Yes Virginia, Quantum Mechanics can be Understood Chapter 7 Forces

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The origin of quantum forces are examined and in particular the sources for the strong nuclear force.

George Gamow’s idea of doing a parody of Goethe’s Faust
about the state of quantum mechanics for a 1932 meeting
of the main builders of the new quantum mechanics at
Neils Bohr institute in Copenhagen was a perfect idea. The
play was actually written by the biologist Max Delbruck ¨
innocently capturing the reality of the time because Gamow
was detained by the Soviets in 1932. Gamow illustrated
the play and published a translation in English in 1966 in
the book Thirty Years that Shook Physics, which is our starting
point. Gamow described it as going from 30 fat years
starting at 1900 to a long lasting fallow period starting
in 1930 and has continued to the present. Even though
Gamow’s play was supposed to be a comic parody of Faust it
came off rather bleak with Pauli doing poor Ehrenfest in
with the neutrino. We need characters to both lighten
the plot and bring some light to the subject. The simple
creations of P.G. Wodehouse can be dropped into any time
period, but are particularly adapted to both the present,
1900, and the early 1930s when Gamow’s idea became a
play. The neutrino will also make a come back, but now
in her proper weightless supporting role. Our story about
quantum mechanics is best told with the help of these characters
who respond to a culture of fashion and conformity
by cheerfully dismantling the nonsense and in the
process shed some light on the dark.

Our Characters
Virginia our heroine, a girl studying physics and its history
as one of the politically correct fashions of the day who
likes to use Bertram like a hunting dog to fetch.
Bertram Wilberforce Wooster descendant of Wilberforce is
totally without prejudice, a vacuous but honest young man,
collects stamps with an interest in games of chance was
drawn to quantum mechanics as a statistical science to
give him an edge at gaming.
Clarence single minded breeder of the Empress a prize winning
fat pig, a hard nosed experimentalist when it comes
to pig science and Virginia’s guardian.
Rodrick Spode global science press baron former leader of
the Black Shorts, representative scientific politician, whose
prediction of an ice age was awarded a Nobel prize by those
grateful it did not occur and is now waiting for a sinecure
as director of the IAS. The IAS in Jeeves droll humor is the
Institute for Advanced Stupidities.
Jeeves who likes fishing, the sea, and is our natural philosopher
in waiting.
Empress a large sow of unknown origin disguised as a Berkshire
wintering at a farm in the Apennines with her favorite
boar, Ruffy.
a crew of Venetian sailors to keep things interesting along
with two Chesapeakes to insure the interests of the Empress.

The Chapters
Fashion A history of how fashionable committees
ran physics into the ground.
Spaces Mathematicians ignoring experiment introduced
their own fantasy spaces for physics.
Faust and the Neutrino Defeating the unapproachable
in QM by using relativity.
Dimensions Introducing statistical independence
to quantum spaces to produce information.
Information Who, What, Why, When and Where
are questions that have answers.
Quantum Roulette Spin and a simple extension
derived from the pig’s tail.