Black-body Radiation Generates Torque and Quantum Pressure!
- Kalle Lintinen
- 6 hours ago
- 3 min read
In my last post I presented my revelation that quantum pressure is torque confined in space. In the post I compared the definitions of angular momentum and pressure and realized that the units point to not just a spatial correlation of angular momentum and pressure, but also a temporal one. That is, pressure is angular momentum divided by time and volume. With a bit of handwaving, I simply stated that torque is angular momentum divided by time, and thus pressure is simply torque divided by the volume of the quantum object experiencing torque. However, if you look at this description, there is a problem, conservation of angular momentum states that the only way to have torque is to have a temporal change in angular momentum. So, there is something missing from the original description.
In this post I think I’ve figured out what sustains the torque that generates quantum pressure. And this something is black-body radiation. But I think I’m getting a head of myself. Let’s start at the beginning.
According to my original (or at least most recently submitted) manuscript on quantum gravity molecules in the gas phase and liquid phase exist as entangled supramolecular arrays in constant tangential motion. Originally, I thought that due to the conservation of angular momentum the velocity of the molecules in these arrays would be constant. Or more specifically I didn’t necessarily think about it but just thought that constant velocity would be good enough approximation. But as soon as I encountered the concept of pressure being torque divided by volume, I realized that this assumption had been leading me astray. Rather, slowing down of angular momentum is the key to how quantum pressure is generated. That is, if there was no friction between neighboring quantum objects (helical toruses), there would be no quantum pressure. But poses a major question: “If quantum pressure is generated by the decrease of speed (cooling) of molecules, shouldn’t this cooling ultimately lead to molecules stopping altogether?” Here we turn to black-body radiation.
Quantum pressure is indeed generated by the frictional slowing down of supramolecular helical toruses of molecules, but this slowing down will not lose the overall energy of the system. Rather, the energy ‘lost’ in the slowing down of the molecules is converted into radiation. More specifically into black-body radiation. When talking about the radiation we observe at human-scale temperatures, the radiation is infrared wavelengths. So, what happens to this radiation? It is mostly absorbed by neighboring supramolecular helical toruses, speeding them up. And the rest of the radiation is absorbed by supramolecular helical toruses farther away. Or are absorbed by solid crystals of molecules, heating them up.
So, if each supramolecular helical torus of molecules is like a mini-engine, producing torque, what is the fuel that sustains this torque? You might have guessed already that the fuel are the photons coming from the sun, either directly, or oftentimes indirectly. If there wasn’t the sun bathing the earth with its light, the black-body radiation of slowly cooling supramolecular helical toruses would leave the earth as a frozen hell hole.
Of course, this is just an initial glimpse of quantum pressure. The theory can still have some holes, but it really seems to be condensing to a theory with perfect connection to the current understanding of physics and chemistry. Though, without the random motion, of course.
And to finish this post I have one of the best ChatGPT illustrations for my posts thus far. I wrote a prompt:
Could you draw me picture of two-dimensional lattice of closely packed donuts, each rotating in the opposite direction to its neighbor, radiating heat in the process.
And this is what I got:





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