Physics

[Farsight]

Hi guys. I'm John Duffield, the author of http://www.amazon.co.uk/RELATIVITY-Theory-Everything-John-Duffield/dp/0956097804. I was directed here when following a link from the Jean-Pierre Petit wiki page. I'm looking for information on vacuum impedance and how it might be varied. It's to do with the fine-structure constant α = e²/2ε0hc which is a "running" constant related to unit charge and impedance Z0 = √(μ0/ε0) along with c = √(1/ε0μ0). Can you point me at a thread carrying a Petit transcript? In return I know about the blind men and the elephant plus set theory and objectivity, so if there's anything I can contribute please let me know. I'm a little surprised that the word "physics" isn't mentioned in the forum guidelines. Maybe I can talk to Ark about a few things that ought to be of interest.

 

[PepperFritz]

Hello John, welcome to the forum.

Using the forum's Search Function may help you find what you're looking for.

:)

 

[Farsight]

Thanks Pepper, I did try it and have just tried some more, but can't find it.

Edit: I should add that you can read more about the fine structure constant at http://www.physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/alpha.html. At least you could but unfortunately The NIST web server you are trying to reach is currently undergoing system maintenance. The fine structure constant isn't actually a constant, it's a "running constant" which varies from 1/137 down to 1/128 at 80.4GeV. The e in α = e²/2ε0hc is what's called the "effective charge" but the electron's unit charge is preserved. That means something is changing within the ε0 h c terms, and what I'm wondering is if there's a way to force a change. I'm perhaps clutching at straws with JPP but I thought it was worth a look.

 

[T.C.]

Hi Farsight

I don't know whether they'll contain any info that you're looking for, but if you're interested, there are some podcasts featuring JPP:

http://www.sott.net/podcasts/listall

No's 42, 43, 44, 45, 48, 49

Welcome to the forum. :)

 

[Farsight]

Thanks TC, that Z-machine looks interesting. I'll check it out.

But there's some real conspiracy-theory stuff on that SOTT. I'm English, but I dont like to see all that one-sided anti-US and anti-Israel stuff, and I get really annoyed when I see propaganda saying 911 was an inside job. What are you guys into by the way? I thought it was this:

Objective is "how the universe sees itself".

Our culture has co-opted the word "objective" and has made it to serve as an equivalent of "scientific materialism," but when you grok that scientism is, for the most part NOT scientific, but is rather another subjective religion then you see that no part of the word "objective" applies to science or "linear thinking."

Subjective is the story about the blind men and the elephant - they all think that the elephant is the part of it that they are feeling and that is all there is. Objective is when they begin to share their observations and come to the realization that the elephant is more than what each of them experiences independently. Someone who can see would experience more of the elephant than the blind men, though this seeing would still be limited. Objective is the elephant as it experiences itself added to the observations of the blind men added together with view of the one who can see. It takes a group to achieve such objectivity. But once each of them has shared their perceptions and experience, and all of the group have assimilated this information, they can all then achieve an objective understanding of the elephant - or very close.

There's some elements within current science that isn't scientific, essentially string theory. There's competitiveness, censorship, dishonesty, shades of religion. People are people, they have their convictions, there's always bad apples, and power always corrupts. But the majority of scientists are sincere and honest, striving to understand that elephant. You might not appreciate it, but your stated mission is nearly accomplished.

 

[dant]

Is one's personal beliefs based on subjective and/or objective "facts"
and is one's personal beliefs in need of "updates" when new "facts"
are revealed, assuming that one is sincerely working on the self?

How can one discern what is "good" without knowing what is "bad"?
How can one "give each thing its due", without knowing to which, one
is giving it's proper due?

As for "anti/pro-American", "anti/pro-Israel" or "anti/pro-Anything"
does one's personal beliefs allude to "all people", or just certain
people and/or groups?

As for 9/11, how does one explain the free-fall of the towers, the
unburned nano-themite materials found in the melted core, created
by certain group(s) who have that technology? There is more.
Propaganda you say? Who benefits and for what reason?

Perhaps one ought to review everything on this site to get a glimpse
of the bigger picture (of the "elephant") in order to understand its full
ramifications and before expounding on one's personal (and subjective?)
beliefs?

FWIW, Welcome to the Forum!

