Hawking Forum Post 33287


Subject: Re: Matter is a form of energy... - how to catch a photon?
Date: December 05, 2000 at 17:52:23
Poster: Samuel A. (Sam) Cox

HI: A FEW COMMENTS FOLLOW: Posted by Peter on December 03, 2000 at 06:15:49 (Message posted by user "Peter" from "")

In Reply to: "Re: Matter is a form of energy..." posted by Samuel A. (Sam) Cox on December 02, 2000 at 00:29:17

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"A brief history of time" shows that facts seen from other dimensions can turn into the opposite. This seems to be another example of that. Well then...INCREASING DIMENSIONS INCREASES COMPLEXITY AND RELATES TO ENTROPY IN THE UNIVERSE. WE OBSERVE THE UNIVERSE FROM A FOUR DIMENSIONAL FRAME OF REFERENCE BETWEEN THE MICROSCOPIC AND MACROSCOPIC ANTIPODES- BUT THAT IN NO WAY INDICATES THE UNIVERSE ACTUALLY EXISTS IN ONLY FOUR D. QUITE TO THE CONTRARY, THE COMPLEXITY BUILT INTO THE STRUCTURE OF THE INANIMATE UNIVERSE AND THE COMPLEXITY OF OURSELVES INDICATE A DIMENSIONALLY VERY COMPLEX COSMOS. ARE OBSERVATIONAL FRAMES OF REFERENCE IN MORE THAN FOUR D POSSIBLE? MORE THAN POSSIBLE; PROBABLE...IN FACT ALMOST CERTAIN, BUT OBSERVATIONAL FRAMES ARE PROBABLY LIMITED TO CERTAIN COMBINATIONS OF DIMENSIONS. AND YES, HIGHER DIMENSIONAL COMPLEXITY CHANGES EVERYTHING.

[fact] The problem of radiation is solved if we take the decrease in potential energy as source.IN AN EINSTEINIAN UNIVERSE ENERGY IS CONSERVED; NEITHER CREATED NOR DESTROYED. COMPLEXITY, THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNIVERSE (RELATED TO ENTROPY) GRADUALLY INCREASES OVERALL...THE UNIVERSE IS SLOWLY BECOMING MORE COMPLEX AND ORGANIZED OVER THE ENDLESS CYCLES OF ITS EXISTENCE...DUE TO THE INFLUENCE OF LIFE.

[problem] if energy has mass a photon should have mass but then it can't reach c! Or is that an error? THIS PARADOX, I BELIEVE IS RELATED TO DIMENSIONAL PERSPECTIVE. IN FLATLAND, A SPHERE IS OBSERVED AS A POINT (WHEN THE SPHERE IS TANGENT TO OUR FLATLAND) AND INCREASING AND DECREASING SIZED CIRCLES AS IT PASSES THROUGH OUR WORLD. THIS IS ANALOGOUS TO OUR PARTICLE/WAVE PARADOX. AS I SAID, WHEN WE TURN ON THE LIGHTS WE "ACCELERATE" MATTER TO THE "SPEED" OF LIGHT. A VERY TINY AMOUNT OF MATTER, THANK GOD IS BROUGHT TO THE SPEED OF LIGHT AND IS SEEN AS A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF LIGHT IN THE ROOM. THE IDEA THAT THE MASS OF MATTER BECOMES INFINITE AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT IS NOT CORRECT FOR THE SIMPLE REASON THAT THE UNIVERSE IS NOT INFINITE IN MASS. SINCE THE UNIVERSE ITSELF IS VAST BUT FINITE, IT IS VERY POSSIBLE...IN FACT EASY... TO ACCELERATE VERY SMALL AMOUNTS OF MATTER TO THE SPEED OF LIGHT...TURN ON THE LIGHTS, BUILD A FIRE, WHAT HAVE YOU.

[solution?] Seen from your viewpoint a photon doesn't have speed so it can have mass. THE PHOTON HAS TO BE MASSED BECAUSE OF THE EQUIVALENCE PROPORTION. THIS IS WHERE PHILOSOPHY, NOT SCIENCE SNAGS MANY PROFESSIONALS. THEY KNOW THE IMPLICATIONS OF MASSED ENERGY AND THEY DON'T BUY A SRT/GR COSMOLOGY WITH ITS WEIRD IMPLICATIONS....ESPECIALLY IN HIGHER DIMENSIONS. THEY KNOW THEY HAVE TO NIP THINGS IN THE BUD- IE STOP THE PROCESS BEFORE IT STARTS, SO FOR NO REASON OTHER THAN PHILOSOPHICAL BIAS THEY REJECT MASSED PHOTONS.

[problem] Not all quarks have the same mass. [solution try I] Quarks are not unsplitable particles. They are also made of different numbers of smaller particles. THE WORLD WE OBSERVE IN 4-D IS PARTICULATE AT THE SUBMICROSCOPIC ANTIPODE. THE HIGGS FIELD IS ACTUALLY A COUPLE OF ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE ABOVE THE PLANCK LENGTH EVERYWHERE WHERE MOST MATTER HAS SINGULAR CHARACTERISTICS...NOTE THE WORD EVERYWHERE. THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH PARTICLES, RATHER MASS AND GEOMETRIC LOCATION IN SCALE WITHIN THE UNIVERSE. [solution try II] There is not just one type of photons.I'M OPEN, BUT INCLINED TO BELIEVE THAT PHOTONS ARE ABOUT AT THE BOTTOM LINE, FROM OUR REFERENCE FRAME ANYWAY. THE FRAME OF REFERENCE SYSTEM OF OUR UNIVERSE IS PROBABLY BASED ON PHOTONS.

I start feeling uncomfortable because I can't proof anything. Maybe I should switch over to science fiction... (well, in the stories I write for my own I stick to lower-than-c-velocities). But it seems like I had at least found a field where theories are still forming (it's like the "Orion nebula of the theoretical universe"). THE MAJOR REASON CERN CLOSED THE ACCELERATOR WITHOUT FURTHER SEARCH FOR THE HIGGS BOSON IS THE CONVICTION OF MOST SCIENTISTS THAT WE ARE ON THE EDGE OF A MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH IN OUR CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE COSMOS...WHICH WILL MAKE THE HIGGS FIELD AND BOSON A CLASSROOM EXERCISE...CORRECT IN 4-D YES, BUT A CLASSROOM EXERCISE. YOU HAVE CHOSEN AN EXCITING AND CHALLENGING FIELD. BEST WISHES! SAM COX PS CLICK ON MY SITE ABOVE AND READ "HISTORY AND CONCEPT" SOME RAINY NIGHT...

Regards Peter

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