On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 2:48 PM, Stefan Israelsson Tampe < [email protected]> wrote:
Did you look at the address, goes to blacklight power!!! > I have no reason to doubt that the rebuttal came from Blacklight Power. My guess is that an employee or fan wrote it up, and Mills signed off on it, or allowed his name to be placed on it. Perhaps I'm wrong about that. Perhaps Mills talks about himself in the third person. If you does not trust the rebutal, let me than explain what the problem > with rathkes paper is. > I admit upfront that I do not have the domain knowledge to form more than an impressionistic opinion of Mills's work. My objections are purely aesthetic. He wants to turn QM inside out, but he does not seem to want to take on the burden of relating his work to existing practice (let's set aside the question of theory for the moment). Existing practice in solid state physics proceeds from the assumption that electron orbitals are three-dimensional and are often not not spherical shells. Non-spherical electron orbits overlap, and the electron density can be modeled as a function of time and location within the solid, and the DFTs tell you something about things like band gaps in semiconductors. Mills postulates an infinitely thin, spherical orbitsphere for the hydrogen atom [1]. Now put that in your pipe and smoke it. Do we assume an orbitsphere for hydrogen atoms, and in some cases three-dimensional, non-spherical orbits in more complex atoms? This pedagogical aid suggests that we should assume only orbitspheres [2]. But in the following diagram of a benzene molecule, six p-orbitals are shown and are presumed to affect the chemical behavior of the molecule [3]. Someone should go tell the man or woman who made this diagram that they're living in error. You have proposed that what Mills is saying is dual with what the solid state physicists are saying. The two descriptions do not sound dual; they sound mutually incompatible. This is one problem I have identified, and for which I am proud, given that I do not have the domain knowledge to comment on the specifics of the mathematics that are used. Simple, common sense can go pretty far, it turns out. Eric [1] http://www.millsian.com/images/theory/Orbitsphere-Poster-medium.png [2] http://www.millsian.com/images/theory/Periodic-Table-Poster-medium.png [3] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Benzene_Orbitals.svg/2000px-Benzene_Orbitals.svg.png