 

[Approaching Infinity]

But there's some real conspiracy-theory stuff on that SOTT. I'm English, but I dont like to see all that one-sided anti-US and anti-Israel stuff, and I get really annoyed when I see propaganda saying 911 was an inside job. What are you guys into by the way? I thought it was this:

I'm curious if you also dislike seeing "one-sided anti-Nazi stuff"? Can you not see the parallels between the actions of the Israeli and American military/government/intelligence apparatuses, and those of the Nazis? If having empathy, a conscience, and identifying injustice where it exists is "one-sided", does a person of conscience have any other option? The Americans and Israelis (and here we are using those words to describe the politicians and military and intelligence personnel to carry out atrocities) engage in torture, murder, deception, fraud, ethnic cleansing, and genocide, as did the Nazis. Does it "annoy" you to hear such things? Personally, it "annoys" me and even angers me greatly that such atrocities are being committed in the name of "freedom" and "democracy". It troubles me that some people are more "annoyed" with people taking a stand against injustice than they are at injustice. But perhaps you are simply unaware that US and Israel are basically following in the footsteps of the Nazis and have bought into their own propaganda?

As for 9/11, yes there is some false propaganda that 9/11 was an inside job, and it is based mostly on theories with no evidence. However, the vast majority of propaganda on the subject has been in the form of the official conspiracy theory, every facet of which falls apart under even the most rudimentary analysis. It is much more plausible that 9/11 was an inside job, and there are evidence-based reasons for such an hypothesis. If you read something on the subject (e.g. David Ray Griffin's latest book, The New Pearl Harbor Revisited summarizes the best evidence for this hypothesis), your perspective on the subject may change.

 

[anart]

Thanks TC, that Z-machine looks interesting. I'll check it out.

But there's some real conspiracy-theory stuff on that SOTT. I'm English, but I dont like to see all that one-sided anti-US and anti-Israel stuff, and I get really annoyed when I see propaganda saying 911 was an inside job. What are you guys into by the way? I thought it was this:

It is - exactly - working to approach an objective understanding of this reality - all aspects of it - whether it is what people (or ourselves) 'like' or 'don't like'. What you seem to be missing is the fact that your emotional reactions to the information on the SoTT page betray a marked lack of scientific inquiry, investigation or understanding. Perhaps it would benefit you most to first realize that your current understanding of all of the topics you have brought up is not correct. Your understanding is lacking data and it is faulty. If you can do that, you might be able to actually step forward into the pursuit of objective knowledge - not just what you 'like' and 'don't like'.

 

[combsbt]

I'm looking for information on vacuum impedance and how it might be varied. It's to do with the fine-structure constant α = e²/2ε0hc which is a "running" constant related to unit charge and impedance Z0 = √(μ0/ε0) along with c = √(1/ε0μ0).

The fine structure constant isn't actually a constant, it's a "running constant" which varies from 1/137 down to 1/128 at 80.4GeV. The e in α = e²/2ε0hc is what's called the "effective charge" but the electron's unit charge is preserved. That means something is changing within the ε0 h c terms, and what I'm wondering is if there's a way to force a change. I'm perhaps clutching at straws with JPP but I thought it was worth a look.

Hi Farsight, welcome to the forum.
The only way to force a change that I am aware of is to change the electrical polarization density of the medium. But if you are working strictly with a vacuum then the polarization density will be zero. The wiki page may be of some help but you've probably already looked through it.

_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_constant#Realizable_.22vacuum.22_and_free_space

 

[Farsight]

Thanks combsbt. Yes, I've looked at that. Vacuum permittivity has a "defined" value, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_constant where you can read ε0 = 1/μ0c². Then if you look at pair production http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair_production you can see that the electron (and the positron) are quite literally "made of light". You can apply this logic to the proton and then look at gravitational time dilation and say time is cofounded with motion through space rather than space. That means gravitational time dilation is the result of a reduced c that you can never measure locally. Since c is changing and c = √(1/ε0μ0) the impedance of space is changing. If I can find a way to force a change locally, I've got something like diamagnetic levitation, only better. I know how gravity works, and now it's time for a practical demonstration. The question is how, and JPP might have a way. Maybe I should try him directly.

dant/Approaching Infinity/anart: I am objective. I've researched all this, and I have some inside information. It annoys me that Yasser Arafat had a billion dollars in the bank whilst his people were deliberately made to suffer and boil in anger directed towards Israel. It annoys me that terrorists murder innocents, and try to lay the blame at the door of those who stand in defence. Yes the Israeli settlements are wrong. It isn't a black and white world. But in this world it isn't the Israelis and the USA who are the Nazis:

Now please, I want to talk physics. Not anything else.

