A truly impressive discovery. Thanks to Georgina and Zeeya.
In addition to Ms Loi proving: "...that the Earth's atmosphere is embedded with these strangely shaped, tubular plasma structures. The complex, multilayered ducts are created by the atmosphere being ionised by sunlight", I came across this article today, 'Dark matter's deep reach' in a Nigerian newspaper, with credits given to the New York Times Service. In it, Dr. Sabine Hossenfelder who I think is an FQXi member is quoted. Some excerpts from the article, some facts and some questions arising:
EXCERPTS
Earlier this year, Dr. Sabine Hossenfelder, a theoretical physicist in Stockholm, made the jarring suggestion that dark matter might cause cancer.
Somewhere from 10 to a few thousand times a year, Hossenfelder estimated, a WIMP may happen to strike one of our own atoms, including some that make up DNA. The energy would be strong enough to break molecular bonds and cause mutations.
But Rampino has added another twist: During Earth's galactic voyage, dark matter accumulates in its core.
Said to be five times more abundant than the stuff we can see, dark matter is a crucial component of the theory behind gravitational lensing, in which large masses like galaxies can bend light beams and cause stars to appear in unexpected parts of the sky.
INDISPUTABLE FACTS
FACT 1. The strangely shaped complex tubular plasma structures discovery by Ms Loi are earth-bound matter embedded in earth's atmosphere.
FACT 2. The earth is moving about the Sun at about 30km/s and these structures MUST therefore also be in motion along with it.
FACT 3. Ms Loi said the drifting plasma tubes could distort astronomical data, especially satellite-based navigation systems, THEREFORE light's behavior and propagation can be influenced by these matter.
FACT 4. "We found that the ionisation patterns in the ionosphere are quite structured. They flow in these tubular structures that are aligned with the Earth's magnetic field. And they can then move of their own accord.", THEREFORE these structures while having a motion of their own accord, are also having another motion which is that of the earth's, i.e. moving of objects within a moving ship. Recall Galileo's ship in Salviati's experiment.
FACT 5. Whether matter in which light propagates is moving or still relative to an observer has an influence on light dynamics. Light moving in same direction as the MOVING matter is hastened; that moving against the direction of MOVING matter is delayed; while light propagating in matter STATIONARY to the observer is uninfluenced, in spite of the fact that in some other frame, ALL, i.e. the laboratory, the observer, the matter may be moving in some other frame, e.g. relative to the Sun at 30,000km/s. That solar motion, or even galactic or motion relative to CMBR has no influence whatsoever on the local experiments in the ship - a Galilean relativity principle. Just as such motion have no influence on local Sound dynamics, as the matter (Air) is stationary to the equally stationary earth-based observer.
QUESTIONS ARISING:
1. What is the influence of the presence of these matter on earth-surface light experiments to discover the effects of earth motion on light?
2. If as Dr. Sabine Hossenfelder suggests that dark matter might cause cancer, a biological consideration, has dark matter not already caused cancer in our physics by interfering with the Michelson-Morley experiment, which in some way is the DNA on which Relativity theory has been built? Or are we to suppose the influence of dark matter is only on biology and not on physics?
3. Can something which is said to be five times more abundant than the stuff we can see, be interacting only somewhere from 10 to a few thousand times a year with the stuff that we can see, (i.e. our own atoms), RATHER than an ever present interaction based on this 5:1 abundance over what we can see, albeit mostly a gravitational interaction?
4. Is it not the denser matter (by virtue of electromagnetic bonding and interaction), and slower moving matter that would accumulate at Earth's core in contrast to what Prof. Rampino says, while the intrinsically faster moving and the less dense (by virtue of interacting only gravitationally and not electromagnetically) that will accumulate at Earth's surface and atmosphere from the time of its birth and during its galactic voyage?
5. From the foregoing, since dark matter was an unknown participant in the Earth-surface experimental findings that formed the basis of our relativity theories of time and space during Einstein's ear, now that we know that dark matter could have been interfering with Physics' DNA, is it not appropriate that we intervene and stop the Monster creating process that we now behold in the form of 'being in two places at once', 'traveling to the past', 'traveling to the future', 'being dead and alive at the same time', 'twin paradox', 'grandfather paradox', 'contracting lengths', 'dilating time', 'photon existence paradox', etc? Or do we continue watching this horror movie and do nothing?
Regards,
Akinbo