On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 04:46:46PM -0400, John Clark wrote: > > > > there is no strong force. > > > > Then what keeps the nucleus from exploding from the repulsive force of all > those positively charged protons? >
To set the facts straight on just this question, the claim is that the electrostatic forces due to all the mirror images caused by the tronnies travelling faster than the speed of light exactly cancel the repulsive components. Note that the calculation hasn't been done for anything remotely like the alpha particle - the only case that has been treated is a pair of tronnies forming a mythical particle called an "entron". I briefly whiled away a few minutes considering this, and it looked to me like the result was an infinite sum of solutions to a transcendental equation, that almost certainly didn't cancel. Apparently in Ross's book is an "integration" around the tronnie's orbit, which turns a 1/r^2 into a 1/r. Well that looks like a regular integration of a force into a potential - but that's not right as the transcendental solutions mentioned above do not form a continuum. I kind of lost interest at that point. It seems there is nothing to see here. A rather dubious set of propositions, leading to an intractable theory that provides no insight, and indeed would appear to be falsified by strongly supported empirical laws (such as the various conservation laws we've all mentioned). I'm not surprised there's been no takeup by people actually interested in this stuff. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
