The Ether
Regarding the speed of light, Spring-And-Loop Theory has been
predictive, and revolutionary.
With black holes, Spring-And-Loop Theory has been able to provide
additional explanations as to why light transmission is halted
inside the event horizon.
With "Einstein's" equation, Spring-And-Loop Theory achieved
parity with existing physics -- failing at a direct derivation
but containing modelling building blocks beyond what any other
theory has to offer.
When it comes to the ether, (also referred to as the "aether" or "luminiferous ether"),
Spring-And-Loop Theory finds itself in an "army of one"
situation -- battling not just a few but the majority of physicists.
A well known rule of law is that you can't prove a negative.
The defendent (without an alibi) can never prove she didn't
do it, hence the "innocent until proven guilty" starting point.
Modern physicists clearly disagree with this law. Having tried
to detect the ether, and come up empty, most physicists today say
there isn't one.
The difference between atheist and agnostic comes to mind.
This is of no consequence, of course...unless there really is an ether.
String theory, as ugly a theory as has ever been presented, is more than tolerated
because....why? Well, because supporting it makes thousands of scientists a very
good living. That's why.
The concept of an ether that light travels through is not
tolerated...why? Because it hasn't been found yet.
Henri Poincare thought the ether might be unobservable but he considered
it a "convenient hypothesis" and continued to use the concept in
later papers. [Wiki]
Spring-And-Loop Theory takes a similar approach, going one stage
further by coming up with a more realistic theory of what the ether
is. And promptly harvesting the fruits such an improved theory brings.
After wrestling with the gravity propagation problem for months,
Spring-And-Loop Theory heard mention (in an Amazon comment) that
gravitons were loops, and soon put it all together -- building on
the Universal Matrix foundation by imagining how graviton loops
could work well with the "ether" springs.
Spring-And-Loop Theory realized that the loop-spring interaction was
what caused gravity, that the gravity effect was propagated through
the ether (i.e. spring system). Unification of the four forces was the
icing on an already pretty sweet cake.
Today, Consequences Of A Spring-And-Loop Theory would add that
the ether could never be a solid, liquid or gas system because
these are all spring-loop systems. All these years scientists
have been trying to find/measure/confirm a "system" that is neither
a solid, a liquid nor a gas; has constituents that are 1020 smaller than a
proton; and vibrates at the speed of light -- no wonder it has remained so elusive.
In it, Lee outlined three approaches -- black hole thermodynamics,
loop quantum gravity and string theory -- to a quantum theory
of gravity.
Spring-And-Loop Theory had taken a fourth road. Where
Smolin had identified the shortcomings of string theory,
Spring-And-Loop Theory had avoided the mistake Smolin had made.
He imagined a universe of gravitons, and Spring-And-Loop Theory
imagined the inverse: a universe of energy.
For what it is worth, Higgs seems to have made the same mistake as Smolin.
As have the Field theory people. Oh well.
Everyone doing their own thing was needed in the early days of
the microchip but today companies are moving in lock-step toward
a "wonderful" wireless world where companies
monitor our every breath while we happily share our baby pictures
in a hideous Windows 8 interface. Unhealthy levels of group think
but healthy design decisions.
As complete and consistent as Spring-And-Loop Theory is, it has
limited value to life if the majority of physicists are following
inferior theories. On the other hand, it will be pretty hard for
others to steal the credit for Spring-And-Loop Theory.
Physics could have been completely different today. Several decades
of mental growth have been lost. And far too many pointless
mine-is-bigger-than-your's mega projects have been built, and publicly
financed.
Did you know the LHC has an operating cost of $5B per year?
This lunacy is the result of physicists continually taking the path of
looking through larger and larger haystacks for smaller and smaller
needles (that have less and less value to science, or life). And
they get paid, by thee and me, to do this.
Personally
I would say the value of the LHC is
A theory was advanced that log jams were held back by
a "key log".
This concept was later used by self-development gurus to encourage
people to discover what their "key log" was, so that they could
liberate their log and their life.
Spring-And-Loop Theory suggests we try the "there is an ether" key,
and unlock our theories accordingly.
I am not aware of any ether test that considered the possibility of
the ether itself moving at the speed of light (as Spring-And-Loop Theory
maintains it does). If they had, they would have recalled the Einstein
thought experiment of riding on a beam of light and encountering photons
coming toward the observer at light speed.