 

[kenlee]

I get really annoyed when I see propaganda saying 911 was an inside job. What are you guys into by the way?

You seem to be missing the crux of the problem which is that people are willing slaves and are governed by psychopaths. The majority of people are asleep and they are not in contact with their inner conscience allowing the authoritative psychopathic power elite to deceive them as they literally take over, and predetermine, the future of this entire planet. Conscience is what wakes people up to the reality of themselves and of the world and gives them righteous anger. People can’t sleep so peacefully when they experience it.

You might want to read the book:
JFK: The CIA, Vietnam and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy. By L. Fletcher Prouty.

I just got it this weekend and this is what Oliver Stone says in his introduction to the book:

The key question of our time [Stone writes], as posed in Colonel Prouty's book, comes from the fabled Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace by Leonard Lewin (based on a study commissioned by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in August 1963 to justify the big, planned changes in defense spending contemplated by Kennedy):

The organizing principle of any society is for war. The basic authority of a modern state over its people resides in its war powers. . . . War readiness accounts for approximately a tenth of the output of the world's total economy.

 

[anart]

dant/Approaching Infinity/anart: I am objective. I've researched all this, and I have some inside information. It annoys me that Yasser Arafat had a billion dollars in the bank whilst his people were deliberately made to suffer and boil in anger directed towards Israel. It annoys me that terrorists murder innocents, and try to lay the blame at the door of those who stand in defence. Yes the Israeli settlements are wrong. It isn't a black and white world. But in this world it isn't the Israelis and the USA who are the Nazis:

So, in other words, you are unwilling to look at the data and you are completely hypnotized by propaganda - or you are actively pushing disinformation - one or the other. You see, everything you've written in the above paragraph is NOT supported by the facts on the ground. As a 'scientist', one would think you would put more stock in facts - not propaganda. Objective truth, farsight, not propaganda. Whatever 'inside information' it is you have, you best check the source, because it is mistaken.

Now please, I want to talk physics. Not anything else.

Unfortunately, that is not how this forum works.

 

[Z...]

hi john,

at this point I am really curious - what kind of physicist (or scientist for that matter) would disregard all physical evidence available so far which unmistakably points out 911 was an inside job?
I mean come on, I know of a cleaning lady who has no formal education whatsoever and no access to internet and yet she never had any difficulty figuring out who the bad guys are. on her own ;)

Can you be sincere and tell us what is clouding your judgment about this particular issue?

 

[PepperFritz]

Now please, I want to talk physics. Not anything else.

With all due respect, it was you who commented on the "politics" of SOTT and this forum, and made a direct query about it:

But there's some real conspiracy-theory stuff on that SOTT. I'm English, but I dont like to see all that one-sided anti-US and anti-Israel stuff, and I get really annoyed when I see propaganda saying 911 was an inside job. What are you guys into by the way?

So, why are you now implying that you were dragged into a conversation not of your choosing?

 

[dant]

...
(1) It isn't a black and white world.
(2) But in this world it isn't the Israelis and the USA who are the Nazis.

If one were truly objective, one might sense the lack
of details and the "facts" in the above statements? To
me, the first statement defines "gray areas", and the
second statement defines exclusivity (no "gray areas"),
a contradiction?

Are you implying that USA/Israel is completely devoid of Nazism
(or psychopathy) and that Nazis are "elsewhere" outside the two
circles (USA & Israel)? Do you sense the contradiction?

As for your pursuits of Physics in the name of Physics and in
the exclusion of all else, what do you intend to do with your,
work and for what reason? In other words, what are your
true aims?

From what I understand, and speaking for myself, perhaps,
Ark's pursuits are more loftier, for the benefit of all humanity,
but particularly for those who seek true objectivity and BEing,
i.e. to become 4D STO candidates?

Unfortunately, that is not how this forum works.

Could you clarify what you meant with the
word: "Unfortunately" as it sounds sympathetic
to me, but I could be wrong?