Norman Albers

Electrons are like crystals of light. They can be seen as another phase state of the EM field. You can poke at ice on a cold bench and you will not find water until you learn to see water as angled molecules with different phase states at differing temps and pressure. Energy goes around in a phase-less wave; I call it the "frozen-yogurt" state. Stable shelf-life below maybe five billion degrees or so.

The xpansion I do is in saying there are many oscillations (wave vector k) in the Gaussian exponential envelope which falls off relatively slowly (length scale of "a", where a<<k). This bepeaks the strength of response from the not-vacuum, and I assume this changes at "high" energy. Since densities increase rapidly one would think some kind of saturation happens somewhere, but in which direction? Toward fewer or greater "cycles per packet", which is to say greater or smaller (a/k)?

To state the existence of a tapered Gaussian wave packet of single frequency in propagation is to state the existence of a diffuse manifestation of charge and current which literally are the phased-array antenna (co-moving) which keeps it nondispersive. To allow such local response as I have cleanly characterized to first-order xpand, only, must lead logically to the realization that overall packet amplitude (total energy and total ang. mom.) is arbitrary. Locally energy density and ang. mom. density differ by omega. Now atoms emit only certain sized packets, namely our familiar quanta of h-nu. It is they which have selection rules of unit change in ang. mom., no? This does not say that fractional packets are not also possibilities of the field. I call this dark energy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . My question of QM is, what is their virtual manifestation? I am saying that charge density is available at very small levels if there are packets. This allows reconsideration of the whole concept of vacuum fluctuations, which is somewhat of an embarassment, I feel. What magnitude was that ZPE?

Angular momentum is what is quantized. Is it not directly related to the magnetic moment? I shall get out a "vector model of the atom" book.

I am saying that it is a mistake to posit a necessary quantum ground state of one-half in the radiation field. I put in a statistical exponent which eliminates the high-energy blowups, no? I think there should be more 'fiscal responsibility' in our vacua!!!

When you allow variable charge density distribution you get the compressible fluid-flow eq. as if it were an "ideal charged fluid". I cannot write this stuff here. Norm Albers

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Very nice, Martin, thank you. I happen to be mucking about in the foundations of quantum vacuum theory and I think it is HERE that we will change things. I state so in my paper on photon localization and dark energy. Norman Albers

I have described current terms for the right-hand side of the Maxwell current equation which localize the quasi-monochromatic wave packet, and also describe electrons as a superconducting plasma. URL: http://laps.noaa.gov/albers/physics/na

Are we the only species that fashions clothing? Why not identify ourselves as Homo Ropus (is my Latin close?) Every twenty-two degree morning I walk outside and greet the birds, saying "It's a good day to have feathers. Wish I had some."

Insofar as electromagnetic field theory is valid in this inhomogeneous extension, and I think we have not finished here, I conclude that the radiation field is not fundamentally quantized. Phenomenology demands bunching or localization but the field itself can be of arbitrary, fractional magnitude. It is only bound states where the "snake bites its tail" and is constrained to integer units of twist, literally angular momentum. I do not yet know where this is taking us! Fractional photons will not be absorbed by a system whose stable states differ by integer units of h-bar.

I have come to a strong statement about something incomplete in our quantum theoretics. There is something of our own construction standing in our way and I have put my finger on the quantum theory of the vacuum. I feel deeply that refining or rebuilding such a structural element will move us forward. Albers

Have you seen that the general solution of a superconducting charge-field is the hydrodynamic equation? Look if Feynman Lectures III, 21-13. He actually said, "Now none of you has seen this eq." but I was an Aero major at Princeton and could have raised my hand, as you can also, no? I have field solutions similar to what you speak of - check my profile url.

There is a mixup of questions here. Consider a lightwave. The time-changing electric field pumps the magnetic field, and the time-changing magnetic field pumps the electric field. This disturbance happily pumps its way through space until it encounters something. Atoms are an assembly where electrons show their wave nature in distinctive orbital patterns. Yes the net charge count is always an integer, but different amounts of energy will be involved in the different shells and orbits, say outer valence compared to inner electrons. The fundamental existence of a circular resonance illuminates both the E and M faces of Janus.

Relativity hints at the fact that particles are simply bound energy, light. We are part of the fabric. If you approach a light source at half the speed of light, and measure light-speed in your frame, it still measures "c" but you encounter a blue-shifted higher frequency. You just have to hang out with this, it is not part of our everyday perceptual framework.