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The current issue between philosophy and science over the embedded past assumption that space is 'nothing' is found to be highly relevant. Consistent with the 'instabilities' found and with n-body dark matter (ΛCDM) modelling we consider space simply as a diffuse dielectric medium. Impacts on Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity are non-zero but far from harmful. Challenging the assumption that space is 'empty' reveals eight related assumptions forming a belief system of painted scenery on 2D frames with foggy perceptions of space and time. We identify and expose each assumption in Proper Time. The false pictures then evaporate leaving a clear and coherent reality. We find that Shakespeare's “All the world's a stage” is parochial and act out the play in deep space. In a contemporary interpretation Eddy and the Electrons play a lead role alongside fast ladies Pretty Penny and the Protons. New relationships are found hidden beneath the old assumptions. A coherent classical relativistic kinetic and causal universe emerges, with classical effects driven by a known quantum mechanism, inconsistent with the assumption that QM and Relativity can't couple.

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Architect, environmental science and renewable energy consultant. Fellow and member of learned bodies in astronomy and physics, and perpetual research student in; optical science, meteorology, structures, fluid dynamics, dynamic logic, philosophy, history of physics, observational cosmology etc. Studied Canterbury, PCL/ University of Westminster and in consultancy. Born UK 1951. peter.jackson53@ymail.com

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Hello Peter,

Happy to see your participation on this contest.

Good luck.

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Jul. 16, 2012 @ 18:04 GMT

Steve,

Thanks. The strict rationalisation and consistency with empirical evidence is something I hope you warm to. I wish you well.

Peter

Author Peter Jackson replied on Jul. 17, 2012 @ 12:33 GMT

Thanks Eckard for the typo proofing. (readers see below). Also P8 Para's 2-3 make more sense as;

Assumption 7. 'Ballistic' Stellar Aberration. A hidden implicit sub-assumption is that the barycentric 'medium' does not exist, which confounds theory. If Lodge had known of the IAU Barycentric frame, and of KRR, in 1893 he would not have used his lab to represent the ECI frame, incorrectly disallowing Stellar Aberration from waves. Lodge assumed the 'path' of a 'ray' entering a spinning glass disc is 'dragged' by the glass, so giving aberration in the wrong direction (aberration is ahead of our orbital path). However, the rest frame of the glass, NOT the lab represents an observer on Earth. The optical axis is then reversed as in KRR8 (see Fig.4), not needing ballistics, and with a quantum mechanism deriving the SR postulates.

A connected assumption is of a single Earth centred frame. Kinetic only aberration uses the non-rotating ionospheric ECI frame, but there are TWO! Atmospheric refraction (greatest at longer optical paths near the horizon)13 and an additional kinetic rotational vector explains why local surface light speed is c/n. This 2nd 'frame' resolves the residual errors of laser lunar ranging and stellar aberration.14 Annihilation can't be 100% over short distances, leaving the birefringence found by Raman (1921) and explaining scintillation ('twinkling'), ellipticity and consistently low but non-zero interferometer results.

Peter

Steve Dufourny replied on Jul. 18, 2012 @ 12:22 GMT

Hi Peter,

:) always in the rational road. You know, it is our only one solution after all. The determinism is a parameter so important to have these rational datas.The sciences are exact and precise.The good universities teach the foundamentals. The rest is vain !

The medecines must be rational, like in the chemistry or the biology or the physics or the maths....

In fact , this universal 3D objectivity is essential for all correct axiomatizations of these foundamental laws.

If not, we have pseudo sciences. Can we teach false sciences ? no of course , fortunaly for our technologies and models furthermore.

I wish you all the best in this contest Peter.

Regards

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Jul. 18, 2012 @ 19:13 GMT

Steve.

Many thanks. I value your rationalist view, and am very impressed that in discussing my essay about rotating spherical entities and nested spaces moving within spaces, that you did not use the word 'sphere' once!

Yet I disagree that even the best universities are just teaching the rational. It is becoming clearer to me that they are also indoctrinating young physicists to be unable to think conceptually or accept challenges to assumptions they are taught.

The last winner of the Nobel in Chemistry was called a pseudo scientist when he lost his job and home 30 years ago for proposing what he has just at last won the Nobel for discovering. The USChem Soc President was challenged and said "that's how science is done." He was right. And it should not be!

I hope you liked the sonnet, but the science is important.

Peter

Anonymous replied on Jul. 19, 2012 @ 00:47 GMT

Peter,

You are welcome. You are impressed ? you have not still all seen you know.It is the begining of the spherical revolution you know Peter.

That said , I agree about the universities.Some universities are good, others no.It is always the same problems in fact, the vanity and the monney Peter.Or perhaps even the frustration of the searcher.

But fortunally the rational roads are and shall be always our best choices.

The system is corrupted and sick Peter, it is not new.But fortunally it exists real universalists, and rationalists and foundamentalists in the high spheres !!!

