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"Many of my former friends were very upset," he said.
His own interest in electrons and positrons was revived in 1974 when physicists at
Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
discovered a particle they called the J/Psi meson. It was both an unusually dense
and unusually long-lived particle and it got Sternglass wondering about the nature
of the "primeval atom."
The primeval atom was a concept developed by Georges Lamaitre, a Belgian priest
and astrophysicist, in the 1920s. He envisioned the universe being created by the
breakup of this primeval atom, an idea that presaged the Big Bang theory.
Sternglass saw this primeval atom as an electron-positron pair. This pair of
particles rapidly orbited each other and contained all of the mass of the universe.
In a series of steps beginning billions of years before the Big Bang, this
electron-positron pair went through a series of splits, creating thousands of
electron-positron "seed pairs" from which galaxies later would emerge.
By contrast, according to the standard model of particle physics, the universe was
condensed into an infinitely dense point before the Big Bang.
Sternglass said his model and the standard model don't differ markedly in terms of
how elementary particles were formed in the minutes following the Big Bang.
Astrophysicists have long worried that the universe behaves as if it has much more
mass than humans can see. Sternglass suggests some of this "missing mass" may
be in the form of seed pairs that did not expand immediately after the Big Bang
and remain sprinkled through the universe.
A universe in ether
In addition to suggesting that the universe is rotating, Sternglass resurrects the
3,000-year-old notion of the universe existing within an "ether," a liquid-like
medium. Scientists once considered ether essential. For instance, scientists who
observed light behaving like a wave reasoned that light would have to move
through some sort of medium if it was to make waves.
But Einstein's photoelectric theory dispensed with the need for ether. He showed
that light behaved as a particle, a photon. His theory of relativity also dispensed
with ether, by showing that the speed of light need not be measured relative to an
ether.
In Sternglass' view, matter exists as circular vortices -- something like a smoke
ring -- moving through an ether. Just as air is capable of uprooting trees and
tossing cars when whipped into a tornado, these vortices transform energy into
mass, he said.
No one has ever been able to prove that ether exists, Sternglass acknowledged, but