This entry is more introspective and personal than the previous entries, containing many small ideas that have gathered over the last few days.
(2012-10-22) After having one MASSIVE step backwards yesterday, and feeling at a loss this morning, I've had three good ideas today. Feels a little like old times. Since two or all of the new ideas are covering old ground in a new way, those three steps may not be so much net gain. But as a hiker knows, continuing down the wrong path won't get you where you want to go and the steps taken have to be retraced.
The new structure proposal for neutrinos is already posted.
Cooper Pairs Over a Distance (2012-10-22)
Cooper pairs (two electrons that seem to act as one) over distant regions of a crystal lattice have always been a puzzlement. With the new filament model of the electron, we may see two electrons as forming one filament but having two (or more?) local regions where they are allowed to coil and collect by the partial potentials in those regions. The coil model makes the Partial Quantum Hall Effect more plausible, but does not explain the preference for rational fractions of an elementary charge e.
The earlier writings about Cooper Pairs were based on rings, and may or may not be salvageable. They look pretty ugly now.
Naming and Claiming
(2012-10-22) Separation is a better name for the first tendency of figments
The basic tendency of figments to separate should not be called Existence because that will have different connotations for readers. During the Initial Expansion, the Grand Expansion, whatever we call it, the tendency led to the separate existence of the figments, but Separation will be a better name for the tendency since then.
N.B. Axis Alignment and Travel Alignment have been the new names used the past few months for the deprecated Spin and Proximity, since they refer better to the tendencies of figments to align in those two directions. Axis Alignment is the tendency that leads to charge. magnetism, and electromagnetism effects. Whether figments will be seen as having their own spin is not clear and has been a useful concept for the author, but the term is confusing with other concepts of spin. Travel Alignment is the tendency of figments to align their travel axis whether going the same way or opposite. Travel Alignment leads indirectly to gravitation acceleration and gravitational fields.
Do I need to change the name Axis, since I want a different name from the center or axis or direction of filaments? I need to make sure I'm using direction for the Travel Alignment effect, and check on the filament centerline phrase to see if I am using axis misleadingly.
(2012-10-22) The abstract and introduction need to be more circumspect in their claims. They should not read like advertising. Maybe "provide interesting hints of explanation" "suggest a picture of the structure of fields." And just lose the stuff I am not confident of, like muons who have been seen in the wild or at least the lab orbiting as heavy electrons. Over-promising is a good way to lose attention. Been there. Done that.
LoL, turning this into a blog post and then folding it into the Latex documentation will take time. Hopefully, my unconscious can use that time to review past ideas and create new ones. Muons, quarks, charm, strange may all benefit from this 4 filament strand, though string was an attractive idea as initially presented. Time for the unconscious is a good thing. I no longer come up with new ideas every day. Or even every week. (2012-10-24-2300) Two days later, even muons have an interesting new strand structure.
(2012-10-26) Thoughts on Yet Another Structure of Matter are ready, not for prime time, but exposure. They have come out before this blog post.
A number of thoughts about the development process are gathered here.
Ideas and Documentation (2012-10-22)
In manufacturing, sales and marketing is usually expected to exceed the cost of the product. In programming, discussion and documentation exceeds the time taken to program. That's the way it is. In doctoring, documentation and billing exceeds the time practicing medicine at least in our country. Unfortunately. In cell phone development, patent litigation and patent preparation now cost more than research. That is outrageous. But it is.
In science, education, background research, discussion, and documentation far exceed the time spent creating new ideas. That's the way it has to be.
Already, my time writing about these ideas exceeds the time spent having them. But if an idea or a program or a product is good, the sales, marketing, documentation, user training, and teaching are easier and more successful. If one wants those ideas or programs or products used, someone has to put in the perspiration.
Questioning Ones Self (2012-10-22)
Why am I willing to question myself? A long time ago, I worked with a designer, inventor, programmer who would submit his program as a deck of cards to the company's "in" hopper, swagger back to the office and exclaim "PERFECT." Turnaround was good enough that he could pick up the results within 25 minutes, make a change, resubmit the deck, and swagger back with the same exclamation. By induction, you may understand why I don't want to go there. Better for me to find mistakes than have the customer or a reviewer find them. So since I'm alone in this arena for now, some of my time has to be spent reviewing my own work.
Why I "Think Like No One Else" (2012-10-22)
A designer I once worked for wanted me, the junior designer, to work up some planning details so he could make a choice. I investigated what he wanted, found it would not meet the criteria, and presented conventional plans that would. I realized, later, he was faster and more experienced than but did not have the time to work out the details to see if he liked the result. He wanted to see my failures to meet the criteria so he could make decisions or adjustments or extensions (or criteria changes) himself.
Maybe I am working out the details of fields and particles using a particular approach so the senior designers can make an informed choice, to decide if they like the results enough to change the design or the criteria or if they dislike the results enough to continue accepting phenomena without explanation..
Since I've been more or less serious for a while, I offer some comic relief:
The Implausible and the Impossible (2012-10-25)
In high powered physics, time flows backward as well as forward.
The surest proof I know is that some seventy years before Richard Feynman told Quantum Mechanics to add up all that was possible and re-normalize, Arthur Conan Doyle had Holmes tell Watson ”when you've eliminated all the impossibilities, the implausible must be true.”
The fact that we can't explain the mechanism for Doyle channeling Feynman proves we shouldn't go looking for mechanism.
Onward
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