Posted: May 05, 2016 11:46 pm
tolman wrote:It seems to require a delusion that people can just make up basic laws of physics as they see fit, regardless of the lack of either evidence or theoretical foundations.
THWOTH wrote:Solve the mass-energy paradox and I'll believe you.
It was solved in 1931 by Sauter : create an electric field with strength 1.3 E 18 N/C and the field will allow virtual particles to become real, hence free mass-energy from nothing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwinger_limit
To create such a strong electric field has been beyound mankind's ability so far, but it continues to be a motivation for research into high power lasers, and we are getting close.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.4306
Expect it to be realized within the next 15 years.
The Max Planck institute have a research team working on this.
https://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/keitel/dipiazza/
>delusion
the only delusion here is the dogmatic adherence to the 'god created the universe' aka bigbang meme. Proposed by a clergyman and shrouded in mathematics, it doesn't fool anyone properly trained in physics and critical thinking. Only a fool would abide it and dismiss alternatives without consideration.
The universe is full of mass-energy, therefore physics should include a repeatable way to create mass-energy, and not palm off creation as outside the scope of physics, declaring it to be the exclusive domain of god.
I'm glad to see teams of scientists at the world's top universities and posting in the top journals are working on non conservative electric fields.
There's a fair chance the sun's corona is a non-conservative electric field, creating new mass-energy in the form of the solar wind.