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Originally Posted by yawyaw
ATM is a much needed forum. Most other places on the web are opposed to new ideas. The establishment physics police insist on conformity to the current dogma. The idea that The Big bang and Expanding Universe is incorrect is anathema.
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Please, spare us the usual excuse ATM proponents use to justify their failures.
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Originally Posted by yawyaw
Enough on why ATM is a good thing. There is a short coming on ATM. It is probably hard to explain a really revolutionary idea in a page or two.
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You should try and read some scientific papers.
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Originally Posted by yawyaw
Another shortcoming is that the Thread Approach privatizes ideas, where physics is a public subject. However, ATM is the best available in that people here are questioning and generally well informed.
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The ATM forum is also publicly visible.
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Originally Posted by yawyaw
Redshift is the key concept underlying the idea of the Big Bang and the Expanding Universe.
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The redshift-distance relation (Hubble's law) is one of the observations.
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A little background is necessary. Newton created modern physics with his theory of gravity,... [SNIP!]
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Galileo Galilei described the
method at the basis of modern science. The method is what distinguishes science from pseudo-science.
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Edwin Hubble correlated the redshift data and distance data and the expansion became the current dogma.
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Hubble's law is an established observation, not a dogma.
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The dogma of expansion has become the test of whether one is a scientist or not. [SNIP!]
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No, the method is the test whether one is a scientist or a crackpot.
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My interest came about not from a fascination with redshift. I was interested in Maxwell's Equations and electromagnetism. I researched the origins of the equations and discovered something. The mathematics of physics is out of date or defective.
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I am curious to know what mathematics of physics you have studied....
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Originally Posted by yawyaw
To cut to the chase, Einstein in his Relativity Theory introduced the idea that the universe is four dimensional. Minkowski and others jumped on this idea and introduced the imaginary into mainstream physics. As an electrical engineer, the imaginary was a standard part of our field. While it is still not clear the imaginary shows up in Einstein's Interval:
Interval I = x^2 + y^2 + z^2 - (ct)^2 OR I=(ct)^2 - (x^2 + y^2 + z^2)
as spacetime is space oriented or time oriented.
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There is no imaginary in that interval, only squares of real numbers. Maybe you are just imagining it...
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Originally Posted by yawyaw
In searching Maxwell's Equations, I ran across William Rowan Hamilton's Quaternions. Quaternions consist of a real number and three vector numbers, thus a four dimensional space and mathematical division algebra. Why was this not being used in physics? The answer is instructive and maybe important.
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The answer is that four-vectors are more intuitive and give just as much information as quaternions. And they fit nicely into the whole formalism developed for theoretical physics.
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Originally Posted by yawyaw
Maxwell was introduced to quaternions as a way to mathematize Faraday's "Lines of Force". These forces had directions and Hamilton's Vectors were directional. This made them very attractive for the new field of electricity with their directional fields. There was a problem however. The problem was Hamilton's Rules for vectors i,j,k: i^2 = j^2 =k^2 = - 1. This minus one was disliked by maxwell and other physicists. They said, if I drop a ball there is a displacement in the direction of the force (gravity) there should be a positive energy, yet Hamilton's quaternions gives a negative energy! It is still the rule in physics that a displacement in the direction of the force is still called energy. The reason is that around 1900, Oliver Heaviside and J, Willard Gibbs listned to the physicists and developed vector Analysis where the Rule is: i^2 = j^2 = k^2 = +1. Here is a case where The mathematics was compromised to satisfy physics dogma.
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Provide the evidence that something has been compromised.
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What Hamilton's mathematics was saying is that when a displacement is in the direction of the force, there is EXERGY not ENERGY. This is easily seen with thought. Exergy is the root for exercise, ex-ergs = out ergs! Energy is en-erg = in ergs! Physically, Hmailtn's mathematics accurately describes the physics of the situation. The minus sign in the vector product indicates explosion and the plus sign indicates implosion. In 1900, Gibbs Vectors displaced quaternions in text books and quaternions were forgotten effectively. Gibbs Vectors are the standard in today's physics with i^2=1.
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I always ask quaternion fans to show us that quaternions work better than four-vectors.
Considering that you see an imaginary in the very real Einstein interval you quoted, I won't hold my breath.