A Universe SciFi Power Rings Can Play In
By Michael Griffin
1. Development of science fiction rings
From the article “Magic Ring” in Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
“In the DC Universe, the members of the Green Lantern Corps wear power rings that have a scientific, not magical, basis. These rings allow the bearer to perform any feat he can imagine, but are limited by his willpower. The Blackest Night storyline reveals the existence of similar rings of other colors, powered by other emotions such as greed and hope.”
A good science fiction power ring should allow its wearer to fly through the vacuum of space, and also give examples of how the power ring can create things. What is the ring’s power stuff? To spin it into theory, it must be a solid single substance, not matter or atoms, a unified material that can act as solid force yet move as if just light speed of pure energy, speed of thought. Thus, we need a single, pure force field of matter that can easily shift into energy. The will of thought shapes it while its power comes from the ring's charge.The ring uses a single energy that can store as a charge. It reshapes at the will of thought into forces of matter.
2. A Universe Needed
A single UFT force for the ring
So how can energy and matter be two forms of the same thing? Let us recall that basic truth written as E=MC^2 or E equals MC squared. Since this article is merely scifi speculation, we are not bound by the rigorous mathematical constraints of known physics. We can form a new interpretation of space-time (st) intended for compatibility with as many basic principles that fit.
Covering the 4 forces
For classic unified field theory (UFT), we are concerned with the four basic forces of gravity, electromagnetism, nuclear binding, and radioactivity. Each of these forces is illustrated by one idea. Gravity is represented by a planet in space. Nuclear binding and radioactivity are illustrated by in the nucleus of the atom, protons are bound together in spite of their repelling electric charges. The nucleus can also discharge particles or radiation, radioactivity, which would be going away from the nucleus.
An actual illustration of electromagnetism would have dotted lines to show the magnetic field. Electric current flow lines up electrons, or if a bar magnet has the electrons lined up in the same orientation, the effect is the same as current flow, to create a field. We could take the direction of current flow as fitting the “right hand rule” of a field curving around like fingers curled up behind the right hand’s pointing thumb.
3. Action Principles
Speed-field relation
Electromagnetism is also modeled as the electromagnetic wave spectrum, which also is modeled with particle properties. A particle of light is called the photon, typically considered as energy without mass. The constant speed of light, c, in all frames of reference led to the theory of special relativity. General relativity models the curvature of space and time by gravity from mass. One way it was confirmed is by observing the bending of light rays near the sun. Massless photons with no field of their own are still affected by a gravity field just because space itself is curved. If something is mass, it can never reach the speed of light, according to relativity.
For our science fiction substance, we will not make a sharp distinction between mass and energy. Instead, we will compare fields and particle speeds:
It seems there is an inverse relation between speed and field. A slower speed has a bigger field.
What is a field? Definition
A field is an area where force or some other quality manifests. We will address the aspects of speed, range, intensity, force, and momentum to derive a science fiction UFT. Begin with E=MC^2 or E equals MC squared, or energy equals mass times the speed of light times the speed of light. This is a kind of statement of the ultimate potential energy in mass. Dividing both sides of the equation by the speed of light, we now have E/C=MC. This is a momentum field of mass times the speed of light. Here we depart from relativity theory because in real-world physics this is supposed to be impossible. So our science fiction's mass M is not yet matter in the conventional sense. If it is really moving at the speed of light C then it is a photon. It can be modeled as an electromagnetic force, but it does not have the force fields of matter like gravity, binding, or radiation. It moves in a straight path as energy, whereas all the fields of matter would confine it to a local area. To become fielded as matter, it's straight line path must change.
Enfielding by Euler's
There is a mathematical symbol which is interpreted in physics to mean rotate 90°. It is the letter i which also stands for the square root of negative one, √-1. This is part of Euler's famous equation e to the pi i plus1 equals zero: e^(πi) + 1=0 or e^(πi) = -1. The symbol pi or π is defined as the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle, and Euler's equation can be interpreted as a way to describe cyclical patterns. If a straight path photon of energy begins a 90° or 90-degree rotation from the diameter of the circle to move along the circumference we can say that it has become enfielded into matter.