The well wins always Peter ! the monney is just an error you know .

spherically yours :)

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Peter

You know what I am going to say.

1 SR, as defined by Einstein, involves:

-no gravitational forces

-only motion that is uniform rectilinear and non-rotary (which is in effect, stillness)

-fixed shape bodies at rest (no dimension alteration)

-light which travels in straight lines at a constant speed (no curvature)

In simple language, constant light speed occurred in 1905 because the condition in vacuo was invoked, while everything else was not in vacuo, ie these two could not co-exist. In SR everything is in vacuo. In GR nothing is.

I have posted a piece explaining this, though I have a slightly better verion which I will post in its place soon, but had to go out today. However, I think the definition of SR is a red herring anyway to your ideas.

2 Light is a physically existent phenomenon. It therefore acts like one. Its acquired role in sight is irrelevant. It might be that it somehow physically ‘refreshes’ on a constant basis as it travels, so its speed is, physically, more or less constant.

3 Measuring its speed has nothing to do with observation. Frames are about referencing. It was not a theory of observation. Measuring anything (including light) involves, by definition, a reference. This could be any, but once selected it must be used consistently in order to ensure that all resulting measurements are comparable. The point about moving (ie changing momentum, not constant momentum) is that, supposedly, this means there is dimension alteration occurring also, since both are a function of the same cause (ie an imbalance in the forces encountered).

Paul

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Jul. 16, 2012 @ 18:20 GMT

Paul,

Yes. You're not shy of repeating your consistent opinion. But it is also seems possible this may wear down a 'groove' from which the view of other aspects can be compromised.

Interesting that your view includes that the Electrodynamics of moving bodies is about "stillness". I agree with your points otherwise, and also with observers being 'at rest' in a local medium, (frame K) but also with most other matter in the universe in motion relatively K'+.

I also agree definitions of old theories are all 'red herrings' to more consistent ones. But if light 'refreshes' by interactions and scattering it can thus be 'changed', precisely as refraction, Yes?

It is the first part your item 3 which I find erroneous. Observation can only be by a lens, which can only be made of matter, and it cannot 'observe' without detection, ergo 'interaction'. All lenses have a refractive index, which is a constant. We cannot ignore the few consistent parts of current theory! There is no referencing problem with this model. All things move. Yes? Yet all lenses find light doing c once detected!!? I simply propose that this is not the massive problem imagined.

I've read your essay and will comment.

Peter

Paul Reed replied on Jul. 17, 2012 @ 05:26 GMT

Peter

“Interesting that your view includes that the Electrodynamics of moving bodies is about "stillness".

‘In effect, stillness’, ie there is no changing rate of momentum in SR, only uniform rectilinear and non-rotary motion is involved, Einstein said so.

“and also with observers”

SR & GR are not about observation. They are concerned with referencing, because there must be a reference in order to make any judgement, and according to them, matter and light are affected when subjected to a differential in gravitational force. Considerations about the speed of light were what sparked the whole train of thought off. And then speed of light was substituted for distance in an incorrect equation (see my posts 11/7 19.33 for that mistake and 13/7 11.24 for SR).

“But if light 'refreshes' by interactions and scattering it can thus be 'changed', precisely as refraction, Yes?”

If the speed of the physical effect known as light is somehow constantly refreshed, ie always maintained at its start speed, then it will have, physically, a constant speed. It could be a chain reaction for example. Obviously there will be some occasions when some impediment prevents this. This is a possible explanation as to how light travels. The real point being that there is no need to find it constant. Which brings me to the point you disagree with.

Light is just a physically existent phenomenon. The fact that it has acquired a functional role in the sensory system known as sight is irrelevant to its physical existence. In fact it ceases as at the point of reception, just like it does if it hits a brick wall instead. Calibrating the speed of light is the same logical exercise as calibrating the speed of anything else. Observation in this context is not the processing of light in the sensory system, it is the point of reception of light at the eye, ie just like the point of reception at the brick wall. The eye has evolved to make use of, with the rest of the sensory system, the configuration of light, the bricks have not.

“There is no referencing problem with this model”

There is. Because for calibrations to be comparable, the same reference must be used to formulate all those calibrations. The speed (or indeed any attribute) can only be stated wrt something else, and whilst any something else (ie reference) could be selected, once chosen then it, and it only, must be used.

Paul

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Jul. 18, 2012 @ 18:59 GMT

Paul.

"..the same reference must be used to formulate all those calibrations". Yes, I am only too aware you take the pre Galilean view of this, which is of course also pre Einsteinian. The central tenet of the Galilean revolution was intellectual holism. Meaning that there were many equivalent reference frames (matter with states of motion and non-zero dimensions) and they were all equivalent. i.e. each one is a 'rest frame' for the purposes of the measurement of light speed.

