Brilliant Disguise: Light, Matter and the Zero-Point Field

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http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~sai/zpf_haisch.htm (Read Full Article at link)

by Bernard Haisch


"God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light."

It is certainly a beautiful poetic statement. But does it contain any science? A few years ago I would have dismissed that possibility. As an astrophysicist, I knew all too well the blatant contradictions between the sequence of events in Genesis and the physics of the Universe. Even after substituting eons for days, the order of events was obviously wrong. It made no sense to have light come first, and then to claim that the Sun, the moon and the stars - the obvious sources of light in the night sky of the ancient world - were created only subsequently, be it days or eons later. One could, of course, generalize light to mean simply energy, and thus claim a reference to the Big Bang, but that would, to me, be more of a stretch than a revelation.

My first inkling that the deceptively simple "Let there be light" might actually contain a profound cosmological truth came in early July 1992. I was trying to wrap things up in my office in Palo Alto so that I could spend the rest of the summer doing research on the X-ray emission of stars at the Max Planck Institute in Garching, Germany. I came in one morning just before my departure and found a rather peculiar message on my answering machine; it had been left at 3 a.m.by a usually sober-minded colleague, Alfonso Rueda, a professor at California State University in Long Beach. He was so excited by the results of a horrifically-long mathematical analysis he had been grinding through that he just had to tell me about it, knowing full well I was not there to share the thrill.

What he had succeeded in doing was to derive the equation: F=ma. Details would follow in Germany.

Most people will take this in stride with a "so what?" or "what does that mean?" After all what are F, m and a, and what is so noteworthy about a scientist deriving a simple equation? Isn't this what scientists do for a living? But a physicist will have an incredulous reaction because you are not supposed to be able to derive the equation F=ma. That equation was postulated by Newton in his Principia, the foundation stone of physics, in 1687. A postulate is a law that you assume to be true, and from which other things follow: such as much of physics, for example, from that particular postulate. You cannot derive postulates. How do you prove that one plus one equals two? The answer is, you don't. You assume that abstract numbers work that way, and then derive other properties of addition from that basic assumption. 

But indeed, as I discovered when I began to write up a research paper based on what Rueda soon sent to Garching, he had indeed derived Newton's fundamental "equation of motion." And the concept underlying this analysis was the existence of a background sea of light known as the electromagnetic zero-point field of the quantum vacuum.

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What this article reminded me of was "the light of the world" 

Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD [shall be] a light unto me.

The sun [and] moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, [and] at the shining of thy glittering spear.

The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.

Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

[That] was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.


And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.

[dgbygrace]

Oh my!  Now I'm going to have to go read the full article!  Physics is Hard to grasp though!!

Mad scientist woman that you are, !

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Physics is not too hard to grasp sis! Just let the Lord explain what them NERDS is talking about! !  One of the reasons I decided to look into what's going on with all our mad scientists and their theories was Hawkings offended my senses with his theory of we don't need a God to explain creation   ...So now I have asked God to explain Hawking's mind to me! Forget explaining creation to me..just explain that man's mind to me! That's the bigger mystery!   

I have come to the conclusion that science and physics is just another religion! They argue, debate and disagree worse than Christians do!

[dgbygrace]

  , !  (!  That was me as a child and still iz!  Iz think youz too!!)