I don’t care who said it. The idea that space is warped, is stupid. The idea that light travels through warped space in a straight line, and the idea that light travels through warped space in a curved line, are all stupid, or, let me say, ill conceived. The idea that light travels at all, is just a contemporarily accepted conception of phenomena that “we”, as intelligent life, call light. And all the six billion of “us” intelligent lives on Earth, except “me”, believe that light travels everywhere, or at least travels everywhere in warped space. But I want to be one of the six billion intelligent lives! Don’t count me out yet! Don’t call “me” insane or stupid until I make my case! Our Creator has endowed me, along with the rest of us six billion intelligent lives, the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I am alive. I am free to speak and write anything I want to say. The U.S. constitution, you know, and Declaration of Independence. Yes! Yes! I want to be happy. Is that so bad? ....Dah.?...Okay! I’ll keep on talking and writing EXTREMELY!

In calmer moments I say to myself, “Why does these things about light, gravity, and lastly quantum continue to bug me?” One clue to the matter is that, since I was a little kid, before five years old, back in Lumberton Mississippi, from my straw bed at night, I looked up through open cracks in my family’s shanty roof, to see stars shining through. The bright starlight invited me to sneak outside and stare into the stark beauty of summer heavens to view stars everywhere. Wow! I remember the first time that I was startled by the long and narrow white cloud like streaks across the midnight sky. (I later learned this to be the Milky Way.) And one night I remember seeing flashes in the sky, coming from everywhere. The stars were falling, or shooting. (This was of course my first and most spectacular meteor shower.) My dad, a farm plowman and country preacher said at that time, “There is something strange about the way this child acts.”

It was not just the night sky ventures that puzzled my dad. I did things such as gazing for a long time at water ripples on rain puddles. I captured tadpoles and fish minnows from the nearby running creeks around Love Quarters, the name of our shanty neighborhood. My dad recalled that in one of my experiments, I dropped a small tree branch into the community drinking water well, blocking access to drinking water. The community was in an uproar, until my dad fished it out. As many country kids do, I whistled back to red or blue birds, and echoed the evening calls of the Bob White. I chased baby bunnies. In later articles, if you are still with me, I’ll tell you how I got lost, wandering along a country dirt road, absent minded except for picking and smelling honeysuckles, watching cows grazing in the pastures, and wondering if I could climb pine trees along the way, to chase squirrels. My mother once sent me on an errand to deliver my dad’s noon lunch pail she had prepared for him. He was plowing the spring field for early planting. Somewhere along the way I felt lost. I stopped and ate the lunch. I was hungry.

I remember my first physics experiment. I was three or four years old. On cold mornings, I noticed ice crusting the rain filled shallow trails of horse pulled wagon wheels. After thinking, one cold winter night, I took one of the empty syrup buckets my dad used as a lunch pail. I filled the pail with fresh spring water, and set it outside our shanty. Dah! .... The next morning I rushed outside. Surprised? No! The pail was filled with fresh ice, which I shared with my sister and two brothers. It was just as good as the ice chips we scrambled for, that the ice wagon man chipped off big blocks for five cents. I made so much of it, and was so proud of this very simple experiment. Did such simple experiments prove that I was really a strange kid, as my dad was the first to say? No!

Now today I say. I don’t care who said it. The idea that space is warped, is stupid! And furthermore, any theories of physical laws requiring space to be warped are likewise, stupid. I admit that nature has a way of hiding things, and making things complicated for intelligent life to seek out and reach rational mathematical conclusions and models. Once upon a time, the world of intelligent life, spiritually and rationally, concluded that the Earth’s geometric shape is flat. And now six billion minus one of us intelligent beings, believe that light travels, through space, and through other things like glass. Intelligent life has been tricked again by nature. And this is the fun of being a physicist, chasing the trails that our past great thinkers have laid out for us. Such trails like warped space, and light that zaps around in the universe, relatively, speedily, boggles our fuzzy minds. Almost all of us intelligent species are now convinced that the Earth is not a flat plane, and not the center of the universe. Dah!.... Two scores for Galileo and Columbus, as history tells how those ancient rational conclusions were smashed, and how Galileo was almost jailed as being some kind of demonic. Galileo almost lost his life, liberty and pursuit to happiness, endowed by our Creator.

I’m glad that now I am a retired rocket scientist. I was born a physicist. I worked as a physicist, (more like a rocket scientist); under U.S. government secrete clearances for over twenty years. Now I don’t have to worry about being jailed if I express such extreme thoughts that space is not warped, and light does not travel. Now that I am retired, one of my kids dubbed me “Goofy Lee”, and might go along with sending me to an insanity hospital, or old folks home. But I am happy within my new life with Mortonette. However, I must stop all this autobiographical chatter, and make a concise statement about warped space and stagnated light. To put it concisely, what we as intelligent life generalize as light includes the visible electromagnetic spectrum plus invisible electromagnetic phenomenon. The invisible segments of the electromagnetic spectrum include of course radio waves, X rays, gamma rays, and others. Each segment exhibits characteristic spectral phenomenon. Characteristic electromagnetic phenomena not visible to the eye is detected or perceived, through the concoction and application of instrumentation such as the radio, television, photographic cameras and other electro optical systems. Such instrumentation is first conceived, and then put into use, modeling the structures whereby conceptions are structured into perceptions and testing objectives. In a test plan, such instrumentation provides intelligent life a rational, whereby to predict the future progression of such phenomenon, ultimately to contrive applications, such as radio. After this procedure, what was preconceived is now perceived and measured through the use of the instrumentation devices, calibrated to measure magnitudes, in centimeter, gram, second, (cgs) scalier units. Preceding such application, somewhere within the human spirit, a concept was envisioned as to the cause of light phenomena. Very intelligent life reaches a rational conclusion that light phenomenon is structured according to the envisioned concepts. A fair question to ask is, “Why was this discussion necessary to formulate a conclusion that the idea of warped space and light zipping around in the warped universe is a stupid idea, or ill conceived rational? Let’s give this question some Extreme Thought!