Einstein (and I know you now feel yourself a lone expert but remember others have studied his work and thoughts for many decades and not quite all have it wrong), set out to explain the very many confounding astronomical and interferometry findings he set out as postulates. He thus went a step further in using all kinetic states as representing rest frames. Each rest frame IS a local reference for phenomena travelling within that frame, i.e.= c. This explains observation. Your single reference point seems poorly considered as it infers some relevant single 'absolute' frame, which is what we escaped from courtesy of Gallileo. I'm not sure you really wish to revert, but you should understand that this is the inevitable simple consequence of your assertion of a single reference. 'Kinetic nesting' is an important concept to grasp, equivalent to Einstions moving spaces s within S. (1953). Investigating the PDL I discuss would help greatly.

I do agree with your improved explanation of 'stillness' above, by which you really meant lack of acceleration (change' of kinetic state) which of course you must consider that we did all well know. The 'stillness' as you call it is always the consistent reference point. Your comment only indicates you have not comprehended the complex relationships explored in my essay and should probably read it more slowly (that doesn't go for you alone of course so please don't take offence). Do revert when you have.

Best wishes

Peter

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Peter,

Your new essay is again a demanding one to me. I am perhaps correct when I for instance read k as km and "of of index" as "of index" and when I added an "are" between "There no atoms".

I faced similar worries when I read a paper by Reginald T. Cahill who for instance confused his Figs 1 and 2: A New Light-Speed Anisotropy Experiment: Absolute Motion and Gravitational Waves Detected", arXiv:physics 0610076v1 11 Oct 2006. Sorry, at the moment I am unable to type the correct slash between physics and the subsequent number.

Your essay reminds me; you are familiar with the refractive index n. Cahill argues that n is essential for the gas-mode Michelson interferometer. I cannot see this from his equations 16-18, and I wonder if he got support. Cahill wrote on p. 8: "... the interferometer can only operate as a detector of absolute motion when not in vacuum (n=1) ...". May I ask you for your comment?

Thank you in advance.

Eckard

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Steve Dufourny replied on Jul. 12, 2012 @ 22:38 GMT

Hello Eckard,

Hope you are well,

you do not paraticipate this year?

Regards

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Georgina Parry replied on Jul. 12, 2012 @ 23:17 GMT

Hi Peter,

Glad you have entered another essay this year.I have read through it but will have to read it again piece by piece to fully appreciate what you have written. There is -such a lot- in it (especially since you are talking about the subject of nothing). I really like the way you have presented it as a play. That breaks it up nicely into bite size pieces, that I feel I will be able to tackle and comprehend. It will require some dedication to the task though. You have been very thorough with your explanations and evidence.It does seem far more reasonable to me that there is something rather then nothing,disturbance of which can account for the various kinds of field. Good luck in the competition. I hope you get lots of positive feedback.

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Eckard Blumschein replied on Jul. 13, 2012 @ 16:44 GMT

Hi Steve,

This contests asks for wrong basic assumptions. Peter offers again his idea that the speed of light in vacuum equals c only locally.

Nonetheless, I appreciate his hints to optical phenomena, and I urgently hope he will comment on Cahill.

What about my new essay, I am sure; any serious analysis of the most basic assumptions will substantiate doubts in accepted tenets and hurt a lot of feelings. Therefore I have to work hard in order to argue as compelling and easily understandable as possible.

Regards,

Eckard

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Dear Peter Jackson:

I enjoyed reading your paper and would like to mention that the concluding statement – “We've here falsified a set of related beliefs, allowing removal of the basic assumption that 'nothing' exists. A new …… kinetic basis to Einstein's conceptions and a Quantum Relativity…” has been quantitatively and mathematically described in the Relativistic Universe Expansion model presented in my posted paper – “From Absurd to Elegant Universe”. The paper concludes that “Nothingness” never exists and what is perceived as nothingness (vacuum) actually entails all the contents (energy) of the universe, howsoever in varying forms and states.

Please read my paper and I would greatly appreciate your thoughtful comments.

Sincerely,

Avtar Singh

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Jul. 17, 2012 @ 12:15 GMT

Avtar,

Thank you. I'm glad the kinetic basis for 'Quantum Relativity' and it's importance is understood by somebody at least, and I greatly look forward to reading your paper, which it sounds may be very consistent.

Peter

Peter,

Thank you for writing about a complex subject, the assumptions concerning the "vacuum of space", which often goes by the names "void of space", "empty space", or "free space".

At least you are willing to use the term "medium" or "dielectric media" in referring to a vacuum, because it has defined characteristics, permittivity and permeability. It appears a vacuum has the ideal characteristics, the ratio of permittivity to permeability, for essentially lossless electromagnetic propagation.

Would it surprise anyone that the Higgs field has permittivity and permeability?

