Hidden variables: the resonance factor

Juliana H. J. Brooks

doi:10.1117/12.834292

10 September 2009 Hidden variables: the resonance factor

Juliana H. J. Brooks

Proceedings Volume 7421, The Nature of Light: What are Photons? III; 74210C (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.834292
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2009, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

In 1900 Max Karl Planck performed his famous black-body radiation work which sparked the quantum revolution. Re-examination of that work has revealed hidden variables, consistent with Einstein's famous sentiment that quantum mechanics is incomplete due to the existence of "hidden variables". The recent discovery of these previously hidden variables, which have been missing from foundational equations for more than one hundred years, has important implications for theoretical, experimental and applied sciences and technologies. Planck attempted to integrate the new "resonant Hertzian (electromagnetic) waves", with existing Helmholtz theories on energy and thermodynamics. In his famous January 1901, paper on black-body radiation, Planck described two significant hypotheses - his well known Quantum Hypothesis, and his more obscure Resonance Hypothesis. Few scientists today are aware that Planck hypothesized resonant electromagnetic energy as a form of non-thermal energy available to perform work on a molecular basis, and that Planck's Resonance Hypothesis bridged the gap between classical Helmholtz energy state dynamics of the bulk macrostate, and energy state dynamics of the molecular microstate. Since the black-body experimental data involved only a thermal effect and not a resonant effect, Planck excluded the resonant state in his black-body derivation. He calculated Boltzmann's constant "k_B" using completely thermal/entropic data, arriving at a value of 1.38 ×10^-23 J K^-1 per molecule, representing the internal energy of a molecule under completely thermal conditions. He further hypothesized, however, that if resonant energy was present in a system, the resonant energy would be "free to be converted into work". Planck seems to have been caught up in the events of the quantum revolution and never returned to his Resonance Hypothesis. As a result, a mathematical foundation for resonance dynamics was never completed. Boltzmann's constant was adopted into thermodynamic theories without its natural companion, the resonance factor ("r_f").

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Juliana H. J. Brooks "Hidden variables: the resonance factor", Proc. SPIE 7421, The Nature of Light: What are Photons? III, 74210C (10 September 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.834292

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