Session D3 - General Poster Session.
POSTER session, Saturday afternoon, April 18
Concourse C, Level II, Columbus Conv. Center
In the Electron Positron Lattice (EPoLa) model of space,(M.Simhony, The Epola Space, 1990, 160 pp (available from the author). Also, M.Simhony, Invitation to the Natural Physics of Matter, Space, and Radiation, World Scientific, 1994 (292 pp).) the 3K blackbody radiation is due to random vibrations of electrons and positrons, bound in our epola region. They cause the zero-point motion of helium atoms (analog to Brownian movement). The temperature (T) of our epola region is therefore 3K. Slightly warmer regions are observed as mysterious "dark matter", considered to "constitute most of the mass of the universe". Regions of T>\sim100K create the mystery of "grey matter". T is elevated in epola regions where there are more "hot" stars, more nuclear activity, more injected free nuclear particles and radiation. Epola regions hotter than 800K emit visible radiation; at 3000K they glow like lamp filaments, and at 6000K - like the sun. Such very distant epola regions can be mistaken for stars and galaxies. 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.