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Frank Makinson replied on Jul. 12, 2012 @ 19:28 GMT

Peter,

The last line in your sonnet is interesting. I have followed various forums that have mentioned the repeated Mars space craft losses. I found the excuse used for the one Mars spacecraft loss, someone had used ft/sec rather than m/sec, absolutely absurd. Perhaps someone from JPL, whose career is no longer in jeopardy, will bring out the facts about that one official excuse.

Do you realize that a slight change in permittivity would cause all the Mars spacecraft radar calculations to be wrong? In the earlier space craft, the computers and descent propulsion reaction systems were much slower than on the recent ones, which now allow a faster correction to an inherent error, but not an optimum correction. As far as I know, none of the Mars spacecraft carried a permittivity measurement system.

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Jul. 17, 2012 @ 12:29 GMT

Frank,

I agree we hide from realism, such as any link between the many known qualities of the ISM and the likes of the Higgs field. I think very close to 'lossless propagation' but not quite, which may derive a degree of redshift to finally consign increasing expansion to where it belongs.

Yes, I agree entirely about Mars. They've also lost many others and nearly lost Huygens-Cassini last year. the cosmological model is clearly hopelessly wrong, but nobody dares tamper with the assumptions it's built on. The Mars ionosphere is weak compared to Earth's but they ignore it at their peril!

Peter

Dear Peter,

It's clear that following a trail for several years leads us deeper into the forest. Things invisible from outside the forest come into view. If I could attempt to summarize your last year's essay it would be that the reality of light transmission through the universe encounters many different regions of (plasma) media and the the speed of light changes upon entry and exit from each region. Upon first reading it appears that your current essay expands upon this theme to analyze more carefully what happens at different scales and different contexts, including relative motion, and what assumptions are appropriate. Key statements from your current essay appear to be:

"Observer frame matters... understanding of this remains poor..." and "Matter, and dielectric media, can and do all move, so ours is an option not originally considered."

I always appreciate Einstein's statement: "..there exists no space "empty of field." This is an underlying assumption of my own current essay, The Nature of the Wave Function, so I agree with you that "...no assumption of a perfect vacuum is required or valid for a unified SR/QM"

Finally, a recognition of reality:

"Doubts will always enter the minds of those asked to shed so many assumptions." and from your sonnet: "...physics needs ontology, philosophy needs nature."

I think you've written a significant essay. Congratulations.

Edwin Eugene Klingman

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Jul. 17, 2012 @ 14:59 GMT

Edwin,

I do like the term "significant essay", thank you most humbly. I also agree you've picked out some very salient points.

In pure physics terms I think it important that we recognise the importance of assimilating the two ignored optical effects (page 8) into current theory. In combination they then allow the complete unification of physics in terms of logically explaining the postulates or SR directly with a quantum mechanism. I perhaps didn't labour this point enough as it has been consistently missed. Does it not come across?

And the illogicality and causality issue with the 'ballistic' refraction model, which would imply 'ripping' a section out of the causal wave plane and 'hinging' it so some light has to stop and other parts do more than c to 'catch up.' (Fig 3). Do the mega implications of that not emerge clearly?

I've just found my 'mutual exclusivity' axiom echoes Boscovich's 'axiom of Impenetrability', which is nice.

I was also pleased to find high consistency with your again excellent, essay, though yours is as densely packed as mine and I need a further read to properly extract all it's meaning.

Best of luck.

Peter

It is interesting to note identification of all prevailing substance as diffuse dielectric medium.

In picophysics, we believe that the speed of light reduces near matter due to increased density of space. So practically both "diffuse dielectric medium" and PicoPhysics results on speed of light may be similar.

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Jul. 17, 2012 @ 15:06 GMT

Vijay,

Thanks, increased density of dielectrics certainly occurs closer to massive bodies, and reduces em wave speed, but the main resolution of the anomalies and paradoxes emerges from the kinetic element. This has been 'hiding' behind Fresnel's n and poor ontological thought processes.

None the less It seems our theses are consistent and I look forward to reading yours.

Peter

Dear Peter

Bravo for another spirited essay where you invoke experimental facts from cosmology to deconstruct Special Relativity and related assumptions about the Ether. I got a bit lost in some of the details, but I got a feel for what you are doing: standing up for the right of Nothing to be a most important Something! Bravo as you know I have built a whole theory on that assumption, and might add "apart from this Something there is Nothing". I agreed with most of the statements that I could grasp immediately such as "We violate no key assumptions of SR by invoking preferred background frames because our frames are not the absolute frame which SR falsifies." Note my "One Absolute Universal Frame" sketched in the figure accompanying Q3 on p.5 of my FQXI paper. Other parts of your paper refer to phenomena and experiments and notions that I need to research or study more to understand. Reading many FQXI essays daily and thinking how to respond to various queries makes me answer Yes to the question in your sonnet: "overload your head?".