This is one way to interpret the meaning of i. Another interpretation of Euler's equation is that e^ (xi) = cos(x) + isin(x). Which again would be the cosine wave in the real world plane and a sine wave in the 90-degree imaginary i-plane. However, when x is pi this cyclical wave motion is also just equal to -1 which could mean the opposite direction that a photon was moving in before it became enfielded and took an orbit at a right angle. So then Euler's equation would be a multiplying factor in the UFT formula.
This explains the how but not the why of enfielding. It would also explain the how of the reverse process of unfielding where a matter particle or wave stops harmonizing in it's self-contained area and resumes a straight path as a photon vibrating with its wave-like properties. Something of the why may be due to the +/ - nature of the direction of the equation which was defined as one. When two science fiction particles collide we will take that to be the final multiplication of their masses, and we will only consider the directional value of +/-1. Positive one has been defined as the path of a photon while -1 has been defined as the path of enfielded mass. A few basic possibilities exist:
-1 X -1 = +1 two masses collide and convert to photons,
-1 X 1 = -1 mass absorbs a photon,
1 X 1 = 1 photons collide and merge or remain photons.
Those would be the rules according to basic arithmetic. The other possibilities which would not conform to standard arithmetic are:
1 X 1 = -1 photons collide and emit a mass,
-1 X 1 = +1 mass absorbs a photon and converts to photon,
-1 X -1 = -1 two masses collide and remain mass.
For the science fiction UFT the basic rules can suffice. The other rules may apply if something else like the Euler field factor makes a better fit to reality.
Space-time (st) defined as MC
So our particle of science fiction material has now become fielded mass and is no longer moving at the speed of light C. Then what was the meaning of a potential momentum field MC? This is the ultimate momentum from the ultimate energy that any mass can have. For conservation of energy, this is the structure of space-time. In any inertial frame of reference, a particle's total momentum is MC merely due to its existence in space-time. A Cartesian-like grid would have the X and Y axes represented each by a C vector, meaning the speed of light.
C MC
Note that area is two dimensions or C squared, as in E=MC^2. This can be interpreted as the three-dimensional aspects of the grid, and the two dimensional plane of C squared would be analogous to the curl of the field while one-dimensional vector momentum is analogous to the divergence of the field. MC is the space-time tension that any particle has. Left on its own, that particle can move along the grid as a photon or other energy particle. The next cover from a 1966 comic book gives some idea of how this can be visualized.
Copyright © DC Comics
What of the inverse relation between speed and field? A particle at slower speed has a bigger field. A ratio V/C that appears in relativity theory also makes sense to modify the momentum field E/C=MC since the momentum of physical objects is MV not MC. To maintain the original balance of the relation, we have E/(V/C) =MV/C. The left side of this equation will become bigger as the velocity becomes smaller. So we can call the ratio V/C a measure of the field intensity. Since our basic structure of space-time is MC, a measure of the range R of any field could be defined so that RV= C. Then range times intensity is R X ratio V/C = C/C = 1. A photon with velocity C has field intensity one to begin with, and a range of one, which would mean the diameter of the photon itself with an exterior field of zero. Since R = C/V there is now some justification for the traditional Infinity postulates of fields: as V approaches 0 the range factor approaches Infinity for that special frame of reference.
Look at the above diagram of the path of MC in a CXC grid. Using the Pythagorean theorem, break Its C vector into its right-angle velocity components v and V:
v^2 + V^2 = C^2 v^2 = C^2 - V^2 v^2/C^2 = C^2/C^2 - V^2/C^2
v^2/C^2 = 1 - V^2/C^2 so v/C = √(1 - V^2/C^2) and if Rv = C then R = C/v
But C/v = 1/(v/C) which = 1/√(1 - V^2/C^2) which is the Lorentz transform factor (Ltf) so the range factor R of v = the Ltf of its co-component V. The velocity components v and V come from the enfielding of mass M into (st). Special relativity’s Ltf is generated here by the mass distortion of (st).
