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+ +# Chapter 13. Summary + +
+ + +### 13.1 Experimental founding of the epola + +The epola model of space is established on the basis of three crucial +experiments: Michelson-Morley's (1887), Rutherford's (1911) and Anderson's +(1932). Numerous other experiments prove and substantiate this model. +Actually, there is not a single relevant experimental fact which would deny the +epola model or which could not be explained on the basis of this model. + +The Michelson-Morley experiment (Section 1.3) is an unbeatable proof that +the ether does not exist. Unfortunately, it is often presented as denying the +existence of *any* material carrier of electromagnetic radiation. However, what +was actually proven by this experiment is that + +> light emitted and received by earthy atomic bodies propagates with a +velocity independent of Earth's motion around the Sun. + +This excludes the existence of an etherous carrier, in which the motion would +cause measurable winds. However, it does not deny the existence of a carrier of +light, in which Earth's motion is *unable* to cause winds. Such is the epola, whose +electrons and positrons are thousand times closer to one another than the +electrons and nuclei of atoms of Earth and earthy bodies. Expecting that the +motion of such bodies would cause winds in the epola is like expecting to catch +sardines with a net, the threads of which are a hundred meters apart. + +The velocity of light in the epola does not depend on the motions of its +atomic sources and receivers (Sections 10.9–10.12), even if their velocities were +to approach the limits allowed for atomic bodies (2.4 Mm/s, Section 9.6), which +exceed the velocity of Earth by eighty times. Hence, the epola carrier of light is +in full agreement with the results of Michelson-Morley's experiment. Moreover, +the existence of the epola is the only physical explanation of these results. + +Proof of the very low particle-density in atomic bodies was given by +Rutherford. His experiments on the scattering of alpha-particles in atomic +bodies proved that only a millionth of a billionth part of the volumes of atomic +bodies is occupied by electrons and atomic nuclei. The rest of the volume, thus, +practically all the volume, is 'empty'; as empty as space itself and penetrable +to 'dense' particles. + +The much higher particle-density of the 'empty' space follows from +Anderson's experiments, in which electron-positron pairs are obtained from +*any* point in space,and the number of obtained pairs directly depends on the +density of the gamma-ray energy flux (Chapter 4). Then comes the fact that +electrons alone or positrons alone cannot be created or annihilated by +submission or removal of energies, even in the thousand MeV range. +This proves that electrons and positrons do exist in space but in a bound form. +They are, therefore, indetectible by usual means, and 1.02 MeV is just the +binding energy of an electron-positron pair to its counterparts in space. + +Quantum effects in electromagnetic radiation can be physically explained +only by a lattice form of its carrier. It follows from Anderson's experiment +that electrons and positrons are the building particles of the carrier. Hence, the +closest solid-state analog of this lattice is shown to be the ionic sodium-chloride +(rocksalt) crystal lattice (Section 5.1). Using this structural analogy, with the +known electron and positron mass and the known binding energy, we calculated +the lattice constant of the epola (4.4 femtometer, ± 0.5 fm; Section 5.6). This is +a hundred thousand times shorter than the distances between atoms in solids. + + +### 13.2 Calculations and derivations with tbe epola model of space + +Based on the analogy between the epola and the rocksalt lattice, we use the +formula for the velocity of bulk deformation waves in an unbounded crystal to +calculate the velocity of such waves in the epola (Section 6.5). It turns out that + +> the velocity of bulk deformation waves in the epola is the vacuum light +velocity $c$. + +This fact strengthens our arguments in favor of the epola as carrier of +electromagnetic radiation. A slight transform of the velocity formula for bulk +deformation waves in the epola yields Einstein's mass-energy relation $E = m c^2$ +(Section 6.8). Einstein's formula is therefore a result of the lattice structure of +the carrier of electromagnetic radiation; it expresses energy relations for the +freeing of masses from the epola and for their entrapment, not for their real +creation out of energy or true conversion into energy. + +The energy