Honig/realist SR-QM/photexes etc

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Dec 07 2001 - 19:49:43 MST


http://osiris.sunderland.ac.uk/webedit/CET/news/Philosophy%20_of_Science/Hia
tus_in_realistic_sr_qm_theory.doc

or for an HTML version

http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:h3HBkigAT6E:osiris.sunderland.ac.uk/web
edit/CET/news/Philosophy%2520_of_Science/Hiatus_in_realistic_sr_qm_theory.do
c+Honig+photex&hl=en

An American-Australian academic engineer, formerly editor for 20 years of
the delightful and often silly SPECULATIONS IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY,
Prof. Bill Honig got a free run in today's `Weekend Australian' newspaper
for his nonstandard theory that bids to combine SR and QT in a realist
fashion. The paper cited above sketches his model. Apparently an updated
paper was published in PHYSICS ESSAYS, a peer-reviewed journal, in August
2001. The world abounds in such zany theories, of course, but this one
might arouse some interest among the scientists on the list. Why does the
double-slit experiment work the way it does? Well, the `spinning droplet'
photons are deflected by smoke-ring-like `photexes' (photeces?) shed into a
plenum consisting of positive and negative charged teeny-weeny continuous
fluids. That damned aether just won't go away.

Damien Broderick



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