ransformation ransformation The premise of The First Three Seconds is that selected characteristics of the macro-world, computer, and biological life are found manifested in the features of the quantum world within the first moments of the big bang. This essay, examining spherical concentricity in the nuclear, atomic, and solar sphere, is an attempt to provide one example whose implications are that explanations may yet be found to satisfy arguments of self-sameness – the term we will use to identify similarities rooted in the quantum.
Structural and Behavioral Phase Transition of Wave into Solid Matter
Eugene Wigner, Maria Mayer, and Johannes Jensen received the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics for showing: "that the protons and neutrons of the nucleus are arranged into concentric shells." Schrödinger spoke of the propagation of light waves as: "concentric, spherical wave fronts like a system of onion shells." It is hydrogen alone whose electron shell is spherical with the nucleus – this not being the case in higher atoms. Hydrogen's electron is not point-like but spread-out and "shell-like" around the nucleus as it is pulled equally in every direction. While not point-like, the electron in hydrogen roughly orbits the nucleus as a planet does the sun in the sense that it does so, usually within fixed boundaries.
How can it be that the quantum spherically concentric nuclear and hydrogen's electron shell structures and behaviors find their way into planetary movements orbiting stars? The answer would seem to be that wave-particles act as fluids that, for instance, can flow around a reef in an ocean. An ocean-liner hitting a reef would be in a destructive collision as it is too massive to "flow" around the reef. Put another way, wave-particles (e.g. one electron) are like a uniform breeze flowing around the center of the nucleus pulling that electron equally in every direction: this is why nucleons form the spherically concentric shells Wigner, Mayer, and Jensen spoke of and why an electron forms the shell around hydrogen.
In the case of planets pulled by the gravitational center of the sun, they are big "point" entities too massive to "flow" like a breeze. While the sun pulls equally in every direction, there is a ray-like relationship between the sun's gravity and the point-like mass of the earth which due to the earth's momentum keeps it on leash as its centrifugal force tries to fly away from the sun, but the sun's centripetal force draws it inwards: the two forces neutralizing themselves resulting in the earth and other planets maintaining their orbital paths.
At what point does the transition from wave to matter occur? Where is the dividing line separating entities that behave as waves and those that behave as matter? In the figure, the circle depicts floterial: the wave-particle and transition point from wave to the solid state: both flow and material on the mezo level between the micro and macro worlds. To the right of the circle is solid material. To the left of the circle is super force, or super gravity, or string – all non-matter.
But, floterial (fluid, flowing forms of wave-particles) are the phase transition. In biochemistry, molecules are looked upon as solid structures. And, when the characteristics of enzymes are changed, it is based upon models with clear atomic co-ordinates and bonding angles. Further, the inert atom clearly has definite boundaries. The dividing line, then, would seem to be floterial which has the nature and behavior of both waves and matter. The dividing line would appear to be embodied in a phase transition spanning particles to atoms (inert atoms would seem to already be considered solid) and provide the bridge over which behaviors of the micro world are transformed through mezo into the macro. In the just spoken of case.
However, the perception of matter, as being a substance of unchanging form, and solid through-and-through, would not seem to exist. Please see click and from there, click the topic "(vi) Matter" in the table of contents.
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