Guy Cavet Myhre
Physicists and laypersons alike, rejoice! The crumbling, 75-year-old flawed foundation of quantum-physics methodology is facing its imminent coup de grâce, to be replaced by a new, wholly-rational foundation. Myhre’s essay fires the first shot, which renders current physics textbooks instantly obsolete—Really! He begins with many insightful discoveries, the oldest, of which, dates from a half century ago, when he was a USAF pilot. It is about the great importance of inertia in our lives, of how it determines the size of our atoms and the rate of our aging, and of how Myhre eventually discovered that the number 137 is closely associated with inertia—he speculates that the magnitude of inertial force varies throughout the Universe and that it is 137 times greater in the vicinity of the Solar System than at a location in the Universe where it is at a minimum—pretty heady stuff—yet, his arguments, backed by mathematical equations, are quite convincing.
Later, he made the all-important discovery of the quantum attributes of elementary particles, which, when used as units of measure, make the universal physical constants literally vanish from quantum-based equations. This simplification of a main aspect of quantum physics lead Myhre to discover other, heretofore, unknown aspects of our physical environment—for example: the simple, but elegant, linkage between electromagnetic and gravitational force; the realization of the beginning of a quantum-gravity model; the fine-structure constant’s correct definition; the rôle of updated Planck values in determining the possible existence of an elementary particle of matter that is mediated by the graviton; new, more-rational equations about gravitational phenomena, using the quantum attributes of the hypothetical elementary particle of matter as units of measure; and many more.
When Myhre retired, he decided to expose to the world the great truths about our quantum world that he has discovered over the decades. During that time, he kept most of his discoveries to himself because his family, friends, and associates, not being part of the physical community and, therefore, not in the know, would neither appreciate his discoveries nor recognize their importance. With the publication of this essay, Myhre hopes to prompt academic physicists to finalize the coup de grâce that he has begun by continuing to develop this more-coherent foundation for the methodology of quantum physics, which was impossible to achieve in the late 1920s because of the lack of sufficient knowledge at that time.
The author was born and raised in the Midwest during the height of the Great Depression and graduated from Fairbanks High School in Alaska. Fifty years ago, while a USAF pilot, he began pondering about aspects of inertial force. Then, over thirty years ago, his interest increased after attending a modern physics course while earning BSEE and MBA degrees at the University of Washington in Seattle. Thereafter, he became more and more interested in inertial force until reading about it and about other enigmas that pertain to our physical environment became his hobby. He spent countless hours in physics libraries and, over the decades, has purchased a great number of physics books. Now, he possesses an ever-growing library of them. He struggles through the more-professional books, not comprehending much of their arcane and highly-mathematical content, mainly in those thick books by Peebles, Wheeler, et alii. Nevertheless, he does obtain a good feeling for the limited range of information that he does seek.
Of course, as a hobby, this was not his day job. After leaving the USAF as a pilot in Normandy, he married there and helped his wife run her parents’ restaurant, the finest on the highway midway between Paris and the resorts bordering upon the English Channel, with the finest international clientele. Years later, because a new super highway bypassed the restaurant and taxes paid by merchants increased, as France became more and more socialistic, he returned to the United States with his family.
Other work was as a camp manager at various remote construction sites in Africa and Alaska. Besides the restaurant in France, he was a French restaurateur and chef de cuisine in Florida and in Washington state. He was a professor of computer systems technology at Memphis State University in Memphis and a professor of computer science at Western Washington University in Bellingham near the Canadian border. Before retiring in San Diego, California, he was a quality analyst there for electronic document-storage and -retrieval systems and a technical writer creating, for those systems, user manuals in English and translating them into French.
Excerpt 1
At the surface of Earth, we enter an elevator that has a weight scale built into the floor. Never fear, this super elevator can descend the almost 4,000 miles to the center of Earth, keeping us in air-conditioned comfort. Before descending, we notice that all three types of extranuclear force are acting upon our bodies—gravitational, inertial, and mechanical.
The first type is the vector sum of all of the pulls of gravity from all of the surrounding objects in the Universe, which is accelerating us along with everything else in the Solar System in a particular spiral direction, apparently toward the Black Hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The “downward” accelerating pull of Earth’s gravity is included in this vector sum, although it is cancelled out by the mechanical force of Earth, which is accelerating us “upward.” The second type is all of those pulls of gravity from all of those surrounding objects in the Universe that oppose each other and cancel out each other so that they do not contribute to the vector sum but create the inertial forces instead. The third type is the already-mentioned mechanical force of Earth accelerating us “upward.”
