New foundations for physics from first principles

A common base for

 

 

 
Optical Physics,  Particle Physics,  General Relativity,  Quantum Mechanics,  Cosmology,  Astrophysics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rafael A. Vera Mège
 Departamento de Física. Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas. Universidad de Concepción. Chile.

 

 

                 Email:   [email protected]

 

 

 

 

 

The current foundations of physics are tacitly based on two gravitational hypotheses.

“After starting all over from better defined principles, such hypotheses can be eliminated, i.e., it is possible to do without gravitational hypotheses

 

The two gravitational hypotheses of actual physics

The new principles used here

The new physics without gravitational hypotheses

The new universe fixed by the new principles

                               A brief history of this work

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The two gravitational hypotheses of actual physics

Physics of today still depends on a higher number of gravitational hypotheses than one century ago. This is because we inherited a classical hypothesis (CH), from Newton, and a G field energy hypothesis (GFEH), from Einstein.

The CH is tacit in the current formalism used for relating quantities measured by observers at different distances with respect to a massive body (MB). According to it, the relative properties of a body at rest with respect to the observer are independent on the difference of G potential (GP) between the body and the observer. Since the CH cannot account for the energy released by a body after a change of GP, Einstein introduced the GFEH by assuming that the G field should give up such energy.

Such conjugated hypotheses are not granted by the Einstein’s principle of equivalence (PE) between G fields and accelerated frames. This is because such principle also admits the opposite solution, that of forces that do not give up energy but just momentum. In the last case, the two conventional hypotheses would be wrong. Thus, the Einstein’s choice was “arbitrary”.

Then, to find the right solution, it is most important to start all over, without using any conventional hypothesis. Here, this is done on the base of better-defined principles that can discriminate between these two alternatives without using any of the conventional hypotheses.

The new principles used here

Here, the first principles have been directly derived from “strong experimental evidences” that have not been manipulated by the arbitrary use of the PE:

1.     The invariable results of the Michelson Morley experiments (MME) after simultaneous changes of velocity and relative positions of the bodies and the observers with respect to massive bodies

2.     The invariable measurements during the tests for the Einstein’s equivalence principle (EEP), after changes of velocity and positions of the bodies and observers with respect to massive bodies

3.     The changes of the relative properties of the bodies, after changes of velocity, with respect to bodies that do not change of velocity (Current tests for special relativity)

4.     The changes of the relative frequencies of standard clocks, after changes of their rest positions, with respect to massive bodies (Genuine G time dilation experiments)

From them it is concluded that:

I.       “The relative changes of the points 3 and 4 cannot be detected by observers traveling altogether with the bodies because all of his local bodies, without exceptions, change by common scale factors, respectively, i.e., because the local proportions remain unchanged”. For this reason, this principle may be called “Principle of Invariable Proportions” (PIP).

II.     “The standard bodies located at rest at different distances form a MB are different (non equivalent) with respect to each other, respectively”. This is a kind of “non equivalence principle” (NEP) between bodies at rest in different G potentials. From such principle, it is directly inferred that the CH is wrong.

III.   From the point 1. it is inferred that the round trips of the photons along each arm of a MME can be replaced by a standing wave (SW) between parallel mirrors. Since any photon of a SW in a small system is a well-defined part of it, then, according to the PIP, the SW must obey the same inertial and gravitational laws as any other uncharged particle of the same system. This is a general kind of equivalence principle (GEP) between particles and between them and stationary forms of radiation. Thus, the common nature of particles and photons in stationary state does accounts for the equivalences between the different kinds of particles and for the identical proportions of the PIP.

The new physics without gravitational hypotheses

According to the GEP, the inertial and gravitational properties of an uncharged body can be derived from the ones of a particle model (PM) made up of some well-defined number of photons in stationary state.

The first steps of this theory have been described in the proceedings of the Einstein’s Centennial Symposium on Fundamental Physics (Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, 1970). Such paper and later ones can be read in the references.

According to the PM, a G field turns out to be a gradient of the relative refraction index of the space with respect to any observer at rest in the same field.  In such gradient, the PM is accelerated towards regions of higher refraction index.

