> From: Grimer
I've been re-reading one of Puthoff's old papers
from 1986, which was recenly referred to on Vortex,
> viz,
Putoff's theory, on the surface, possesses an elegant symmetry to
it, not that I'm really in a position to challenge it. There
remains, however, a nagging question that gnaws at me.
According to my own provincial understanding of QM theory it's
considered somewhat of an embarrassment that the electron doesn't
seem to collapse into the nucleus of the hydrogen atom - due to the
fact that it should be emanating energy - due to the fact that it is
costantly 'accelerating' around the hydrogen nucleus. Clearly, this
ain't happening!
If it did the entire universe would collapse. What I mean is that the
electrons would collapse into the nucleus, and then they would fall
together, ect, ect.
Now, according to Putoff's model, ZPE fluctuations, more or less,
instantaneously re-supply the departing energy that according to QM
should be emanating from the orbiting electron. IOW, ZPE
fluctuations conveniently prevent the orbiting electron from
collapsing into the nucleus, which incidentally saves the universe
as a secondary benefit.
Exactly
Never the less there remains, in my view, a HUGE unsolved mystery:
Yah, if there's all that energy out there, why can't we cohere it?
If energy is being "emitted" only to be re-supplied by ZPE
fluctuation that STILL doesn't explain WHAT HAPPENED to the original
energy emitted from the electron.
Some of Hal's later papers speculate about the ZPE powering things
like Browian Motion.
