Physics, Quanta, String Theory and more

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0407175959.htm

be well, be love.

david

toward a unified description of dark energy and dark matter

science daily — from various independent observations, cosmologists have established that ordinary matter, made of protons and neutrons, accounts for only 4% of the total energy content of the universe. the remaining 96% is made of puzzling ingredients dark matter and dark energy. researchers at the laboratory universe and theories from the observatory of paris and the belgian fonds de la recherche scientifique have recently suggested the abnormally weighting energy (awe) hypothesis to describe the dark side of the universe as a revolutionary aspect of gravitational physics.

in the past decade, cosmology has entered an era of high precision, and in the future it may become a unique laboratory to test theories of fundamental physics, from gravitation laws to microphysics. amongst the many questions raised by this science in turmoil, one of the most important is indisputably the one of the energy content of the universe. knowing what the universe is precisely made of, and in which proportions, allows not only to determine its age but also to reconstruct the history, to predict its past and future. in fact in the attempt to solve this question cosmologists have made two of the most promising discoveries in the history of modern physics: the existence of dark matter and dark energy.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

make sure you check out mike's other articles at the end of the article...

http://blog.hasslberger.com/2007/04/...nd_t.html#more

be well, be love.

david

mike emery: enlightenment and the uniform field concept

mike emery is figuring out the workings of the universe. he does it by taking clues from "both sides of the fence", from religion and meditation on the one hand and from the very frontiers of physics on the other. on his way to enlightenment, mike is leaving a trail of written essays where he orders his own thoughts, as much as communicating them to friends and colleagues. the purpose of this article is to provide a space where those essays can be collected and made available. those of you who are interested in far-out ideas also have a space to leave messages and comments - at the end of the article - and get in contact with one another in this virtual world.

i have come to know mike through this medium of marvelously interconnected thought which is the internet, and have appreciated his unconventional views. mike's essays are provocative; they bring interesting trains of thought together, they shake convention and are far ahead of what many others have to offer. mike is one of those people for whom the artificial division of science and religion has already ceased to exist. in that sense, he is a forerunner, a herald of things to come, as we transform mankind into a living organism in its own right.

mike is no ivory tower man. he was a cowboy having fun on montana ranches and rodeos, then became a champion skier and got into all manner of trouble in his college days. at one time he was into commercial fishing - tough business - and later owned several businesses in alaska during the heyday of the oil fever. his subsequent search led him through free energy, healing, meditation, anti-aging and complementary medicine to the edges of physics and back.

but let me not ruin the fun by telling it all and perhaps botching things up in the process. here is an introduction provided by mike, and at the end you can find a growing list of links to his essays. check back, as there will be updates as more old and new essays get posted.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_ne...057529,00.html

be well, be love.

david

einstein was right: space and time bend


ninety years after he expounded his famous theory, a $700m nasa probe has proved that the universe behaves as he said. now the race is on to show that the other half of relativity also works

anushka asthana and david smith
sunday april 15, 2007
the observer

under his name in the oxford english dictionary is the simple definition: genius. yet for decades physicists have been asking the question: did albert einstein get it wrong? after half a century, seven cancellations and $700m, a mission to test his theory about the universe has finally confirmed that the man was a mastermind - or at least half proved it.

the early results from gravity probe b, one of nasa's most complicated satellites, confirmed yesterday 'to a precision of better than 1 per cent' the assertion einstein made 90 years ago - that an object such as the earth does indeed distort the fabric of space and time.

[Jivatman]

amazing

i've heard about this for a while in relation to talk over the aether

the best and simplest way i've heard it put it;

all natural waves have a material to wave through. sound goes through air, earthquakes go through ground, ect.

so why not light? indeed, light does wave through something: the aether.

and, indeed gravity is simply objects themselves distorting the fabric of spacetime.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://physorg.com/news96027669.html

be well, be love.

david

mathematician suggests extra dimensions are time-like
by lisa zyga

the analytical structure underlying the spinorial theory can be represented visually. the structure is a xi-transform, which moves between the three spaces in the directions given by the bendings of the upper case greek letter xi. the distorted squares represent the wave operator. the product of a wave operator and a xi transform, taken in any order, is zero. image credit: erin sparling.

in a recent study, mathematician george sparling of the university of pittsburgh examines a fundamental question pondered since the time of pythagoras, and still vexing scientists today: what is the nature of space and time? after analyzing different perspectives, sparling offers an alternative idea: space-time may have six dimensions, with the extra two being time-like.

[Larry Seyer]

i found this on slashdot today... thought it was very interesting...

some physicists are uncomfortable with the idea that all individual quantum events are innately random. this is why many have proposed more complete theories, which suggest that events are at least partially governed by extra "hidden variables". now physicists from austria claim to have performed an experiment that rules out a broad class of hidden-variables theories that focus on realism -- giving the uneasy consequence that reality does not exist when we are not observing it (nature 446 871).

here is the link to the article:

http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/11/4/14

enjoy!

larry

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/me...bucky_999.html

be well, be love.

david

meet boron ball brother of bucky
by staff writers
houston tx (spx) apr 24, 2007

a new study by rice university scientists predicts the existence and stability of another "buckyball" consisting entirely of boron atoms. the research, which has been published online and is due to appear as an editor's selection in physical review letters, was conducted bv boris yakobson, professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and of chemistry, and his associates nevill gonzalez szwacki and arta sadrzadeh.
the original buckyball, a cage-shaped molecule of 60 carbon atoms, was discovered at rice by robert curl, harold kroto and richard smalley in 1985. the boron buckyball is structurally similar to the original c60 fullerene, but it has an additional atom in the center of each hexagon, which significantly increases stability.

