Polarization

I am happy to report that students revolted to take a Physics class!

Not quite, but yes, a freshman gang has been coming to ask the only two math professors that know any Physics, to please teach them! This is almost a dream, and I am a bit inclined to believe that my buddy, unbeknown to me, has told them something since they got here; be it as it may, they are fighting for the right to be taught Physics.

Last year my friend and I; already taught a class, as part of the International Year of Astronomy.

So right now, I am looking for material to help me in this. During the summer, I found some time to read an alternative theory of Cell Physiology: The Association Induction Hypothesis.

I am not a member of any panel disbursing money for medical research, so I am not prejudiced, one way or the other. I understand this is viewed in a bad light by powerful men in the US. No money for Gilbert N. Ling, no matter that his buddy - and cohort member C. N. Yang, Nobel laureate before the age of forty - supports his ideas; but then again, Professor Yang is not a force inside the money granting institutions of the US, in the field of medicine. Anyway, Yang's endorsement are enough for my spending some time toying with Ling's ideas.

Since very likely I'll be soon talking  with young people about Physics ideas; here you have it.

There are only four known fundamental forces, if Verlinde is right, only three, though. Gravity has the simplest charge algebra of them all. Only positive charges always attracting. Maybe you wonder why then the Universe doesn't collapse? Actually it does, according to the theory; physicists have been trying to stop this disaster since Newton, to no avail. We just feel fortunate that it has not collapsed yet.

Whatever; electricity has a more sophisticated charge algebra. Now we have positives, and negatives. Neutrality rules the Universe, but there are hidden forces all around us that can actually tear us apart, if we just as much tip the balance one way or the other; thus the hysteria, about CERN blackholes. Don't worry, we wouldn't be here, if the Universe were so finicky.

According to Ling though: Cells are a different story altogether.

We do actually die; so he may know something that most of us have not yet understood yet.

I'll keep you posted.