God spins coins
The whole reason for inventing spinors was to explain how electrons “spin”. Experiment made it clear that they do not spin like cricket balls (or baseballs, or tennis balls, or golf balls, or whatever...
View ArticleThe spin connection
In the normal language of quantum gravity, the spin connection is an insanely complicated bit of mathematics that is used to connect the spin (of electrons and suchlike) to gravity (described by...
View ArticleParker’s algorithm
There are two forms of progress, as everybody knows. There is normal progress, where you develop a good idea. And there is paradigm-shifting progress, where you find a better idea, and start again...
View ArticlePsychedelic physics
The last part of the Standard Model of Particle Physics to be put together was the theory of the strong force, which is supposed to hold neutrons and protons together. This theory is called Quantum...
View ArticlePath integrals for dummies
A commenter has urged me to adopt the path integral interpretation of quantum mechanics, and in order to explain why I am not going to do that, I need to explain path integrals in a way that I could...
View ArticleMach’s Principle, or the Equivalence Principle, that is the question.
You remember Mach’s Principle? It basically says you can tell when you are rotating relative to everything else. We know it’s true, because you get dizzy when you are spinning. That is something that...
View ArticleComplete Algebraic Model of Physics
I’ve adopted a slightly less provocative title for the paper itself, that is, Clifford Algebra Model in Phase Space, but I am sure you can read between the lines. It’s not ready to go to the arXiv...
View ArticlePhysics on a Flat Earth
Today I want to explain what physics looks like on a Flat Earth. It looks, in fact, exactly like the Standard Model of Particle Physics. Particle physicists are finding more and more anomalies, that...
View ArticleWu meets Mach
The Wu experiment conducted in 1956 is arguably the most important physics experiment conducted in the whole of the 20th century. If you read about it in wikipedia, for example, you will get a very...
View ArticleZombie physics
The main theories of fundamental physics died several decades ago, and have been wandering around like the undead ever since. General relativity, Einstein’s beloved theory of gravity, died in the...
View ArticleGeneral relativity from quantum mechanics?
I may have been a bit hasty to dismiss GR in my most recent paper, posted here a couple of weeks ago at https://robwilson1.files.wordpress.com/2024/04/camps3.pdf. What happens in that paper is that I...
View ArticleThere is no rest for the wicked
Neutrinos are wicked. Of that there can be no doubt. They simply refuse to obey the rules that physicists have laid down for them. Physicists pray for them at mass three times a day, but they refuse...
View ArticleThe Total Perspective Vortex
You know, of course, about the Total Perspective Vortex, as described by Douglas Adams. But did you know that it is not fiction, but fact, based on sound physical principles – Mach’s Principle, to be...
View ArticleA new paper
Today I have submitted a new paper to the arXiv, but because I expect them to reject it, I am posting it here, at https://robwilson1.files.wordpress.com/2024/04/c3ine8v2.pdf. It is rather technical,...
View ArticleThe origin of MOND
Einstein’s Field Equations for gravity are written in tensor form, with 10-dimensional tensors that transform under the group of general covariance, that is GL(4,R). Now the representation theory of...
View ArticleContradiction in the universe
When I was a mathematician in Cambridge, we used to use the phrase “contradiction in the universe” as a joke, to describe the all-too-common situation in which we had proved two contradictory things...
View ArticleSymmetries of things
“Symmetries of things” is my specialist subject, and has been for 49.5 years. One of the first things one learns in this subject is to distinguish between studying different symmetries of the same...
View ArticleDecoupling particle physics from gravity
It is usually quite hard to decouple things in physics: everything affects everything else, and isolating the effects you are trying to measure, from the noise of everything else around them, is...
View ArticleMOND from first principles
A new version of my recent paper is now available on the arXiv, at https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18938, with more discussion of gravity, both GR and MOND. For those who are only interested in gravity,...
View ArticleDefinition versus measurement
Physical properties can be either defined, or measured, but not both. As theories develop, and as experiments improve, particular properties can, and do, move from one category to the other. For...
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