Norman Albers

Vending Menace, your last statement may be what I have been trying to get at.. My question was, how does visible light (alone, say) leave us warm???

I mean I don't know much here and appreciate your expositing!

Thanks, I will hang out with that. I read in Cohen-Tannoudji's "Photons and Atoms", on p.378, they have expressed normal variables of the field in Lorentz gauge. "energy associated with the longitudinal variables compensates exactly that associated with the scalar variables, the only contribution being provided by transverse variables." This is about as far as I have gone.

Lacking good foil, I suck photons.

I am enjoying the same confusions over in: http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?t=13250

Yo, did you make a mistake? You say descending order but then say 'less'...

In the paper listed in my PROFILE I achieve solution which looks like a superconducting field, for the electron. Such a field depends for its existence on dipolar manifestation. I am approaching the whole thing from a semi-classical perspective and have good results. I observe in my conclusion that there is indeed negative pressure on the dipoles. This was not a priori my construction! What of my question about half an MEV of light which has convinced itself it has a happy phase state locked up thus? What of the polar manifestation I just described for photons? PERTURBATION: Thank you, yes this is where I want and need to learn. I am who I am and come from a unique perspective with some very nice mathematics. I have no problem; rather I am having the intellectual time of my life learning rapidly and offering my unique vision. If quantum physics has already said everythng I came to as necessary from fairly simple semiclassical work, that is a fine answer. I am not hearing this. Do you understand the implications of the above current equation?

I agree and am not defending this! It is such a huge guffaw to entertain the possiblity that somehow the antimattter didn't go away that I had to present Southwood's ideas. In my post on plasma recombination (Cosmology) I seek to learn about the baryon asymmetry in big bang cooling.

Yes but attraction balanced by orbit, as always. Think positronium. I probably do not know enough to answer you but wish you would carry on! It's too outrageous of an idea not to. The interesting semi-classical argument he makes is that particles in high-velocity orbit will have foreshortened longitudinal fields and blown-out tranverse fields so there is a corresponding increase of radial magnitudes. He pictures neutrons as two plus two. Placed in a circle it looks not stable but it is true that they by themselves are not, and also that the 'in-line' fields between them are greatly reduced. (PS-I'll send you colored chalks for your Calabi-Yau.)

I am probably being messy about the first part of your response and shall go back over that part of the book which is about as far as I have gotten in my isolation. As to the second part, yes! Can you help me in 200 words or less? I am not near a major school, have done some interesting work in semiclassical fields, and need to choose how and what to learn further, given that books aren't cheap and my time is not free. I serious appreciate being told what I should learn, and I ask you to look at what I see from my perspective. Norm Albers

Thank you, I have just gotten here by my own peculiar path. I need to know exactly these things, as per current pictures.

I think most species don't have to deal with it, and I gather horses don't care much but I would like to hear from a horse person if they have color pecking orders, say.

In Science News 2/11/6: "The patch of skin above a hawk's beak just looks orange-yellow to us, but to another hawk, it may broadcast UV sex appeal...this bit of skin, called the cere, strongly reflects light in the UV range.......Many bird species can see light in that range." (Scotland)

Hopefully this is useful because I read posts on cross mating. Are not most animals of closely similar color and so easily directed to the species mate? An interesting counterexample we live with is horses. Do they care about such different colorations? (You know what they say in the operating room: they're all pink on the inside.)

I'm just noting that the vacuum is not nothing. If photons are wave packets, then ............................. j=(-lambda^2 + rho/U) A

I am wrestling with understanding of what is the not-vacuum and this is where the discussion lies. I am prepared to envision various energies as "possibly manifest" in some sense, but I have questioned the validity of our quantum mechanics of the vacuum radiation. Beyond that I am just learning our theories. This seems so contrived and top-heavy; I trust my intuitions until my physics takes me further. What of my E&M question?

Depending upon the mode of heating, mostly, a house in the US uses roughly a steady kilowatt or two, saying monthly consumption is, maybe a thousand kilowatt-hours. Figuring out load is part of the issue, especially vis-a-vis power availability. Storage is dealt with if, as most places here, you can feed back to the grid.

I think it a mistake to project our current mores back in time into unknown cultures, whatever earlier group forms are called. I figure chaos rules unless constrained strongly. (KAOS is the Greek word for it. They celebrated it as one of their gods. I have a shrine to KAOS, and think Greeks were cool.) I wonder, too, if it is safe to dismiss questions of skin color vs. lattitute. Melanin simply develops that way; Just a little winter time in sunlight is very helpful, I read. I do not live a pasty-faced life, and don't feel good when I am forced to. I will send you a copy of my forthcoming manuscript, "GETTING IN TOUCH WITH YOUR INNER NEANDERTHAL". Ugh.

In this calculus we are adding together the way the field is changing in the three directions. Then we say, this change is caused by something. This operation is called divergence, as in the above statement of 'E' field. You can take different directions of the field and ask how they change in the other directions, and that is called curl. Divergence is adding up three components of a field change along their respective directions.

I know a man who has a somewhat clear presentation on protons being imagined as: POSITRON::ELECTRON::POSITRON . First of all, did you realize that one charge can attract two (or more?) opposites? The mutual repulsion is less in the above scheme, than attraction. The humor is gigantic: WHERE DID ALL THE ANTIMATTER GO? LONG TIME PASSING... This I present of a paper from Charles Southwood, just for fun.

Let's be careful about the tone of this humor column!!! HERE IS A TRUE STORY: In my last year at Princeton I took complex analysis, taught by a Polish post-doc with a lovely accent. On a certain day he went to the green board, drew an asymptote of a function in the complex plane and said, "This is a simple pole." There was strange three seconds of silence after which we snickered. He did not appreciate this, and repeated, "THIS IS A SIMPLE POLE!!!" We could not contain ourselves, and finally after two more painful seconds he grinned and we laughed our butts off.

Excuse me, the model has a light source coming in through a hole, if I interpret reasonably. It will do a certain number of reflections depending on the transmission coeff. (absorption) of the mirror, and if you are in there you will suck up light! Blackbody, yes, but I think this is not the question? There will be a certain illumination..............OK, I see you assume an insulated box, m4rc. Different thing to ass'u'me.

What is the essence of Standard Model talking about Higgs bosons being responsible for mass? This makes no sense to me. If we find a reason why half an MEV worth of light hangs out about a locale electrodynamically, have we not answered the same question? Relativity tells me this is so.

Thanks, Perturbation, my QED book goes to that point of developing the four modes and saying scalar and longitudinal cancel, or something like that: this is the limit of my exposure but I can speak your language almost. I just went ahead and put a charge sheath (long-scalar mode) into my semiclassical description. Take me further into current theory. I have assumed that the not-vacuum can supply 'infinitesimal' charge in dipolar 'plasma' form in photon fields. I understand that we speak of scalar photon exchange manifesting the Coulomb force.

Feel free to play with it yourself! Consider a stye as a circle...does it matter where you enter?