Einstein's presently abandoned Unified Field reinstated w'out mathematics. The joining of Field with Quantum Mechanics. The exclusion of politics from science. A paradigm shift in alliance. The serene world of science panics, at the bogey of quantum mechanics. Democritus foresaw the invisible atom, but since then it's found with substratrum. From antiquity, and in ubiquity the continuous wave was the rave, the lodestone magnet, the compass; and transparent field - all were known to be electrostatically real. Faraday found the cathode ray. Thompson uncovered the electron one day. Then Rutherford discovered the neutron a different way.. It came to be increasingly understood, that Maxwell's continuous waves were under the celestial hood. Certainly the wave emitting electron could not be subdivided - at first it was whispered and then openly confided. Along came even smaller mysterious articles of Max Planck’s curiously indivisible particles: Transforming a known world of electrostatics into a schizoid tangle of quantum mechanics. The doors were opened for the entrance of the proton, but there had been no vacancy for the residential photon. Other atomic tenants varied in weight height and disguise, but the photon is always the same value and size. A deteriorating atom may change its balance or valence, while the photon shows no such talents. Vigils are kept to find it changing its station, but its stubborn identity is confirmed in black body radiation. At dollar conventions where no cool change is invited, twenty hot nickels sit down excited. The quantum takes for granted inclusion, while greenbacks resent the intrusion. To and from spherical shells the electron darts, while the unchanged quantum arrives before it departs. If you’re looking for a message in here, it’s of Max Planck’s quanta and Niels Bohr’s sphere’s. Invincible in principle, Newton’s Mechanics are here sure as shooting, while quantum mechanics are out robbing and looting. Evolutionary experiments are eclectic, but final conclusions are photoelectric. As though these convulusions are not enough, reality panned out some other stuff. The only certain universal permanancy is Einstein’s constant light-speed and Heisenberg’s indeterminacy. Einstein’s discipline was special relativity, while his Nobel Prize was for photo-electricity. Otherwise emerged as quantum anarchy - Uncle Albert having firstly proven to be right - ahead of Brownian motion and the speed of light. This century old issue of size is how Einstein won the Nobel Prize - how the peace loving master-blaster stayed alive in 1905. Anaxgoras of pre biblical days took big and little to greater heights and stays, he said "There’s always something larger than large, and always something smaller than small." Perhaps that’s among the smallest large statements of them all. May this admonition of illusion be this very brief sonnet’s early conclusion. - K. B. Robertson, Copyright 1979 & 2007 All rights reserved. May be used for educational and recreational purposes with the stipulation that proper accreditation is extended to the author. Addendum: (Extracted from Wikipedia <the google encyclopedia>) "... when a light ray is spreading from a point, the energy is not distributed continuously over ever increasing spaces, but consists of a finite number of energy quanta, that are localized in points in space, move without dividing and can be absorbed or generated as a whole". - Albert Einstein "This statement has been called the most revolutionary sentence ever written by a physicist in the 20th Century. It signals the end of perceived continuuity and endorses the beginning of duality. The wave is no longer exclusively continuous. The particle is no longer exclusively discontinuous. The two seem to join and share each other’s qualities together as one." http://forums.delphiforums.com/EinsteinGroupie ******************** The *Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn A Synopsis from the original by Professor Frank Pajares From the Philosopher's Web Magazine (As extracted from Google) http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/Kuhn.html (*Excerpt from paragraph one: "Research is therefore not about discovering the unknown, but rather a strenuous and devoted attempt to force nature into the conceptual boxes supplied by professional education.")
