Velocity Revisited
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This book presents a novel and unorthodox approach to the wave theory, attempting to explain complex physical phenomena and derive fundamental laws of physics using natural numbers. The book is an elaboration and expansion of work presented in “What is a Photon? (Wunderman, 2000) and “Planck’s Constant and Pi” (Wunderman, 2004) which introduced a new interpretation for the space between integers of the natural number counting system. Mechanisms of wave propagation provide the essence of this theory. In addition, foundations emerge from the natural numbers themselves. The thesis makes a distinction between indeterminism and lack of causality in de facto physical processes. This work utilizes an uncommon method to describe how a wave-front surface area grows. The theory can infer a slightly altered interpretation of how space progresses as a square law when advancing away from an origin. Section I and Section II present an overview of the analysis method. The analysis in this treatise derives circumstances for viably transmitted cyclic modes and the consequence of their existence. Section I addresses the motion of objects like spontaneous emission photons that propagate at the highest rate, light-speed C. Section II covers the relative motion of slower rest mass objects. This treatise does not analyze relative motion in the presence of fields like gravity that could act on the moving object. This thesis purports that our interpretation of relative motion, what we call inertial velocity, is best expressed quite differently than has traditionally been done. This thesis hopes to show that the speed of light should numerically be absolute unity, based exclusively on the mechanism by which area accrues on the information-transferring-wave-front generated by events on a moving object. This thesis hopes to demonstrate that a more general type wave description better satisfies portrayal of a photon’s “frequency”. The harmonic exponential function “e" is therefore purported to be an inappropriate mathematical function for physically representing propagating waves, photon frequencies, electromagnetic-radiation, and affiliated cyclic phenomena. An appropriate function must involve a reaction that temporally follows an initiating cause and presents a response that includes effects of Planck's constant and indeterminism associated therewith. This theory presents such a function and the waves generated are called unified waves.
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This book presents a novel and unorthodox approach to the wave theory, attempting to explain complex physical phenomena and derive fundamental laws of physics using natural numbers. The book is an elaboration and expansion of work presented in “What is a Photon? (Wunderman, 2000) and “Planck’s Constant and Pi” (Wunderman, 2004) which introduced a new interpretation for the space between integers of the natural number counting system. Mechanisms of wave propagation provide the essence of this theory. In addition, foundations emerge from the natural numbers themselves. The thesis makes a distinction between indeterminism and lack of causality in de facto physical processes. This work utilizes an uncommon method to describe how a wave-front surface area grows. The theory can infer a slightly altered interpretation of how space progresses as a square law when advancing away from an origin. Section I and Section II present an overview of the analysis method. The analysis in this treatise derives circumstances for viably transmitted cyclic modes and the consequence of their existence. Section I addresses the motion of objects like spontaneous emission photons that propagate at the highest rate, light-speed C. Section II covers the relative motion of slower rest mass objects. This treatise does not analyze relative motion in the presence of fields like gravity that could act on the moving object. This thesis purports that our interpretation of relative motion, what we call inertial velocity, is best expressed quite differently than has traditionally been done. This thesis hopes to show that the speed of light should numerically be absolute unity, based exclusively on the mechanism by which area accrues on the information-transferring-wave-front generated by events on a moving object. This thesis hopes to demonstrate that a more general type wave description better satisfies portrayal of a photon’s “frequency”. The harmonic exponential function “e" is therefore purported to be an inappropriate mathematical function for physically representing propagating waves, photon frequencies, electromagnetic-radiation, and affiliated cyclic phenomena. An appropriate function must involve a reaction that temporally follows an initiating cause and presents a response that includes effects of Planck's constant and indeterminism associated therewith. This theory presents such a function and the waves generated are called unified waves.
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IRWIN WUNDERMAN (scientist and inventor) The author produced 16 patents and 25 papers, some attaining international awards. He published two other related books: What Is A Photon?: A unified-wave theory explained (2000) and Planck's Constant and Pi, a unified wave theory for particles and bioforms (2003). This third book culminates over 40 years of independent research to establish how and why ordinary natural numbers and mathematical relationships express fundamental physical laws through waves. Work on this theory began in graduate school as the author studied towards his 1964 Ph.D. in solid-state physics, optical electronics, and instrumentation at Stanford University. His early career included solid-state research and development at Lockheed and then at Hewlett-Packard. Nicknamed "Mr. Transistor," he was deeply involved in instrument design, including those for measuring wave frequency, electrical conductivity, and light. He later led HP's first computer division, which produced their first calculator. Thorough the 1960's, his work included development of the first opto-couplers and fiber-optic communication links. Upon leaving HP in 1967, the author started Cintra, a company that initially developed a line of digital, optical instruments for measuring photons. It later produced a compatible computer/calculator (the Cintra Scientist model 909), which received the '1970 Industrial Research 100 Award' for creating the first scientific computer-calculator to employ algebraic notation and having a data bus permitting real-time integration between digital instruments, keyboards, computers, and network systems. That data-bus became the prototype for the IEEE-488 bus standard, and the calculator the basis of Texas Instruments scientific calculators. Later in life, the author was on the board of a number of Silicon Valley start ups, including Cetus Corp. He invented bio-medical probes for instruments to screen human tissue for cancer. Despite all these immediately practical endeavors, throughout his career, he also worked tirelessly toward developing a unified wave theory.