Not Your Father's Physics - the Historical Perspective

ORAL

Abstract

Two essential conceptual structures - geometric representation of the Clifford algebra vacuum wavefunction and quantum impedance matching of wavefunction interactions - have been lost in physics. Both are important. Impedance matching govern amplitude and phase of the flow of energy, of information transmission. And geometric representation is intuitive, easily visualized, unlike matrix representations of Pauli and Dirac. Dependent arising of their synthesis opens new perspectives at all scales, from Planck to Compton to boundary of the observable universe. We present an outline of the resulting model, independent historical accidents and oversights that led to the loss of both, and the arguably improbable sequence of events that led to their recovery and unification.

Publication: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/384459559_Not_Your_Father's_Physics
An essay submitted to the APS 2024 History of Physics competition.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369379014_Genesis_of_a_Quantum_Impedance_Model
presentation file for the March 2023 APS meeting
and the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvK6TxKRmI8&t=1s

Presenters

  • Peter Cameron

    Michigan/MIT/Brookhaven

Authors

  • Peter Cameron

    Michigan/MIT/Brookhaven