Friday, November 17, 2017

Scalar Symmetry

First, a disclaimer: This may sound correct or obvious, but if so, it is because that is the way I write.  Nothing should be taken as either factual or as representing the opinions of educated physicists.

This is the fourth of my crank ideas.

So, last post, I implied that I don't think quantum physics is correct.  This means that pieces of energy can come in any size - there is no minimum quanta of energy.

This is actually the conclusion that led me to find Rydberg's hypothesis - I went looking for it.  Because of the following observation, which led me to conclude quantum physics cannot be true:

The speed of light is a scale-symmetric limit.

Yes, those words mean nothing.  Explaining, imagine the universe was shrunk down to a millionth its current size, completely, from the size of atoms to the distance between quarks to the size of galaxies - everything is the same, but smaller (including force parameters).  That is, change everything except the speed of light; keep it exactly the value it is now.

And absolutely nothing changes.

Oh, sure, light crosses the universe in one-one millionth of the time - but it would look exactly the same speed, relative to us, as it does now to a human observer.  Our seconds would be proportionally smaller as well, you see, because shrinking everything speeds everything up; there is less distance to cross for any given motion, so motions are completed faster.

The universe would be a million times smaller, but our brains would be a million times faster, so the speed of light would not, from a human perspective, be any different.

The speed of light is scale-independent.  This is, bluntly, a really fucking weird property for a universal constant to have in a universe where there is a minimum scale.

So I discarded the idea there is a minimum scale, and adopted a position of scalar symmetry: As above, so below.  Thus, my proposal for a theory of everything.  But I think the observation holds even if the proposal doesn't.

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