UNIT SPHERE

We have all, perhaps, heard that the phrase, "a perfect sphere", and that it is redundant. That is to say that when we use the word sphere, it implies perfection. According to the dictionary, there are two basic meanings for a sphere.

1. a round solid body with a continuous surface, every point of which is equally distant from the point within called its center.

2. a globe or globe-like body; a ball; also a planet.

Using only definition 1, what would some examples be from the physical world? Atoms, the atomic nucleus, quarks, muons, electrons, photons, neutrinos? None of the above possess the "perfect" qualities inherent of definition 1.


A unit sphere can not have a preferred axis for spin.

A unit spherecan not show precession.

A unit spherecan not possess a magnetic moment.

A unit spherecan not exhibit a wave function.

A unit spherecan not possess inequality of shape; does possess a uniform exterior and interior, which is completely solid and hence contains no variations in either external, or internal field structure.

A unit spherepossesses no inherent charge : charge is the combined result from the agglomeration of unit spheres.

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