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Interesting. I'll have to go dig up the references to it, but about two or three years ago I did quite a bit of reading on some research being done by the Physics Department at Cal State. They were investigating Stochastic Electrodynamics as a unifying theory. It appears from the Wikipedia Article that "classical" physicists are still quite opposed to the notion. Not like that hasn't happened before.
But, of course, I'm not seriously comparing Haisch to Einstein (but you never really know, do you?) Ironically, SED is fundamentally based on Plank's arguments against quantum mechanics in his series of papers entitled The Theory of Heat Radiation.All four papers are today recognized as tremendous achievements—and hence 1905 is known as Einstein's "Wonderful Year". At the time, however, they were not noticed by most physicists as being important, and many of those who did notice them rejected them outright. Some of this work—such as the theory of light quanta—remained controversial for years.[26][27]
I understand that the "Zero Point Field" is considered to be in the land of crackpots, but I found the SED theories to be very intriguing and possessing a certain elegance that Particle Physics is sorely lacking. Call me a simple engineer (you'd be right), but I just don't believe that the universe is as complicated as particle physics demands. While (as an engineer) I value empirical learning, I am left wholly unsatisfied with the results when the objective is ab initio understanding based on first principles. But that's just me.
None-the-less, HLC will at least keep the particle physicists busy with the pretty lines...and maybe we'll discover that there really is "mana" available to power our spells after all! Just let me know when that HLC comes up with a good explanation of the Casimir effect!
Last edited by Micco; 09-09-2008 at 07:56 PM.
Note its the LHC not the HLC.
I'll have to look into those now. Any references you have would be good and I'll see if I can give a more intelligent answer than 'it's not my field but it smells fishy'!
Other news - first beam has made it around the LHC. That was the stated goal for today. Now they will try to get the second beam in the opposite direction.