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in diagram Fig. 4, the augmented spherical form of the metaparticle was
hypothesized by practical necessity rather than as being an integral development
from the substantive metaphysical findings which we began trying to introduce
in the mid seventies. One electron mystery I was hoping to solve with the basic metaparticle model was not yielding to it. That puzzling instance of particle behavior had to do with "orientation". When an electron, for example, is held static in a magnetic field, experimenters can determine its orientation: up, down, sideways (Fig. 5). They can even cause it to turn a flip. (We are still working to solve the further enigma resulting from the rollover phenomenon.) |
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Now here is the puzzling problem that led to the augmented, spherical metaparticle. If you're a non-scientist, bear in mind that experimental physicists can't actually see a captive electron to determine its orientation. Their measuring and testing devices tell them. So when the device says the electron is in an "up" or "down" orientation, fine. But when the same device indicates the particle being tested is "oriented in no direction", or "in every direction", one can well imagine that even a veteran experimentalist might for the moment be disturbed. We had our basic model, however, and it was a dynamic disk. It finally occurred to me that when a disk rotates on an axis running edge-to-edge, it forms a sphere. We also knew science recognizes that particles are "tiny gyroscopes". And as a satellite designer Charles Bueker was the ideal man to ask about the phenomenon of gyroscopic precession, where its wheel spontaneously begins a slower second rotation on another axis. (He said engineers in his specialty were all too familiar with precession. They considered it mostly a nuisance.) All this together strongly implied that a spinning electron going into precession would form a sphere in which no kind of orientation could be established, and which could therefore be honestly described as having either no orientation or oriented "every which way" at once. Charlie did computer simulations of a 3-D metaparticle and came up with very reassuring motion patterns that seemed to confirm further the two-to-one ratio of frequencies between primary and secondary rotations. Those graphics are presented in the page following Wave/Particle Duality.
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