I will politely request that JL and Lizzie not clutter this board with off-topic or irrelevant remarks.
The theory is a waste of time and intellect.
It does not give true insight, just more circular reasoning.
Electrons and Photons exchange Primary Angular Momentum, not energy.
This is how a photon becomes an electron, then takes off again as a photon.
-JL
An insult and critique without a valid reason. You attack so many straw men JL. TT doesn't say *anything* about "exchanging energy". I took my time and energy to read 2 APM articles and 2 Blaze Labs articles, and those are written scientific media. BG's videos are full of illustrations, much easier to get through. Again I request that you post no more here unless you watch the videos and can raise valid and insightful questions and concerns such as sluimers has done.
lizzie's post is just blatantly off topic. Just because it has the word "rope" doesn't mean it has anything to do with this theory, which it doesn't.
There are no straight lines in Nature.
Therefore there are no straight ropes or threads.
-JL
We do not "prove" the existence of this or that. It either exists or it doesn't. We formulate our definitions and pose our hypotheses. The conclusions then follow naturally from the premises. A line is straight by definition, if it is not straight it is called a curve. If you do not define your line as straight why do you need the word "line"? Just use the word "curve" for everything. Under my definition this sentence reads:
"There are no straight straight things that exist"
If you do not define a line as straight, but rather as curved, it reads:
"There are no straight curves that exist"
So again we see that, because JL cannot formulate definitions, he continually makes blatantly absurd, contradictory, and/or illogical statements.
This should further emphasize the importance of making clear, unambiguous, and consistent definitions to everyone.
I grant that I use the adjective "straight" in a way that is different than the common usage, so I will clarify here. The rope is straight in the sense that the two antiparallel strands wind around a common axis that intersects the two atoms the rope is connecting. For an entwined rope to display this characteristic it MUST be taut i.e. there is tension. If you want to understand tension in the context of TT go watch BG's videos (at least 11 and 12 about gravity).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7QmsngMRpE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvWeYJg9Oxs
Furthermore a line is an abstract object of geometry (possesses only length and width), so of course it does not exist. I certainly never claimed it did. In fact, I've stated the very opposite explicitly in other threads. Rational people are in unanimous agreement that 2-D objects do not exist.
Straight in a general context describes an object as possessing the same extent in at least one direction at each location along a path orthogonal to that direction. We don't "prove" that there are "no straight objects". Straight objects either exist or they do not, we do not "prove" it by doing some calculations or taking some measurements. Nature doesn't care about these activities.
There are NO straight lines in nature.
-JL
JL not only starts off with an absurd statement he repeats it, more forcefully. If he were careful with his definitions he could avoid logical blunders like this.
A line is an abstract object of geometry (only has length and width) without location so of course it does not exist by virtue of using the correct definition of "exist". Straight is an adjective applied to an object to indicate that its extent in a direction is uniform. Translated this sentence says:
"There are no nonexistent objects that exist".
Wow that's deep!
The quantum world has NO straight lines.
-JL
What's the "quantum world"? Is it different then the world I live in i.e. existence? If it's different than existence it must not exist.
Molecules have NO straight lines.
-JL
Indeed. Besides the fact that a line is an abstract object and cannot comprise a concrete object by definition, the outer shell of the atom of TT is a yarn-ball like structure somewhat like a loose knot. Whatever your definition(s) I don't know anyone would describe such a structure as "straight". So JL made a correct statement but it both attacks a straw man and is redundant (he contributes absolutely nothing to this thread's topic).
I would respond to the rest of the post but it doesn't apply to this thread's topic. Sufficed to say he, as always, uses a ton of undefined/ambiguous terms, contradicts himself, makes absurd statements, etc.
In conclusion, JL obviously STILL has not done any research on the theory, dismisses it out of hand, but cannot raise any valid points. He does this despite the fact that I have read and critiqued at least two articles on his theory in addition to asking him numerous simple, pointed questions. But he cannot be bothered to watch a few 10 minute movies. Although his lack of familiarity with TT makes it difficult for him to raise valid points, it is mostly because he can't avoid straw men and absurd statements.
Please only post here about thread theory as it is presented by Bill Gaede and myself.