09-04-18 David McClintock Quantum fields

Quinta Loreto Hotel, Cjon. de Loreto 15, Centro, Zona Centro, 37700 San Miguel de Allende, Gto.

From Cjon. de Loreto, enter the Mercado de Artisanias alley (East, going up-hill) about twenty yards and turn to your left into the Hotel Quinta Loreto compound.

The community center is on the Southeast side of the little central park. If you are coming by car, there is a parking lot within the compound.

(The community center is in the same location as the Philosophical get-together which is held on Fridays.)

A 50 pesos donation is suggested.

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Dark energy is the biggest mystery in cosmology, but it may not exist at all https://phys.org/wire-news/297407759/dark-energy-is-the-biggest-mystery-in-cosmology-but-it-may-not-e.html

Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06178-7

The force of Gravity remains one of the most sloppiest constents and the hardest to measure, and remains so...

Feeling the pull of gravity

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06044-6

No brainer...

Air pollution is making us dumber, study says

http://www.waff.com/2018/08/28/air-pollution-is-making-us-dumber-study-says/

For The First Time, Scientists Have Accelerated Electrons in a Plasma Wave

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-take-first-step-to-smaller-cheaper-particle-accelerators

Many astronomers still think there's an as-yet-undiscovered Planet Nine out in our solar system

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/is-there-a-mysterious-planet-nine-lurking-in-our-solar-system-beyond-neptune/2018/08/31/1957c8ca-a495-11e8-8fac-12e98c13528d_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.34814eb31072

Chip upgrade helps bee-size drones navigate: Low-power design will allow devices as small as a honeybee to determine their location while flying

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180619230841.htm

Secret to longevity may lie in the microbiome and the gut: Experiments in fruit flies show increased lifespan thanks to a combination of probiotics and an herbal supplement

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180531114611.htm

Hong Kong scientists develop new 'nano-swarm' robots

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/04/health/nano-swarm-robots-intl/index.html

Notes & Links relating to David McClintock's presentation:

The "Standard Model" is a complete theory that does a fine job of predicting three of the four fundamental forces and the particles it uses to bundle interactions that express these three forces. It is a messy structure in my opinion with plugged in fudge factors, but it works to describe 4% of the observed universe... And it cannot explain Gravity.

Perhaps it is as useful but as wrong as the Ptolomeic model for the solar system.

The Quantum Field Theory suggests "underneath" ALL "particles" is an ocean of quantum Fields, and their interactions present themselves to us as stuff, matter, particles. So I passed around two lumps of enduring matter that also exhibit enduring fields. And then there is the field we call gravity, and light, and...

Explaining 4% is not bad, but maybe we have been observing sardines, tuna, the occasional whale, but have missed up to now seeing the entire ocean (96% of the observed universe - a quantum ocean to be sure) .

On YouTube one can find

"Quantum Fields, David Tong" at Cambridge University and also the remarkable Ms. "Cohl Furey"

Quantum Fields: The Real Building Blocks of the Universe - with David Tong

https://youtu.be/zNVQfWC_evg

Interview with Edda Gschwendtner, Technical Coordinator and CERN Project Leader

https://youtu.be/vfy7glPtV_8

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The SMA Rotary Club rests upon a foundation of compassion and science, so it too gets a heads up from SciTechNature.

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...Because the acquisition of clean water in our town is not only a science, but a necessity, especially in the San Miguel de Allende area: