[Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-04-26 Thread Axil Axil
This is a follow up post to the thread RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected... A new paper addresses the charge radius of muonic hydrogen

Re: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-16 Thread Terry Blanton
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/15/science/physicists-see-higgs-boson-in-new-particle-but-more-study-is-needed.html CERN Physicists See Higgs Boson in New Particle By DENNIS OVERBYE Physicists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, said Thursday that the new particle discovered

RE: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-12 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
I would posit that spin is the phase relationship of the oscillations... -Original Message- From: Terry Blanton [mailto:hohlr...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 2:35 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need

Re: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-12 Thread Terry Blanton
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:50 AM, MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net wrote: I would posit that spin is the phase relationship of the oscillations... Robin has not enthusiastically jumped in to explain. ;-)

Re: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-12 Thread ChemE Stewart
negative spin is a political orientation On Tuesday, March 12, 2013, Terry Blanton wrote: On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:50 AM, MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.netjavascript:; wrote: I would posit that spin is the phase relationship of the oscillations... Robin has not enthusiastically

Re: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-12 Thread mixent
In reply to ChemE Stewart's message of Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:00:59 -0400: Hi, [snip] negative spin is a political orientation Definitely the most amusing response! :) On Tuesday, March 12, 2013, Terry Blanton wrote: On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:50 AM, MarkI-ZeroPoint

Re: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-12 Thread mixent
In reply to MarkI-ZeroPoint's message of Tue, 12 Mar 2013 08:50:56 -0700: Hi, [snip] I would posit that spin is the phase relationship of the oscillations... -Original Message- From: Terry Blanton [mailto:hohlr...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 2:35 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com

RE: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-11 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: mix...@bigpond.com in reply to Terry Blanton's message: The idea is that the ZPE is the provider of *all* mass to all things. Is this an elaboration of or a replacement for the Higgs field? I don't think Higgs is a requirement for the Puthoff theory.

Re: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-11 Thread Terry Blanton
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Hmm ... don't be so quick to write Puthoff off wrt Higgs. It may not have been a former requirement but things change. Well, we don't yet have a five sigma horse to put before the cart yet. The alleged Higgs might have a

Re: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-11 Thread David Roberson
The Higgs is getting ahead of the horse. Just because a particle within this mass range has been discovered does not prove that it is a special one. Perhaps someone should show that the discovery actually performs a function before they jump too high and far. I have to be skeptical in this

RE: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-11 Thread Jones Beene
A cynic would say that there has been a value floating around, almost as a meme. maybe for 30 years, and this value keeps coming up in models, and is hinted at in beam-line data from time to time, and its getting more and more precise over time - but it is a high value and the means to see it have

Re: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-11 Thread Terry Blanton
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Let’s say the historic “value” is/was abound 125 GeV. I'm glad you find value in their value; but, there are two values involved (although some might say spin zero is a non value.) They have not yet determined the spin of

Re: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-11 Thread Harry Veeder
why doesn't anyone ask about the origin of energy? Harry

RE: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-11 Thread Jones Beene
Well, since it is a boson, in Vegas the smart money sez it is an integer which excludes 0. Seriously, all elementary particles which are thought of as carrying forces are said to be spin-1. Is there any reason to suspect otherwise? An interesting question is - if a particle exists in all

Re: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-11 Thread Terry Blanton
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Well, since it is a boson, in Vegas the smart money sez it is an integer which excludes 0. But, grasshopper, to be Higgs, it's mass, color and spin must all be zero: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson

Re: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-11 Thread Terry Blanton
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Well, since it is a boson, in Vegas the smart money sez it is an integer which excludes 0. But, grasshopper, to be Higgs, it's mass, color and spin

RE: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-11 Thread Jones Beene
Well this is obviously above my pay scale. How is spin conserved when the particle is formed from the collision of 2 protons? Silly me, I forgot that 1/2 plus 1/2 equals zero when you can throw 9 zero$ at it. -Original Message- From: Terry Blanton Well, since it is a boson, in Vegas

Re: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-11 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:43:43 -0700: Hi, [snip] Well this is obviously above my pay scale. How is spin conserved when the particle is formed from the collision of 2 protons? Silly me, I forgot that 1/2 plus 1/2 equals zero when you can throw 9 zero$ at it. How

Re: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-11 Thread Terry Blanton
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 4:14 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: How about +1/2 + -1/2 = 0? Is negative spin spatial orientation?