Your Fig. 4B reminded me of a Phase Array radar unit able to direct a wavefront in various angular directions even though the Array is itself planar. But I guess in 3D space a more applicable analogy would be a GRIN lens (gradient index of refraction). And with this happy expression I again congratulate you for a very interesting essay!

Vladimir

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Jul. 17, 2012 @ 16:30 GMT

Vladimir,

Thank you. Nothing indeed does not exist. I look forward to your further comments after your studies. I can probably provide more links if needed.

Yes, both GRIN lenses and Phase Array radar (etc.) systems are highly analogous with my 'rotation' and Figs (I assume you meant 3B and 4.). I didn't have room to include a reference, but for anyone interested an easy intro is here; http://www.radartutorial.eu/06.antennas/an14.en.html

This blows the whole assumptive basis of 'light Rays', 'light paths' and ray vectors' out of the water as not causal on refraction. This then allows the logic of physics to emerge. Indeed we have not yet found any actual mechanism or complete intuitive explanation for refraction! Yet most physicists will say 'yes of course we know how it works!!'

I think your essay may be the perfect 'previous chapter' to mine, and I'm impressed you resisted the temptation to cram your beautiful overview with too much, which I fear I have.

Best of luck

Peter

Vladimir F. Tamari replied on Jul. 23, 2012 @ 04:20 GMT

Peter

Thanks for your response. I am honored that you felt my essay might be used to sort of pave the way for your views. As I said the confidence I had in writing it comes from a vision of a simple functional physics such as my much-vaunted Beautiful Universe Theory. I think we both have a similar approach to a an imagined ToE of local interactions.

The phased-array example you provided is very pertinent to our discussion but I do not think it annuls a vectorial approach to analysis. The vectors from each emitter of the array add up at any point in the field, and a wavefront is generated. Normal to the wavefronts energy flows along streamlines (defined by the Poynting vectors). It is only when the wavefronts are straight that light goes along straight rays, but in most cases (except that of turbulent flow where things become very messy) the vectors add up to curved streamlines. Please see my analysis in Figs. 10-13 of my Cancellation of Diffraction paper to see how straight vectors can describe curved streamlines

Cheers and good luck!

Vladimir

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Jul. 24, 2012 @ 10:25 GMT

Vladimir

It's I who am honoured. I only agree to a limited extent about vector analysis. Vectors do of course represent 'something', but we have been fooled into thinking that something is the actual path of a 'light ray'.

I did scan your 'streamlines' quickly quite recently, and believe they are quite analogous to a gradual rotation of re-emission. In fact I've slipped in the odd additional reference to your work in my draft. I'll send the relevant bits in due course. But there are two separate things going on, as two effects using the same process; One kinetic, at the surface with charge asymmetry due to lateral motion, and one in the medium, where the gradual change can be better described geometrically (I agree with a 'curved HFP') and may be more about harmonics? I don't yet have a consistent understanding of the whole set of relationships, except that it is consistent with extinction and birefringence in a medium. Have you considered those relationships?

Peter

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Eckard Blumschein replied on Jul. 26, 2012 @ 04:10 GMT

Peter,

"... not causal on refraction. This then allows the logic of physics to emerge. Indeed we have not yet found any actual mechanism or complete intuitive explanation for refraction!"? Where is the problem?

Thank you for commenting on Cahill and providing links. Being interested in pure experimental results rather than combinations with hypotheses, I did not yet find a description of Michelson/Morley type experiments within vacuum as compared to within gas. I am just having no idea what makes the difference. Wouldn't such difference be a gradual one depending e.g. on density?

Eckard

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Vladimir F. Tamari replied on Sep. 21, 2012 @ 02:25 GMT

Dear Peter

Apologies - I have only just seen your message above. You always ask challenging and interesting questions. Alas my modus operandi is to work intermittently on various 'projects' - an idea in physics, a painting, some other project...and it takes me a lot of time to re-gather my wits for each new task! For me to understand birefringence in terms of my posited ether lattice will take some doing but if my theory works it "should" somehow explain the effect.

As one of our colleagues in last year's contest used to sign off

Have Fun... it is a good wish!

Vladimir

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Dear Mr. Jackson,

Unlike several episodes of the Seinfeld show, I am afraid I was quite unable to understand much more of your essay other than its title. This is entirely my fault. I would like to make just one comment. I humbly think that one real Universe could only ever have one real unit of anything. I get suspicious of the mention of pluralities, especially abstract pluralities such as protons and particles and waves and vectors and numbers and quantum accumulations. I deeply wish that this sad inadequacy on my part were not so.

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Paul Reed replied on Jul. 13, 2012 @ 17:45 GMT

Joe

No need to be humble about it. You are right. There can only be one existence at a time, and anything referred to must have corresponding physical existence, otherwise there is something wrong with the concept. This is the science of physical reality, not the religion of it.

