Possible Evidence for Virtual Supersymmetry Particles

Recent measurments of an anomalous magnetic moment for muons (the G2 experiment at Brookhaven), is believed to be indicative of the presence of a virtual supersymmetry particle interacting with the muon's magnetic field. The closer one comes to a massive particle (electron, quark, etc.), the greater the vacuum tension, implying that the core of the particle is the region of maximum vacuum fluctuations. Assuming the L-T quanta constitutes one of the supersymmetric particles, its mass may be so great that it can only materialize in virtual form at, or near, the core of massive particles. Such vacuum polarization underlies the most accurate and successful theory in physics - Quantum Electrodynamics (QED), and also plays an important role in Quantum Chromodynamics. In the former case virtual electron-positron pairs and photons populate the vacuum, reducing the "bare" charge of the electron, and other charged particles, to finite levels. The influence of much more massive supersymmetric particles, in virtual form, thus cannot be discounted.

Update and References

In light of these ideas, it is of great interest to note that a recent experiment to detect the Gravitomagnetic London Moment (GLM) - an enormously magnified version of the gravitomagnetic field - apparently led to positive results. Physicists at ARC Seibersdorf Research GmbH, Austria8 are convinced that they have measured the GLM in Type-1 superconductors (those that superconduct at liquid helium temperatures). These researchers theorized that the GLM could account for a mass anomaly in Cooper-pairs previously reported by Janet Tate et al9. What is extraordinary about their finding is that the acceleration field they measured was 30 magnitudes larger than predicted by General Relativity. This translated to one ten-thousanths of the acceleration due to Earth's surface gravity, an absolutely revolutionary result, especially if confirmed by other research groups.

To account for such a large discrepancy with theoretical expectation, the ARC Seibersdorf group noted that within a superconductor the London magnetic moment originates from photons that have gained mass, due to the breaking of gauge symmetry via the Higgs mechanism. By direct analogy they then propose that gravitons also gain mass through this mechanism, within superconductors, accounting for the anomalously large gravitomagetic field detected. But this is at variance with standard physics. The intrinsic strength of a boson's field is not related to its mass.

The direction of the acceleration field, that was measured in the experiment, was tangential to the spinning Niobium ring - e.g. parallel with the ring at every point along the circumference. This acceleration signal was only observed when the ring was spun up (accelerated), until it reached the desired maximum speed. And, in accord with their theoretical model, the measured field opposed the acceleration imparted to the ring. This field was interpreted as an induced gravitoelectric field, in the azimuthal plane, arising from the changing, doughnut shaped, gravitomagnetic field. In their most recent paper a gyroscope was introduced to measure the gravitomagnetic field. The GM field should have been proportional to the applied angular velocity, rather than tangential acceleration as in the case of the GE field component. But, the raw gyroscope data clearly shows a signal only during the acceleration and deceleration periods of the run, and the signal drops off exponentially during the constant velocity period. Encouragingly, all of these features are consistent with the theoretical model presented in this paper as delineated in the next paragraph.

The micro-range gravity field, proposed in this paper, would seek to counteract the angular acceleration, such to establish a free-fall state for orbiting electrons (and counter-orbiting protons) within 10-17 centimeter frames. The same principle would, of course, apply to Cooper-pair electrons in a superconductor moving through the bulk material, so that they are always embraced within inertial frames. When an external acceleration was applied to the niobium ring, this micro-range gravity force would have tried to compensate by countering the added acceleration along its applied direction. If the compensation was not perfect some 'leakage' of this acceleration field would have ocurred.

Such 'leakage' would have translated to the subduction of massless gravitons into the higher dimensional bulk by the individual electrons of the Cooper pairs. Since these subducted gravitons would have been removed from our 3+1 space, generally along a common directional axis due to large scale coherence, it would have been detected as a gravitational (acceleration) field along the azimuthal plane of the superconductor. In correspondence with the lead investigator it was stated the acceleration field, detected in their experiment, could account for only 3% of the Cooper-pair mass anomaly reported by J. Tate et al. This suggests that nature quickly and efficiently restores equilibrium at the particle scale. This conclusion is further buttressed by the fact that the tangential acceleration amounted to about 15 g's, while the detected field was about 6 magnitudes below this.




References

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2. L. Randall, R. Sundrum, Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3370 (1999).

3. "Schrodinger - Life and Thought", page 221.

4. Classical Quantum Gravity 11-5, L73-L77 (1994).

5. Comptes rendus de l' Academie des Sciences, vol. 177, pp. 507-510 (1923)

6. The Micro Alcubierre Warp

7. Wikipedia: S-duality

8. Towards a New Test of General Relativity

9. Tate, J., Cabrera, B., Felch, S.B., Anderson, J.T., Determination of the Cooper-Pair Mass in Niobium. Phys. Rev. B 42(13), 7885-7893 (1990).

10. The solitary electron in a hydrogen atom experiences an average centripedal acceleration of 1022 g's, or put more graphically; ten billion, trillion times the gravitational acceleration that we experience at the Earth's surface. Therefore, in principle, it would only require an infinitesmal imbalance between this angular acceleration, and the proposed micro-warp field opposing it, to replicate the signal detected by the tangential accelerometers in the ARC Seibersdorf experiment (which was of the order of 10-4 g).

In practice, one has to calculate from the angular accelerations experienced by the flexing lattice ions (phonons), which have been established to play a critical role in the electron-pairing mechanism. Since nucleii (protons + neutrons) are on average 3600 times heavier than the electron cloud surrounding them, the magnitude of the acceleration forces are reduced accordingly. Additionally, it is likely only a fraction of the lattice carries on the phonon dance with the Cooper-pairs. But, even considering all these factors, the strength of the proposed micro-warp gravity field would still be several tens of magnitudes larger than the acceleration signal detected by the ARC Seibersdorf group.

11. Schrödinger initially thought that the wavefunction ψ for a particle represented a superposition of waves, but abandoned this view when it was shown that such a wave packet would spread out and dissipate rapidly over time. The wavefunction ψ or more properly ψ squared, was later interpreted by Max Born as the probability of finding the particle at a given point in 3D space. Since virtual gravitinos are tentatively identified as the source of the micro-warps, they would always remain in close proximity to the particle, due to mass-energy concentration. Sync shifting, as described in the text, would yield the probability behavior with respect to location in space.



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