Who Let the Dogs Out?

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Original poster: stork <stork@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

My grandson's favorite song is "Who Let the Dogs Out?"  Woof! Woof!  I see 
humorous similarities in this recent thread.  I hope others do also.  So, 
no offense intended.  My posts were designed to elicit response. From past 
experience posters responded predictably.  The cadre of folks who are self 
appointed defenders of the "True and Everlasting Science" have circled the 
wagons.  This is how science has progressed over the centuries and this 
board is no exception.  So we have to accept these folks and realize this 
is just in their personality make up and they are really incapable of 
change.  Conservatism is often a very good thing, but as in everything 
else, change no matter how incremental must happen.  Unfortunately the 
quote, "Physics advances one funeral at a time.", while humorous, contains 
a lot of truth.  So, peace to all.

Having said all that I will offer the following remarks to those who 
quietly follow the list along and newbies.  I am delighted many spoke up 
and agreed to allow others to speak of their experiments and theories. 
Folks like Terry, Steve Conor, Malcolm, Jim Lux and several others who are 
active innovators try to maintain balance and are much appreciated.

In the fierceness of debate the original premises are often forgotten. The 
impossibility of experimentally detecting and measuring a mythical physical 
electromagnetic concept, "Displacement Current", cast no dispersion on 
Maxwell, the original proponent.  But, was merely a wake up call to those 
who hold Maxwell's equations inviolable and who judge others work by those 
same theories to be extremely careful in their judgments of the work and 
theories of others.  For at least one of Maxwell's equations, as abridged 
by Heavyside and Hertz, is wrong.

Maxwell's original eighteen or so equations were in quartenon calculus.
These original equations were abridged to the vector calculus "Maxwell" 
equations we use today.  This streamlining eliminated scalar and other 
mathematical terms such as the vector potential from Maxwell's original 
equations.

So to answer a recent posters question of whether the changing of Maxwell's 
equations makes a difference, the answer is HELL YES, a big 
difference.  The vector potential is the big difference.  The vector 
potential was originally felt to be a mathematical entity only and of no 
real relavance.  But, low and behold, it's discovered to be a huge physical 
entity.  I know it makes Paul very nervous when Tesla coilers start talking 
Aharonov-Bohm, but we must.  At least on the magnetic side, AB is 
experimentally proven now beyond a reasonable doubt.  And, guess what?  The 
vector potential is proven to be a real physical entity rather than just a 
mathematical curiosity.

So what, the vector potential is a physical entity.  Well it just so 
happens that the vector potential is also the entity that is responsible 
for electron-electron energy exchange in all quantum mechanical events.  It 
all happens in Minkoski's 3D 1T and is not supra luminal.  (Whew, that 
should relieve a few of you.)  Magnetic or electric fields are not 
independent physical things residing in space.  One on one coherent QM 
particle exchanges are physically all that occur.

So what, we just want to make TCs and big sparks.  Well we have some pretty 
smart people on this list.  So in a few years Terry and some of the other 
coil builders will start to say, "You know, if we add some QM, vector 
potentials and scalars into our models we can easily hit 200 feet point to 
point!"  Is it really possible someone on the list could receive a Nobel 
prize one day?

Quiz for the day.  Who made the following comments?

"In the general theory of quantum electrodynamics, one takes the vector and 
scalar potentials as fundamental quantities in the set of equations that 
replace the Maxwell equations."

"In our sense then, the A-field is "real" ... E and B are slowly 
disappearing from the modern expression of physical laws; they are being 
replaced by A and phi."

Post your answer(s) please.

Until next time,

Stork