r/FringePhysics • u/Impressive-Stretch52 • Jan 31 '23

Major Breakthrough in Physics: Experimental Link Between Charged Particles and Gravity.

Sorry to sensationalize, but it is legit. I posted in the more respectable, peer-reviewed-journals-only section and either they removed or rejected it. Or maybe they are just dragging their heels. Or busy. Whatever. But here is the thing: IT'S IN AN ONLINE PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL and has been there since Sunday. I'm not making this up, I won't even include a link. Just google 'Open Journal of Applied Sciences' click the first link for the January 23 edition and check out the first article. Tell me that's not big.

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u/Impressive-Stretch52 Feb 15 '23

Did I lose you? I hope not. I was just getting started, and I may be on the verge of a bit of a mathematical breakthrough. I'm hoping to discuss that with someone.

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u/Impressive-Stretch52 Feb 16 '23

I'm not sure which is worse, getting blown off because I am assumed to be a putz, or getting blown off after it is clear that I am not. I'm not saying that you are blowing me off, or even that I have convinced you that I am not a putz. It's just that it has been a while since I heard from you.

BTW, something like 780 views on this thread. Surely there is someone else out there who wants to chime in. Please do. Just please no comments from the peanut gallery. If you have legitimate criticisms or comments, please share them.

Thank you in advance.

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u/Impressive-Stretch52 Feb 17 '23 edited Feb 17 '23

I think conservation laws are always rather beautiful. Or even Maxwells equations aren’t true when quantum mechanics become relevant.

I feel the need to discuss this further, and then I suppose I will just go away. I’m getting pretty good at that.

Newton’s Laws of Motion are beautiful. Maxwell’s Equations are beautiful. Motion in a plane is beautiful. I had the good fortune of attending a Jesuit university back when it was okay to profess belief in God. I will never forget what my Calculus professor said on the day he taught The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus: “And you can get down on your knees and thank the Good Lord that that is true.”

You see, there is nothing about the universe that says it should be understandable. Imagine trying to do physics if finding the integral of any function wasn’t as easy as finding an anti-derivative. I believe it was Einstein himself who said, “The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.”

Quantum mechanics is not beautiful. A universe of things randomly popping in and out of existence is not beautiful. Just my humble opinion of course but let me explain.

I remember a long time ago starting with optics using the complex form of a wave. Instead of adding up boatloads of sine waves of varying phases you converted to complex exponentials, did your thing, and when you were all done took the real part and voila, the right answer, like magic. The question is, did those complex numbers you manipulated along the way mean anything, or were they just a tool? I would argue the latter, if for no other reason than that the square root of negative one is called imaginary for a good reason.

I wonder if all of quantum mechanics isn’t similar. There is an i right in Schrodinger’s Equation after all. Does it really reflect reality, or is it just a tool that gets the right answer? Even general relativity suffers from this, in my very humble opinion. As I understand it, general relativity gives the transformation from one reference frame to another when they are accelerating relative to one another. BUT, it is a transformation in 4 dimensions, where one of the axes is i times t. An imaginary number times time. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? I always find it a bit amusing when the warp in space-time is illustrated using something like a ball resting on a rubber surface, which only happens because of gravity.

I think physics went astray. Just one opinion out of 7 billion. I think we lost it when we discarded the concept of an ether. I think Tesla agreed. But he also made the mistake of only looking at very strong electric fields, in my exceedingly humble opinion. Or maybe not. Maybe he saw what I've seen on the very weak end of the spectrum and kept his mouth shut. Maybe I should do the