Yep, they're using Haliday and Resnick still (10th edition): https://smile.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Physics-Binder-Ready-Version/dp/1118230647/
The available covers have improved from the basic orange or blue. ;) On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 12:47 PM bobcook39...@hotmail.com < bobcook39...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Jones— > > > > New Fixxic books are popping up all the time, but cannot get money for > marketing. > > > > Maybe a catalogue of free thinking schools with at least 50% new Fixxic > books on the list for courses being offered in “physics” is warranted. It > may help marketing funding, as well as attract students desiring to advance > the understsnding of physical reality. > > > > HIGH SCHOOLS SHOULD BE THE FIRST SCHOOLS LISTED. Listing might even > foster progressive education in civilization to counter the > establishments’s, both public and private, current focus on strictly > teaching dogmatic “science.” from well funded publisher texts. (Such a > paradyme occurance would be a “black swan” event.) > > > > (We should beware of the stake😊) > > > > Bob Cook > > > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> > *Sent:* Sunday, March 24, 2019 7:30:42 AM > *To:* Vortex List > *Subject:* [Vo]:The Many Phases of Matter - a degenerate state of affairs > > At first there were only three - the solid, liquid and gas phase. > Everything in Nature could be explained with these three categories... > except maybe the sun. > > "Plasma" was identified as a fourth phase by Crookes in 1879 and/or > Thomson in 1897 but it took man years for this big change in outlook to > sink in - along with the recognition of stars being composed of mostly > hydrogen plasma. To confuse things even more, physicists of late tries to > distinguish "states of matter" from "phases of matter". This is basically a > semantic gesture to save face. > > Fizzix, which is the dark side of the practice of mainstream Physics, is > not quite as conservative as religion, but closer than it should be. For > instance, it took much longer than it should for the mainstream to accept > that there is a fifth phase - the condensate or BEC. The great Indian > physicist Bose (who also first described the boson) first proposed the > state mathematically but the mainstream of physics would have rejected the > idea as entirely fringe, without Einstein's name on. > > Nice strategic move. Even so, it was not till 1995 that the Bose-Einstein > condensate (BEC) was actually proved to exist physically by Cornell and > Weiman using laser-cooled rubidium. Plus, the other four phases of matter > follow the Pauli Exclusion Principle - which says that matter can't exist > in identical quantum states so as to occupy the same space at the same > time. Bose-Einstein condensates seem to break that rule as do some or all > of the other states not yet included in the big five. In short - we should > dump Pauli and move on without it. > > And that is about where Fizzix stands nowadays - with five phases of > matter to describe all of nature ... err... almost. > > If we ditch the artificial distinction between phases and states, it has > been proposed that the "Quark-gluon plasma," seen in the debris of beam > line experiments, is important enough to be a distinct phase of matter (in > the guise of the crossover between matter being converted into energy and > back again). This is not simply a plasma with the highest energy level > since it has dozenss of features which no ordinary plasma has. This > category can be called the "quark soup phase" and the clearly, entire > Universe started out in this phase and most stars end up there in the end - > in a nova. > > Then, the next category is where LENR can enter the picture - if there is > indeed the so-called "Degenerate matter" phase which is characterized by > extreme density. This grouping can include neutron stars, quasars, possibly > black holes and even the elusive "dark matter" making up the bulk of the > Universe: The compressed state exists in cosmology, but there could be a > counterpart on earth - especially in the proposed ultra-dense state of > hydrogen. This ultra-dense state derives from Rydberg matter which is also > a candidate in itself for an entirely new phase of matter. > > These new phases of matter are not found in textbooks yet - Fizzix is > conservative after all and prefers to keep things recognizable to > practitioners who graduated half a century ago, even at the risk of > semantic confusion which makes the Internet hum with "alternative facts." > > Nevertheless, in a fair appraisal - the bulk of actually mass in the > Universe is probably to be found in the two overlooked phases - degenerate > matter and quark soup phase. Recently these same two (proposed new phases) > actually turn up in LENR, in the same body of work. > > ... one of the many reasons that the pioneering work of Holmlid is so > intriguing. > > > > > > > >