It is well proved that the refraction phenomenon does not exchange energy with the photons but just momentum, i.e., it does not change the frequency or the color of the photons. For this reason, the G field does not exchange energy with the photons but just momentum.

Thus, during a free fall of a PM, to the contrary of the current beliefs, its relative mass with respect to the MB does not increase but remains constant.

The energy released during the stop, from special relativity, comes not from the field but from the changes of mass-energy occurring during the stop, i.e., from the lower rest mass of body in the lower G potential compared with the one that it had before the fall. The inertial phenomenon occurring during the stop is radically different from the one occurring during the fall.

Notice that, in general, the relative mass-energy of a body with respect to an observer turns out to be equal to its total potential energy with respect to such observer. The proportional energy released by a body, after a change of GP, turns out to be just equal to the proportional change of its rest mass, i.e., the G energy comes not from the G field but from the body.

This result is in clear opposition with the CH and the GFEH. This would prove that the Einstein’s choice, after using the PE, was the wrong one.

Unfortunately, all of them, the CH, the GFEH, and the arbitrary force selection, after the use of the PE, are used in the defense of the conventional hypotheses, no matter in that none of them has been critically tested without the help of the other one.

For example, the results of the GTD experiments directly prove that the one of the relative properties of a NL clock at rest with respect to the observer does depend on the difference of GP between the clock and the observer. It is simple to prove that such result is independent on the frequency of any radiation traveling between the clocks.  Thus, this crucial experiment does prove, definitely, that CH is wrong.

However, in the current literature, such experiment is arbitrarily transformed into a more ambiguous experiment, after using the PE between a G field and accelerated frames followed by the arbitrary selection of the kind of force consistent with the CH. After such long procedure, most people have forgotten that such experiments have already proven that the CH is wrong. However, they thrust more on the Einstein principle and his arbitrary choice than in the experimental facts.

From the above facts one should conclude in that the kind of force selected by Einstein is not the right one. Anyway, it is not reasonable that the final verdict, after the use of the PE, by a sort of magic, is just opposed to that the original experiments.

The new universe fixed by the new principles

After emulating every part of the universe by photons in stationary states, according to the Huygens’s principle, the universe would be made up of a rather dense system of “wavelets” that interfere constructively only at the sites of the photons and particles.

Then the universe can be expanding itself only if the wavelets and the particles are expanding in identical proportion. Thus, such expansion cannot change any local ratio, which is in strict agreement with the PIP. Thus only an absolute kind of universe expansion can exist in which all of the standard rods and the distances of the universe expand in the same proportion. Then the relative proportions should remain invariable with the time, i.e., in a first approximation, the universe age may be infinite.

On the other hand, the new kind of “linear” black hole has not a real singularity. It has different properties compared with the conventional ones. After absorbing radiation enough, it would explode thus generating new primeval gas that can regenerate new star clusters and galaxies.

Since the new universe has no limits of time, the galaxies should be evolving in closed cycles between luminous and dark states.  Thus it is simple to demonstrate that all of the different evolution phases of the galaxy cycles are rather uniformly distributed in the universe. This is a clear verification in that the universe age is rather infinite.

Then the new properties of the universe and of the black holes bring out radical changes in the interpretation of many celestial phenomena, as you can verify later on.  It is simple to verify that the new cosmological scenario is consistent with all of the astronomical observations. For this purpose y wrote a book for you so that you can verify that the new theory is not based on any speculation or any of the arbitrary hypotheses used in gravitation.

I would appreciate very much your personal comments. The wave continuity of electromagnetic waves make possible that we can communicate to each other in matter of fractions of seconds. My email is: <[email protected]>

We live in Chile, which is a beautiful country between high mountains and the sea.  This is privileged position to observe, in its true perspective, the rest of this planet and the rest of the universe.  I would say that this place looks closer to the sky and to God.

 

The main advantages of the present approach are:

·       It is done without the help of any arbitrary hypothesis.

·       It provides a fair explanation of the inertial and gravitational phenomena occurring in the particles and on the relative changes of the properties of the space.

·       It accounts for the phenomena occurring in different branches of physics, like special relativity, quantum mechanics and gravitation

·       It simplifies and unifies concepts in physics by providing the more elemental reasons for what is happening from the most simple up to the most complex physical phenomena.

