Originally posted by Hurkyl
Can you explain why there should be fluid-dynamic pressure? Describing the universe as a fluid is a pretty abstract idea anyways, don't you think?
No it is entirely physical.
“... since the nineteenth century it’s been recognized that the equations of electromagnetism are almost identical with the equations of hydrodynamics, the equations governing fluid flow. Even more curious, Schrödinger’s equation, the basic equation of quantum mechanics, is also closely related to equations of fluid flow. Since 1954 many scientists have shown that a particle moving under the influence of random impacts from irregularities in a fluid will obey Schrödinger’s equation.
“More recently, in the late seventies, researchers found another curious correspondence while developing mathematical laws that govern the motion of line vortices—the hydrodynamic analogs of the plasma filaments ... The governing equation turns out to be a modified form of Schrödinger’s equation, called the nonlinear Schrödinger equation. [This equation is a central part of the study of ‘quantum liquids’ as well. The interesting coincidence is that it is a modified form of the equation describing the shell structure of an atom. How this fluid-dynamic shell gets quantized into the known electronic “orbits” is a key concept illustrated in Sorce Theory.]
“Generally in science when two different phenomena obey the same or very similar mathematical laws, it means that in all probability they are somehow related. Thus it seems likely that both electromagnetism and quantum phenomena generally may be connected to some sort of hydrodynamics on a microscopic level. But this clue, vague as it is, leaves entirely open the key question of what the nuclear particles are. And what keeps them together? How can fluids generate particles? [Sorce Theory fills in these crucial gaps as well.]
“But the idea of particles formed from vortices in some fluid is certainly worth investigating. …However, I think there are additional clues, some developed from my own work, which indicate that plasma processes and quantum mechanical processes are in some way related.
“First and foremost are Krisch’s experimental results on spin-aligned protons. Qualitatively, the results clearly imply that protons are actually some form of vortex, like a plasmoid. Such vortices interact far more strongly when they are spinning in the same direction-which is certainly the behavior Krisch observed in proton collisions. Because vortex behavior would become evident only in near-collisions, the effects should be more pronounced at higher energies and in more head-on interactions—again, in accordance with Krisch’s results.
“A second clue lies in particle asymmetry …. Particles act as if they have a “handedness,” and the simplest dynamic process or object that exhibits an inherent orientation is a vortex. Moreover, right-and left-handed vortices annihilate each other, just as particles and antiparticles do.”
“The Big Bang Never Happened” -- Eric J. Lerner
My [?] was because your statement was seemingly unrelated to my comment, and entirely unrelated to the reasons physicists consider point particles.
Right,
"seemingly".
Sure we have. We do it every day.
Only if you believe in it first!
You can say "yes space is definitely 3-d! Just look I can measure it this way and that way and...". Then Buckminster Fuller comes along and says that it is, 12 dimensional, and proceeds to show how the isotropic vector matrix is a much more efficient method of the geometrization of space (not to mention Gauss and Reimann etc.. But is space really physically any of these systems? You simply cannot prove that space is dimensional whatsoever. All you can do is invent different dimensioning schemes that make your quantitative reasoning more concrete. This is not a proof, nor is it an observation of a dimension independent of the mind.
), but these are always the conclusions. In fact, that Indian dude (I'm going to soon, if I don't remember his name... ) used to have dreams about those two numbers (8 and 24).
