Magnetic Fields by Berenice Abbott |
As it happened, the Neutritron - the first-devised Universal Substrate particle, was originally conceived-of to explain the anomalies of the Double Slit Experiments, as well as many other phenomena - such as Pair Productions and Pair Annihilations, and, of course, Electromagnetic Energy Propagation via quanta: but they, I'm afraid, could not explain Fields at all.
Each Neutritron consists of a mutually-orbiting pair of one ordinary-matter electron, and one antimatter positron - in other words a kind of Majorana particle.
So, the extra particles that needed to be added to the Universal Substrate, to possibly deliver Fields, were also devised as Majorana particles, but this time of differently sized components to endow them with magnetic moments.
Once again, the components used were Leptons: in this form, either a mutually-orbiting pair of one Tau and one anti Muon, or, alternatively, of an anti Tau with a Muon.
These two joint particles were effectively mirror images of one another, and their magnetic moments cancelled each other out via their existence as a randomly-moving population of equal numbers of each kind.
So, these two were normally also undetectable, but only as long as they maintained their random, and hence cancelling, movements.
But, in addition to this commonest case, there were other situations, in which that existence would be radically transformed.
The presence of an alien Charged Particle, within such a Substrate, caused these magnetons (as they came to be called) to gather around the charged particle in magnetic-moment-aligned, concentric shells - thus producing an associated Field.
While, when something like a permanent magnet was present, the magnetons formed aligned chains - continuing the pole given by aligned atoms within the magnet, as lines-of-force outside of it, and carrying on around to return to the magnet's opposite pole.
Now, what this theorist intends to attempt, is address all these new researches in an "Explanatory Way" - that is using the properties of what are involved to give causal reasons for why things happen in the way that they do.
Such an approach is very different from the usually applied approach for three different reasons.
First, it will not assume the Principle of Plurality, which, though it admits of a multiplicity of affecting factors, in any natural investigated situation, always only targets a single factor at a time, and achieves this by greatly tailoring the investigated context, to make the targeted factor dominant, and then assuming that what is then extractable by this method is exactly the same as that factor when occurring naturally, without any of that revealing tailoring. That is, most certainly, not true: for the extracted factor is always definitely changed by its context. It will be different in different contexts.
Second, it will not be assumed that the natural context can be achieved by merely adding together all the separately extracted factors achieved when applying different farming for each and every one.
Third, the purely quantitative relations achieved by the above means will NOT be considered as Causing Laws, but only as mere descriptions of what occurs in the farmed, arranged-for context. Causes are qualitative, and require the revelation of all the mutually-affecting properties involved.
Solvay Conference 1927 |
The initially acquired formal description was always completed by the explanation of the causes involved. Indeed, this final stage was regarded as the most important one, for it alone could be extrapolated as a contributed cause from there to new areas involving common substances and conditions.
Mere quantitative forms are indeed Universal - cropping up all over the place, but they DO NOT infer identical causes!
"Scientific Understanding" resides only in this last and crucial stage in investigating Reality.
It is there, and there alone, that the Objective Content - that revealable part or aspect of the Truth actually resides.
An Explanation?
Now, perhaps we have enough to attempt to explain the discoveries at Princeton - concerning the emergent Majorana particles.
Clearly the presence of a usually undetectable, yet ever-present Universal Substrate - composed entirely of different Majorana particles, which can behave very differently depending upon circumstances, the odd arrangements set up for the Princeton investigation, must be guaranteed to deliver remarkable outcomes.
For, what are regularly proving to be "outside-the-box" situations abound here, namely:-
1. Extremely Low Temperature Physics
2. Superconductivity
3. Extremely meagre traces of substances
And all these occurring in an ever-present, multi-particle and multi-mode Substrate, that is totally undetectable by the usual means. Clearly, in such circumstances, unusual situations will not only arise, but produce individual and detectable phenomena, normally swamped (and hence missed) in more abundant conditions!
The problem will boil down to just how the Substrate Units will interact with these unusual conditions, AND affect those conditions.
After all, this involves a single strand of Iron atoms (with its magnetic potentials), closely involved, both with the complex Substrate and the unusual superconductivity of the lead too.
It seems to me that the two kinds of Magneton particles (both of which are Majoranas), are certain to react to the Iron atom strand, by aligning their magnetic moments with those of the Iron atoms - and particularly at the ends of the strand!
For that is what is assumed to happen with Lines-of-Force around permanent magnets.
Clearly, in this set-up, the presence of the superconducting Lead upon which this occurs, must play a role.
"Scientific Understanding" resides only in this last and crucial stage in investigating Reality.
It is there, and there alone, that the Objective Content - that revealable part or aspect of the Truth actually resides.
The Majorana fermion at end of superconducting wire |
An Explanation?
Now, perhaps we have enough to attempt to explain the discoveries at Princeton - concerning the emergent Majorana particles.
Clearly the presence of a usually undetectable, yet ever-present Universal Substrate - composed entirely of different Majorana particles, which can behave very differently depending upon circumstances, the odd arrangements set up for the Princeton investigation, must be guaranteed to deliver remarkable outcomes.
For, what are regularly proving to be "outside-the-box" situations abound here, namely:-
1. Extremely Low Temperature Physics
2. Superconductivity
3. Extremely meagre traces of substances
And all these occurring in an ever-present, multi-particle and multi-mode Substrate, that is totally undetectable by the usual means. Clearly, in such circumstances, unusual situations will not only arise, but produce individual and detectable phenomena, normally swamped (and hence missed) in more abundant conditions!
The problem will boil down to just how the Substrate Units will interact with these unusual conditions, AND affect those conditions.
After all, this involves a single strand of Iron atoms (with its magnetic potentials), closely involved, both with the complex Substrate and the unusual superconductivity of the lead too.
It seems to me that the two kinds of Magneton particles (both of which are Majoranas), are certain to react to the Iron atom strand, by aligning their magnetic moments with those of the Iron atoms - and particularly at the ends of the strand!
For that is what is assumed to happen with Lines-of-Force around permanent magnets.
Clearly, in this set-up, the presence of the superconducting Lead upon which this occurs, must play a role.
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