_sluimers_ wrote:I believe that, a neutron is not *just* a convergence of ropes, but a special convergence of ropes. Specifically, a neutron is the convergence of *every* rope (or perhaps some minimum number).
Alright, then it's special.
It is of note that the mass of the neutron is known with less certainty than the proton, a full order of magnitude less certainty. This could be due to the fact that the H atom (and by extension the proton) must by definition contain a convergence of *all* ropes, the neutron only requires some minimum number to cross.
I just don't understand this objection. The universe might "look big", or it might look "even bigger". At what point do you make the leap "it's infinite!". Does it need to be 100 billion light years across? 100 trillion? 1000 trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion zillion bling bling bang boom?
There's no rule the universe cannot be 1000 trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion zillion bling bling bang boom lightyears across.
100 billion isn't even so strange, when the latest figure I read was 92 billion.
_sluimers_ wrote:
Gaede makes a very convincing argument for why it's irrational to even describe a thing as infinite.
I know Gaede said that. But I'd rather want to observe the universe being finite, before calling it finite.
Why is "infinite" the default?
Also, despite what Gaede said in response to you sluimers, he seems to think what I said sounds consistent also. It seems overcomplicated to propose that ropes are "towed along" because they would have to be constantly stretching and compressing. Indeed, when two atoms come near each other the rope between them must compress to (relatively) very very thick dimensions. It makes more sense to me to propose that the atoms are rolling along a quasistatic web. I say quasistatic because there is the possibility that the rope is stretching/expanding universally (not by being towed along). This kind of universal stretching would explain what is called the "expansion of the universe".
_sluimers_ wrote:
Well then. Be glad I thought of an experiment that can falsify the "towing along" idea.
I suppose Gaede's Hair Experiment is also a lot cheaper to falsify particle-wave duality and should be done first.
I'd love to see it done.
What would someone need to do such an experiment?
And what would it cost?
I don't think it "falsifies" the towing along idea, I just think the "towing along" explanation is needlessly complicated.
The bare basics of what one would need a chamber of stainless steel, a tunable laser, a hair follicle, a phosphorescent screen, a standard mechanical pump, an oil diffusion pump, and probably an ion or turbomolecular pump. Of course also associated piping, a computer, wiring, etc.
The cost? A lot (for a normal individual). Diffpumps, turbopumps, and ion pumps aren't cheap. Neither is the machining work to build the stainless steel chamber. Neither is a good tunable laser. If you get the others I can mail you a hair follicle.
Wild guess of the price... 10 thousand dollars if you eschew the turbopump. More if you go with the turbopump.
In quantum the MFP increases the number of unscatted photons, meaning an increase in intensity. However it could be more complicated than that, considerably so. Consider that all the ambient gasses are also being struck by photons, the re-emitting them. Some of these photons were on their way directly to the hair, some were destined to miss the hair completely and slam into the sides of the chamber, forever lost. Those that are scattered on their way to the hair cause a dramatic decrease in the intensity. According to quantum, those that are scattered while on their way to oblivion should not contribute significantly to the intensity. Under the rope hyp torsions directed away from the hair, but ending in ambient atoms, *increase* the intensity. These ambient atoms expand and re-emit the signal in all directions. A signal reaches the screen from it, albeit greatly diminished.
Low vac: ambient atoms are relaying signals to the screen a lot, but signals are greatly scattered/diluted by atoms between the laser and hair.
High vac: Intervening atoms are mostly gone, there is little scattering. Ambient atom relaying has decreased, but was a very small contributor to the intensity. The intensity increases from low vac.
UHV: Intervening atoms are still basically gone. The increase in MFP doesn't matter (from 1km to 5 km or something). The intensity contribution from direct signals is the same. However intensity from ambient atom relaying has decreased marginally. Overall intensity goes down.
Quantum says intensity will always go up, but the rope hyp says ambient atoms will relay signals to contrib to intensity, and at some point removing them will decrease intensity. This would falsify the particle model of light.
I'm not sure if the effect will be measurable with reasonable apparatus.