Consciousness, Physics, and the Holographic Paradigm
Essays by A.T. Williams
Part I: Sneaking Up On Einstein
All matter is immersed in it and it penetrates everywhere. No doors are closed to ether.
- Albert Einstein, The Evolution of Physics
Chapter 3
Section 3: Particle Self-Energy and the Transition Zone:
From Old to New Physics, Part 2
Comprehensive scientific knowledge continually advances. Moreover, the progress of science is exponential rather than linear. Everything in our holonomic material universe (6 natural dimensions + 2 time dimensions) changes with time. No conditionally relative object on the macroscopic, subatomic, and subnuclear scales of the material domain stays the same from one instant to the next. Two millenia elapsed between the works of Aristotle and Newton. A mere two centuries elapsed between Newton and Einstein. Only a single century elapsed between Einstein and the new physics of the present day.
The recently discovered universal principle of energy (TUPE) reveals a major new piece of the perpetual puzzle of physical reality just-as-it-is. TUPE states that fundamental, irreducible nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE) exists in the absence of matter, but matter is entirely dependent upon nonmaterial energy and cannot exist in the absence of uncreated, unconditioned nonmaterial primordial energy.
TUPE implies that the solids, liquids, gases, and plasmas of classical and quantum mechanics are created, contained, and maintained within the fundamental, irreducible nonmaterial primordial energy domain (NED).
If matter/mass is a discrete, conditionally relative aggregation of NPE (change of state, phase transition) analogous to liquid water changing phase by becoming solid water (ice) or vice versa, for example, then the fundamental nature of matter/mass can be defined as a conditionally relative localized phase change of irreducible nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE).
Moreover, this is precisely the direction quantum chromodynamics (QCD) theory and experiment have been driving the science and technology of high-energy particle physics for more than 30 years. High-energy particle collider experiments, however, are presently limited by two traditional mechanical paradigms:
- In high-energy particle physics collider experiments only the on-the-mass-shell portion of the inelastic collision energy bubble is assumed to be a closed or isolated (mechanically conservative) system. Thus, Einstein's mass-energy equivalence, E = mc², is conserved only on-shell. 17
- The results of the original nonrelativistic and the contemporary relativistic Schrödinger equations, respectively, are limited to closed or isolated (mechanically conservative) systems within the conventional quantum mechanical material domain.
Frank Wilczek, just one year before sharing the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the asymptotic freedom of quarks and advancing the development of QCD, wrote in his 2003 article The Origin of Mass:
When a collision between a high-energy electron and a high-energy positron occurs, we often observe that many particles emerge from the event. The total mass of these particles can be thousands of times the mass of the original electron and positron. Thus mass has been created, physically, from energy. 18
Hence, it seems reasonable to conclude that the true source of the tremendously increased energy that facilitates the production of multiple discrete, subnuclear masses in the encompassing on-shell and off-shell energy bubble created at each high-energy particle collision point remained essentially unexplained prior to the discovery of the universal principle of energy (TUPE) and the concomitant fundamental, irreducible nonmaterial primordial energy domain (NED).
Clearly the universal principle of energy (TUPE) is the crucial, irreducible foundation required not only for advancing beyond QCD and the limited mass-shell concept in high-energy particle experiments, for advancing beyond the Standard Model and thermodynamics, but also for advancing beyond the conventional material model of the perpetual puzzle of Nature based on mechanics to a new, comprehensive nonmaterial primordial energy model of the physical sciences that reflects the totality of nonmaterial/material physical reality just-as-it-is.
A pivotal experimental result:
The inability of classical physics to mechanically explain certain experimental results led to the development of quantum mechanics which is also a limited mechanical model or paradigm. Quantum mechanics inherited the enigmatic wave-particle duality concept and the failures of the Bohr Model of the atom from classical mechanical physics, then quickly added the measurement problem, Heisenberg's uncertainty limitation, and the seemingly intractable quantum gravity problem, among others.
Wave-particle duality, the Bohr atom, the uncertainty principle, and the quantum gravity problem, however, fundamentally point beyond the traditional limitations of quantum mechanics and the 1970s Standard Model of particle physics to the new physics implied by the recent discovery of the universal principle of energy (TUPE) and the concomitant nonmaterial primordial energy domain (NED).
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, for example, is a statement that reflects the limitations of mechanical measurement rather than identifying a limitation or boundary of physical reality just-as-it-is.
Putting individual successes or failures aside, the scientific advancement of new physics occasionally depends upon weaving together various theoretical and experimental bits and pieces from disparate sources.
Working on the advancement of superconductor physics in 1995, for example, Z. Y. Weng, D. N. Sheng, and C. S. Ting predicted the quasiparticle phenomenon of one-dimensional (1D) and 2D spin-charge separation. Experimental confirmation of 1D spin-charge separation was acquired four decades later.
Moreover, in principle condensed matter spin-charge separation supports the universal principle of energy (TUPE) implication that matter and electric charge are separate and distinct energetically coupled phenomena. As this is written in 2009 the nonmechanical, nonmaterial matter/mass-electric charge coupling has yet to be experimentally identified.
