Oscillons

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Oscillons, Gravity, Radiation Pressure And The Strong Force

Can The Strong Force Be Unified With Gravity?

The Oscillon Model Of Pulsars

By: John K. Harms

Email: harmsjk3@earthlink.net

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Abstract:

This text proposes two ideas based upon the discovery of oscillons. The first is a unification of gravity, radiation pressure and the strong force. Secondly, a new model for pulsars is suggested where a pulsar is a quite rapid up and downward fluctuation of visible wavelengths from our human perspective. An explanation of oscillons is given, followed by the three scenarios for oscillons which may connect radiation pressure, gravity and the strong force. Two images are provided as a visual aid to better understand the concepts presented within this text. The pulsar model is then described, followed in the conclusion by a probable consequence of the model.

Key Words: Oscillons, Gravity, Radiation Pressure, The Strong Force, Unification, Photons, Photon Holes, Pulsars

Introduction

Within this text, there are actually two separate but related proposals. The first one is that gravity and radiation pressure can be unified with the strong force via the phenomenon of oscillons. The idea of oscillons was (as of 2002) recently discovered at the University of Texas at Austin. See the Web link above for further information.

It appears to the author that oscillons grant an explanation concerning the connection between gravity, radiation pressure and the strong force. In the sections to follow, the author will launch an exploration into how these seemingly opposite conceptions might be linked.

The second proposal within this text is that the objects commonly called "pulsars" are actually oscillon-like objects in the Universe. That is, these objects are not the quickly rotating bodies as is currently believed, but rather are oscillon-like objects that rapidly pulsate both inward and outward from brightness to darkness and then back again.

This idea is included within this text due to the short nature of the pulsar model. Hence, for the sake of writing efficiency, the pulsar model does not actually require its very own short text. So, the unification idea as well as the pulsar model (although being somewhat related) both involve the newly discovered oscillon, but they may be of a slightly different nature. They will both be presented here.

So, What Are Oscillons?

In short, an oscillon essentially is a name given to a phenomenon that was discovered at the University of Texas involving tiny brass balls that were jiggled up and down. It was then found that when these piles of brass balls were joined-up with other piles, that they often formed somewhat stable patterns. At any one point, the piles of tiny brass balls were seen to oscillate first upward and then downward again. See the link: http://super.phys.northwestern.edu/~pbu/ for an interesting moving simulation of this process in action.

Worthy of note is that the "upward" piles appear to repel each other, whilst an "upward" and a "downward" depression of the balls tend to attract each other. This is very reminiscent of the author's (1998) gravity model of radiation pressure systems, both positive and negative pressures in the vacuum. The author, therefore, concludes that there may be three (and not two) distinct phenomena for oscillons now occurring in the physical world. See image I below in the next section for further details.

All three possibilities (one being an entirely new prediction by the author for the phenomenon of oscillons which involves the strong force) will be discussed within this text.

Three Oscillon Scenarios?

The author proposes that there are three different scenarios for the oscillon phenomena. That is, in scenario # 1) (as seen below in image I and as the researchers subsequently discovered), two upwardly fluctuating oscillons will repel each other. The author pictures this as analogous to two supernovae in the Universe pushing outward on each other i.e., the outward force of positive radiation pressure. Hence, the upwardly fluctuating oscillons might be radiation (or photons), whilst a downward movement might be analogous to a piece of matter (or photon "holes").

In image I below, in line # 2), we can visualize ordinary gravity in action. That is, an upward oscillation and a downward one that may attract each other. So, a wave of radiation interacts with a matter wave and this may result in a cancellation of the radiation by the matter at long-wavelengths.

Hence, in # 2) (as seen in image I below), an upward fluctuation at "A" below of radiation (which must be precisely out of phase with the matter wave) will cancel out the downward fluctuation "B" of matter. A straight line cancellation of both quantities at a discreet long-wavelength will be the end result. This is what the author believes may be responsible for the phenomenon we call gravity. See the author's 1998 "Gravitation" text at the link below for further details.

Both oscillon phenomena at line # 1) and # 2) below have been experimentally confirmed at the University of Texas. These images below are in close agreement with experimental findings.

Image I:

In line # 3) above, the prediction of a new phenomena is proposed. In # 3), we see two downward fluctuations (photon holes) interacting with each other. From the author's perspective, this is essentially the two constituents of matter, the so called photon holes. The strength of this attraction may be the essence of the strong interaction and this force must indeed be vastly greater than in line # 2). In # 2), gravity is outlandishly weak compared to that of the strong force in line # 3). The overwhelming power of the strong force can be demonstrated by a nuclear explosion. An atomic nuclear reaction is the result of overcoming of the (strong) nuclear force, the residual force [as seen in 3) above] holding the nucleus intact.

So, gravity at its core arises out of the mixing of an upward and a downward oscillon-like phenomena, whilst the strong force may actually be two downward oscillons attracting each other.

However, in this unified picture of the oscillon phenomenon, gravity and the strong force demonstrate in a fundamental way the relationship of gravity with the strong force (and with radiation pressure as well--an added bonus). So, oscillons represent a unification of gravity and radiation pressure with matter and the strong interaction. Hence, the energy of photons or their absence (photon holes) result in the various effects that we observe in our Universe today as the fundamental forces.

