FRACTAL ECONOMICS

  My morning experiment. This is what I do these days, teach (sometimes before class I play these 'toys' with my students), research and write ... and exercise in between. Germanium is interesting to me because, as a solid, it shares a property that most air does: it is transparent to thermal (infrared) radiation. Just as an afterthought, the tape can leak infrared radiation, so it is not a perfect (blackbody) absorber of infrared radiation, but is very close. I am interested in the detector. I think it is the most important detector humans have ever developed (outside the compass). In fact, it helped us understand magnetism and its connection to light. It is the thermopile and its kin (in this demonstration), the bolometer (the thermal camera). But it is old, 19th-century, as is, as a result of the detector, our common knowledge of heat radiation. This instrument is central to greenhouse theory (it defines the greenhouse gases) and quantum mechanics. It is the detector behind...

I have now published my theory of the atmosphere.  Augmenting 19th Century Thermoelectric Greenhouse Theory with 20th Century Quantum Mechanics Raman Spectroscopy: Towards a Coherent Radiation Theory of the Atmosphere THE FULL COMPLEMENT OF GREENHOUSE GASES This is a diagram of all the vibrational modes ('absorption bands') of the Earth's atmospheric gases; in the near-infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum. Gases are detected by thermoelectric thermopile or bolometer detectors (below), 'what is incorrectly termed 'IR spectroscopy'; and by thermoelectric's complement, Raman (Laser Lidar) spectroscopy (above). Notice that O2 and N2 (some 99% of the dry atmosphere) are only detected using Raman spectroscopy. This is due to their one (and only) vibrational mode being non-thermoelectric: they both have only symmetric vibrational modes, with no electric dipole moments to generate an electric charge by the thermopile and so are not transduced and ...

I have now published my updated theory of the atmosphere.  Augmenting 19th Century Thermoelectric Greenhouse Theory with 20th Century Quantum Mechanics Raman Spectroscopy: Towards a Coherent Radiation Theory of the Atmosphere Update: 22,04,2015 I have recently (and finally) published: Reinterpreting and Augmenting John Tyndall’s 1859 Greenhouse Gas Experiment with Thermoelectric Theory and Raman Spectroscopy  at: academia.edu/  and http://vixra.org/abs/1504.0165  . Here is a youtube presentation of my findings: Abstract Climate science's fundamental premise – assumed by all parties in the great climate debate – says the greenhouse gases – constituting less than 2% of Earth’s atmosphere, first derived by John Tyndall in his 1859 thermopile experiment and demonstrated graphically today by infrared IR spectroscopy – are special because of their IR (heat) absorbing property. From this, it is – paradoxically – assumed the (remaining 98%) ...

There is a climate paradox: modern greenhouse climate theory states or infers that 98% of gases (nitrogen and oxygen) have no thermal role in the atmosphere. All thermal activity is due to the 2% greenhouse gases. I have termed this paradox the Dark Climate or the Dark Gases. I have continued this entry at: http://www.fractalnomics.com/2013/12/the-gassy-messenger-magic-of-ir.html   See you there.