Paul

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Jul. 17, 2012 @ 17:03 GMT

Joe

I hope the second meaning of the title also emerged. I also tried to make the last line as comprehensible as the first so I hope you got it? (See Frank's comments above). I'm not sure I ever understood any of Seinfeld so you are at an intellectual advantage.

I agree entirely about "one REAL unit of everything" particularly time. Paul seemed to miss the below too, so I'll elucidate, by analogy;

You and 2 mates synchronise 3 clocks, one takes one a long way away. Each is ticking at the same REAL time, so let's say they flash once a second. Now the distant one approaches you at half light speed. Your mate with it checks his watch and it is definitely running at the same unchanged speed, but Lo! The flashes of light that you observe as the clock approaches you are LESS than one second apart! What foul trickery is this? it is not. You are not seeing REAL time, because you cannot comply with the rules of 'Proper Time' (to do so you need to be 'moving' at the same speed as the clock).

Your other mate now flies off in the other direction at half c. His clock still emits the flashes at REAL 1 second intervals, yet, aghast! they are now received by you at much longer intervals. Is time now 'dilated'!!??

Of course not. You are again not seeing REAL time because the position of the emitter changes between emissions and light has a finite propagation speed irrespective of the emitter. i.e. I am introducing 'APPARENT' time, in ALL CASES except where the observer is at rest with the emitter. Otherwise the flash sequence is 'Doppler shifted'. In reality there is only ever ONE absolute time! We can simply find it for any clock moving at v relative to us, the observer, by adding or subtracting v. Your kinetic reference is then always your own 'rest' state of inertial motion K.

Is that not far more simple and comprehensible than Seinfeld and the LT?

Peter

Paul Reed replied on Jul. 24, 2012 @ 09:36 GMT

Peter

“I agree entirely about "one REAL unit of everything" particularly time. Paul seemed to miss the below too”

I missed this post. This is not how timing works. Timing is an extrinsic assessment of the rate of change between realities. So, one takes any timing device (which could be any change sequence, but it is best to have a good one, snail movement just doesn’t cut...

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Peter

“I agree entirely about "one REAL unit of everything" particularly time. Paul seemed to miss the below too”

I missed this post. This is not how timing works. Timing is an extrinsic assessment of the rate of change between realities. So, one takes any timing device (which could be any change sequence, but it is best to have a good one, snail movement just doesn’t cut it!) and counts and compares sheer number of changes irrespective of type. Which includes, obviously, a start and a finish. Therefore, as at any given point in time (start and finish), A was at spatial point X, B was at spatial point Y, or whatever is being timed. Whilst D occurred (ie number of changes in any given attribute of A), E occurred (ie number of changes in any given attribute in B). The concept of ‘whilst’ need not be concurrent, when one has a timing device, because that is providing a reference (ie in quartz timing devices, crystal oscillation), so the comparison can be effected even if it does not involve concurrent events.

It has nothing to do with moving with the timing device, nor is there real and apparent time. Physically, what happens is that there is a time when there was physical existence. Then there is a subsequent time when a representation (from the perspective of the sensory system, and it is known as light in the sensory system of sight) of that physical existence reaches any given appropriate sensory receptor. The delay being a function of prevailing environmental conditions through which the light travelled, and distance between the reality, as at the point in time when it occurred, and the ‘eye’, as at the point in time when reception of the light occurred. That is, not the distance between the two when the reality occurred, because relative movement can occur whilst the light is travelling.

This simple fact reveals an optical illusion, which many ascribe to being something more than it physically is:

As light travels, there is a delay between the time of occurrence of the existent state (reality), reaction with which resulted in the light at the same time, and the time of the receipt of that light by any given sentient organism. That delay will vary as a function of the distance involved, and the speed with which the light actually travelled in each experience (ie the extent to which environmental conditions had an impact). If there was no significant variable environmental impact, then the perceived rate of any given change in a physical sequence will remain the same, so long as the on-going relative spatial position remains constant amongst everything involved. This is because, while the value of the delay is different depending on distance, it remains constant.

However, when relative distance is altering, then the perceived rate of change alters, because the delay is ever increasing (or decreasing) at a rate which depends on the rate at which the distances are altering. It is a perceptual illusion, as the actual rate of physical change does not alter.

Paul

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Jul. 24, 2012 @ 15:12 GMT

Paul

With respect your level of understanding needs to be ramped up about 3 levels.

Consider this perhaps;

We are standing on a platform with a video camera on a tripod and in a box with a small aperture. An observer standing beside the tripod has an identical box over his head, so he can only see into the train but of course doesn't know it's there.

A new sexy train that is all glass comes past at v. A bullet is fired at max muzzle velocity, which is a certain speed we'll call 'c' in the train towards the front.

The video camera captures the bullets motion. When played back all observers will find the bullet speed at c+v, and the observer beside the camera agrees.

But there were two other observers, one who could see the whole train from the platform and said the bullet travelled at it's max muzzle velocity c in the train, plus another from the train who agreed. Your explanation makes nonsense of that.

