Stephen Arthur Langford
Keywords: Vacuum Structure, de Broglie, rest mass, energy, weight, RI, permittivity, permeability
Abstract: In 1961, in several closely spaced personal communications, our Geology Professor, Dr. Gerald P. Brophy, taught that Mineralogists were ignoring refractive indices (RIs) to their own disadvantage, Geochemists were ignoring optical data, and (almost in the same breath) some subjects had been completely removed from the literature; as if Becke lines were not enough to get me hooked! I asked whether useful RI data might be generated by not optically orienting any fragment; but, instead, ignoring their orientations and quickly counting each randomly-encountered one as of Lesser, Equal, or Greater RI than that of the immersion liquid. “Maybe, with the help of statistical analysis”, he replied. This research paper reports sporadic work done since then, to learn how much can be discovered about a rock sample, via an RIcounting technique that could be employed even by K-12 students using simple, inexpensive microscopes and polarizing films; though better equipment would yield better precision and accuracy. The approach should be automated. Calculations of vacuum-structure mass (m), energy (E), and weight (W) are presented.
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