The Return of the Ether Part 3 Dynamics and the Continuum
The chances of arriving at a unified field theory increase if duality is removed and all phenomena is considered as variations of motion in one single continuum. What the continuum is, is an open question: a void, ether, a superfluid, plasma or something else? On the website is a more detailed essay, a note on Leibniz's incredibly logical explanation of why anything exists at all, a booklist and a paper by Maxwell 'Action at a Distance' and Einstein's 1905 paper on 'Special and General Relativity'. Support the showwww.quantumid.science
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The Return of the Ether Part 2 The Space Theory of Matter and the Vortex Atom
Examines the merits of a theory that could replace the current particle theory of matter. On the website is a more detailed essay, a note on Non-Euclidean Geometry and Infinity, a booklist and a paper by W. K. Clifford 'The Space Theory of Matter'. Support the showwww.quantumid.science
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The Return of the Ether Part 1 Fields
Identifying the anomalies in the gravitational, electrostatic and quantum fields. Demonstrating that given the contradictions in each of them any attempt to unify them is a fruitless exercise. On the website is a more detailed essay, a note on Renormalisation, a booklist and a 1920 paper by Einstein on 'Ether and Relativity'. Support the showwww.quantumid.science
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Particle Menace Part 3 Farewell to Primitive Concepts
Discovering how concepts such as energy, mass, space, force and charge can be replaced by frequency, density and motion . On the website is a more detailed essay, a note on gravitational and inertial mass including interpretations of Newton's bucket of water experiment and some of the qualities of gyroscopes; a booklist and a transcription of Xmas lectures at the Royal Institution 1974 (which were banned for a time) by Eric Laithwaite . Support the showwww.quantumid.science
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The Particle Menace Part 1 The Solar System Model of the Atom
The Bohr-Sommerfeld model of the atom is described including the four quantum numbers used to identify electrons and explain the Zeeman effects and Pauli's exclusion principle. While this particle model is serviceable it is ontologically flawed. There is a pdf on the website with images and tables which may be helpful in following the podcast, plus a more detailed essay, a note on the Stern-Gerlach experiment, a booklist and a paper by Leibniz, 'Primary Truths'. Support the showwww.quantumid.science
A provocative analysis of the history of quantum mechanics in six short podcasts. Six more podcasts will be released in November 2025 on ontology or what is real as opposed to what is mathematically expedient following the insights of the physicist-philosophers such as Faraday, Maxwell, Lord Kelvin, J. J. Thomson, Eddington, Schrödinger and others.
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