4. A Universe Compared
Scale of forces
The following table is from a standard textbook cited in the sources:
Gravity thus 1/100
The table uses the Strong nuclear force as a unit of one since it is the strongest. The relative strengths of the other forces in the table are compared to that. One implication from the table is that gravity is also not really an infinite range. We see that gravity is less than the strong force by a factor of 10 to the -40 power. If there is an inverse relation between speed and field, then it may also show up between strength and range. We may thus conclude that the range of a gravity field is greater than a strong field by the factor of 10 to the 40th power. Multiplying these two factors means that we combine the exponents to get the range of a gravity field as: 10^-15m X 10^40 = 10^25 meters.
We can compare this result to the known size of the universe, 8.8 X 10^26 meters. Rounding this up to 10^27m we see that the universe is about 10^2 or 100 times bigger than the extent of a single gravity field. Our galaxy is said to be only 5X10^20m across, which is well contained within any single gravity field. A galaxy may only affect 1/100 of the rest of the universe, with its gravity. This may explain so many astronomical observations which at present do not fit any theories.
So in the table, both gravity and electromagnetism carry a definition that their ranges are infinite. I would call this an infinity postulate. In the science fiction UFT there is a new infinity postulate that the space-time tension of a particle everywhere is MC. The old infinity postulate is not used. Unfortunately, our formula for the range of field based on velocity does not give an easy answer for gravity's field as 10^25 meters. For example, a single g of earth acceleration due to gravity for one second is about 10 m/s. The speed of light C is 3×10^8 m/s. From that, the gravity range of an earth particle would be only 10^7 m. If we multiplied masses in Newton's formula, perhaps we could add exponents to get 10^14. Now the gravitational constant G has a power of 10^-11. If this were inverted and the exponent was added, then we would get 10^25 meters.
Spin cycles for field strength
If we subtract exponents in the above table we see that electromagnetism is 10 to the 28th power stronger than gravity, or 10^28. The two forces have different inverse square laws, one based on charge Q and the other based on mass M. Our science fiction field should only have a single inverse square law. Besides that law, it also has the new Euler factor e^(nπi) where the exponent n pi i allows for many cyclical waves or spins represented by the letter n. If each enfielded mass has its own Euler factor and two masses multiply in such an inverse square, then at the very least it would be e^(2πi) which would revert to a direction of +1 if it were still photons, but it is not. Instead for two enfielded masses the system has them spinning or cycling at some value of e^(nπi).
The value of n may be the only difference in field strengths. For comparison, let us say that n equals 1 for the gravity field G and we don't know the value of n for the electromagnetic field Q. We do know that the ratio or fraction Q/G equals 10^28. All other field formulas in the fraction have canceled out leaving only:
e^(nπi) / e^(πi) = 10^28. This simplifies to e^((n-1)πi) = 10^28. Solving for n we get:
n = (28 ln10) / (πi) + 1 as how many more cycles or spins the enfielded particle had to make to go from gravity to electromagnetic strength. In this context if we treat the i as just one then the value of n is 21.522 or 21 and a half spins. Similar calculation results for strong and weak forces will appear in a table below.
Inertia, where is +/- always
The value of n may also determine where is a +/- polarity in the science fiction field, which is always seen in Q but never recognized in gravity’s G. Consider two curves extended into complete circles side by side: a OO pattern. This could represent the spinning (st) cycles of two enfielded masses. General relativity would make this out to be the (st) funnels of mass without any spin. By spin I refer to the n value of the Euler field factor. If the spins are in the same direction they have the same sign whether +/+ or -/-.
If the spins are in the opposite direction they have different signs whether +/- or -/+, and the circular paths will come around to go through the middle of the OO shape in the same direction. This is opposite signs attracting in (st). If the spins are in the same direction and get out of sync the paths will collide in the middle of the OO, opposing each other in reverse direction. This is repulsion of the same signs whether +/+ or -/-.
