I'm going to go to bed soon but photons are electrically neutral. Robin, virtual photons shield charge. QED is a *big* subject that's tackled in the graduate school and it's not easily mastered unless one's done the complete groundwork and then specialised.
No when revolutions come they start off with simple premises, simple paradoxes and experiments that people can get their heads around. Then the best theoreticians move in once a consensus starts to emerge to make it all cogent. Look at the history of QM from the early experiments and paradoxes (1860-1905) to about 1970. The sheer economy that people like Heisenberg, Schrodinger, Jordan, Pauli, Dirac, Feynman brought to all the disparate phenomena and sheer zoo of stuff is one of the most intellectual Everests ever climbed. People don't throw out the whole lot without good reason. It's a bit like a catchy song that has a 'hook' to rise up above all the other stuff. In my situation a very prominent academic told me some time ago keep it simple. Everything gets scan read to pass muster initially unless one has an air to the good and great and they rate you highly initially. Cock up a few times and you get set back, it takes time to win the confidence back. Barring repeatable experiments and unequivocal data the good people are too busy and just can't be bothered. -----Original Message----- From: Robin van Spaandonk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 October 2008 23:25 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Vo]:Banking on BLP? In reply to Remi Cornwall's message of Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:13:44 +0100: Hi, [snip] >On a simple hydrogen model, the energy levels are proportional to the mass >of the electron. To drop below would require the mass of the electron to >change. [snip] Changing the mass of the electron would be one way of achieving this, but it isn't the only way. Mills achieves it by proposing that trapped photons have the same effect as the creation of extra charge on the nucleus "virtual" charge if you will. I do it by assuming that the De Broglie wave of the electron can take on a more complex form than a simple circle (e.g. a Lissajous structure) - see my web page ( http://users.bigpond.net.au/rvanspaa/New-hydrogen.html ). Regards, Robin van Spaandonk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
