Fred,
Great Applet Menu:
http://www.mta.ca/faculty/science/physics/suren/Applets.html
This Simple Harmonic Motion Applet shows how electron spin
can result from a "shuttlecock" motion of a particle/wave.
http://www.mta.ca/faculty/science/physics/suren/Shm/Shm01.html
Yes, and if you go to the Liaajous applet:
http://www.mta.ca/faculty/science/physics/suren/Lissajous/Lissajous.html
Except now, take it to the next step by imagining that instead of
the perfect figure eight liassajous, you have a the same basic
form but offset by slightly by 1/137 so that only once in every
137 iterations does the tracing point return to its actual
starting point...
...and then...
.... if you take that mental image - which is basically a figure
eight being spun on a wobbly axis, and merge the resulting smear
into a real form - then you will end up with a composite of the
Mill's orbitsphere, but not the exact one envisioned by either
Robin or Mills ... yet I think it may be a very intuitive mental
image.
Mills' image is somewhat like a doubly truncated sphere - which is
kind of brain-dead really (giving me pause to wonder at the guy's
other assertions) since the implication is that there is so much
asymmetry that it could not have gone unnoticed in the past.
Anyway - I like this notion of a trapped-photon-smear on a
lissajous trajectory, but like Frank Z, I am wondering if there is
some kind of basic energy unit which fits the bill better than a
photon?... or is that where Robin is going with the pion?
IOW ... the electron were "just" a trapped photon equivalent, then
why wouldn't we be able to tune an x-ray device (say a small
fission reactor) into an electron "factory" by filtering and
downshifting the higher energy gammas ?
Jones
