On 6 June 2014 14:09, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > To be honest the alpha particle is treated in the book. (At least I think it is. My head may have exploded when I tried to follow the Ross Model too far.) > > 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). > You could ask Mr R to send you a copy of his book and spend a few minutes leafing through it, which I suspect will confirm you views (but he thinks will convert you). > > 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. > -- 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.
