THE TRUE IDENTITY OF THE QUANTUM

Fractal Physics: Fractals, Philosophy, Music and Morphic Resonance Part 1

Feedback welcome This is a deep dive over two podcasts into the unifying nature of fractals whose characteristics include the following: 1.  self-similarity and are the

Fractal Physics: Fractals, Philosophy, Music and Morphic Resonance Part 2

Feedback welcome This second part draws on analogies with telecommunications, highlighting the ability of electo-magnetic waves to carry acoustic information. This then

The 'God Particle' or Deus ex Machina

Feedback welcome How this particle was introduced into the standard model to preserve the symmetry between the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces. It is also tied u

Why ‘Intelligence is Non-Comuptable'

Feedback welcome This is a quote from Roger Penrose who gives a great lecture on AI,  Consciousness and Computation at Oxford University https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/sir-ro

The Vacuum Energy Catastrophe and the Big Bust

Feedback welcome Current cosmology is based on questionable foundations but nevertheless continues to be promoted as inalienable truth and alternative views dismissed. T

Fantasy Physics: The Non-Existent Neutrino

Feedback welcome It is claimed that the neutrino does not interact with matter yet billions of dollars are being spent on experiments to detect this particle. Experiment

The Particle Menace Part 1 The Solar System Model of the Atom

Feedback welcome The Bohr-Sommerfeld model of the atom is described including the four quantum numbers used to identify electrons and explain the Zeeman effects and Paul

The Particle Menace Part 2 The Wave Model of the Atom

Feedback welcome Schrodinger's wave model of the atom is described and how he chose to interpret it by looking for analogies in light and fluid mechanics. His reali

Particle Menace Part 3 Farewell to Primitive Concepts

Feedback welcome Discovering how concepts such as energy, mass, space, force and charge can be replaced by frequency, density and motion . On the website is a more detai

The Return of the Ether Part 1 Fields

Feedback welcome Identifying the anomalies in the gravitational, electrostatic and quantum fields. Demonstrating that given the contradictions in each of them any attemp

The Return of the Ether Part 2 The Space Theory of Matter and the Vortex Atom

Feedback welcome Examines the merits of a theory that could replace the current particle theory of matter. On the website is a more detailed essay, a note on  Non-Euclid

The Return of the Ether Part 3 Dynamics and the Continuum

Feedback welcome The chances of arriving at a unified field theory increase if duality is removed and all phenomena is considered as variations of motion in one single c

Magic Particles

Feedback welcome Einstein’s criticism of the Copenhagen interpretation, detailed in a 1935 paper he co-authored with Podolsky and Rosen and commonly referred to as the E

The Quantum Cat meets the Quantum Computer

Feedback welcome Schrödinger's intention was that his cat analogy serve as a criticism of the notion of a particle being in a superposition of states. Once again th

Heisenberg, the Salieri of Physics

Feedback welcome Heisenberg and Schrödinger had competing theories about the atomic model: Heisenberg took a discontinuous particle approach and his rival Schrödinger, a

Atomic Circus: Jumps and Spins

Feedback welcome Atomic spectra was used to support the idea that electrons can jump between energy levels or ‘stationary states’ in the atom. Schrödinger rejected this

The Ultra-Violet Catastrophe or a Storm in a Teacup

Feedback welcome The first of six podcasts in the search of the true identity of the quantum: is it a particle or a wave or both; or a mathematical entity which has some

Einstein's other Blunder

Feedback welcome An account of Einstein's interpretation of the photo-electric effect involving discrete photons. His analysis had ontological consequences, namely