A. B. Brooks

“Enigmas answered. Not only is QFT the answer to Einstein's search, it also answers or resolves his Enigmas, and in a way that can be understood by the man (or woman) on the street. In Appendix A you will see how the paradoxes of special relativity become natural and understandable consequences of the way fields behave. In Appendix B you will see that the problematic curvature of space-time in general relativity is gone; in QFT gravity is just another force field and space and time are the same space and time we intuitively believe in. Finally, in Appendix C you will see how the infamous wave-particle duality of QM is eliminated because there are no particles - only fields - and hence there is no duality. However abandoning the familiar picture of solid particles and replacing it with intangible fields is not easy. It will require a leap of imagination greater than did the atomic picture that Eddington struggled with.””

“A delicate balance. In summary, nuclei are held together by a delicate balance among (a) the attractive strong force between nucleons, (b) the electrical repulsion between protons, (c) the dilution of this repulsive force by neutrons, and (d) the instability created by the Exclusion Principle if there are too many neutrons. Thus, for a given number of protons there is a narrow range of allowable neutron numbers: not enough and the protons will fly apart because of electrical repulsion: too many and the nucleus will be unstable because of the Exclusion Principle.””

“So, how are we doing this? Ambush? B&E after dark? The traditional distraction with some sticky fingers? Oh, or my favorite”