and momentum transfer process in an epola wave (electromagnetic wave) +is described either as their transfer among the half-wave +deformation clusters (Section 7.2) or by the motion of photons (Section 7.3). + +This enabled the derivation of Planck's law (Section 7.4), which was postulated +in 1900 and always remained a postulate. + +Our presentation of epola waves and derivation of Planck's law allowed to +introduce and calculate numbers, characterizing the half-wave deformation +clusters. For the Compton wave (of 0.51 MeV photon energy, equal to the +binding energy of an epola particle) we found that in the cluster there is at any +instant one photon, and the cluster contains 11 million epola particles. The +clusters of longer wavelength radiation or of epola *compressibility* waves +(Section 7.6) are spherical, the numbers of epola particles and photons in them +are proportional to the cube of the wavelength, and at any instant, they contain +one photon per every 11 million particles. The clusters of the shorter-wavelength +epola *impact* waves (Section 7.7) are ellipsoids and the number of +epola particles in them decreases very rapidly with wavelength, however they +always contain one photon. In the half-wave cluster of the shortest epola wave +(Section 7.10), there is one only epola particle, carrying the single photon of the +calculated 140 MeV "cutoff" energy. + +The de Broglie wavelength of the electron is derived as the wavelength of a +real epola wave, caused in the epola by the motion of the electron (Section 8.1). +Such waves, accompanying the motions of dense particles, propagate with the +velocity of light and pre-form the epola for the motion. Hence, the epola +becomes vacuum-transparent for particles moving much slower than the +accompanying wave. + +The accompanying waves of sublumic particles (i.e., having velocities close +to the light velocity) do not have sufficient time to pre-form the epola ahead. +The particle has to push apart the epola particles on its way, losing the more +energy the faster it moves. This resistance of the epola to sublumic motion is +accounted by assuming an increase in the 'effective' mass of the particle +(Sections 8.11, 8.12), which includes also the photon mass of the accompanying +wave. This allows a very simple derivation of Einstein's equation for the +dependence of mass on velocity (Section 8.13). Hence, this experimentally +proven relation, laboriously derived by Einstein with four-vectors, Lorentz +transforms and other heavy cannons of relativity is actually a simple result of the +epola structure of space. + +Our derivation of the expressions for the masses and momenta of photons +and half-wave deformation clusters (Sections 8.8. 8.9) also serves as a physical +basis in the derivation of the uncertainty principle (Section 8.7), which was +postulated by Heisenberg 60 years ago and has remained an unexplained pos-tulate +all these years. + +The epola model enables the derivation of Bohr's postulated conditions and +formulas for the allowed orbits of the hydrogen atom (Section 9.1). The +interaction of radiation with moving atomic bodies, discussed in Section 10.9, +leads to the derivation of formulas for the Doppler effect (Sections 10.10, 10.11) +and the independence of the velocity of electromagnetic radiation of the +motions of its atomic sources and receivers (Section 10.12). This was proven by +Michelson-Morley's experiment and stated in Einstein's second postulate +(though with illegal generalizations onto any emitting body and requests of a +universal unconditional constancy of the vacuum light velocity; Section 2.1). + +The epola is shown to be the carrier of not only the electric and magnetic +interactions but also of the gravitational interaction. The gravitational interaction +is derived from the differences in the short-range repulsive interaction +between epola particles, which itself is a derivative of the electromagnetic +interaction. This explains the 37 orders of magnitude lower strength of the +gravitational interaction (Sections 12.1-12.3). + + +### 13.3 Epola explanations of the otherwise inexplicable + +The proportionality of the photon (or quantum) energy to the radiation +frequency, postulated by Planck in 1900 (Section 3.1), contradicts the fact that +vibrational and wave energy is proportional to the amplitude-square and +independent of frequency; hence, it was not and cannot be understood in +quantum physics. In the epola model, the photon is a quasi-particle representing +the per-particle energy and momentum transferred in the epola wave from one +epola particle to the next in