History of the Quantum Aether and its Not My Idea

Some people think the quantum field is all my invention, but there is a long history with important physicists developing it. Here are a few highlights.

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[Verschlungen]

The content, the style of delivery, the sly humor -- it all goes together in a way that is marvelous, and beyond cool. (You could probably just 'read the phone book' and we'd still listen, but please don't!)

[danchadwick]

Thank you Ray!
I've been so frustrated by this topic. Discussion of the several theories and how quantum fields and aether are really the same thing, is very helpful. (As above so below, principal) My premise starts with a stone in the pond example. And how light radiates away. The waves propogate away on the aether medium. Next is how Gamma Rays are electron-positron pairs, and these are the Hawking Radiation leaving nuclear activity. Neutrons are immune to electrons and positrons and their annihilation. And dark matter is simply neutral baryonic matter.

[JohnSix-re]

Thank you for sharing. The historical flow of ideas helps me focus on their origins.

[gjergskender]

Great video, Ray!

Thank you for these!

[asiseeit...]

Very well done and greatly appreciated presentation, thank you!!

[everythingisalllies]

We ought to be paying more attention to Hoon Sol, his latest contribution and insight is :-
Hoon Sol
9 hours ago
Squawk! Squawk!

This man obviously knows a lot.

[smlankau]

Experiments proved the existence of material space called quantum foam. Nikola Tesla talked about Aether too. Thank you so much. ❤

[muzduz]

Haha, good on ya Ray. :) Histories of all science stuff are awesome. How we did progress and how we could have progressed had those histories been slightly or greatly different as they may be in the future.

[w.harrison]

Ray, where are you? How about an update on what you've been doing? Miss your videos.

[nolan]

Hat tip to Clif High for pointing at Tesla's favorite book: Boskovich.

[cunjoz]

quantum field is definitely not your theory, but it's not often that people call it aether.

[philoso]

Nice video. I often picked up a term “dipole” in the quantum field and no further details, attribute or what and where it came from. Would appreciate to learn a bit more in that in your future article.

[wesbaumguardner]

All the Nobel prize winners were wrong. This is an appeal to authority fallacy. Maxwell was correct. His theory of fluid dynamics involving vortexes has explanatory power and physical causation whereas a "positive charge" magically attracting a "negative charge" and magically repelling another "positive charge" and vice versa has absolutely no explanatory power nor physical causation at all. Einstein's theory is likely called "zero point" because there is no point to it at all. No one ever used Einstein's theory to design an electrical grid that was successful.

[ZygonesBzygones]

Nobody Worries That Anything Is Your Idea

[steveschaefer]

You state that imaginary numbers are real numbers, but you don't define real. Surely you don't think that there are physical referents for imaginary numbers, or even negative numbers for that matter. Just because we can think something up doesn't make it real. Epistemology is an essential part of science.

[hoon_sol]

The title should read "it's" rather than "its"; the former is a contraction between "it is", the latter is possessive.

[everythingisalllies]

So now you are calling on the Appeal to authority logical fallacy to support the irrational concept of a magical Field? Who cares what famous guys think? Is there some law of nature that says they are infallible? NO. To expect us to believe i a magical Quantum field as a Physical entity, you need only supply a rational explanation and definition. You can have a Quantum Field as an abstract Mathematical concept, but not as a real object in Physics.