2024 Annual Meeting of the Far West Section
Friday–Saturday, October 25–26, 2024;
Arcata, California, Cal Poly Humboldt
Session J01: Poster Session (3:45pm - 5:45pm)
3:45 PM,
Friday, October 25, 2024
Cal Poly Humboldt
Room: Library 202H
Abstract: J01.00008 : A Physical Derivation of Wyler's Formula for the Inverse Fine Structure Constant
Abstract
Presenter:
John E Brandenburg
(Kepler Aerospace Ltd.)
Author:
John E Brandenburg
(Kepler Aerospace Ltd.)
Wyler's formula[1]: 10/3π ( 16 (2/15 π5 ) ) 3/4 , for the Inverse Quantum Fine Structure Constant, value 137.0360824 , is recognized as quite close to the measured value 137.035999, so as to suggest that useful, semi-heuristic, semi-classical derivation might be possible. Key to this physical derivation is the recognition the (2/15) π5 is the pure number portion of the Stefan Boltzmann Constant [2]. Therefore, we calculate an inverse to the emissivity ε to that of a BB (Black Body) emitter in terms of a photon density inside a standard volume, so that 1/ε can be calculated as a photon flux per unit area from a BB i.e. 1/ε = #photon flux (BB) / #photon flux ( electron) . We consider a BB photon flux as a "Tesseract" or 4-cube since it is an integration over three spatial dimensions and time. We obtain the expression in the numerator as a measure of emission-absorption for the BB #photon density in a unit volume as 8 ( 2/15 π5 ) 3/4 since a 4-cube has 8 cubic faces in 3-space. Since this is assumed to be spherically isotropic we distribute it over the surface unit sphere of area 4π. For the electron term in the denominator we adopt a plane wave concept with a 3-cube with 6 faces with 5 emission-absorption directions since direct backscatter is forbidden by momentum and energy conservation. To the factor of 5 we must multiply by the additional factor of 16 to account for the 4 possible permutations of direction and polarizations of the electron and photon for each of the independent emission-absorption processes . So we obtain for the ratio of the ratio of quantum emissivity of the Planckian volume to the electron to be: (1/4π ( ( 16 (2/15 π5 ) ) 3/4 ) / ( 6/80) which reduces to the Wyler formula. This suggests that Planckian physics, normally associated with ensembles of particles, may underly even quantum interactions between isolated pairs of particles, with the interesting result that every particle may have a degree of quantum entanglement with every other particle in the Cosmos [1] Wyler, A. "L'espace symétrique du groupe des équations de Maxwell." C. R. Acad. Sci. Sér. A-B 269, A743-A745, 1969.[2] https://www.tec-science.com/thermodynamics/temperature/thermodynamic-derivation-of-the-stefan-boltzmann-law/