Science > Physics > material coherence: approximation for large n where n is the number of atoms
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"tony fleming" |
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25 Aug 2005 03:43:30 AM |
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material coherence: approximation for large n where n is the number of atoms |
the issue of material coherence and its effect on double slits
demonstrates the coherence of matter in general. any matter composed
of say a homogeneous lattice of interconnecting atoms or molecules (a
crystal) is coherent in that all congruent or comparatively similarly
situated electrons in each atomic structure will be in the same phase
of its motion.
to this end it has no direct bearing on self-field theory, but it is a
very simple test to see if SFT has a 'large number' approximation, say
for crystal structures
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| User: "Uncle Al" |
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| Title: Re: material coherence: approximation for large n where n is the numberof atoms |
25 Aug 2005 10:22:21 AM |
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tony fleming wrote:
the issue of material coherence and its effect on double slits
demonstrates the coherence of matter in general. any matter composed
of say a homogeneous lattice of interconnecting atoms or molecules (a
crystal) is coherent in that all congruent or comparatively similarly
situated electrons in each atomic structure will be in the same phase
of its motion.
to this end it has no direct bearing on self-field theory, but it is a
very simple test to see if SFT has a 'large number' approximation, say
for crystal structures
The International Union of Crystallography defines a crystal as "any
solid having an essentially discrete diffraction diagram" including
periodic, quasiperiodic, and modulated lattices; incommensurate,
misfit, or composite structures, and polytypes. Your description only
holds for a pure flawless periodic crystal - and that does not obtain
in the real world.
--
Uncle Al
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
(Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals)
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qz.pdf
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| User: "tony fleming" |
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| Title: Re: material coherence: approximation for large n where n is the number of atoms |
25 Aug 2005 06:45:46 PM |
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fair enough, thanks ; so i'm not talking about unrealistically pure
'crystals', the type of matter i'm interested in has a wider
description; maybe the words homogeneous, light reflecting, or light
diffracting matter, is a better more general descriptor for the type of
coherence i am talking about.
the point main is that the 'congruent' electrons (and protons,
neutrons, quarks, etc) in the elemental parts of the homogeneous
structure, may be in a similar 'phase' of their composite motions. so
does this coherence apply to big 'chuncks' of matter and not just a
single atom or molecule?
self-field theory ends us with matrices to solve and the bigger the
number of atoms the bigger the size of the matrix (as we would expect),
so do we see a coherence across the large n?, such a simplification
will be very useful for validating any SFT code.
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