In an experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) designed to isolate the fractional electric charge exhibited by quarks, fractional electric charge was not found. Nonetheless, the experiment permitted Martin Perl and Eric Lee to successfully test all known isolatable elementary particles for electric charge. Their report was published in 1997:
All known elementary particles that can be isolated as individual particles have an electric charge that is equal in magnitude to the electron's charge, q = 1.6×10-19 C [Coulomb], or is zero. This includes the muon and tau charged leptons, the neutrinos, the photon, the nucleons, and the mesons. 19
Interestingly, the pivotal result in the present experiments of interest is an unexpected collateral finding in an electromagnetic αQED coupling experiment. Using the TRISTAN accelerator in Japan (rebuilt as the present KEKB accelerator), the 1996 TOPAZ Collaboration group attributed the demonstrated strengthening of the αQED coupling to a decreased electric charge screening phenomenon now called vacuum polarization in their 1997 paper Measurement of the Electromagnetic Coupling at Large Momentum Transfer. The paper states:
All charges are surrounded by clouds of virtual photons, which spend part of their existence dissociated into fermion anti-fermion pairs. The virtual fermions with charges opposite to the bare charge will be, on average, closer to the bare charge than those virtual particles of like sign. Thus, at large distances, we observe a reduced bare charge due to this screening effect. As we probe closer we penetrate into the cloud of virtual particles, decreasing the screening effect and observing more of the bare charge and thus a strengthening of the coupling. 20
The revolutionary collateral finding of "clouds of virtual photons" surrounding each electric charge (+/- q) can be seen as the first experimental view of the nonmechanical, nonmaterial energy process by which the electron-monopolar electric charge pair (e0 q-) and the anti-electron positron-monopolar electric charge pair (e0 q+) emits and absorbs photons. The mass and electric charge of the muon (μ), tau (τ), and quark electric charge carriers are similarly coupled. Thus, with the present exception of the neutrinos, each fermion and anti-fermion particle is a coupled matter/mass-electric charge pair.
As noted in an earlier essay, the fundamental fermion and anti-fermion mass-monopolar electric charge coupling, (e0 q-) for example, has resolved the scientifically perplexing enigma of treating relativistic invariant electric charge (+/- q) as if it is an intrinsic property of the relativistic mass described in Einstein's original 1905 equation m = E/c² which varies in proportion to relativistic kinetic energy.
Remember, the Einsteinian "speed limit of the universe" is the classical mechanical measurement limit of the material domain, just as Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is the quantum mechanical measurement limit of the material domain.
In contrast, neither classical mechanics nor quantum mechanics apply to or limit the universal principle of nonmaterial primordial energy (TUPE), The Energetic Holographic Paradigm (TEHP), or the fundamental nonmechanical, irreducible nonmaterial primordial energy domain (NED).
Beyond quantum mechanics to NPE quantum physics:
The new physics of TUPE and TEHP (6+2) imply that the various forms of particulate matter/mass are diverse conditionally relative phase changes of nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE) within the NED. Therefore the fundamental nature of discrete particulate matter/mass is identical to, and indeed is omnipresent, pervasive, irreducible NPE.
Moreover, the new physics of NPE atoms and electrons reveals not only that the fermion matter-monopolar electric charge coupling is the norm for physical reality just-as-it-is, but also that in principle – putting the contemporary puzzles of quark matter confinement and fractional electric charge aside – the physical separation of leptons and monopolar electric charge is possible on various scales of the material and nonmaterial domains.
There is no doubt that quantum mechanics provided an extraordinary foundation for the advancement of 20th century physics. Happily, many quantum mechanical experiments and concepts point beyond traditional quantum theory and mechanical limits to nonmechanical NPE and the NED.
Thus, the new physics of the omnipresent nonmechanical NPE transition zone (TZ) that links the material domain and the massless NED subsumes quantum mechanical concepts like matter/mass, vacuum energy, vacuum polarization, virtual particles, quantum tunneling, and particle self energy, among others, thereby placing their nonmechanical NPE counterparts on a new fundamental, NPE quantum physics scale of physical reality just-as-it-is.
The NPE transition zone (TZ) photon clouds that surround each electric charge were discovered by the TOPAZ Collaboration in 1996. In principle fundamental photon emission and absorption by an NPE cloud of photons that screen a specific bare electric charge directly affects the particle self-energy of that individual subatomic or subnuclear fermion or anti-fermion electric charge carrier in the material domain which, in turn, directly affects the quantized electron transitions of the electric charge carrier under consideration.
In addition to screening the bare electric charge and driving the changes in the self-energy excitation level of electric charge carriers, NPE photon clouds in the transition zone (TZ) also explain the atomic spectral line deficiency of the Bohr Model of the atom. The fine structure emission spectrum of hydrogen and the magnified emission spectrum of nitrogen are contemporary spectrographic examples. Indeed, the existence of NPE photon clouds in the nonmaterial TZ should provide deeper insight into hyperfine structure spectroscopy.
On the one hand, the quantum mechanical view of spontaneous photon emission and absorption by electrically charged fermion matter and anti-matter follows the structural quantum number system developed in the early 20th century.
On the other hand, the combined new physics of TUPE and the TOPAZ discovery of NPE photon clouds surrounding bare electric charges in the nonmechanical, nonmaterial transition zone (TZ) that links the material domain and the massless NED imply that a spectrum of incremental self-energy electric charge carrier changes take place prior to reaching either an increased or decreased quantum excitation threshold.
A spectrum of incremental electric charge carrier self-energy changes driven by physically real TZ NPE photons, in turn, implies not only that the photon emission and absorption rate of exchange between fermion electric charge NPE photon clouds is greater than the expected classical or quantum mechanical parameters, but also that the rate of exchange is proportional to some level of increase or decrease in electric charge carrier excitation.
Thus the incremental changes of self-energy excitation levels and the rapid absorption and emission turnaround time of NPE photons within TZ photon clouds that screen electric charge should provide a deeper understanding of stimulated emission and lasers like the helium-neon gas laser, for example.
Reference Notes (Click on the Note number to return to the text):
17 Veltman, Martinus. Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics, pp. 115-139: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., Singapore. ISBN 981-238-149-X (paperback)
18 Wilczek, Frank. The Origin of Mass, p. 26: MIT Physics Annual 2003, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
19 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1997AmJPh..65..698P
20 http://www-jlc.kek.jp/~miyamoto/papers/topaz-1997a.ps.gz
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