Consider the three generations of neutrinos: nu_e (electron neutrino); nu_m (muon neutrino); nu_t and three neutrino mass states: nu_1 ; nu_2 : nu_3 and the division of 8-dimensional spacetime into 4-dimensional physical Minkowski spacetime plus 4-dimensional CP2 internal symmetry space. The lightest mass state nu_1 corresponds to a neutrino whose propagation begins and ends in physical Minkowski spacetime, lying entirely therein. According to the D4-D5-E6-E7-E8 VoDou Physics Model the mass of nu_1 is zero at tree-level and it picks up no first-order correction while propagating entirely through physical Minkowski spacetime, so the first-order corrected mass of nu_1 is zero. Since only two of the three neutrinos have first-order mass, and since in the D4-D5-E6-E7-E8 VoDou Physics Model the neutrinos are not Majorana particles, there is no neutrino CP-violation or phase at first order. Consider the neutrino mixing matrix nu_1 nu_2 nu_3 nu_e Ue1 Ue2 Ue3 nu_m Um1 Um2 Um3 nu_t Ut1 Ut2 Ut3 Assume the simplest mixing scheme with a massless nu_1 and nu_3 has no nu_e component so that Ue3 = 0 or, in conventional notation, mixing angle theta_13 = 0 = sin(theta_13) and cos(theta_13) = 1. Then we have (as described in the 2004 Particle Data Book): nu_1 nu_2 nu_3 nu_e cos(theta_12) sin(theta_12) 0 nu_m -sin(theta_12)cos(theta_23) cos(theta_12)cos(theta_23) sin(theta_23) nu_t sin(theta_12)sin(theta_23) -cos(theta_12)sin(theta_23) cos(theta_23) Assume that nu_3 has equal components of nu_m and nu_t so that Um3 = Ut3 = 1/sqrt(2) or, in conventional notation, mixing angle theta_23 = pi/4. Then we have: nu_1 nu_2 nu_3 nu_e cos(theta_12) sin(theta_12) 0 nu_m -sin(theta_12)/sqrt(2) cos(theta_12)/sqrt(2) 1/sqrt(2) nu_t sin(theta_12)/sqrt(2) -cos(theta_12)/sqrt(2) 1/sqrt(2) The heaviest mass state nu_3 corresponds to a neutrino whose propagation begins and ends in CP2 internal symmetry space, lying entirely therein. According to the D4-D5-E6-E7-E8 VoDou Physics Model the mass of nu_3 is zero at tree-level but it picks up a first-order correction propagating entirely through internal symmetry space by merging with an electron through the weak and electromagnetic forces, effectively acting not merely as a point but as a point plus an electron loop at both beginning and ending points so the first-order corrected mass of nu_3 is given by M_nu_3 x (1/sqrt(2)) = M_e x GW(mproton^2) x alpha_E where the factor (1/sqrt(2)) comes from the Ut3 component of the neutrino mixing matrix so that M_nu_3 = sqrt(2) x M_e x GW(mproton^2) x alpha_E = = 1.4 x 5 x 10^5 x 1.05 x 10^(-5) x (1/137) eV = = 7.35 / 137 = 5.4 x 10^(-2) eV. Note that the neutrino-plus-electron loop can be anchored by weak force action through any of the 6 first-generation quarks at each of the beginning and ending points, and that the anchor quark at the beginning point can be different from the anchor quark at the ending point, so that there are 6x6 = 36 different possible anchorings. The intermediate mass state nu_2 corresponds to a neutrino whose propagation begins or ends in CP2 internal symmetry space and ends or begins in physical Minkowski spacetime, thus having only one point (either beginning or ending) lying in CP2 internal symmetry space where it can act not merely as a point but as a point plus an electron loop. According to the D4-D5-E6-E7-E8 VoDou Physics Model the mass of nu_2 is zero at tree-level but it picks up a first-order correction at only one (but not both) of the beginning or ending points so that so that there are 6 different possible anchorings for nu_2 first-order corrections, as opposed to the 36 different possible anchorings for nu_3 first-order corrections, so that the first-order corrected mass of nu_2 is less than the first-order corrected mass of nu_3 by a factor of 6, so the first-order corrected mass of nu_2 is M_nu_2 = M_nu_3 / Vol(CP2) = 5.4 x 10^(-2) / 6 = 9 x 10^(-3)eV. Therefore: the mass-squared difference D(M23^2) = M_nu_3^2 - M_nu_2^2 = = ( 2916 - 81 ) x 10^(-6) eV^2 = = 2.8 x 10^(-3) eV^2 and the mass-squared difference D(M12^2) = M_nu_2^2 - M_nu_1^2 = = ( 81 - 0 ) x 10^(-6) eV^2 = = 8.1 x 10^(-5) eV^2 Set theta_12 = pi/6= 0.866 so that cos(theta_12) = 0.866 = sqrt(3)/2 and sin(theta_12) = 0.5 = 1/2 = Ue2 = fraction of nu_2 begin/end points that are in the physical spacetime where massless nu_e lives. Then we have for the neutrino mixing matrix: nu_1 nu_2 nu_3 nu_e 0.87 0.50 0 nu_m -0.35 0.61 0.71 nu_t 0.35 -0.61 0.71
The above model is substantially consistent with experimental results as described in the 2004 Particle Data Book and in the presentation by deGouvea at the 2004 APS DPF meeting at UC Riverside, and it provides an intuitive physical understanding of those results. Here is a pdf version of this page.
