On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Harry Veeder <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Terry, fill us in. > Did Feynman regard the concept of a negative temperature meaningless? http://www.openseti.org/Docs/HotsonPart1.pdf Be sure to read the sidebar: “Isn’t angular momentum energy?” he asked a professor. “Of course it is. This half-integer spin angular momentum is the energy needed by the electron to set up a stable standing wave around the proton. Thus it is responsible for the Pauli exclusion principle, hence for the extension and stability of all matter. You could say it is the sole cause of the periodic table of elements.” “Then where does all this energy come from? How can the ‘created’ electron have something like sixteen times more energy than the photon that supposedly ‘created’ it? Isn’t this a huge violation of your never-violated rock-solid foundation of all physics?” . . . Later Mr. Hotson was taken aside and told that his “attitude” was disrupting the class, and that further, with his “attitude,” there was no chance in hell of his completing a graduate program in physics, so “save your money.” <><><><><><> He has a total of 3 treatise. I am trying to grasp the last one still.
