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| Quantum Electrodynamics |
| Inspired by Richard Fineman's book QED, the strange theory of light and matter. |
| We once thought matter would always remain constant. That was Classical Physics. Then someone noticed matter vanishing, coincident with the appearance of light. Now it is widely believed light can become matter, and matter light. |
| Fundamental paradoxes have appeared, begging for reconcilliation. Two schools of thought have emerged, each standing in opposition of the other: wave theorists disagree with particle physicists. Both show compelling proof they are right, and that the other is wrong. The search for Grand Unified Theory goes on. Richard Fineman summarizes the conundrum in QED. I like his spin on antimatter and time. Let's have a look... |
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| Fineman points out that our outgoing electron appears before the incoming electron enters our interaction. And there are breifly three weighted-bodies in existence (two electrons and one positron). For those of us who prefer not to believe matter ever disappears, I have an alternate interpretation: Our incoming electron spits out the photon. Like a retro-rocket in time, photon-expulsion propells the weighted body backwards in time (but as a positron). It goes backwards in time until it intercepts another photon. The new incident-photon slams into our positron, and deflects it back forwards in time: like billiards, but involving the fourth dimension. Photon impact propells our weighted-body forward in time again, as an electron (thus we have our outgoing electron, before we get our incoming electron). |
| (The positron is an antimatter electron) |
| Then things got worse: matter vanished and no energy emerged. And, it seems, energy appears for no reason. So we presume untraceable Neutrinos are to blame for these losses and gains. But our answers are getting weaker and weaker. The entire story is now a stack of Band-Aids. Like the Cheshire cat, there is nothing left of the original premise. |
| There was another scientist like Einstein, who came up with a competing theory of relativity. But he was late, by three years. Einstein's ideas had reoriented thinking worldwide. We have to wonder: would we be left stuck holding a stack of Band-Aids now if we'd listened to this other guy? And what would our space-vehicles be like? And what about worldwide energy production: where would we be with global warming? |