For reference, here are values of some useful physical quantities: The effective G* induced by the zero point energy core needed to stabilize a single spatially extended electron is ~ 10^40 G. G* m / r = e / r G* m = e G* = e/m = 10^42 e Electron charge [Q] 1.381 E-34 cm m_e Electron mass [M] 9.1095 E-28 gm 6.764 E-56 cm r_e Electron radius [L] 2.81794 E-13 cm classical (= alpha(h-bar/(m_e c)) r_es Electron Schwarzschild radius [L] 1.35264 E-55 cm (= 2G_0 m_e/c^2) 22 orders of magnitude *smaller* than the Planck length a_0 Bohr radius [L] 0.529177 E-08 cm ( = h-bar^2/(m_e e^2) )
Ken Shoulders and Steve Shoulders said in 1996: "... Highly organized, micron-sized clusters of electrons having soliton behavior ... have been investigated by K. Shoulders since 1980 ... a short Latin acronym has been adopted and the structure is called an EV, for strong electron. Their organizational properties have been theoretically studied and reported by P. Beckmann [... Petr Beckmann, "Electron Clusters," Galilean Electrodynamics, Sept./Oct., Vol. 1, No. 5, pp. 55-58, 1990 ...] and R. Ziolkowski [... Richard W. Ziolkowski and Michael K. Tippett, "Collective effect in an electron plasma system catalyzed by a localized electromagnetic wave," Physical Review A, vol. 43, no.6, pp. 3066-3072, 15 mar., 1991 ...] ... What is seen in the laboratory is an extremely energetic entity ... Measurements ... measuring the charge-to-mass ratio of the structure ...[by]... time-of-flight ... have been made showing there are no included ions to a limit of at least one ion per million electrons. The total number of electrons in a one micrometer diameter EV is 10^11. ...". In 1999 they said: "... Throughout much of this work on EV energetics it has been obvious that we get more energy out of certain experiments than we put in. ...".
In August 2004 e-mail messages about Shoulders's EVOs, Jack Sarfatti said:
"... picture is of a self-assembled spherical shell or maybe a kind of Buckyball of N close-packed electrons each of effective surface area ~ (h/mc)^2. This forms a closed cavity - with some leakage perhaps, but the leakage rate decreases as N increases. Obviously there will be a cavity boundary condition Casimir effect but I am pretty sure it is usually negligible in comparison with my strong gravity effect from Einstein's general relativity. ...... The KEY IDEA is as follows:
1. The repulsive electro-static self energy per unit electron mass for the N poly-electron cluster is V(Coulomb Self-Energy) ~ N^2e^2/mr > 0 where the N electrons are arranged in a mono-layer thin spherical shell of thickness h/mc ~ 10^-11 cm
i.e. Euclidean area of the shell is A = 4pir^2 = N(h/mc)^2 r ~ N^1/2(h/mc) = Schwarzschild radial coordinate if large space warp ... from G* ~ 10^40G at short-range.
That is, N on-mass-shell bare electrons each of radius e^2/mc^2 ~ 10^-13 cm in a soup of virtual plasma of virtual photons and virtual electron-positron pairs - the latter partially condensed as a vacuum condensate!
... a Casimir force ... plays a minor secondary role. The Casimir potential energy per unit electron mass will be of the form V(Casimir) ~ C(hc/mr)N(h/mcr)^2 Where C is a dimensionless coefficient that can be positive or negative ... Note that V(Casimir) scales only as N because it depends on the surface area of the N poly-electron thin shell. This is a boundary effect!
Ignoring rotational and vibrational modes - to be added later. All we have next is the GR correction term ... V(Dark Energy) = c^2/\zpfr^2 a 3D Harmonic Oscillator Potential like a ball in a tunnel through center of Earth
Note that /\zpf > 0 i.e. an anti-gravity repulsive "dark energy" exotic vacuum core that COUNTER-INTUITIVELY BINDS the N electrons into a metastable BOUNDARY WALL THIN POLY-ELECTRON SHELL making the QED Casimir force in the first place ... Adding all three potential energies Coulomb, Casimir & General Relativity with PW Anderson's "More is Different"
V(total) = BN^2(e^2/mr) + CN(hc/mr)(h/mcr)^2 + c^2/\zpfr^2
B is also a dimensionless coefficient The critical point for dynamical equilibrium is dV(total)/dr = 0 i.e. the total acceleration must vanish in metastable equilibrium where r --> r* -BN^2(e^2/mr*^2) - 3CN(hc/mr*^2)(h/mcr*)^2 + 2c^2/\zpfr* = 0
So I do not care about Casimir force, which when N >> 1 is obviously a small perturbation!
We now have a more accurate formula for r*, or rather, if you want to keep r* = N^1/2(h/mc) then you can compute /\zpf.
