Harmonic Triangles
ORAL
Abstract
2500 years ago, Pythagoras of Samos discovered the harmonic intervals: Octave 1:2, Perfect 5th 2:3, and Perfect 4th 3:4. I extended this concept to the triangle and gave it the name Harmonic Triangle. Consider a Rt Triangle ABC, with B being the Rt angle and AC the hypotenuse. A line from B to line AC, is the height of the Rt Triangle intersecting at D. Then by geometry the geometric mean of AD and DC is equal to the height BD for all angles Theta at C. Only certain values of Theta produce a critical angle that makes the triangle Harmonic. The first of these is Theta = 26.565 degrees, which happens when AD is ½ BD and BD is ½ DC. This is the first-generation Harmonic triangle. Similarly, you can construct the triangles for the perfect 5th and the perfect 4th. The perfect 5th has a critical angle of 33.6900 degrees. Now going back to the CBM, we observe that the cube root of a geometric series is also geometric. So, the cube root of the masses determined in that model are also related to each other by the geometric mean. One observes that these cube roots recreates the ratios 1:2, 2:3 and 3:4 which determine the critical angles. So, I contend that this supports the hypothesis made in the CBM and predicts that the masses of the quarks are a function of the radii
–
Presenters
-
Theodore M Lach
Bell Labs Retired
Authors
-
Theodore M Lach
Bell Labs Retired