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Quantum Gravity 121.0: Charge May Be More Fundamental Than Mass |
From Osher Doctorow
We enter now the world of charges, sources, and sinks, surprisingly
related to black holes apparently, and what is perhaps one of the most
embarrassing chapters in Academic history, the moving of Nobel
Laureate Julian Schwinger from Harvard to UCLA (which accomplished
nothing, since both universities essentially rejected his ideas).
Readers should look up "Julian Schwinger" as keywords on arXiv, which
brings up several incredible papers by his former student who received
the Ph.D. from him and currently is Professor at U. Oklahoma USA, as
well as a beginning into the references on Schwinger's ideas which in
arXiv number into the several hundreds and are still quite active.
Here I will begin with two points, namely the paper of J. P. Lestone
of Los Alamos National Lab New Mexico USA, "A possible connection
between Hawking radiation and the electric charges of fundamental
particles," physics/0703151, 8 pages, March 13 2007; and the idea that
electric charges' repulsion vs attraction may actually reduce to the
two types of Probable Influence/Causation, namely P and P' (which
actually represent two phases, as discussed in recent Sections of this
thread).
Lestone calculated the repulsive force generated by exchange ophotons
between identical black holes by classical means and found that it
defines an effective charge of:
1) q = 0.81 X 10^(-19) C = 0.51e
which is so close to the mean absolute charge of leptons in units of e
(1/2) and the mean absolute charge of quarks in units of e (also 1/2)
that Lestone is stimulated to suggestthat either GR (via black holes)
is connected to the charges of fundamental particles or the whole
thing is coincidental. If the former is the case, he recommends
studying the possibility that forces between fundamental particles are
caused by exchange of virtual photons between quantum black holes.
What Lestone emphasizes is even more surprising, namely that there is
no accepted theoretical reason for the known charges of fundamental
particles! This is somewhat amusing when considering the mad race
to reformulate M theory and LQG for example into more and more
complicated mathematics and physics, being somewhat reminiscent of the
state of physics before the discovery of Non-Euclidean geometry when
the mad race to reformulate in Euclidean geometry was on. But
perhaps this is a coincidence :>)
Osher Doctorow
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22 Apr 2007 01:37:10 AM |
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From Osher Doctorow
Of course, Harvard and UCLA couldn't reject many of Schwinger's ideas,
for which for example he won the Nobel Prize, but they rejected the
idea that was most important to him and which he regarded as his main
Creative or original contribution, Source Theory. His former
student, now Professor at U. Oklahoma and formerly at Imperial College
London U.K., Kendall A. Milton, for example hep-ph/9505293, 15 pages),
discusses this in detail there and in other arXiv papers.
Source theory was rejected by "popular faculty opinion" at both
Harvard and UCLA, largely because it was outside the Mainstream
direction of Quantum Field Theory (QFT) as for example revived by
Nobel Laureate G. 't Hooft of Netherlands. Although the whole theory
may not necessarily have been "ideal", parts of the theory including
the importance of sources and sinks should never have been rejected.
Even T. Y. Cao of Boston University, whose 1997 volume on quantum
field theory encompassed the years 1974-1997 systematically and
deeply, found nothing but praise for Schwinger's Creative work, as
contrasted for example with Heisenberg's mistakes.
I'll try to continue this later.
Osher Doctorow
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