The elevator begins our descent at a constant speed. Except for molten rock and increasing heat, we notice little change at first. Then slowly, the force of Earth’s gravity appears to decrease because we “weigh” less and less as we continue to descend. This unidirectional pull of Earth’s gravity is gradually converting to additional omnidirectional inertial forces, which results in our movements becoming slightly more sluggish; our speech, a little slower; our bodies, a bit bigger; and our aging process, a bit slower; however, we cannot notice these changes because our thought processes are slowing as well, and everything around us is getting bigger as we get bigger. In essence, the magnitudes of the quantum-length and -time units both increase by the same factor as we descend, such that the magnitude of their quotient remains at the speed of light.
Finally, the elevator stops at the center of Earth, and we examine ourselves. We are “weightless” because the surrounding mass of Earth pulls us equally in every possible direction. Earth’s gravity is now being included in those pulls of gravity from all of those surrounding objects in the Universe that oppose each other and cancel out each other so that they do not contribute to the vector sum but create additional inertial force instead. This increased inertial force at the center of Earth does not pull at our bodies as a whole but pulls at each of the elementary particles of which we consist. Therefore, the orbits of the electrons bound to atomic nuclei are pulled farther away from those nuclei, which means that the Bohr radius is longer and the magnitude of the fine-structure constant, less.
As we ascend back to the surface, the reverse occurs, and, at the surface, the magnitudes of our bodily attributes are back where they were before we descended—well, not exactly. We appear not to have aged as much as those who remained behind at the surface. Of course these changes are minuscule because the mass of Earth is minuscule compared to the humongously more-massive objects in the Universe, which would affect us in humongously bigger ways.
Excerpt 2
As electrons, we now are interested in discovering the quantum magnitudes of our five dimensions—mass, temperature, charge, length, and time. Two are easy to find; they are the magnitudes of the electron mass and charge. After some trial-and-error guessing, the other three appear to be the magnitudes of the electron Compton wavelength, the lifetime of the virtual electron, and the threshold temperature of the electron. Quantum length divided by quantum time yields the speed of light. These magnitudes are the unidimensional quantum attributes of the electron, which are used in an electronic system of unit measures when they are each assigned a value of one.
You might well ask: Why not use the historic Système international (SI) metric system of unit measures, which, apparently, has served us so well up to now? Frankly, it has failed us with regard to quantum measurements because it is based upon humanoid and terrestrial magnitudes rather than those of elementary particles. This has forced us to create (not discover) constants of proportionality, which we have erroneously and, perhaps, vainly baptized to be fundamental universal physical constants of nature. When using the unidimensional quantum attributes of the electron as units of measure upon formulating equations that pertain to phenomena of electrons, these “constants of proportionality” vanish or, rather, they acquire values of unity and, as mathematical factors, can be removed from the equations. These rationalized or “sanitized” equations indicate their meanings better than they do when they contain constants of proportionality. We will see more about this later in Part Two: The Calculations. For now, we observe how our quantum attributes affect our movements.
In our lowest level of excitation, we appear to constantly leap back and forth (vibrate) over a distance of one quantum length (nature forbids us to shorten this “leap”). One traversal takes one quantum time period; therefore, we are either immobile or moving at the speed of light. Yet, we appear to vanish during each light-speed traversal—called a quantum leap, which, ironically, the public erroneously considers to be a “big” leap. In Part Two: The Calculations, we will see how a quantum leap would also happen to us if we were bound to the nucleus of an atom, when we would leap from one “orbit” to another when we get excited and how a quantum leap seems to apply to Werner Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, and to Thomas Young and George Airy’s parallel lines and concentric rings, respectively.
At higher levels of excitation, caused by a force from a particular direction, we appear to travel in jerks and pauses in that direction, the ratio between the occurrences of the jerks and pauses, depending upon the strength of the force. We travel one quantum length at a time, which takes one quantum time period to occur. As the magnitude of the force increases, more jerks occur and fewer pauses occur.
The absolute highest level of excitation occurs when we meet positrons. We each mate with a positron and transform ourselves into photons. Together, we still travel one quantum length at a time, which takes one quantum time period, but the pauses vanish, so we always travel at the speed of light, without any pauses—we are light, itself!
