Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2008 Joint Fall Meeting of the New England Sections of APS and AAPT
Volume 53, Number 9
Friday–Saturday, October 10–11, 2008; Boston, Massachusetts
Session E1: Submitted Session III |
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Room: Campus Center, Third Floor 3540 |
Saturday, October 11, 2008 9:00AM - 9:12AM |
E1.00001: Constellation Stick Figures Convey Information about Gravity and Neutrinos David Matthew Mc Leod, Roger David Mc Leod 12/21/98, at America's Stonehenge, DMM detected, and drew, the full stick-figure equivalent of Canis Major, CM, as depicted by our Wolf Clan leaders, and many others. Profound, foundational physics is implied, since this occurred in the Watch House there, hours before the ``model rose.'' Similar configurations like Orion, Osiris of ancient Egypt, show that such figures are projected through solid parts of the Earth, as two-dimensional equivalents of the three-dimensional star constellations. Such ``sticks'' indicate that ``line equivalents'' connect the stars, and the physical mechanism projects outlines detectable by traditional cultures. We had discussed this ``flashlight'' effect, and recognized some of its implications. RDM states that the flashlight is a strong, distant neutrino source; the lines represent neutrinos longitudinally aligned in gravitational excitation, opaque, to earthbound, transient, transversely excited neutrinos. ``Sticks'' represent ``graviton'' detection. Neutrinos' longitudinal alignment accounts for the weakness of gravitational force. [Preview Abstract] |
Saturday, October 11, 2008 9:12AM - 9:24AM |
E1.00002: NATUROPTICS and Vision Research: Revision for QM and Heisenberg? Roger David Mc Leod, David Matthew Mc Leod NATUROPTICS: detection of opposed electric field vectors at visual focal surfaces, requires rethinking QM's assertion that origin-reflected eigenvector pairs are indistinguishable. Vision's verified spatial Fourier transform model that asserts this, except for a scale factor, is the transformation equation of QM. Schr\"{o}dinger's statement that electrons are solutions of his equation is vindicated. Electrons are traveling wave composites interspersed with standing waves. ``Heisenberg'' requires restatement: certainty that electron composite-wave volume-extent exists; precise momentum value pleases Einstein, and others. ``Broken'' electron wave-string can compresses, combines with ``broken-quarked-proton,'' once separate electric linear charge densities equalize, linking up in a three-ringed, quarked, ``Mickey'' neutron. Prediction: protons are precisely 25{\%} longer than neutrons. Also: ``alphas'' form if two parallel, aligned ``Dumbo'' protons have their ``ear-notches'' forced into parallel, transversely-aligned ``Mickey-like'' neutrons, initially unstable, but forcibly accepting conversion to eternal status. [Preview Abstract] |
Saturday, October 11, 2008 9:24AM - 9:36AM |
E1.00003: Can Naturoptics for Safe Recovery of Vision Fund Brazilians' Educations? Silvia Fl\'avia Ribiero, C\'elia Carmem Ribeiro Duarte, Roger David Mc Leod Directors of Naturoptics for Safe Recovery of Vision, Inc., US Patent Office, April 8, 2008, trademark issued, grants ``The David Matthew Mc Leod Memorial Award,'' to individuals like Sylvia Flavia Ribeiro. Instructions at American locations enhance patenting, trade-marking, and propagation to individuals, and youth through parents. Naturoptics'{\texttrademark} earnings go by agreed percentages to named academic entities and awardees who sign non-disclosure agreements. These say the US Government trademarked the processes as safe, and that diagnostic or treatment techniques are not used, necessary, or allowed for Naturoptic Methods{\texttrademark}. These educationally explain how the inventor, Roger David Mc Leod, recovered his vision. Taught processes are released to awardees signing agreements this is an educational service, providing teaching services for clients. Non-disclosure agreements are required from clients. Work-study grants, ``The Kaan Balam Matagamon Memorial Award,'' in memory of DMM, may be awarded through the American Indians in Science and Engineering Society, AISES, and to other women and minorities. [Preview Abstract] |
Saturday, October 11, 2008 9:36AM - 9:48AM |
E1.00004: Will Brazilian Patented Naturoptic Method for Recovery of Healthy Vision be Helpful Linguistically? Ana Paula de Moraes, Ros\'elia dos Santos Marques, Roger David Mc Leod Naturoptics Inc. extends its patent(s) to further the teaching of vision-restoring process(es), foster cross-linguistic capabilities, and assist in the educational or financial opportunities of individuals and countries. Directors of Naturoptics Inc. hope to achieve this while testing David Matthew Mc Leod's observations that high visual acuity correlates with other mental and sensory processes. He and RDM often noticed that thought concepts (language percepts) are detectable even across species barriers, as when bears, moose, et c. made their intentions known to us in ways we were culturally willing to accept. This addresses aspects of language that seemed related to our understanding of human vision, and how it encodes cortically by spatial frequency content of a visual scene. Words representing the same meaning in two different languages will encode at precisely the same site in the visual cortex. Predictions: ``our memories,'' and cross-species, detection of certain thoughts, if equivalently ``seen'' as images, (spatial frequency content). [Preview Abstract] |
