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 of the perpetual puzzle of nature advances exponentially rather than linearly. The insight of ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus was partially correct: Conditionally relative objects that manifest on the macroscopic, subatomic, or subnuclear scales of the material domain continually change from one instant to the next. Moreover, each material and nonmaterial object that manifests in our holonomic eight-dimensional (6 natural dimensions + 2 time dimensions) nonmaterial/material universe continually changes on two existential levels of time.
Two millenia elapsed between the works of Aristotle and Isaac Newton. A mere two centuries elapsed between Newton and Einstein. Only a single century elapsed between Einstein and the new physics of the 21st century.
The universal principle of energy (TUPE) discovered in the year 2000 reveals a major new piece of the perpetual puzzle of nonmaterial/material 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 primordial energy (NPE) and cannot exist in the absence of uncreated, unconditioned nonmaterial primordial energy.
TUPE implies that the solids, liquids, gases, and plasmas of classical material physics and quantum mechanics are created, contained, and maintained as nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE) changes of state (phase transitions) 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), for example, then the fundamental nature of matter/mass can be defined as a conditionally relative localized phase change of fundamental, irreducible, nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE) within the NED.
Furthermore, this is precisely the direction quantum chromodynamics (QCD) theory and experiment have been driving the science and technology of high-energy particle physics for decades. The results of high-energy particle collider experiments, however, are presently limited by two traditional mechanical paradigms:
- The results of the original nonrelativistic Schrödinger equation as well as the contemporary relativistic Schrödinger equation are limited to closed or isolated (mechanically conservative) systems within the conventional material domain.
- In general, the "on-the-mass-shell" portion of the energy bubble created at the point of inelastic collision is assumed to be a closed or isolated (mechanically conservative) system in high-energy particle physics collider experiments. Thus conventional conservation of energy and Einstein's mass-energy equivalence, E = mc², are applicable to only on-shell energy. 17 Consequently, the enormous amount of off-shell energy in the collision bubble remains poorly understood.
Frank Wilczek, just one year before he shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of quark asymptotic freedom that significantly advanced 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 is reasonable to conclude that prior to the discovery of the universal principle of energy (TUPE) and its concomitant – the fundamental, irreducible, nonmaterial primordial energy domain (NED) – the fundamental source of the tremendous increase in energy that facilitates the production of unexpectedly numerous, discrete subatomic and subnuclear masses within the theoretically contained on-shell energy and the ostensibly uncontained off-shell energy of the bubble created at each inelastic high-energy particle collision point remained essentially unexplained.
Clearly the universal principle of energy (TUPE) and the omnipresent, pervasive, nonmaterial primordial energy domain (NED) are the crucial fundamental, irreducible foundation required for advancing beyond (1) the mechanical energy foundation of thermodynamics, (2) QCD, (3) the Standard Model of particle physics, and (4) the limited mass-shell concept in high-energy particle experiments.
A pivotal experimental result:
In the early 20th century, 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. Following Niels Bohr's correspondence and complementarity principles, 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 principle or limitation, and the seemingly intractable, nonmechanical quantum gravity problem, among others.
It should come as no surprise that wave-particle duality, the Bohr atom failures, the uncertainty principle, and the quantum gravity problem 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 its 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 nonmaterial/material physical reality just-as-it-is.
Putting historical scientific successes or failures aside, the sustained advancement of new physics typically depends upon weaving together various theoretical and experimental bits and pieces from disparate sources.
For example, working on the advancement of superconductor physics in 1995, 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 successfully acquired a decade later.
In principle condensed matter spin-charge separation anticipates the universal principle of energy (TUPE) implication that matter and electric charge are separate and distinct conjointly coupled phenomena produced by nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE) changes of state (phase transitions) within the fundamental, irreducible, nonmaterial primordial energy domain (NED).