Re: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-10 Thread Axil Axil
In the current view of things, it’s not the ZPE, it’s the Higgs field that produces mass. How does the Higgs field and gravity interact, and general relativity, energy, not to mention the other force carriers? Here is one opinion http://www.spacetime-model.com/higgsboson/index.htm Does anybody

Re: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-10 Thread Harry Veeder
Mathematically and historically the concept of inertia (mass) preceeded the concept of energy. Energy is a secondary concept because it is built on the primary concept of inertia. It would seem most theoretical physicists are ignorant about the conceptual history of their own subject. The answer

Re: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-10 Thread mixent
In reply to Eric Walker's message of Sat, 9 Mar 2013 23:10:56 -0800: Hi, [snip] I take it that the proposed interaction with the ZPE adds mass to the exposed nucleons and doesn't to the shielded ones? What is the possible mechanism involved here? Is there a name for the proposal? Does the ZPE

RE: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-10 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: mix...@bigpond.com in reply to Eric Walker's message: I take it that the proposed interaction with the ZPE adds mass to the exposed nucleons and doesn't to the shielded ones? What is the possible mechanism involved here? Is there a name for the proposal? Does

Re: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-10 Thread Eric Walker
On Mar 10, 2013, at 13:30, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: The idea is that the ZPE is the provider of *all* mass to all things. Is this an elaboration of or a replacement for the Higgs field? Eric

Re: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-10 Thread Terry Blanton
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 10, 2013, at 13:30, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: The idea is that the ZPE is the provider of *all* mass to all things. Is this an elaboration of or a replacement for the Higgs field? I don't think Higgs is a

Re: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-10 Thread mixent
In reply to Terry Blanton's message of Sun, 10 Mar 2013 22:12:51 -0400: Hi, [snip] On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 10, 2013, at 13:30, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: The idea is that the ZPE is the provider of *all* mass to all things. Is this an

Re: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-09 Thread mixent
In reply to Eric Walker's message of Fri, 1 Mar 2013 22:29:00 -0800: Hi, There is also the possibility that the mass of the particle actually derives form it's interaction with the ZPE, and that when protons and neutrons are packed closely together, they shield one another to some extent, so

Re: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-09 Thread Eric Walker
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 5:59 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: There is also the possibility that the mass of the particle actually derives form it's interaction with the ZPE, and that when protons and neutrons are packed closely together, they shield one another to some extent, so that the

RE: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-03 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
I found the personal interaction between Noyes, Bell and Phipps to be most revealing. They obviously had some serious reservations about 'mainstream' physics, the Copenhagen interpretation, and the prevalence of abstract mathematical concepts replacing physical entities/concepts in theoretical

Re: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-03 Thread Terry Blanton
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 2:08 PM, MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net wrote: I found the personal interaction between Noyes, Bell and Phipps to be most revealing… Much the sentiment expressed by Crick and Watson after finding the double helix.

RE: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-02 Thread Jones Beene
From: Eric Walker Quark mass does not have a value which can be agreed on, so how can protons? If I were a betting man, I would bet that the mass of a proton can change, as well as that of a neutron. The reasoning goes like this. An atomic nucleus

RE: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-02 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
Whenever I come across something that relates to what some Vorts have an interest in, I want to bring that info here in case it might help connect some dots in someone's mind! Yes, the article was talking radius, not mass which has been your point, but aren't the two inextricably linked?

Re: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-02 Thread James Bowery
Pierre Noyes' work on the combinatorial hierarchy aka bit-string physics actually appears to have a predicted radius for the proton derived from pure mathematics. It is related to the Schwartz radius: What this has led me to is an attempt to reformulate quantization as resting on

Re: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-02 Thread James Bowery
Erratum: Schwartz - Schwarzschild I guess it was one of God's little jokes to have the man who discovered the radius of the black hole to be named Karl Schwarzschild. On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 4:25 PM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Pierre Noyes' work on the combinatorial hierarchy aka

Re: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-02 Thread Axil Axil
I am looking for somebody to explain the higgs mechanism to me in simple terms. It looks interesting and involves Bose- Einstein condensation, vacuum energy and superconductivity, localization of electromagnetic field, and linking of particles to the higgs field. I am looking for something like

[Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-01 Thread Jones Beene
Mark, I've been focusing on mass variation, not radius - but your point that textbook values for the other physical properties of protons are almost as flakey, stands. Mass of the proton, historically, was measured at different values in different countries using different techniques, and

Re: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-01 Thread Terry Blanton
I have a question. Really two. Would it be more likely that a proton could capture a positron than an electron? Would the result survive as a neutron?

Re: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-01 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Fri, 1 Mar 2013 19:27:02 -0800: Hi, [snip] Believe it or not - there is NO model or hypothesis to predict the mass of a proton! Many in fizzix assume there is, but they are wrong. (there are dozens of efforts to do this, as in QCD - but none has gotten much

Re: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-01 Thread mixent
In reply to Terry Blanton's message of Fri, 1 Mar 2013 22:30:12 -0500: Hi, [snip] I have a question. Really two. Would it be more likely that a proton could capture a positron than an electron? No, it can't capture a positron at all, because protons and positrons have the same charge, and

Re: [Vo]:RE: Proton radius in question, after 3 years the textbooks may need to be corrected...

2013-03-01 Thread Eric Walker
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote: Quark mass does not have a value which can be agreed on, so how can protons? If I were a betting man, I would bet that the mass of a proton can change, as well as that of a neutron. The reasoning goes like this. An