What of the neutral charge, which can show up on a neutron that may split into a +/- proton and electron? Where does the spin go for a fielded yet neutral mass? On a two-dimensional figure, the spin may shift off of the diagram into the third dimension, losing its mutual or opposite flow to a 2-d spin path. This then raises the prospect of neutrons and antineutrons in their own +/-/0 plane of action.
The question remains, where is repulsion with the force of gravity? All around us we see everything attracted with gravity as if everything has opposite +/- polarities. Part of the answer may be in an anthropic principle: If the anti-gravity were not already gone we would not be here to notice. There are suggestions that galaxies are separating at an accelerating rate, and this would clearly be due to repulsion of their net gravitational fields. The cosmological constant of general relativity may then be an index of anti-gravity repulsion.
On an everyday level, where else could anti-gravity repulsion show up? Modeling gravitational motion occurs in two dimensions, one in the direction of attraction and the other at an inertial right angle. Inertia is plain velocity not acceleration so it is a momentum not a force. The momentum that keeps two masses moving away from each other or towards each other as the case may be. Maybe sometimes inertia is from the force of repulsion. In a broader inertial frame of reference where special relativity would apply, but too local for general relativity, anti-gravity only happens on a gravity scale. In a science fiction UFT there is only one kind of repulsion: when n values get out of sync.
Quantum unit basis
One way to get a real value of n is to use quantum theory and Planck's constant h. Combining E=hF and E=MC^2 makes MC^2=hF which gives the frequency F= MC^2/h for a matter wave. If we put in the numbers for the reduced constant h and the Planck mass then we get:
2.18X10^-8 (3X10^8)^2 / 1.05X10^-34 = 18.6857X10^42 = 1.8X10^43
This is the Planck frequency in Hz for the upper bound of electromagnetic or cosmic rays. Since this is the highest possible frequency, it can represent the strongest force of nuclear binding.
Radioactivity-binding +/-
The next table will show the relative spin-cycle n values for each force and also their characteristic electromagnetic spectrum frequencies:
The characteristic frequencies for electromagnetic and weak force are both in the high gamma range. Since gamma rays are part of radioactivity emissions this is not surprising for the weak force. It is more surprising that it would be the basis of charge Q. Gravity does give a good fit merely by subtracting exponents, though of course gravity waves are not considered electromagnetic waves. This 10^3 frequency could be the actual angular speed of a single-n spin speed.
We can now fill in the missing velocities in our first table above for the strong and weak nuclear forces. Use the field definition of range times velocity equals c, or R X V = C. For the strong nuclear force, its range is 10^-15m while the speed of light C is 3 X 10^8 m/sec. V would have to be 10^23 for the exponents to work, which is impossible for a single particle, but we have two particles multiplying in the inverse-square relation. As was done with the gravity example above, we will also consider the gravitational constant with its exponential power of 10^11. So from an exponent of 23 we subtract 11 and then divide by 2 leaving 23-11 = 12 / 2 = 6 for the exponent. So the revealed mass particle velocity in a field of nuclear binding strength is 10^6 m/sec.
Similarly for the weak nuclear force, its range is 10^-17m. To get a light speed C value of 10^8 m/sec, V would have to be 10^25 for the exponents to work. Again we subtract the gravitational constant’s power and divide the result by 2 since two particles are multiplying their fields together. 25-11 = 14 / 2 = 7 so the revealed particle velocity involved in the weak force is 10^7 m/sec. Weak forces emit particles and gamma rays, so regardless of electromagnetic charge there is still a repulsion occurring due to out-of-sync spin-cycle values of n.
The usual way binding force is thought of, is so the binding force is assumed to overcome the like-charge repulsion of protons. If there is only a single binding inverse-square force then this is no longer the case. However, if experiment does show that such amounts of energy are involved in the nucleus then it makes sense to keep these relative magnitudes of forces to make the tables for this science fiction UFT. Here our speculation is at an end, and we still do not have a mechanism for how a scifi ring's willpower can influence the field.
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