Of course it is very simple. Nothing REALLY did c+v, but the bullet did APPARENT c+v when viewed from a different inertial frame.

I hope that helps to take a step towards understanding dynamic logic (PDL). you relly must also look up and absorb the rules of 'Proper Time', where time periods (like bullets) are only constant to an observer in the same frame.

Peter

Paul Reed replied on Jul. 24, 2012 @ 18:57 GMT

Peter

The speed of the bullet wrt to the video camera, or anything else on the platform, is not v+c The bullet is travelling at c, you said so. It is not part of the train. Unless the train is hermetically sealed, in the sense that it is solid. In which case the speed would be the composite speed wrt all that which was on the platform. For somebody or something on the train, indeed including he train itself, the speed of the bullet is c-v wrt these things, assuming the bullet was fired in the same direction as the motion of the train, because they are travelling at v, you said so.

Seeing the rest of the train, with or without boxes, and videoing it, is irrelevant, because seeing is not calibrating light speed. The only way that could be done is by calculating timings for light travel and distances in each circumstance (assuming all environmental conditions were equal, ie no one particular light was impeded in travelling more than any other).

There is a physical reality (ie platforms, trains, people, bullets, etc). As at a point of its existence, there is interaction which generates light (which is a physical reality of itself). This travels.

Furthermore, time periods have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with observers, constancy, or frames. Timing is not affected by reality, because it is not of reality, it is an extrinsic human measuring system which rates change, eg whilst 100k oscillations occurred in my quartz watch, the elephant moved 10 yards.

Paul

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Jul. 25, 2012 @ 12:27 GMT

Paul

'The bullet is travelling at c'. Agreed. 'The bullet is travelling at c-v'

Make up your mind!! why should one observer off the train have any preferential treatment over any other, i.e. those ON the train!

And what would happen if Earth were moving in the opposite direction and the camera was on the space station, would THEY be the preferred observer?? And if the bullet is fired on Mars and we video it from here. Who gets to see it at c and who at c-v then????

The whole point your comprehension has not yet reached is that there is NO preferred observer outside the frame in which the bullet travels! (i.e. can use 'PROPER TIME') As Einstein suspected.

The real and simple solution is that those on the train, whichever way it is going and at whatever speed wrt Mars (we are now also considering a train on Mars, why not!), The passenger will see and be hit be hit by a bullet travelling at c. This is because the whole train, air, passengers and gun IS an inertial frame K, in which, as Galileo and Einstein correctly assumed, the speed limit c and laws of physics are identical to ALL other inertial frames. K'<

Or (your analogy was good but incomplete) do you really think the Keystone cops cars actually went at 100mph. There are TWO observable 'speeds', as Lorents suspected (1913); 'real' and 'apparent'.

A hundred other observers on a hundred different planets will receive scattered light signals at CSL (like a movie projector) at c, telling them the bullet went at c wrt the train, or wrt Mars if the train was parked. So their cameras record 'APPARENT' c+v, which is actually 'real' c, precisely like the Keystone cops.

Now you tell me which part of any of that breaches the speed limit c.

Peter

Paul Reed replied on Jul. 25, 2012 @ 17:07 GMT

Peter

“Make up your mind!!”

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1 “The speed of the bullet wrt to the video camera, or anything else on the platform, is not v+c The bullet is travelling at c, you said so. It is not part of the train. Unless the train is hermetically sealed, in the sense that it is solid. In which case the speed would be the composite speed wrt all that which was on the...

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Peter,

Very clever playwriting. Metaphorically brilliant. I'm impressed with the merging of science and humanities.

As for content, I will have to labor in your arbor.

Jim

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Jul. 17, 2012 @ 18:53 GMT

James

I'm humbled by your appreciation. I see science and humanities as simply aspects of one nature with a false division. I'm also making the point (Edwin spotted) that philosophy and science are both worse off for complete divorce.

But the main thrust is the content and evidence. I hope you do labour a little to rationalise the over dense points and massive implications. I've rewritten the penultimate page "Assumption 7; Aberration' paragraphs (3rd post down at the top here) to hopefully make more sense. (I'd 'over pruned' it to meet the limit!).

I recall I liked your effort last year and will try to read this years soon.

best wishes

Peter

Hi Peter,

Just read for the first time your essay, it is not nothing...

I know that the speed of light and the relative localities where it passes since long are a search item to you, I see that you have gone further and further into the problem, we can go not to the lower infinite in my opinion, once reaching the Planck length there is no longer causality, so no longer before or after so no speed of light because there is no A and B to pass.

This is one of the subjects of my ezssay I am now struggling with , want to come in end of july.

For now I am going to reread your essay and wish you all the luck there is in our not nothing.

Wilhelmus

(ps you did not give reactions untill now , took a holiday in nothing ?)

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Wilhelmus.

