"However, on the basis of an old calculation by Belinfante [Physica 6 887 (1939)], it can be shown that the spin may be regarded as an angular momentum generated by a *circulating flow* of energy in the wave field of the electron."
This is at least somewhat understandable if one considers the vacuum as a near-frictionless fluid under extreme pressure. you cannot have 'flow' without a pressure differential. "the spin of the electrons is entirely analogous to the angular momentum carried by a classical circularly polarized wave." I commented on the importance of "coherence" in a posting several days ago. well, coherence involves not only a frequency component, but a polarization (or phase relationship) component. The bulk matter, or 'chemistry' that Dr. Storms has spent his life in, does NOT involve coherency. the laws that he is intimately familiar with do not involve systems where significant groups of atoms/electrons/SPP/??? are all coherently interacting. LENR will require a new set of laws for these regions of coherent entities. -Mark Iverson From: Axil Axil [mailto:janap...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 9:08 PM To: vortex-l Subject: Re: [Vo]:FYI: Extraordinary momentum and spin discovered in evanescent light waves http://jayryablon.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/ohanian-what-is-spin.pdf <http://jayryablon.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/ohanian-what-is-spin.pdf> What is Spin? Am J. Phys. 54 (6) June 1986. The abstract is: According to the prevailing belief, the spin of the electron or some other particle is a mysterious internal angular momentum for which no concrete physical picture is available, and for which there is no classical analog. However, on the basis of an old calculation by Belinfante [Physica 6 887 (1939)], it can be shown that the spin may be regarded as an angular momentum generated by a circulating flow of energy in the wave field of the electron. Likewise, the magnetic moment may be regarded as generated by a circulating flow of charge in the wave field. This provides an intuitivelyl appealing picture and establishes that neither the spin nor the magnetic moment are "internal" - they are not associated with the internal structure of the electron, but rather with the structure of the field. Furthermore, a comparison between calculations of angular momentum in the Dirac and electromagnetic fields shows that the spin of the electrons is entirely analogous to the angular momentum carried by a classical circularly polarized wave. On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 12:00 AM, Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> wrote: Regarding Belinfante spin momentum. Belinfante worked out that the spin of the electron was produced as a result of its wave function and not motion of forces within the electron. Now the same considerations show that spin comes from angular momentum and the wave nature of photons. That leans support to the concept that electrons and photons are related if not identical. On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 8:02 PM, Bob Cook <frobertc...@hotmail.com> wrote: Jones-- It seems an answer to my original question for this blog--2 months ago--about spin coupling is finally coming out. I hope Ed takes note and decides to address the basic parameter, spin, in his theory for LENR.. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Cook <mailto:frobertc...@hotmail.com> To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 4:12 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:FYI: Extraordinary momentum and spin discovered in evanescent light waves Jones-- the rabbit hole just became more crowded. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: Jones Beene <mailto:jone...@pacbell.net> To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 2:32 PM Subject: RE: [Vo]:FYI: Extraordinary momentum and spin discovered in evanescent light waves These references tie into the thread on a dynamical Casimir effect in LENR and to SPP. That may be why they were sent, but in case the connection is not obvious to everyone, here is an additional point. Mie scattering and Mie's solution to Maxwell - is the scattering of electromagnetic radiation by a sphere. Generally a sphere makes a good radiator but does not make a good antenna, but there are exceptions. When the sphere is a micron-sized nickel powder, loaded with hydrogen and with nanometer geometry in the surface features (tubules), all of this becomes relevant to SPP. On page 5 of the first link, they talk about SPP "Recently, we described such spin for surface plasmon polariton, and it was shown that the imaginary longitudinal field component plays an important role in optical coupling processes. From: Mark Jurich Mark Iverson wrote: | Extraordinary momentum and spin discovered in evanescent light waves | http://phys.org/news/2014-03-extraordinary-momentum-evanescent.html | Paper Ref: | http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140306/ncomms4300/full/ncomms4300.html FYI: arXiv Preprint: http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1308/1308.0547.pdf (arXiv Abstract: http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.0547) - Mark Jurich