line (Section 7.3). While the vibrational energy of +each epola particle in the wave is proportional to the amplitude-square, the +per-particle energy of the half-wave deformation cluster is shown to be inversely +proportional to the wavelength; and so is the energy, transferred in the wave by +the photon-holding epola particles. Hence, this energy, i.e., the energy of the +photon is proportional to the radiation frequency (Section 7.4). + +The corpuscular properties of electromagnetic waves, unexplainable in +quantum physics, are due to the fact that the waves result from coherent +vibrations of epola electrons and positrons. The energy and momentum +transferred by a photon to a dense free particle is actually the energy and +momentum transferred to the free particle by the last epola electron or positron +on the path of the photon. The wave properties of particles are due to the epola +deformation-clusters around them, when at rest, and to the epola accompanying +waves, when they are moving. The clusters or accompanying waves are the +physical basis for the quantum-mechanical 'waves of matter'. They cause the +diffraction and interference phenomena and define the probability of finding the +particle (because the cluster or wave really is around the particle; Section 8.5). +Hence, we obtain a full physical explanation of the particle-wave duality +principle (Section 8.6) postulated and never explained in quantum physics. + +Einstein's postulated principle of frequency invariance is shown to be a +simple result of the epola structure of space. The frequency is kept stable by the +huge masses of quadrillions of epola particles which participate in the wave and +vibrate with this frequency (Section 8.9). A full physical explanation is given to +the stability conditions of allowed elliptic orbits, the meaning of the four +quantum numbers (Sections 9.1, 9.2) and to the exclusion principle (Section +9.4), postulated by Pauli in 1925 and unexplained until now. + +The observed zero-point energy of helium atoms, along with other +unexplained zero-point effects, is presented (Section 5.13) as due to random +vibrations of epola particles. These vibrations establish an epola temperature, +which in 'our' surrounding epola region is about 3 degrees centigrade above the +absolute zero temperature. Hence, the mysterious 3 K background radiation +observed everywhere on our skies is presented as the thermal radiation of the +surrounding epola (Sections 5.14, 11.2). + +Absorption, also non-linear, of electromagnetic radiation, is revealed as +partially due to epola random vibrations (Sections 10.1, 10.2). Physical +explanations are then given to the interaction of radiation with the electron gas +in metals and semiconductors (Section 10.5) and to transparency and reflectivity +of solids in different regions of the radiation spectrum (section 10.6). The +reduction of the velocity of visible light in atomic matter, as compared with the +velocity of X-rays and gamma-rays, is explained by the strong coupling between +visible light and orbital electrons, leading to the absorption of the visible light +and its re-emission (Section 10.7). + + +### 13.4 Epola dismissals, replacements and restorations + +To establish the epola model, we had to disprove and turn over two of our +natural perceptions: of a dense continuous atomic matter, which we replaced by +its experimentally proven emptiness and discreteness, and of the emptiness of +space, which we replaced by a dense population of bound electrons and +positrons, forming a discrete lattice. The penetrability of space to atomic matter +is due to the fact that neither is continuous and that both are built of +femtometer-size particles positioned at distances, which exceed their diameters. + +Thanks to this, we could explain the results of Michelson-Morley's +experiment without the unproven and antinatural requests of relativity. First, +we rehabilitate our natural perception of the three-dimensional space, raising it +up again to the rank of proven physical reality. Hence, we dismiss the +never-proven existence of a four, five, eleven, 506 or any $\mathrm{N}$-dimensional space. +Naturally, we do not question the legality of using such imaginary spaces in +calculations and do gratefully acknowledge the working results of such use. +However, working results do not make the spaces real, just as real results +obtained with complex numbers do not turn these numbers real. We may go +farther and say that the real results obtained in education with "Alice in +Wonderland" do not turn the wonderland real, not even with Disney's 'working +models'. + +Second, we dismiss the postulated universal constancy of the vacuum +light-velocity; replaced by the velocity of bulk deformation waves in the epola, it +depends on "local" conditions in the epola. We also dismiss the postulated +universal validity of laws and magnitudes established in our backyard, even if +obtained with astrophysical data; we limit their validity to 'our' uniform epola +region. Physical laws and magnitudes, established and measured on Earth, may +possibly be useful and applicable to other regions, but the *a priori* tyrranic +demand of their universal validity and unchangeability is rejected. Hence, the +epola model restores the natural rights of all autonomous regions of the universe +to manage their affairs according to local conditions and legislature. + +We dismiss the interpretation of Einstein's $E = m e^2$ formula as expressing +the equivalence of mass and energy and restore the mass-conservation law to its +full pre-relativistic glory. We reject the Big Bang interpretations of the 3 K +radiation of our skies and of the Hubble redshift as due to the runaway of +nebulae. The 3 K radiation is the radiation of the surrounding epola, due to the +random thermal vibrations of its particles, and the Hubble redshift is due to +three more physical phenomena, in addition to the Doppler effect. The Doppler +effect is suspected to shorten the wavelength in radiation spectra of some +nebulae, because then the up to 50 percent diversities in the Hubble constant are +physically explained. Hence, not everything is running away from us, the +universe is not necessarily expanding or exploding and the Big Bang theory is +dismissed as a groundless fantasy. + + +### 13.5 Epola suggestions and propositions + +We mention first the suggestion to measure the epola temperature from +zero-point and other low-temperature effects (Section 5.14). This is connected +with establishing a rating-factor for efforts needed to reach and maintain each +particular temperature below 4.2 K. The plot of this factor against the +temperaure should have a special point at the epola temperature. + +Our half-wave deformation-cluster presentation of epola waves (Chapters 6 +and 7), which enables the derivation of Planck's law and the calculation of +numbers characterizing the waves in all spectral regions, can be successfully +applied to waves in any elastic media. + +Of interest might be the suggested possibility of superlumic motion (Sections +8.14 - 8.16) and the spectral characteristics of small and large avotons in such +motion. This includes the unified approach to the Cherenkov radiation here and +to the accompanying wave in sublumic motion, which both are the response of +the epola to the motion of avotons. + +The derived velocity-limits of atomic bodies (Section 9.16) cannot be proven +experimentally, because we are very far from the ability to reach such velocities. +So low are also the known velocities of planets and comets. It might however +become possible to accelerate ions to velocities, sufficient to turn them into +higher order ions and so to check our approximate formula. The "runaway" +velocities of celestial bodies, calculated from their redshifts, have little to do +with the real velocities of these objects relative to Earth (Sections 11.6–11.10) +and cannot be considered. + +It might be possible to prove experimentally the proposed orbit-adjustment +redshift (or blueshift) in the emission spectra of atomic radiation sources moving +parallel to Earth (Section 9.7) but with a different velocity. + +The non-linear absorption of radiation on epola random vibrations could be +verified by the proposed measurement of the fading of 60 Hz radiation (Section +10.2). The effect of epola distortion on the propagation of light can be tested by +the proposed measurement in a micrometer-wide channel between massive +bodies (Section 1O.8). This would also allow us to check our proposed treatment of +the bending of light in a way similar to the treatment of the mirage. + +Our explanation of the limited lifetime of free positrons by the abundance of +free electrons in our region of the epola suggests that there might be regions with +an abundance of free positrons and atomic anti-matter. The possibilities are also +suggested of the creation of atomic bodies, as well as bodies of nuclear matter +and black holes by local collapses in the epola. Hence, atomic bodies could be +created in the epola "on premises", without collecting atoms from vast volumes +of the universe, as is assumed in the "gravitational collapse" hypotheses +(Sections 11.5, 11.11). \ No newline at end of file