Unintended results are also important. 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 negative result held major significance because the experiment permitted Martin Perl and Eric Lee to successfully test all known isolatable elementary particles for electric charge. Their report, published in 1997, states:
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, new physics that provided a pivotal result for the future occurred as 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. Their 1997 paper, Measurement of the Electromagnetic Coupling at Large Momentum Transfer, 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 1996 TOPAZ Collaboration 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 each electron-monopolar electric charge pair (e0 q-) and each anti-electron positron-monopolar electric charge pair (e0 q+) emits and absorbs photons. The mass and electric charge components of the muon (μ), tau (τ), and quark electric charge carriers are similarly coupled.
Thus, with the present exception of the neutrino family, each fermion and anti-fermion particle in our nonmaterial/material universe is coupled to electric charge as a conjoint but separable matter/mass-electric charge pair.
The fundamental electron mass-monopolar electric charge coupling (e0 q-) or positron mass-monopolar electric charge coupling (e0 q+), for example, resolves the scientifically perplexing enigma of treating relativistic invariant electric charge (+/- q) as if it is an intrinsic property of the relativistic mass described in the original 1905 derivation, m = E/c², which varies in proportion to relativistic kinetic energy.
The Einsteinian "speed limit of the universe" is, of course, simply the mechanical measurement limit that defines the boundary of the classical macroscopic material domain within the NED, just as Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is the quantum mechanical measurement limit that defines the boundary of the contemporary microscopic material domain within the NED.
Therefore neither traditional classical physical measurements nor contemporary quantum mechanical measurements apply to or limit (1) the universal principle of nonmaterial primordial energy (TUPE), (2) The Energetic Holographic Paradigm (TEHP) model of nonmaterial/material physical reality just-as-it-is, or (3) the omnipresent, pervasive nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE) of the fundamental, irreducible, nonmaterial primordial energy domain (NED) itself.
Beyond classical and quantum mechanics to NPE physics:
The combined new physics of TUPE and TEHP in our holonomic eight-dimensional (6 natural dimensions + 2 time dimensions) nonmaterial/material universe 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 can be described as identical to, and indeed is, fundamental omnipresent, pervasive, irreducible NPE.
Moreover, the new NPE physics of atoms and electrons within the NED reveals not only that the fermion matter-monopolar electric charge coupling is the norm for physical reality just-as-it-is. The new physics also reveals that in principle the physical separation of coupled matter/mass and electric charge is typical on various scales of our complex open (mechanically nonconservative) nonmaterial/material universe from the condensed matter physics of ordinary matter to the relativistic subnuclear quarks of QCD.
Condensed matter physics is a broad field that includes solid state physics, transistors, and semiconductors. As this is written, the electric charge separation process or proximate cause of quark fractional charge has yet to be experimentally determined.
Despite providing an extraordinary foundation for the advancement of 20th century physics, many quantum mechanical experiments and concepts point beyond conventional quantum theory and mechanical limits toward nonmechanical, nonmaterial NPE and the NED.
Thus the new NPE physics of TUPE and TEHP subsumes quantum mechanical concepts like vacuum energy, vacuum polarization, virtual particles, quantum tunneling, and particle self energy, etc., in the energetic omnipresent, pervasive, nonmechanical NPE transition zone (TZ) that links the material domain and the massless NED.
Indeed, the photon clouds surrounding each electric charge that were discovered by the TOPAZ Collaboration in 1996 may be the first direct experimental evidence of the NPE transition zone (TZ).
In principle the fundamental photon emission and absorption by the cloud of NPE photons that screen each specific bare electric charge in the TZ directly affects the particle self-energy of that specific subatomic or subnuclear fermion or anti-fermion electric charge carrier that manifests 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 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.
Thus, 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.
Incremental electric charge carrier self-energy changes driven by the emission and absorption of NPE TZ photons, in turn, implies not only that the photon emission and absorption rate of exchange between fermion or anti-fermion electric charge NPE photon clouds is greater than the expected classical or quantum mechanical parameters. It also implies 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 between 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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