As seen in the "Wave Electricity" and "Wave Magnetism" texts, electricity and magnetism i.e., electromagnetism as unified by Maxwell, are effects largely brought about the frequency and the wavelengths respectively of these waves in space as described above. See either or both of these texts at the links below for further details.

In image II below, we see the author's proposal for photon holes as the fundamental constituents of matter. The strength of this bonding as shown in # 3) above may basically be two downward fluctuations with each other. The residual energy for this effect is what we call the strong force between the atomic nuclei. Particle decay can, therefore, be understood to be the scattering of these photon hole downward fluctuations by a cancellation with this background energy. See the "Matter As Photon Holes" or "Particle Decay" texts for further details at the links below.

Image II:

As demonstrated experimentally by the oscillon phenomenon, a number of oscillons may form somewhat stable lattice-like structure and can travel from place to place. This is precisely what most all matter (if there is stability and no decay) does at present i.e., inertial effects. Thusly, a lattice of photon hole structures (which are both the downward "hole" fluctuations of space) can be understood to move along in a stable fashion from place to place. This is seen above as quarks and leptons, the fundamental constituents of all particles we call matter.

To the author, this is one of the most significant aspects of the discovery of oscillons.--that they may act under certain circumstances like matter in motion. So, photon holes may often form very stable structures (and sometimes they do not and then may decay). As previously mentioned, in the "Particle Decay" text, an instability arises as a result of a precise cancellation of photon holes with background radiation (or photons). Once again, see the "Particle Decay" text for further details.

Oscillons And Pulsars

In the observable Universe, there are these strange objects known as "pulsars". Pulsars are thoughts to be rotating neutron stars, stars that blink (with respect to us) like beacons as they rotate. Often, a pulsar is created in the remnant debris, the aftermath of a supernova explosion. Perhaps, however, this is not always the case. But, this appears to be the leading and widely accepted model for pulsars by astronomers. So, the author has a very different explanation and dubs this new model the "Pulsar Oscillon Model".

That is, in this view, a pulsar need not be quickly rotating at all, but only pulsating inwardly and outwardly based upon the idea of the experimentally verified phenomenon of oscillons. Thus, these rapid (many many times per second) oscillations might be created by an internal jiggling (as in the example of oscillons) of the collective matter wave that composes the pulsar. A supernova explosion may be understood to provide the energy for the jiggling motion of the pulsar.

Perhaps, it is the case that pulsars are indeed neutron stars where the combined wave function for all the matter is of a common (or collective) harmonic resonance. So, relative to our own matter resonance systems of the matter that composes our bodies and, thus, also our eyes, the pulsars appear to pulsate first very rapidly inward and then outward again. This might be a shift from photons to photon holes with respect to us.

A close analogy might be drawn with a thick spoke wheel on a bicycle or other moving vehicle. Such quickly rotating objects may appear to us to stop in their rotation entirely or travel slowly forward or backward as observed in the daylight. It is not that the wheel has stopped in its rotation, but rather that the spokes have become in-sync with the wavelengths of light waves that are incident on the spokes.

This essentially is a harmonic relationship with our eyes, the frequency of the light shown on the moving spokes as well as the speed of rotation the spokes themselves. The spokes, therefore, may appear to stop in their rotation relative to us.

Similarly, pulsars appear to pulsate relative to our own matter wave resonance systems. This is actually a type of harmonic vibration relative to our own speed of matter wave vibrations, the resonant speed of our retinas. Hence, when we gaze at a pulsar through a telescope (or alternatively watch it on a computer screen), a harmonic overtone may be set into motion that comes about as a result of an oscillon-type vibration of the neutron star. Again, the neutron star does not necessarily have to rotate for this oscillation to take place.

Again, this amounts to a collective shift of matter from a photon hole structure to that of a photon structure; from an inward hole to an outward emission of visible light. With respect to us, we observe a rapid pulsation of the light in harmony with our retinas coming from the distant object.

Conclusion

The set of ideas in this text leads to one important probable realization:

A rather bold prediction can be deduced that there is a close relationship between radiation pressure, gravity and the strong force. This essentially adds up to a unification of gravity with the strong interaction via the experimentally confirmed oscillon phenomenon.

While, in the author's view, gravity may be an "up" and a "down" wave that can come together in space and cancel out each other within a piece of matter (see the "Gravitation" text in the wave section at the link below for a deeper description), the strong force can be understood to be two "down" waves (or matter) in space that may become very tightly joined together. Matter is, therefore, held in its place by this extremely strong attraction. The study of image I above will aid in the understanding of this relationship between gravity, radiation pressure and the strong force.

Relevant Links

Gravitation: http://www.johnkharms.com/gravitation.htm

Wave Electricity: http://www.johnkharms.com/electricity.htm

Wave Magnetism: http://www.johnkharms.com/wave-magnet.htm

Matter As Photon Holes: http://www.johnkharms.com/matter.htm

Particle Decay: http://www.johnkharms.com/decay.htm

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Acknowledgment

I wish to thank the scientist Ron Blue for noticing the similarity of my ideas with the notion of oscillons. Ron's keen observational skills provided the initial inspiration that led eventually to the writing of this manuscript.

References

Concerning The Oscillon Phenomenon, See The Internet Website:

http://super.phys.northwestern.edu/~pbu/

Reader's Note: Proper References And/Or Acknowledgments To This Text Are Appreciated.