On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 06:18:47PM -0700, John Ross wrote:
> Thanks for the comment. I make the same offer to you that I just made to
> Russsel.
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> I must say however that I am not aware of any portion of my theory that is at
> odds with observation. I know that it is greatly at odds with existing
> theories.
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Yes, I understand it has to be compared with experiment, not theory.
That is why I pointed to lepton number conservation, which is an
empirically observed law of physics. Another law is conservation of
baryon number. If baryon number is not conserved, then protons become
unstable. Empirically, the proton half life is more than 10^{33}
years. Ie - as far as we know, protons are utterly stable, and baryon
number is conserved, contradicting certain Grand Unified Theories
which predicted the opposite. Conservation of lepton number also leads
to infinite lifetimes of the electron and neutrino (as well as the
muon/tauon counterparts), so any departure from conservation would
imply instability of those particles.
Electrons and positrons have lepton number 1, and baryon number
0. More precisely, there are 3 lepton numbers, and it's the 'e' lepton
number that is 1, the other two (mu and tau) being irrelevant to this
discussion.
Photons have both zero lepton and baryon number. If a proton is just
made up of an electron, positron and a photon, the proton's lepton
number is 1 and it's baryon number zero - in contrast with empirical results.
The question I have - how does a "neutrino entron" differ from a
"neutrino photon", which is just a photon as you state.
The truth is I'm not interested enough in this topic to explore your
theory. So I'm declining your suggestion to go read you book.
But it is clear that your theory needs to satisfy all the known
empirically observed conservation laws, or place tight bounds on any
departures from them, in order for your theory to get off the ground.
So far, it seems it has flunked energy conservation (John Clark's
post), momentum conservation, lepton and baryon number
conservation. We haven't heard a satisfactory response from you to any
of these problems. And we haven't even started applying things like
CPT symmetry.
Cheers
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