So how could one measure a speed difference based on relative motion,
when Einstein's theory (or at least his thought experiment) says there
can not be one?
There truly is more to the ether than meets the eye. In the time
I spent today doing final research and writing, I have seen the
number of interesting thoughts, links and articles grow in an
almost exponential fashion. I hope I have inspired you to want
to read further as well.
By the way, Spring-And-Loop Theory says that the ether (i.e. springs)
are such small components relative to matter (i.e. loops) that the motion
of one has little if any impact on the motion of the other (at speeds
much smaller than the speed of light). Springs can pass right through
atoms, like mosquitos through a tennis racket. Try to measure that.
In the next talk, COASALT takes on a subject more respected,
but even more poorly understood, than the ether.
Considered the weakest force, it has proven again and again
to be a giant killer. Einstein tried for 30 years to figure
it out, but never did. Feynman, hoping to contribute something
more than being an allegedly entertaining physics professor,
produced nothing.
The Speed Of Light
Black Holes
Einstein's Equation
The Ether
Gravity
"We need it, Newton knew it"
COASALT to date
Spring-And-Loop Theory provides a uniquely clarifying lens with
which to study how the universe works at all scales.
The critical path
Spring-And-Loop Theory believes that the doldrums modern physics finds
itself in are directly caused by it turning its back on the ether.
God said it, I believe it and that's that
An agnostic is someone who neither believes nor
As agnostic as most physicists would claim to be, they are clearly
atheistic when it comes to the ether.
disbelieves, whereas an atheist disbelieves.
- William L. Rowe
There is a fork, but no spoon
Modern physics is at once the most tolerant, and intolerant, of sciences.
Einstein giveth and Einstein taketh away
The timeline of luminiferous aether begins in the 18th century with the concept of luminiferous
aether ("light-bearing aether"), or ether, as a medium for electromagnetic propagation. [Wiki]
The Ether: They love me :-)
"Since the development of special relativity, theories using a substantial aether
are not used any more in modern physics, and are replaced by more abstract models."
The Ether: They love me not :-(
Wiki
"It is ironic that Einstein's most creative work, the general theory of relativity, should boil
down to conceptualizing space as a medium when his original premise [in special relativity] was
that no such medium existed."
The Ether:
- Robert B. Laughlin, Nobel Laureate in Physics, endowed chair in physics, Stanford University
Wiki
He loves me not :-( He loves me :-)
Einstein says that special relativity does not require rejecting the aether, and that the gravitational
field of general relativity may be called aether, to which no state of motion can be attributed.
The Ether: He tolerates me :-|
- wiki
Behold, an Ether bunny, bearing gifts
For the past four hundred years, scientists have speculated on light,
and ether.
Picking up speed, on the road less travelled
From the beginning, Spring-And-Loop Theory
has maintained that the "ether" is pure energy, and is in fact the highest
energy there is -- the spring-like energy of the Universal Matrix itself.
A long-overdue aside
In May, 2013, five months after publishing Spring-And-Loop Theory,
I read Lee Smolin's "Three Roads To Quantum Gravity".
You can lead a physicist to ether...
Life can be difficult for the lead dog. Yes, the view is always new,
but if the other dogs are not leashed behind you, they will wander
off in all directions.
The lost years
Ah, what might have been...
Ether jam
In the old days -- when we used to pride ourselves on our ability
to cut down trees -- things like log jams were studied.
Click here to "Like" the Ether
For those needing a reason to drop their ether-hate, consider this.
The Michelson–Morley experiments
and I'm sure every other ether measuring experiment, had the same flaw.
They all assumed the ether would cause waves (of light or otherwise) to
propagate faster or slower depending on how they were moving relative
to the ether medium.
It gets better
Interestingly, as I typed into Google: "Einstein riding a beam of
light", and clicked the first link, I ended up on a page
authored by chemical engineer turned physicist John D. Norton, who proceeds
to defend the ether! How serendipitous.
Coming up...
Einstein built on the earlier work of Poincare, Lorentz and Larmor,
discarding exactly the ether component of their theory before
re-labelling it as solely his own theory. This was morally wrong,
and also set physics back a generation or more. Consideration of
why historians and reporters have given Einstein criticism-free
status on this issue is beyond the scope of Spring-And-Loop Theory.
Gravity is not responsible for people falling in love.
Yes, he might be wrong once again.
- Albert Einstein
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et=mc3
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