Ether model

[teh]

Apologies for the double entry - must be something to do with a new page.

Swansont

Relativity can't explain why spin is absolute. Inertia requires something "frictionless" out there to explain it, so ether should be a candidate. If not , what is the alternative? There is some evidence that the photon is frictionless. The Earth orbits unperturbed through a mass of photons coming from the Sun & elsewhere (Relativity model) so should be able to do so if the photons are part of the ether.

Hopefully my explanation that stellar aberration has the same cause for both models is satisfactory.

 

Pantheory

Heaven knows why they cling to Relativity. The fable of the Emperors new clothes springs to mind.

Most of the use of Relativity is in tracking moving objects (the stellar aberration issue) which is sound & works. Relativity is generally considered to work so why start from scratch with a new theory? We need to point out that relativity doesn't make sense & is not helpful in understanding outstanding problems like gravity & inertia.

[teh]

Velocity of light as a constant.

Einstein assumed the low result of the Michelson inteferometer to be experimental error & deduced that light consisted of projectiles. Strangley, the photon he found had inertia but no rest mass. If the photon is a particle in a medium the mass would be difficult to detect - everything floats.

Einstein faced a problem in that light arrives at the same velocity irrespective of the velocity of its source, whereas the velocity of a projectile should be the velocity of the projectile with respective to its source plus the velocity of its source.

He assumed the velocity of light to be a constant in mathematical terms, & working from the Lorentz transformation produced equations that allowed something to be added to the velocvity of light without altering it. Although the maths was general he restricted its use to a vacuum. Outside a vacuum what maths must be used? Are they still projectiles? But experiments have shown that the velocity of light increases passing the Sun, in a vacuum.

The assumption of a constant produces problems with space & time. If space is curved it must consist of something but nothing has been detected.

Experiments with atomic clocks have shown that they run slower near the ground than higher up, the theory being that light is slower near the ground. This implies that light has a physical component, which has not been detected. Common sense dictates that the clocks run slower near the ground because light is slower there, thus bending the light wave round the Earth.

[teh]

Properties of the ether will be established by examining the photon as a partocle in a medium rather than a projectile. Here is a guess as to what the ether could look like.

1 Assumptions

Space & Time are human concepts without physical components.

Atomic matter consists of the nucleus, the electron cloud, & an ether field consisting of photons at least.

Properties of the ether -

2 Gravity. Why has the graviton not been detected? The photon is involved in electromagnetism & magnetism & gravity are considered to be linked, so it should be involved in gravity.

To establish the extent of the field for the Earth start at the point between the Sun & the Earth where the gravity is Zero & go round keeping the fields at equal strength, giving a pear-shaped effect. Thus the Earths field is held within the Suns field etc.

3 Electrostatic field is a distortion in the ether

4 Magnetism is a distortion at right angles to the above.

5 Light is an oscillation between 3 & 4 as per Maxwells equations.

6 The ether may effects within the atom.

7 The velocity of light decreases with distance from matter, except it also decreases very close to matter, which is why light bends rouns stars - refer time experiments with clocks going slower near the ground

8 The photon should have mass. This should explain the orbit of Mercury as the gravitational force on it would be that of the Sun plus that of the ether in the hollow sphere with radius Mercurys distance from the Sun as the orbit obeys less than inverse square even after relativistic corrections.

9 The ether should responsible for inertia since it is there. If not something else needs to be found.