
Originally Posted by
stephentuck25
…I don't subscribe to String Theory as Kaku supports because I believe Quantum Mechanics is based on a flawed model. I believe it successfully describes reality by using the power of the mathematics of probability. However, I believe that the universe is discrete. So many theories require all these dimensions that cannot be seen. I think that it is a sure way to tell a theory is flawed when it has to rely on artificial constructs like extra unseen spatial dimensions. That's what Quantum Mechanics that depends on superposition does to theories in order to make the illogical logical.
AMENDING IMMATERIAL SCIENCE
Science itself has gone off
Into some mystical and phantasmagorical areas
Such as” “spooky action at a distance”,
The ending of reality at quantum levels
And also within black holes,
Statistical/random probability basis of events,
Bell’s nonlocality, aether wind, etc.,
And so we hope to counter
Such mystical imaginations herein,
For example, such as by showing
That matter/fields are not at all distinct
But form a continuum, and more,
Demonstrating that all is real,
As well as what is absolute and what isn’t.
Action at a Distance
Quantum theory has some
Grotesquely erroneous interpretations of nature,
Such as its distortion of the field
In order to still have discrete particles,
Which must then exchange virtuals
Such as virtual photons (Coulomb force)
Or gravitons (gravity)
To accomplish action at a distance
(A phenomenon that has
Puzzled physicists for centuries).
However, the nonphysical agent
That controls the emission and absorption
Of the virtuals would seem to be inscrutable.
An electron and a proton may combine
To produce a hydrogen atom,
Emitting a photon with a few electron volts,
Which is 13.6 for the ground state.
Since energy is always conserved,
The only energy going in is
What was present in the first place:
The rest energy of the electron and the proton.
There is nothing else.
Since a hydrogen atom’s mass
Is slightly less than the sum of the masses
Of the isolated electron and proton
This accounts for the energy
Given off in the photon.
There is no need for any other explanation
Such as involving electrostatic potential energy.
As for gravitons, they are so elusive
That quarks would be easy
To isolate by comparison;
However, they are inconsistent
With Einstein’s profoundly successful depiction
Of a gravitational field
As a space-time distortion,
Yet, to be fair, Einstein gave no reason
For why space is curved near a mass;
It just is, so this kind of sacrifices
The physicality of gravitational fields
By decoupling them from rest energy.
When molecules, atoms, or particles
Approach an object, especially a massive one,
They cannot maintain
Their increasing kinetic energy
And so they typically emit radiant energy
Into space (such as the case
Of an accretion disk around a black hole).
The ultimate source for this radiatio
Must be the rest mass of the incident matter.
Like the Coulomb potential
In the hydrogen atom,
There is no other source.
Matter is not distinct from the field it generates;
Matter/field is a continuum.
The gravitational field an object produces
Is as physically real as it is.
So it is that electrons and protons
Are not really point-like particles
(Or quark points), for this would have
All of the rest energy stored
In an infinitely small volume,
Giving it near to infinite energy density
That would even make it
A gravitational singularity.
Plus, if point-like, why would an electron
And a proton in proximity incur a change
In the energy stored in
Their infinitely small regions?
Another nonstarter would be the concept
Of electrons and protons as probability waves
Propagating through space
With their very existence dependent
On interaction with other particles or photons.
Well, while not totally ruled out,
These explanations are neither compelling
Nor enlightening, but are still fantasies,
As they have no real explanation,
Plus why circumvent the simplest explanation
For action at a distance:
The energy of a particle’s rest mass
Is distributed through space.
When two particles interact at a distance
It is because bits of the the energy density
Of their respective rest masses coexist there.
The source of any radiating energy,
Such as in the making of a hydrogen atom,
Is the interacting particles’ fields,
Its magnitude dependent on
The spacial separation between the particles.
The wave functions of atomic energy levels
In quantum physics are
A glimpse of energy’s distributed composition,
For Nature is a continuum,
As we will hope to show more of.
Compartmentalizing properties of particles
By reducing them to points
By some (old) physicists only causes them
To later try to recombine the pieces
In the search for a unified field theory.
A particle is a certain amount of energy
With a single distributed substructure
That generates all of its properties.
Matter and its fields are inseparable.
There can really be no enigmatic processes
Accounting for action at a distance,
For these cannot escape
The conservation of energy,
As all forms have the same level of realness.
Field/matter duality dictates
That a system’s maximum negative field potential
Is equal to its available rest energy.
This will be called the Maxfield constraint.