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How Rubbing With a Microfiber Manage to Shatter the Windshield?

Matti Pitkänen

Abstract


I learned that interaction with microfiber and the material of certain windshield creates some specific style of resonance that would then shatter that material. This brings to mind opera sopranos shattering wine glasses. Why should one build complex new physics scenarios for how sopranos manage to break wine glasses? Hasn't this been understood a long time ago. But is this really the case? We are used to thinking that physics somehow mysteriously transforms from quantum to classical on some scale. Quantum coherence, which is not possible above atomic scales, would be replaced by classical coherence on long scales. If this is assumed, glass-breaking sopranos cease to look mysterious. This thinking has actually no justifications but only restates what is a fact. When you give this thinking up, the imagined self-evidences collapse. Phenomena that were undeniably a bit strange become impossible. In TGD, a new view of spacetime comes to rescue. The spacetime surface defines the coherence region in both classical and quantum sense. Field bodies make long-scale quantum coherence and classical coherence, possible. Space-time surface defines the coherence region. Classical and quantal long-scale coherence would be related to classical long-range gravitational and electromagnetic fields. Gravitational and em Planck's constants, whose values can be enormous compared to h, quantify the hypothesis. This windshield effect is just one example of many. The proposed TGD based model for the phenomenon relies on gravitational quantum coherence predicted to be possible in astrophysical scales and also possible quantum criticality. The gravitational magnetic bodies of both the Sun and Earth are assumed to play a key role. The reason is that macroscopic quantum coherence requires very large values of the effective Planck constant. It is assumed that the gravitational Compton frequency of the Sun defines a gravitational quantum coherence scale and sets a lower bound for the frequencies assignable to the acoustic oscillations inducing the instability of the windshield . One can also consider other mechanisms of macroscopic quantum coherence. Cyclotron frequencies for the endogenous magnetic field of Earth are in EEG range and would correspond to energies above thermal energy and play a key role in the TGD inspired quantum biology and might be involved with the microfibers. This would require transformation of dark cyclotron radiation to sound waves and require a ferro electret property typical for organic materials. Quantum criticality making possible a generation of large heffphases is involved and warping deformations possible for planar or nearly planar systems are considered as a possible realization of the quantum criticality.


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