·       The elimination of the G field energy hypothesis leads to a “linear” theory without the singularity of he Einstein’s theory on GR.

·       The new kind of “linear” black hole, without singularity, after absorbing energy from the rest of the universe, can explode and regenerate old star clusters and galaxies

·       The new universe would have no limits of time, regardless of a uniforms expansion, because everything would expand, in common proportions, and because galaxies would evolve, in rather closed evolution cycles with hot and cool periods. The last ones would account for the low temperature background and the dark matter of the universe.

This new approach provides a fair understanding, in a very simple and unified way, for the ultimate reasons for physical laws for uncharged bodies, starting from a photon and ending with the universe. For this purpose it is not necessary to make any arbitrary hypothesis. The experiments, not the theories or the speculations, should always the first and the last word. They provide new principles entirely free or arbitrary hypothesis.

For more details you can also see the articles listed in the References, the discussions and the Frequently asked questions (FAQ).

 

 
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A brief history of this work

I started research works on the crystalline structure of matter after using X-ray diffraction, first in the University of Concepcion, Chile. and in Penn State, USA,. From them I realized that the ultimate structure of matter should be fixed by stationary forms of radiation. Thus, the inertial and gravitational properties of the bodies can be found from the ones of particle models made up of photons in stationary states.

From my first trials I concluded in that the classical hypothesis on the absolute invariability of the bodies after a change of relative position with respect to other bodies is wrong. Some small but fundamental physical changes must occur to the bodies after a change of G potential (GP). Thus, strictly, most of the current relationships between quantities measured by observers in different GP would be wrong because their reference standards are slightly different with respect to each other, respectively.  They are bounded to be source of fundamental inexactitudes in the physical foundations of the Einstein’s theory on GR!

By that time I got interested in the universe because, from my gross estimations, the G field energy and the Schwarzschild singularity would not exist. Thus, I explored the possibility in that matter in the universe could, in the end, evolve in rather closed cycles, i.e., in that the black holes, after absorbing energy, can explode and regenerate new primeval gas. Due to the rather perfect fit with the astronomical observations, I tried to publish this theory. Since the article was in disagreement with the conventional hypotheses, my first article sent for publication in an international journal was rejected. However, it was published in the yearly book “Atenea”, of the “Universidad de Concepción”, Chile, in 1974, under the name “Una Teoría Isoentrópica del Universo” (An Isentropic Theory of The Universe), which was followed by another article on “Una Nueva Concepción del Universo” (A new conception of the Universe) in  the same book, in 1976. (Vera 1974 and 1976).

Then I decided to get my own relationships based on the particle model, without assuming the physical equivalence of bodies in different G potentials.  Thus I got the first “gravitational transformations”, consistent with all of the classical tests for G theories.

I presented the first results in “The Einstein’s Centennial Symposium on Fundamental Physics”, in 1979, in Bogotá (Vera 1981a). They were published in its proceedings. The more complete theory was published later on in the International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Vera 1981b). Of course, such highly compacted article is not easy to “digest”, especially for non open-minded referees.

Later on, after a series of presentations in several international meetings, I published a book on this theory applied to the study of the universe (Vera 1997). This one provides unified concepts, in terms of properties of light and explicit relationships for different branches of physics, mainly for gravitation, relativistic quantum mechanics, astrophysics and cosmology

The new cosmological scenario, fixed by the new principle and the new theory, has some radical differences with the standard cosmology. (See some links in the references) It is simultaneously consistent with all of the observed phenomena occurring in the universe. Indeed, it solves the most fundamental problems in astrophysics. Paradoxically, the new scenario is not different from the one predicted in my first publication, in Atenea (1974), on a theory on the isentropic evolution of the universe.

Later on, also, I realized that the G transformations found from the new theory can be stated as a new principle that can be directly derived from the condition of consistency of the Einstein’s Equivalence Principle and the results of experiments in which bodies and observers are in different G potential. This is a short cut to get the same relationships obtained from the particle model. This is, also, a new kind of “global test” for G theories. Obviously, the theory on General Relativity fails to pass this test.

I am about 80 years old, so that I am trying transferring you the best of what I got.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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