Thursday, January 18, 2018

FUNDAMENTAL THEORY

Eddington in his great work "Fundamental Theory" was, I believe, trying to show that the natural constants were connected in to each other in a self-consistent way.........so that a given constant was defined in terms of various combinations of the other constants by using dimensional analysis and physical intuition..........and in particular microscopic constants like the mass of the electron or proton or Planck's constant etc were able to be defined in terms of macroscopical constants like the gravitational constant and the cosmological constant............thereby establishing connections between the microscopic Universe and the macroscopic Universe...........But he did not account for all the action we see at the mesoscopic scale where chemical phenomena, biological phenomena and the Periodic Table happen. I have only read some of Helge Kragh covering the "Fundamental Theory" but that seems to be the overview. Eddington's constants are identified as (1) v/c and (2) m/M and (3) F(electric)/F(gravity) and (4) unknown.........There is naturally, to be complete, a missing ratio of length and a missing ratio of time. Eddington describes a ratio of the radius of the electron to the radius of the Universe and some other length ratios..........this ratio of length is about 40 orders of magnitude smaller or larger than 1. And he probably describes a time ratio from some natural frequencies.........It is worthy of further exploration.....

Monday, January 15, 2018

TACITUS

Tacitus, the greatest Roman historian, who gave us "The Annals" which is an account of Roman History that runs several thousand pages in length........Tacitus officially recounts the person "Christus" who was condemned by the Roman Governor of Judea (Pontius Pilate) to suffer the "ultimate penalty" for perpetuating a "mischievous superstition" that he was the son of God.........it is thus officially recorded by Tacitus on a single page of "The Annals" that in Roman History there was indeed this person Christ as an historical fact.........Christ really existed 2000 years ago in Palestine near the Mediterranean Sea in Judea the Jewish Holy Land.........though it is a matter of faith to believers that after being crucified and dying on the cross Christ subsequently rose from death and appeared in the Holy Lands several times in the 50 day Easter season leading up to his ascension to Heaven and the birth and formation of the church on Pentecost Sunday.