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Contra Wave Theory in Electromagnetic RadiationSven Gelbhaar15 October 2008 “A wave is a disturbance that propagates through space and time, usuallywith transference of energy. While a mechanical wave exists in a medium(which on deformation is capable of producing elastic restoring forces),waves of electromagnetic radiation (and probably gravitational radiation)can travel through vacuum, that is, without a […]

The Physicist’s Bill of Rightsshamelessly stolen from http://www.everything2.org/index.pl?node_id=640948 We hold these postulates to be intuitively obvious, that all physicists areborn equal, to a first approximation, and are endowed by their creator withcertain discrete privileges, among them a mean rest life, n degrees offreedom, and the following rights which are invariant under all lineartransformations:

Experiment To Derive The Mass Of The PhotonSven Gelbhaar27 October 2008 We know that radiation exerts pressure on bodies of mass (wikipedia:radiation pressure), that it acts as if it is subject togravity and therefore probably is (wikipedia: gravitational lensing), andthat its speed can be altered in laboratory conditionsjust as if it has mass. But how

On the Intrinsic Mass of PhotonsSven Gelbhaar9 October 2008 For too long now have we lived under the false belief that photons have nomass. For a bit of a refresher on this topic, I encourage the reader toperuse my paper Revised Theory of Relativity. Special Relativity tells usthat photons are a special case, that is

On the Equivocation of Mass and EnergySven Gelbhaar08 October 2008 “Albert Einstein found, as a consequence of his theory of relativity,that mass and energy are equivalent, and are not separately conserved –one can be converted into the other.” (Conceptual Physics, page 31,Benjamin Crowell) “This means that even a small amount of mass is equivalent to

The Red Herring Threat to Asymmetrical Public Key CyphersSven Gelbhaar30 September 2008 Ever since I started using public key encryption schemes it has beenpointed out that looming on the horizon was the threat of Shor’s Algorithmused in conjunction with Quantum Computers that may one day undo saidpublic key encryption. This, however, is most likely nothing

An Elegant Active Sonar CountermeasureSven Gelbhaar6 September 2008 As I’m sure we’re all aware, the current method for active sonar scramblingis to deploy a physical buoy that emits vast quantities of sound, unless ofcourse the technology has advanced beyond what Hollywood is portraying. Iwould like to suggest a much more elegant alternative that won’t requirethe

The Redundancy Inherent in the Casimir ForceSven Gelbhaar29.04.2008 – 6.05.2008An Engineer thinks his equations are an approximation of reality, aPhysicist thinks reality is an approximation of his equations, andmeanwhile the Mathematician doesn’t care. — A random cynic onslashdot.org/, paraphrased [Figure 1]http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap061217.html :“This tiny ball providesevidence that the universe will expand forever. Measuring slightly over onetenth

Apropos Big Bang TheorySven Gelbhaar3/21/2008Update: 14 October 2008 In a previous paper we explored the reasons why Cosmic Microwave BackgroundRadiation cannot be the proof positive of the Big Bang Theory that it waslauded as when it was first discovered, so now let’s delve into anotherpossible counter-proof of the Big Bang Theory. How do we know

The Unraveling of String TheorySven Gelbhaarsven.gelbhaar@gmail.com25 January 2008 So far in this series we’ve covered the origin of Cosmic Microwave BackgroundRadiation, how both theories of Relativity fail to meet our experimental dataand our logical expectations, how this in turn affects our understanding ofRelativistic Thermodynamics, that Cantor’s postulate of uncountable sets innumber theory is wrong, a