3  Concluding Remarks.

By far the most significant result to emerge from this investigation, is the manner in which the mass is relativistically increased as the spin rate increases. It allows the spin circumference to achieve terminal velocity while the mass is still finite. A further increase of spin rate would result in the spin circumference exceeding the terminal velocity in D₀, which would contravene the primary criterion of existence in the Domain. To avoid this it is proposed that the surface of the spinning body that has acquired terminal velocity emits a spectrum of radiation the energy of which equates to that attempting the further increase in spin rate. This proposed effect is based upon the results of a study into the nature of de Broglie matter waves in D₀, to be published in the future.

There are two possible implications of this result in Cosmology, and one in the theory of atomic structure. First the cosmological. Of the two possible implications, the most plausible is as the cause of Pulsar radiation. When a large star reaches the end of its life in the main sequence, it starts to gravitationally collapse in on itself. As it does so, due to the law of conservation of angular momentum, its spin rate will continually increase. If the initial spin rate is high enough, it may increase during the collapse such that the spin velocity at the circumference approaches the limiting value in D₀. It is unlikely that the collapse would produce a perfectly spherical body, and there would most likely be a number of high spots some of which would be on the spin circumference. It would be the most prominent of these that would attain terminal velocity first, and thereby start the radiative loss of energy. Any other astronomical body some distance away but lying on the spin plane of rotation would then experience a series of closely spaced radiation pulses from the Pulsar, as the radiating prominence swept round.

To give an idea of scale, if the Pulsar pulse rate was 4 pulses/sec. it would be of the order of 150,000 km in diameter, or about the size of Jupiter, and is therefore getting close to the estimated size of Neutron stars.

This phenomenon will be tempered by the degree with which any likely star candidate possesses a translational velocity.

The second possible cosmological implication concerns Quasars. However, by comparison with Pulsars, there is the considerable question of scale. The radiant output of Quasars is so vast, that even with the manner of generation proposed here, effectively the direct conversion of matter to radiant energy, it is most unlikely that it is a collapsed star that is acting as the generator. The most likely candidate would therefore have to be a gravitationally collapsed galactic core. Even so, to generate the power that these objects exhibit, a considerable amount of the surface area would have to be the radiative medium. All this probably means that the mechanism proposed here is not the one responsible for Quasar emissions. Nevertheless, until the correct mechanism is identified, the one discussed here should not be entirely discounted.

The final possible manner in which this mechanism may be manifested, is in the emission of spectra by an electron when making an orbital transition in the atomic structure of matter. This scenario is, however contrary to the modern Quantum Mechanical Theory of atomic structure, in which the electron is represented by a probabilistic wavefunction, and is not purported to actually ßpin". However, in a series of papers to be published in the future, in which the original Bohr/Sommerfeld Öld Quantum Theory" of atomic structure is to be resurrected, this matter will investigated in depth.

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