Saturday, October 11, 2008 9:48AM - 10:00AM |
E1.00005: Energetics of a Brownian motor driven by position dependent temperature Ronald Benjamin We study the energetics of a Brownian motor driven by position dependent temperature, also known as the B{\"u}ttiker-Landauer motor. Overdamped models fail to predict the energetics when temperature is spatially inhomogeneous. Its found that the irreversible heat transfer via kinetic energy diverges as $\sqrt{M}$ (M being the mass of the Brownian particle) and cannot be accounted for by the overdamped model. The motor can never attain Carnot efficiency as evidenced by our results obtained from numerical solution of the Lahngevin equation and first principles molecular dynamics simulation. We also show that the motor can be converted into a refrigerator and find that the Coefficient of Performance (COP) of the refrigerator is far below the Carnot COP. Onsager symmetry relationship which links the motor to the refrigerator is confirmed in the presence of inhomogeneous temperature. Mechanisms to enhance the motor efficiency and refrigerator COP are also discussed. [Preview Abstract] |
Saturday, October 11, 2008 10:00AM - 10:12AM |
E1.00006: Vector Current Coupling for Gravity Douglas Sweetser Rank 1 field theories for gravity are ignored in the literature, one solid reason being the vector current coupling term. Feynman's lucid analysis of the phase of a current-current interaction for motion along one axis demonstrates the transverse current has spin 1 symmetry. Forces mediated by particles with odd spin have like charges repel, which is right for EM, wrong for gravity. The analysis is repeated without restricting the motion along an axis. The transverse terms have the expected symmetry. The other terms contain a symmetry consistent with a spin 2 particle. Forces mediated by particles with even spin have like charges attract. Therefore a vector current could be used for gravity. Rank 1 field theories for gravity need to be considered with more care. [Preview Abstract] |
Saturday, October 11, 2008 10:12AM - 10:24AM |
E1.00007: An axiomatic approach to quantum mechanics: the meaning of the wavefunction Thomas Marcella We review what the postulates of quantum mechanics and quantum experiments tell us about the nature of the quantum wavefunction. We take quantum mechanics at face value and we do not speculate about things not addressed in the postulates or not supported by experimental evidence. We do not acknowledge any interpretation, other than the Born probability interpretation. We emphasize that the wavefunction describes the preparation procedure from which it is obtained and that the described experiment requires a performed measurement of a specified observable. The postulates indicate that the wavefunction is a mathematical construct that allows us to calculate probabilities. Further, we find no evidence that the wavefunction is an objective entity that propagates in space-time. [Preview Abstract] |
Saturday, October 11, 2008 10:24AM - 10:36AM |
E1.00008: Search for Correlated Fluctuations in the Beta+ Decay of Na-22 M.P. Silverman, W. Strange Claims for a ``cosmogenic'' force that correlates otherwise independent stochastic events have been made for at least 10 years, based largely on visual inspection of time series of histograms whose shapes were interpreted as suggestive of recurrent patterns with semi-diurnal, diurnal, and monthly periods. Building on our earlier work to test randomness of different nuclear decay processes, we have searched for correlations in the time-series of coincident positron-electron annihilations deriving from beta+ decay of Na-22. Disintegrations were counted within a narrow time window over a period of 7 days, leading to a time series of more than 1 million events. Statistical tests were performed on the raw time series, its correlation function, and its Fourier transform to search for cyclic correlations indicative of quantum-mechanical violating deviations from Poisson statistics. The time series was then partitioned into a sequence of 167 ``bags'' each of 8192 events. A histogram was made of the events of each bag, where contiguous frequency classes differed by a single count. The chronological sequence of histograms was then tested for correlations within classes. In all cases the results of the tests were in accord with statistical control, giving no evidence of correlated fluctuations. [Preview Abstract] |
Saturday, October 11, 2008 10:36AM - 10:48AM |
E1.00009: Positronium Quenching with Nitric Oxide Targets: A Theoretical Study of Spin Coupling Sudha Swaminathan, David Schrader A single elastic collision between an \textit{ortho} positronium beam and a nitric oxide target is considered. The spin coupling between \textit{ortho} positronium and the doublet ground state of nitric oxide leading to the production of both \textit{para} and \textit{ortho} positronium is studied. Angular momentum coupling and density matrix techniques are used to calculate the probabilities of forming \textit{para }and \textit{ortho} positronium in terms of total-electron-spin-dependent scattering amplitudes. The results are used to estimate the fraction of the incoming \textit{ortho} positronium that has been converted to \textit{para} positronium due to the exchange of the unpaired electron of the nitric oxide target with the electron of the incoming \textit{ortho} positronium. [Preview Abstract] |
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