Other Science

Bubble Dynamics

Click below to visit the site of John T. Nordberg. This young engineer has a theory that starts from taking the speed of light as a "natural unit" standard for velocity and time. Relative velocities become fractions of c. Then he develops a theory that photons travel in spherical waves. This unifies waves and particles and leads to a fractal universe in which everything is made from "balls of light" of various densities and harmonic configurations. He identifies gravity as the Poynting vector. In a "ball of light" the electric and magnetic components are like longitude and latitude lines and the Poynting vectors point at the central singularity. He claims to have done experiments that show how the magnetic vectors flip directions on the hemispheres of the balls. Right or not, he definitely has balls. See my comments in OP 10 on the Poynting vector. See JL Naudin's demonstration of Poynting Thrust, which is due to what I call the conjugate Poynting vector. Read carefully Feynman's Lectures Vol 2: 27 "Field Energy and Field Momentum" for "respectable" insights into what goes on. Most people have no idea how weird it is. Unless I'm mistaken he says things like the light from your electric light bulb is energy sucked in from space and then radiated back out. The orthogonal orientations of the electric, magnetic, and Poynting vectors (what I call the Three Dimensional Twists) lead to many interesting effects. I'll soon be posting an article with summaries of Feynman and some analysis. Don't look for electric space ships right around the corner (unless you really know how they work), but you can get a much better understanding of the relation between electromagnetism and gravity. Nordberg's Balls of Light Theory sounds to me just like a restatement and broad application of Huygens' Principle (standard stuff): 摂Every point on a propagating wavefront serves as the source of spherical secondary wavelets, such that the wavefront at some later time is the envelope of these wavelets. (Hecht, Optics, 3rd ed., p. 103)  The primary, of course, is a spherical point source (e.g. an electron). We add to this Sommerfeld's principle of wavefront continuity (Sommerfeld, Optics, p. 151) and Hecht's statement, “Photons are timeless.”  (Hecht, Optics, p.85). That tells us light (awareness) is basically continuous and the balls of light produce an illusion of quantum mechanical effects because of their "ballness". Then we pull in Feynman's humorous admission that the whole thing has a hole in it: “When we try to calculate the field from all the charges including the charge itself that we want the field to act on, we get into trouble trying to find the distance, for example, of a charge from itself, and dividing something by that distance, which is zero. “ (Lectures 1: 28-3.) For that one, see Dr. White's electron model. Dividing by nada puts you in undefined awareness. See Dr. White's discussion of the calculus in OP 1, "The Riddle of the Sphinx: The Mysterious Role of Mathematics in Physics". Nordberg's Ball theory seems easily testable and his experiments easily duplicated, so his ideas will either stand up or be discarded fairly soon. However it all shakes out you might want to browse his photo gallery of amazing cosmic events out there in Big Space. . . "Goodness, Gracious, Great Balls of Fire!"