Anti - Commutators by SONOLOGYST published on 2016-10-08T08:35:06Z https://unexplainedsoundsgroup.bandcamp.com/album/electrons-a-scientific-essay Sonologyst: synthesizers, processing, mastering. Cover: electro-magnetic fields. Edited by Unexplained Sounds Group All rights reserved As the theory of the atom, quantum mechanics is perhaps the most successful theory in the history of science. It enables physicists, chemists, and technicians to calculate and predict the outcome of a vast number of experiments and to create new and advanced technology based on the insight into the behavior of atomic objects. But it is also a theory that challenges our imagination. It seems to violate some fundamental principles of classical physics, principles that eventually have become a part of western common sense since the rise of the modern worldview in the Renaissance. The aim of any metaphysical interpretation of quantum mechanics is to account for these violations. In this theory, the electron had maintained some measure of identity as an independent physical system. Even this was lost as the electron continued to mutate into forms ever more remote from Thomson’s corpuscles. In Jordan and Wigner’s (1928) theory, under second quantization of the singleparticle electron wave function, the electron became a mere excitation of a fermionic field. Wigner’s (1939) analysis of group properties of elementary particles relegated the electron to a spin-1/2 irreducible representation of the Poincaré group. In the 1967-68 Glashow-Salam-Weinberg theory of electroweak interactions, the electron is an even stranger beast: it has massless left-handed and right-handed parts that unite to form a massive particle through interactions with a scalar Higgs field. Finally, in the current Standard Model of fundamental interactions, the electron is a member of the first of three generations of similar leptonic particles that are related in a non-trivial way to three generations of hadronic quarks. With its public person displaying more aliases than a master confidence trickster, we may well doubt that we have or ever will unmask the identity of the real electron in our theorizing. Do we not learn the lesson of history if we cease to take our theories of the electron as credible reports of physical reality? Such concerns have long been a subject of analysis in philosophy of science. They have been given precise form in the “pessimistic meta-induction”: Every theory we can name in the history of science is, in retrospect, erroneous in some respect. At the moment the question remains: do electron exist or not? Excerpt from "What Should Philosophers of Science Learn From the History of the Electron?". Jonathan Bain and John D. Norton. Department of History and Philosophy of Science University of Pittsburgh. Genre Electronic Comment by may HD insane! 2019-04-22T22:25:34Z Comment by ref11 superb 2018-07-21T18:15:45Z Comment by ZZY that ambience! so dark :O 2017-06-06T11:37:52Z Comment by SONOLOGYST @anhuman: you're welcome. Honored of your great appreciation :) 2017-02-08T15:25:20Z Comment by ste rozza i just read your thing about quantum mechanics, what it comes down to is that western science/mind has a concept of a 'real' tangible version of reality, what quantum mechanics has now proved is that nothing and everything is 'real', or if it can be imagined then it becomes 'real', a multitude of multi-verses all the same all different, ....sort of :) 2016-10-08T17:55:18Z Comment by ste rozza chill alien industrial drone :) 2016-10-08T17:48:00Z