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When Rutherford discovered the nuclear structure of atoms by bombarding gold foil with alpha particles starting in 1909, he delayed publication of his results, for it was obvious to him that there was a serious problem with the nuclear atoms implied by his results. The electrons presumed to orbit the nuclei would be accelerated in their motion, and classical electrodynamics dictates that accelerating electric charges radiate electromagnetic waves. The energy carried away by the waves would quickly dissipate the orbital energy of the electrons, which would consequently spiral into the nuclei. And matter as we know it would cease to exist.
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Photons weren’t called photons until 1926 when Gilbert N. Lewis invented the name.
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All this and more was known before the publication of Making the Universe Safe for Historians: Time Travel and the Laws of Physics [MUSH; Found. Phys. Lett. 1995 8:1–39] early in 1995. But an attack on the problems in 1995 was thwarted by an algebraic error that misdirected the investigation into blind alleys. For years, whenever I’d think of the problem, I quickly dismissed it and went on to other matters.
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Before Dirac published his theory of the electron, this anomaly in the gyromagnetic ratio was dealt with by Thomas, who showed it to be a relativistic effect arising from choice of frame of reference in the bary-center of the atom. It is known as the “Thomas precession.” Since Dirac’s theory is relativistic from the outset, this is automatically included in his theory.
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Constant coefficients can also be introduced for the other terms in the equation if needed. However, in this case only A will be required.
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Eddington, A. S., The Mathematical Theory of Relativity (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2nd ed., 1960). See especially p. 93.
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Cramer J., et al. Natural Wormholes as Gravitational Lenses. Physcial Review D. volume D15, pp. 3117–3120 (1995).
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Barut, A. O., The Mass of the Muon, Physics Letters B 1978 73:310–312; B; and Lepton Mass Formula, Physical Review Letters 1979 42:1251.
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Asim O. Barut’s paper on the masses of the charged leptons.
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Woodward, J.F. (2013). Making the ADM Electron Plausible. In: Making Starships and Stargates. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5623-0_8
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