Cap'n Refsmmat

That was the original thought, but it looks like no, they just know each other. Yes. No, not directly. There was this, however. Yes, that is true, although we may have been reading between the lines of his posts.

Then you're proposing that the emitted EM radiation has a wavelength matching the de Broglie wavelength of the particle? That's the implication of post #39.

So a stationary particle is radiating aether waves constantly? If an aether wave is an EM wave, wouldn't that mean that stationary particles emit detectable EM fields? (Incidentally, that's still not like "de Broglie waves" in ordinary physics)

But if de Broglie waves are matter waves the way de Broglie described, then in your model matter would have to travel at the speed of light, since it's an aether wave.

What is the speed of wave propagation in the aether? How do you account for observations indicating the existence of quarks?

"de Broglie waves" refer to the wavelike properties of particles like neutrons and protons. The term does not refer to any other kind of waves -- particularly waves in the aether, which are completely different. Unless you're saying that matter is made out of aether.

We turned off the name-change feature for established members, since it tends to cause confusion. Since the majority of your posts are from before you made the name change, I've changed it back for you.

So you'd predict there's large amounts of EM radiation being emitted from the center of the Earth? Also, that still has nothing to do with the de Broglie waves of modern physics.

That is a completely different matter, and has no relation to electron wavelength. Newton's first law of motion?

Yup. And is that acceleration greater than or less than g?

(stealing limericks from my computer-generated poetry stockpile) I am the Alpha and the Omega of love, knowing that I am Yahweh. Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as was soulful, with a bit of jazz-- as though she was wearing a THONG.

There are components parallel and perpendicular to the surface of the ramp. You want to split the gravitational acceleration into those components. Consider this diagram, if you ignore Fa and Ff (since there's no friction): Clearly the component of gravity pushing the block straight into the ramp won't accelerate it, because the ramp pushes back. The component pushing down the ramp, however, will accelerate it. You can use some trig, knowing [math]\Theta[/math] and Fg, to find that component.

Why write a haiku? A limerick is better. And quite likely lewd.

Hypotenuse of which triangle? You can break down the gravitational force into components: a component perpendicular to the surface of the ramp, and one parallel to it. It's the parallel one that will cause the object to slide down the ramp. Will that accelerate it the same as if there were no ramp?

Well, you can draw out a force diagram to see this one. In free-fall, there's no force opposing the fall. When an object slides down the ramp, is there a force pushing back?

Haskell will teach you to think in a completely different way from Java -- it is very, very different. It's good to understand functional programming for many reasons. It encourages programs written in small, reusable and easily-tested chunks, provides useful ways of operating on large datasets (lazy evaluation, folding/mapping), makes parallelism easier, and (in Haskell's case, at least -- there are dynamically typed functional languages) provides type restraints that make it very difficult to do anything dangerous. Here's a good paper, called Why Functional Programming Matters: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Papers/whyfp.html

Ah. I suggest you choose a term other than "de Broglie waves," then, as this has nothing to do with de Broglie waves as described by modern physics. So are you suggesting the aether can exert a force on matter? It seems it would have to, if it is to interact with matter. Also, aren't waves in the aether merely light?

de Broglie waves are "matter waves." They refer to ordinary particles (quarks, electrons, whatever) having wavelike properties. They are not special waves that can radiate outward from the center of the Earth, certainly. So I'm not sure what your "de Broglie waves" are or how they related to the standard model at all.

What predictions does this model make that could be tested in an experiment?

What are "de Broglie waves" in this model? They seem different from how one would use them ordinarily in physics.

What does it mean for something to "contain" three velocity vectors?

There's a pretty good answer to your question here, from NASA's "Ask an astrophysicist": http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/980601a.html A similar answer comes from Cornell: http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=264

That's not my point. If the aether drags light downwards, then a light beam traveling a long distance would have a slight downward curve. This would be detected in a setup like LIGO's, where light travels through a long path and is detected by exquisitely sensitive instruments at the other end. (Well, at the same end -- the light bounces back and forth quite a few times.)

Would the down-travel of the aether be detectable in the travel of light waves along great distances in sensitive equipment, such as in LIGO?

Wouldn't the velocity of the aether wind cause horizontal light beams to curve slightly?