The requirement Severian sets in #1 for posting a new theory in this forum is well taken Klaynos, wherein: “You have to make sure that your new theory does everything at least as well as the old theory, otherwise the old theory remains more attractive. This is very difficult mainly because our current theories are so spectacularly good in their predictions.” However, improving the accuracy of the gyromagnetic ratio g is just given as an example, and so is not necessarily the place to start.
This new hypothesis: Relativistic medium from unified energy vector starts with the familiar Poynting-Heaviside energy flux vector S. It is all seen to start with energy. Given that every valid physical entity must have a gravitoelectromagnetic flux distribution, on some basis, in all 3 spatial dimensions in its own inertial frame…the quantum must therefore have, in addition to the familiar 2 transverse flux plane dimensions of S, a flux distribution along the 3rd longitudinal dimension of its axis of travel, in its own inertial rest frame. My paper, its formulas and animations, are also presented conversationally in an introductory youtube.com video.
The justification for the present reformulation of S of Eq. 2 starts with the 1934 Tolman experiment, which found the light-matter gravitational attraction to be 2X the familiar Newtonian matter-matter attraction. Furthermore, the unopposed transverse expansion of the electric and magnetic fields has slipped under the radar as the only case of a force acting unopposed by an equal and opposite force…in clear violation of Newton’s 3rd Law. A gravitational cross product is added to S, installing an upgrade to fix that, and in fact is presented as an alternative to the gravitational cross product first proposed by Heaviside. The new gravitational cross product has the advantage of Special Relativity to limit the transverse expansion of the fields to ¼ the wavelength of the quantum. Meaning as the quantum travels longitudinally from node to anti-node, it expands transversely by the same distance, which is ¼ the quantum wavelength. This is opposed to General Relativity, where as this forum's readers know, the stress-energy tensor of every particle-wave curves space out infinitely in all directions, even out ahead of the quantum already traveling at c. Further equivalent to every particle-wave “car” creating its own road, or metric, in the same 4D space, where space has then lost its meaning, which is why it is said GR breaks down on the microscopic scale.
Consequently, since electromagnetic energy comes in wavetrains, which is most evident in the light spectrum, the quantum is postulated to be a wavetrain with a coherence length = one wavelength. A common basis is seen then for the solar deflection of light by the 1919 Eddington experiment, and the light-matter gravitational attraction of the 1934 Tolman experiment, both equivalent to 2X the Newtonian gravitational force.
The reader can no doubt recall it being taught that light, or electromagnetic energy, is the only wave that propagates without a medium. The present reformulation of S improves on that, recalling the entity which provides the restoring force for a wave is defined to be the medium for the wave. The gravitational cross product is then the medium for the electromagnetic cross product, and the electromagnetic the medium for the gravitational…wherein there is no string. This mutually relative medium, when viewed from any external frame, via the Minkowski metric of SR, then becomes the relativistic medium from the unified energy vector.
AN EXPERIMENTAL TEST between the hypothesis and the general theory is proposed, where the general theory doesn’t really make such a spectacularly good prediction…or follow-up explanation for the null result. In view of Tolman it is well known GR predicts parallel light beams should attract with 4X the Newtonian force no matter how far apart they are. The hypothesis predicts there will be no gravitational attraction between the beams until their radial probability distributions overlap significantly, which only occurs under ½ wavelength separation. The well known NULL result to this parallel laser beam experiment is then much simpler explained by means of the hypothesis, than in a problematic Physical Reveiw D paper by Faraoni & Dumse. Problematic in that a gravitational analogy is made to the Lorentz force, where the beams of photons are modeled as rest mass electrons traveling at c, which the reader might agree is about as fundamental a violation of SR as can be made to save GR.
The direction this relativistic medium hypothesis is seen to be heading in, starts therefore by establishing a common basis for the solar deflection of light and pair production. Wherein the -E/+E quantum lobes when passing in close proximity to a nucleus, gain a spin moment yielding a spherical expansion of the quantum gravitoelectromagnetic flux into the electron/positron potential energy rest mass field configurations…of course capable of annihilating, or recombining, back into multiple kinetic quantum configurations. The electron -e field is not seen to extend from zero radius, leading back to the infinite force problem, but extending radially from the Planck radius. And herein lies another major contrast in physical interpretation between the hypothesis and string/M-theory. The interpretation of the hypothesis is that the Planck length is the lower limit, beyond which nothing shorter exists…whereas of course several of the variations of string/M-theory postulate their strings are of the Planck length.
Finally, any true unified theory must ultimately confront the mind-body problem…quantified nowhere else better than in the non-local observer-participant experiments of quantum mechanics. As reported on notably by Horgan in his 1992 Scientific American article Quantum Philosophy. In this respect all string/M-theorists: Kaku, Greene, Randall, Hawking, et al, are of course ultimately going to have to admit they're postulating a "thinking" string-membrane unified medium. Tracing the original debate back to Bohr and Einstein, there are still only two ways to go on this: Either consciousness is a derivative of the physical interactions, or as equally difficult as quantum mechanics seems to comprehend, what would be more compatible with these experimental results, is the physical interactions are a derivative of the consciousness process somehow.
Clearly string theorists are in danger here of being condemned to an eternity of withering away at the helm of their own "Flying Dutchman" ghost ship in an endless search across endless seas for that set of hidden underlying M-theory equations, and even more hidden underlying Newtonian-like potential-field-force equations guiding the collapse of the wave function...the latter necessary to describe the non-local observer-participant results on a physical derivative deterministic basis.
The present hypothesis comes down decidedly on the side of Bohr, but is contained entirely with the Minkowski metric of Einstein’s Special Relativity. An alternative then presents itself to string/M-theory in defining a relativistic medium for the physical interactions…the implications of which are altogether more compatible with the opinions of many of the foremost researchers in the field of quantum philosophy, such as Zeilinger who states, “Most physicists are very naive; most still believe in real waves or particles.” And with Wheeler now holding Einstein’s chair at Princeton, who has concluded the universe is more like “a giant thought” than anything else.
