Part 9 — Sunlight on a square pace

With sun directly overhead in a clear sky, a square pace patch of ground receives 10²⁴ splats of sunlight per minute. Blips, boings, photons, quanta, bundles of energy. The energy in light comes in bundles and that is how many bundles come in a minute. It is not anybody's fault it's just the way it is and Einstein deduced it in 1905.

The average frequency of one individual splat (and this is angular format, the number of radians of phase gone through per unit time) is 10¹⁷ per minute.

If you multiply those two frequencies together you get 10⁴¹ per minute². Intuitively that kind of quantity describes a rush of vibration—how many packages of vibration are hitting per minute multiplied by the average individual package's frequency of vibration.

In TPM units Planck's h-bar can be written 10^-40 tondime minute² and one thing you can do with h-bar is multiply the rush and get the power hitting the ground.

Try it. Multiply h-bar by the rush: namely 10^-40 tondime minute² by 10⁴¹ per minute², and you get 10 tondimes. Indeed that is the power of the sunlight a square pace can intercept at this distance from the sun. In conventional terms it's 3600 watts. That is with ideal clarity, or better yet, out in space. Ordinarily there is considerable attenuation in the atmosphere and the sunlight is coming down at a slant so the actual power is less.

Incidentally one form of Planck's h-bar is 10^-40 tondime minute² and another form that might look more familiar is 10^-40 tonpace minute. Algebraically they are equivalent because a dimeminute is the same as a pace—erase dimeminute in the first version and replace it by pace and you get the second version.

The square root of the rush that delivers full power

Every level of power has a rush of vibration that delivers that power. If the power is in tondimes, then to find the rush you multiply by 10⁴⁰ and that gives the rush in units of per minute².

For example reverse what we just did. Take the power level of 10 tondimes. Multiplying by 10⁴⁰ you find out that the rush of vibration that delivers that much power in the form of light is 10⁴¹ per square minute.

But the universe has an idea of full power, namely 10⁵⁰ tondimes. This is the power of pushing with Planck force (10⁴⁰ tons) at the speed of light (10¹⁰ dimes). By what was just said, the RUSH THAT DELIVERS FULL POWER must be 10⁹⁰ per square minute. The square root of that rush is 10⁴⁵ per minute.

Planck frequency, the rhythm intrinsic to light and gravity, is what defines the Planck interval of time—the time for one event to occur when things are happening at Planck frequency. And this natural core frequency of the universe is the square root of the rush that delivers full power.