Session K20 - Poster Session.
POSTER session, Sunday afternoon, April 29
Congressional C, Renaissance Hotel
In the Electron Positron Lattice (EPOLA) model of space [1] the mysterious 3K thermal radiation of the sky is due to random vibrations of epola particles; they also cause the zero-point motion of helium atoms, a Brownian Motion analog. The temperature (T) of our epola region is therefore 3K. T is elevated in space regions where there are more hot stars, more nuclear activity, more injected free nuclear particles and radiation. Epola regions of T>3K are observed as mysterious "dark matter", and 100K-warm regions create the mystery of "gray matter", considered to "constitute 90the mass of the universe". Epola regions hotter than 800K emit visible radiation; at 3000K they glow like lamp filaments, and at 6000K - like the sun. At sufficiently high T, the epola "melts" into a liquid of electron-positron (epo) pairs, in which the velocity of light is drastically reduced. At 6 billion K, it turns into a gaseous mixture of epo pairs and free electrons and positrons. In this "epogas", quantum radiation laws do not hold, there are no photons, just as there are no phonons in gases. Epola hot spots may be mistaken for galaxies and stars, it is therefore imperative to find how to distinguish between them. References: 1.M.Simhony, The Epola Space, 1990, 160 pp, and The Story of Matter and Space, 1999, 70 pp (available from the author). M.Simhony, Invitation to the Natural Physics of Matter, Space, and Radiation, World Scientific, 1994 (292 pp). See the website: www.word1.co.il/physics/