wrote:That's actually a very good question. Thank you for the information of SF He also, a very interesting substance. Any comments on C.K. Thornhill's "Stellar Abberation"?
I'm not much of an astronomer, I'm sorry to admit. I did look over the paper though and I see all the same mistakes with regards to the aether. If it is particulate why would it aggregate? Billiard balls inevitably diverge and the density of discrete particles in the universe should be miniscule. If it is continuous how can it be compressible? I think the "fluid aether" is a desperate attempt to force our macroscopic perspective of fluids onto Nature. If the aether is like water then light would behave like sound, period. If the aether is like water except its constituents are perfectly continuous and the collisions are perfectly elastic then its constituents will bounce off each other and diverge forever, just like in pool if we broke the set of balls but did so on a gym floor instead of a pool table. The balls would all diverge to the corners of the gymnasium. Finally if the aether is not made of constituents it is not compressible at all.
I would have to apply myself diligently to the problem of stellar aberration to tickle out its physical causation, but I can say without question that the aether path is a dead-end. They may end up with a mathematical description that fits all the data and bandy about the term "aether", but they will never actually understand these physical phenomena if they cling to the aether hypothesis. The aether is a Ptolemaic explanation just like the earth-centric universe.
Many are either unaware that de Broglie proposed the electron was a "kinked string" around the nucleus in order to explain quantum jump and to keep the electron from "spiraling in" to the nucleus. This kinked string is not unlike the encapsulating ball of chain I have proposed, indeed I consider de Broglie's kinked string
physical hypothesis the direct predecessor to thread/chain theory. It is highly unfortunate that Max Born came on the scene and converted this kinked string back to a particle with "indeterminate position/momentum". It was a direct step backward in terms of physical causation, but it was the easiest way to "get the math to work out". Indeterminacy also happens to have appealed very highly to the religious folk out there, who were dying for any "scientific" evidence of free will they could find. Well they don't have to worry anymore, today science claims to "prove God" and says we are going to "detect God".
What have they done to physics?