But first! Can you recall the story of the Pied Piper, and how the children and mathematicians followed the piper toward unimagined disaster? Well. (What a twist of free speech. Mathematicians on a pied piper march. Chuckle, chuckle.) The analogy is obvious when mathematicians convince intelligent life to think that space is warped, and that light zaps around the universe. Mathematicians trash their three dimensional Cartesian coordinate system. Everybody can see that light, or electromagnetic waves, do not exhibit characteristic phenomenon except through a surface interaction with matter, or mass as you may prefer. Nowhere in the space of the universe, is light perceived by intelligent life, except through radiance or reflections from material, mass or matter. Examine either one. Examine the particle phenomenon photoelectric effect, or the wave phenomenon. Both photoelectric phenomenon and gratings phenomena, must be perceived as a surface response to a conceptual force, exerted onto the surface of a reactant bulk mass, of whatever particle. The reactant resonating phenomenon is a surface response to such force. Heated bulk matter resonates at its surface interface, radiating a force that excites the surface of surrounding media, such force being propagated for distances between the radiating and radiated bodies. In its most simple description, what we call light travel is the resonating surface response to some distant active force. Granted. Such an active force may have been excited on the surface of a distant galaxy, even from the leading edge of the Big Bang wave front, if there ever was a Big Bang. (Hint. Hint,) This force applied to or reflected from the surface, rather than from the interior of bulk matter, may be conceptualized as ripping through the space of the universe, like the ripples I watched as a post toddler, long ago, in the rain puddles in Lumberton Mississippi.

So what is this mysterious force that causes distant mass surfaces to vibrate at resonant electromagnetic frequency, by way of resonant response. Newton was not the first person in the world to have an apple fall from a tree, striking his noggin. Dah again! The force causing the surfaces of distant gross masses to vibrate in resonance is also, gravity!

You ask. What about the wave effect of photons? Gravity is a vector force, we say, pulling bulk matter together.

Then I say. Photons as we conceive them, don’t exist. The periodic table’s inner atomic structure may be the domain of photon like conceptions, existence and nonexistence. I say gravity exhibits a polarity, plus and minus in waveform. What about photons, you ask. What about quantum, and relativity you ask.

You ask. Do you really think that gravity is a resonant excitation exhibited in permanent magnetic and permanent electric field phenomena, and in electromagnetic wave phenomena? I say yes, yes, yes, to all of the above. Gravity, permanent electric, permanent magnetic, and electromagnetic field propagation phenomena, are the same force, and/or derivatives or integrals of one or the other. ...But... You stop me.

What about the radiance from heated mass, like the sun? Are you saying that you found the unified field theory? You ask.

At this point I have to scream and yell for help from my fellow mathematicians. “HELP! mathematicians. I apologize to you Brothers for what I said about your following the Pied Piper. Follow me, in this ring around the roses game kids like to play. Help me to straighten out my physics with geometric models and differential equations, matrices and such formats you do so well when you characterize warped space. Let’s work together to clear up this matter, or ... gravity, or gravity and light. Let’s unwarp space, together brother scientist mathematician....All you math guys look good to me.... He. He. He.”

Future Extreme Thought!
THINKING EXTREME THOUGHT! is a periodical series recurring on mortonette.com. I will write it in my “Goofy Lee” style, being objective and analytical, however, in following concepts and precepts as laid out in the AIP PHYSICS DESK REFERENCE, third edition with Editors; E. Richard Cohen, David R. Lide, and George R. Trigg. The overall approach is to conceive what physical laws would be like, if the concept of the photon and light travel is reconsidered, and the electromagnetic phenomenon is redefined as a derivative of what we now call gravity. Second, even higher derivatives may be required. To be thorough however, such reconsiderations will require exhaustive mental exercises in physics, mathematics, chemistry, biology, and allied sciences. I expect to relieve some of this exhaustion to my readers, in my “Goofy Lee” personality and writing style. One of the EXTREME OBJECTIVES! I have in mind is to rationally accept human spirituality, as abundantly evident in all intelligent life. I want to model and measure this abundance in terms of symbols, units and nomenclature of physical amounts as derivatives of basic units as described and defined in the reference, and by the International System of Units. I anticipate that successes along the way will lead to EXTREME APPLICATIONS! imaginary at this time. Ultimately gravity may provide the unlimited source of free energy, sustaining life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness for all intelligent life, and intelligent life’s companions, for health in biological, organic and material existence, on our beautiful planet Earth. (Photo: Mark Lee Stephens and Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 13 Astronaut and Founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences). www.noetic.org

"GOOFY LEE"

Mark Lee Stephens