We also have the stability constraint: d^V(total)/dr^2 > 0
When this constraint is violated WE HAVE WHAT IS BEGINNING TO SUGGEST A BOMB! ...
... you must explain why the boundary forms! You cannot impose it by fiat. The boundary is the thin shell of charge itself of radius a ~ N^1/2(h/mc). If N ~ 10^12 that gives a ~ 10^-5 cm. ... I don't think it works well for 2 electrons. You need, in simplest model, N >> 1 electrons close-packed to form a sphere ...".
My model for EVOs also makes a spherical shell, but it is a two-layer shell, motivated by the formation of a blastocyst two-layer shell in embryology, and it also explains how the door to the high-energy vacuum is opened.
Here is an 8-step description of my model: 1 - A bunch of electrons are zapped in Ken Shoulders's apparatus with a complicated electromagnetic field. 2 - One of the electrons finds another with opposite spin and they form a Cooper pair of two electrons in a dumbbell configuration. 3 - They find another Cooper pair, and the 4 of them form a double-dumbbell tetrahedral configuration. 4 - The tetrahedron finds (or catalyzes the formation of) another opposite-oriented tetrahedron, and the 8 of them form a cube. 5 - Each of the 8 vertices of the cube finds from the cloud an opposite-spin electron, and the 16 of them look like Cooper pairs at each of the 8 cube vertices with the long axis of each pair on a diagonal of the cube.
( At age 4 days, a human embryo consists of a solid ball of 16 cells, called the morula. At the next stage of cell division, the blasocyst forms. Here is a blastocyst image

from http://www.visembryo.com/baby/stage3.html which states: "... Cell division continues, and a cavity known as a blastocele forms in the center of the morula. Cells flatten and compact on the inside of the cavity ... the appearance of the cavity in the center the entire structure is now called a blastocyst. ... two cell types are forming: the embryoblast (inner cell mass on the inside of the blastocele), and the trophoblast (the cells on the outside of the blastocele). ...". )
THE CENTER OF THE CUBE IS A HOLLOW INTERIOR, with a 2-layer boundary of 8 inner electrons of each Cooper pair and 8 outer electrons of each Cooper pair. The 8 inner electrons can be thought of as being bounded by the 8 outer electrons. 6 - Any energy (kinetic or repulsive electromagnetic) of the 8 inner electrons confined by the boundary of the 8 outer electrons is transferred to the Bohm Quantum Potential by the process described in Bohm's Hidden Variable Paper II, section 5, (reprinted at page 387 of Quantum Theory and Measurement, edited by Wheeler and Zurek (Princeton 1983)) in which Bohm says: "... the PSI-field is able to bring the particle to rest and to transform the entire kinetic energy into potential energy of interaction with the PSI-field. ...". Bohm discusses specifically the situation of "... a "free" particle contained between two impenetrable and perfectly reflecting walls, separated by a distance L. ...", but perhaps a similar analysis might apply to a spherical cluster. Bohm goes on to say: "... at first sight, it may seem puzzling that a particle having a high energy should be at rest in the empty space between two walls. Let us recall, however, that the space is not really empty, but contains an objectively real PSI-field that can act on the particle. ...". 7 - The increased energy of the Bohm Quantum Potential is now enough to open the door to the high-energy vacuum, which effectively gives the electron configuration access to conformal degrees of freedom of of vacuum dark energy etc. 8 - The electron double-layer with central vacuum energy configuration, which is the EVO, then begins to collect the other electrons in the cloud, making them into Cooper pairs and sticking them into the sort-of-spherical double-layer. The outer layer of electrons acts as a protective boundary for the EVO, because if a hostile electron/positive ion system attacks the EVO, an outer boundary EVO electron neutralizes the positive ion and the EVO captures the remaining electron to replace the boundary electron. The entire EVO system continues to grow until the electrons of the cloud are all assimilated into it (about 10^12 electrons in the case of EVOs manufactured by Ken Shoulders).
Ball lightning can be a lot larger than the size of the Ken Shoulders manufactured EVO because lightning can be more energetic than his machines.
A typical Ball Lightning has r ~ 10 cm, N = 10^21. Use the hydrogen atom as the basis of comparison where r ~ 10^-8 cm and N = 1 with self-electrical force ~ 10^+16 compared to the Ball Lightning self-electrical force 10^42 x 10^-2 = 10^40 in these relative dimensionless units. That is, the self-electrical force at the surface of the Ball Lightning assumed to be in a spherical thin shell is ~ 10^24 stronger than the electrical force on the atomic electron in the ground state of the hydrogen atom. Next consider a single electron as a shell of charge e at the classical electron radius 10^-13cm. The relative self-electric force is then 10^+26. Therefore, the electrical force of the Ball Lightning is about 10^14 larger than that on a single electron. The effective G* induced by the zero point energy core needed to stabilize a single spatially extended electron is ~ 10^40 G. That is the effective Planck length Lp* in the interior of a single electron is ~ 10^-13 cm. The effective Planck length in the interior of the Ball Lightning is therefore ~ 10^-6 cm since G* ~ Lp^*2.
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