"this is the first prediction of its possible existence," yakobson said of the boron buckyball, or b80. "this has not been observed or even conceived of before. we do hope it may lead to a significant breakthrough."

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.commonsensescience.org/el...particles.html

be well, be love.

david

elementary particles
standard model of elementary particles

the mcgraw-hill encyclopedia of science and technology (1992) defines an elementary particle as "a particle that is not a compound of other particles." by this definition, there are about 500 particles that have been "discovered" in collider experiments. except for the electron, proton, positron, and antiproton, the "particles" are unstable and exist only for short times. the evidence for such "particles" is the burst of light, the heat given off, or a short track left from a collision between an electron or proton and its corresponding antiparticle (positrons and antiprotons).

evidently, these short term, transient events are observations of the debris of a violent collision. there seems to be no limit to the number of "particles" that can be discovered as the velocity of the collision is increased. so, quarks were invented and pronounced to be the components of neutrons and protons, making quarks the new elementary particles instead of neutrons and protons. this was just as well, since it was known from the robson experiment (1951) that a neutron outside the atomic nucleus disintegrates into one electron and one proton. the electron, however, is still considered an elementary particle (although suggestions have been made that it is composed of subquarks).

despite sensational claims of finding all six types of quarks predicted by modern theory, a quark has never been directly observed, and its existence is known only by inference and correspondence of its expected properties with the light, heat and path generated by a violent collision. it is logically inconsistent, of course, for the electron to be an elementary particle that has no quarks when it is the decay product of a neutron that is supposed to be composed of three quarks.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.physorg.com/news97339219.html

be well, be love.

david

princeton physicists connect string theory with established physics

string theory, simultaneously one of the most promising and controversial ideas in modern physics, may be more capable of helping probe the inner workings of subatomic particles than was previously thought, according to a team of princeton university scientists.

the theory has been highly praised by some physicists for its potential to forge the long-sought link between gravity and the forces that dominate within the atomic nucleus. but the theory -- which posits that all subatomic particles are actually tiny "strings" that vibrate in different ways -- has also drawn criticism for being untestable in the laboratory, and perhaps impossible to connect with real-world phenomena.

however, the princeton researchers have found new mathematical evidence that some of string theory's predictions mesh closely with those of a well-respected body of physics called "gauge theory," which has been demonstrated to underlie the interactions among quarks and gluons, the vanishingly small objects that combine to form protons, neutrons and other, more exotic subatomic particles. the discovery, say the physicists, could open up a host of uses for string theory in attacking practical physics problems.

"these problems include describing the interactions among the quarks within everyday atomic nuclei," said igor klebanov, the thomas d. jones professor of mathematical physics at princeton and an author of a recent paper on the subject. "we have previously been able to study these interactions in detail only at the high-energy conditions within particle accelerators, but with these findings we may be able to describe what's happening inside the atoms that make up rocks and trees. we cannot do so yet, but it appears that the math of string theory could be what we need to bridge this gap."

[LightEye]

dear friends,

dw's article is the basis for this article.

http://blog.hasslberger.com/2007/05/...rsio.html#more

be well, be love.

david

kozyrev: aether, time and torsion

the russian scientist dr nikolai kozyrev is in many ways a forerunner - the father of today's efforts to re-interpret physics in a way that does not contradict intuitive understanding. our efforts to reconcile the inherent contradictions of the standard model of physics, firmly based as it is on einstein's relativity and quantum mechanics, have brought less than satisfying results.

kozyrev has measured spin or torsion field effects at a time when western science was busy smashing atoms into ever smaller fractions. he investigated time and the aether before most of us in the west ever thought of questioning the workability of our modern interpretations of the universe.

a most welcome effort to increase our awareness of kozyrev's outstanding work is a book chapter on david wilcock's site, which introduces him with the following words:

dramatic scientific evidence that all of physical matter is formed by an “aether” of invisible, conscious energy has existed since at least the 1950s. renowned russian astrophysicist dr. nikolai a. kozyrev (1908-1983, pronounced ko-zir-ev,) proved beyond any doubt that such an energy source had to exist, and as a result he became one of the most controversial figures in the history of the russian scientific community. the awesome implications of his work, and of all those who followed him, were almost entirely concealed by the former soviet union, but with the fall of the iron curtain and the advent of the internet we are finally gaining access to “russia’s best-kept secret.” two generations of remarkable research by thousands of ph.d. level specialists have emerged from kozyrev’s seed findings, which completely change our understanding of the universe. with our prominent mention of him in this book, we hope to permanently establish his historical importance and impact to our colleagues and readers.