Greetings Vorts,
For some time I have been trying to understand some of the implications of Hotson’s hypothesis for the epo as a solution to Dirac’s equation. Here are some fundamental observations which may prove to be too simplistic (but they are fun to think about): - When a free electron and free positron approach each other, they do not annihilate, instead, they form a metastable positronium “atom” in which the electron and positron orbit their barycenter. Positronium is essentially an excited state of this “atom”. - Almost immediately [absent special boundary conditions] the positronium atom gives up energy (2x511keV) to shrink to its lowest energy state. In its naturally shrunken state, the orbit radius is at a minimum Planck scale – it can go now lower. This is an “epo” as described by Hotson. - At such small scale, the epo is essentially a charge neutral particle. - Epos are a spinor solution, and apparently the electron and positron are found to be different “phases” of the same elementary particle – the electron. - During the spinor orbiting of the electron and positron, the phase of each particle changes – the electron becomes a positron and at the same time the positron becomes an electron. The result of this “switching phase” is that the epo can present a DC dipole electric field. The phase where this switch occurs can be changed causing the dipole to point in any direction for an individual epo. - Since the electron and positron are orbiting, the pair produces a magnetic dipole. This is the fundamental magnetic dipole. There is no such thing as a magnetic monopole. The fundamental particle is the electron and its phase shifted companion the positron which form epos. Epos can only produce a magnetic dipole. - Like magnetized spheres, the epos will naturally form a lattice, primarily oriented by the magnetic dipoles. - Epos have no inertial or gravitational mass. - The epo lattice IS the vacuum ether. >From an electromagnetic standpoint, the electric field is propagated by stimulated electric dipole orientation of the epos – the epos all line up their head-tail electric fields to go along the electric field solution lines of the stimulated electric field. - Since the epo lattice is held in place by the magnetic dipoles of the epos, the forced alignment of the epos’ electric dipole to the external electric field causes a strain in the epo lattice. - Notice that within the most fundamental “atom” of the universe, the epo, the electric and magnetic fields are orthogonal. This is why an applied electric field always creates a strain in the magnetic field lattice and an applied magnetic field always creates a strain in the electric field. - The electric/magnetic stress-strain relationship is nonlinear at the epo scale, and as an ensemble, the nonlinearity becomes less and less significant as the whole lattice is strained on a larger scale. Did you ever wonder what a photon IS? I have looked for good answers to that question, but all of the answers were unsatisfyingly circular, and only resulted in a description of photon behavior. How is a photon constrained in “free space” to have a finite size? Some have postulated that the photon is a soliton solution because such a solution can be constrained in size and would not naturally spread out in propagation. However, a soliton is a solution to propagation in a NONLINEAR medium. Well, here we have a ether lattice whose response at the small scale is fundamentally nonlinear. Thus, the epo ether would seem to support propagation of solitons. An interesting observation of this hypothetical ether is that it is comprised of a mass-less lattice of electron-positron pairs, each pair in a degenerate Planck scale orbit. However, the free electron and free positron each have mass. The electron and positron in a positronium orbit (higher energy) have mass. What changes as the positronium collapses to form an epo, that allows it to become totally mass-less? Is the loss of mass the result of the spinor orbit solution in the epo’s most degenerate orbital? Other ponder-ables: - How does zero-point energy fit into the concept of an epo lattice as the ether? - It is easy to see how EM waves propagate through this epo lattice as the ether, but how are gravitational waves propagated through such an ether? - It is also easy to see how one can visualize pilot waves forming in such a lattice, obviating the need for the quantum mechanical wave-particle duality. - If the epos have no mass, what constrains EM propagation in an epo ether to the speed of light? - What experiment could falsify this hypothesis of an epo lattice ether? I would really like to stimulate a chain of discussion on this topic.
