From Newton's dynamics to quasicrystal CBED in resonant response
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Abstract
Classically, kinetic energy Ek=p2/2m and momentum p=mv, mass•velocity, are combined with wave optics v=fl=w/k, frequency•wavelength and angular frequency/wave-vector. The momentum is inversely proportional to wavelength because quantized waves contain two velocities, vp and vg, the phase and group velocities, where p=h/l, as de Broglie hypothesized. Relativistically, E2=p2c2+mo2c4/h2=m’c2, with mo=m the rest mass constant and m’ a varying relativistic mass. The dynamics of this equation approximate Newton’s when p<<moc It turns out that w2=k2c2+mo2c4/h, and that massive particles have vp.vg=c2, where vg=dw/dk and vp>c.. Meanwhile the massless photon in free space has vp=vg=c. The quasicrystal is a relatively new solid with hierarchic structure that diffracts into geometric space by operation of a special metric that is a new constant in condensed matter [1]. The principal axes and diffraction planes are described and illustrated completely in 3-dimensions. The most remarkable properties occur in CBED (convergent beam electron diffraction). Novel dual diffraction occurs instantaneously in both geometric and linear spaces; in both quasi-Bragg and dynamical diffraction; at mutually normal angles in resonant response [2]. The properties of the momentum quantum apply generically. Von Neumann's mathematics play games with real physics. [1] Quantum mechanics:collapse, Bourdillon A.J., UHRL (2203). [2] Journal of Modern Physics (2025) 16 911-932.
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Presenters
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Antony J Bourdillon
University of Oxford
Authors
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Antony J Bourdillon
University of Oxford