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Thank you. :)
Michael Gmirkin — (archived)

Good stuff. I'll have to re-read it a few times. I fear me and the others got a bit side-tracked in another section of the thread onto philosophy, which wasn't entirely where I was trying ot get to.

I like your fairly straightforward statements. I think I even understood a decent portion of them and the logic behind them. For that, kudos. :) I'll have to read it more thoroughly when I have time and see if it still makes sense when not-skimming. Hopefully so. Sounded a bit like quantum electrodynamics or string theory or something, in terms of interacting waveforms, etc.

You've given me some points to ponder. And actually reiterated an old theory-ish thing I had a while back (though haven't mentioned hereabouts yet) that "charge" was essentially just a wave function and interacting charge waveforms might in some regards regulate the spacing of fundamental "particles."

Specifically, I was trying to figure out why like charges repel, and unlike charges attract. Then I was also thinking in terms of electromagnetism and waves.

It seemed like wave interference, to me. IE, like waves tend to reinforce one another with constructive interference, whereas opposite waves tend to interfere with each other via destructive interference.

So, I was kind of thinking in terms of the closer like charges get to each other the more they tend to reinforce one another's repulsion. Whereas, unlike or opposite charges tend to break down each other's repulsion the closer they get.

So, one might think of protons being attracted by their mass gravitationally, but repulsed more and more the closer they get due to constructive interference.

And Electrons want to get closer and closer to protons as their repulsions destructively interfere. However, as more electrons cluster together, they constructively interfere with their repulsion from each other, thus stratify into a shell or equilibrium around the nucleus, bound inward by gravity and/or destructive interference of repulsion with protons, but held in check from falling inward by growing repulsion with other electrons.

I haven't really developed the idea much, but there you have it. Probably not complete, may not even make utter sense. And it has problems. IE, why doesn't a single electron fall into the nucleus when other electrons aren't present to constructively interfere? Obviously, soem models have the electrons zipping around the outside, counteracting the infalling impetus by wanting to zip off into space, but that's mitigated by gravitational and proton/electron attraction.

Like I said, not a complete idea, has problems, just a novelty I was toying with when bored one day.

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