I was called back to Sirius B9 I'm afraid to explain why man's making such poor progress deciphering nature. Nearly had to give up, but luckily your post was just in time. There is hope for us! Well done. (Also moved house, worked and went sailing).

I agree about the ~Planck length, otherwise we have infinite regression of frames, but I do not guess what we have no evidence of. I don't consider that science. I will just define evidenced parameters. As you know from Architects training ultimate free thinking doesn't mean just inconsitent speculation.

Do comment on my evidenced proposition that causality is breached by mainstream assumption about refraction, exposed when considering a plane wavefront. The full ontological construction of Relativity derived direct from a quantum mechanism is almost complete now, but can't all be jammed into a short essay. Unfortunately beliefs and assumptions will probably keep it hidden from most in any case.

I wish you luck with your essay and look forward to reading it.

Peter

Wilhelmus de Wilde de Wilde replied on Jul. 20, 2012 @ 15:21 GMT

Hi Peter, sorry for my late reply, I was thrown back on an alpha probability in Total Simultaneity. The wave front you mention is in fact what I describe as the antenna character of our consciousness that is able to receive signals from your wave fronts even if they are not yet conscious awareness (this is only achieved after a certain data procesing transmission delay in our Deterministic causal universe. I changed already 2 times the title of my essay, and you are right 9 pages is NOTHING to explain what is happening on your subjective simultaneity sphere. (all things from my essay)

Wilhelmus

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Peter,

It is apparent from the various essays submitted that yours is one of the few that actually identifies one of the "core" basic assumptions that has led so many scientific theories astray.

Perfectly constant characteristics of a vacuum everywhere is just one of the assumptions that is required for Einstein's theories, and many of the theories in astrophysics. There was another basic assumption that was considered "settled science" at the time Einstein developed his various theories, propagated electromagnetic (EM) fields were transverse only to the axis of propagation. EM fields are now being produced with longitudinal components, for over a decade now, which negates the assumption that EM fields cannot produce an attractant force in the direction of propagation.

Georgina Parry (topic 1316) stated in her Magic section how various assumptions have become accepted as facts, "the human tendency to draw strong conclusions from incomplete information." Einstein had incomplete information, based upon what is known now versus what was known 100+ years ago, but is seems questioning Einstein can be a career ending stance, considering how the scientific authority structure enforces the views of their favorites.

I stayed with what I considered a basic core assumption about units of measure in my essay, topic 1294. I didn't mention the discovery process that resulted in the concept identified in the IEEE paper referenced in my essay, but it started with challenging an assumption that was more than a century old. It seems contemporary scientists have become so comfortable with all the old assumptions that they no longer recognize they are assumptions.

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Jul. 23, 2012 @ 14:41 GMT

Frank

Thanks. I was beginning to wonder if it was just me thinking that! I agree with all you say, including the veracity of Georgina's similar point. I think your own essay is stronger for focussing on one subject. Rather like Edwins, mine drags in a series of related topics and evidence that many need 90 pages to do real justice to.

I've just had someone suggest that rotational rate is a real physical quality when frequency may not be due to it's reliance on time! We have even forgotten what is physically real. To paraphrase Bragg; 'Familiarity breeds ignorance'.

Peter

Frank(Peter)

"Perfectly constant characteristics of a vacuum everywhere is just one of the assumptions that is required for Einstein's theories"

Was it? In SR he just invokes it as a condition, not what physically exists. In GR he makes no such assumption. The ether, which is in effect that vacuum, comprises particles which have an effect on others travelling through it, which includes light.

Peter is right in identifying, physically, how that which we call light, might travel, and indeed at a more or less constant rate, having always started at the same speed ("atomic shattering"), and how it can do this but remain unchanged (virtually).

Paul

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Frank Makinson replied on Jul. 21, 2012 @ 17:53 GMT

Paul (Peter)

It seems that some people with good academic credentials do not consider that a "perfect vacuum" is just a condition of SR. Several years ago, I had an email exchange with an IEEE editor (with PhD in physics, since moved on), who had written a special article describing how the Pioneer 10/11 anomaly might be explained. I stated that a variable permittivity/permeability based on the inverse square of the distance from the Sun would explain the anomaly. The following is the editors response:

"Your suggestion of making the permittivity and/or permeability of the vacuum radially dependent on distance from the sun, and so altering the speed of light, would indeed produce results that look like the Pioneer Anomaly. However, this would undermine the basis of relativity theory, by eliminating the equivalence of inertial reference frames[1], and so also wipe out the standard model (in particular, having a variable vacuum speed of light would have a severe impact on the predictions of time dilation, which have been experimentally verified in particle accelerators, albeit only on Earth.)

It seems the simple solution or even a suggestion for a solution, aka Occam's Razor, can't be used if it conflicts with SR.

One of my other mentors at the time my IEEE editor email exchange took place was a Prof. Emeritus of Elec. Engr. I provided him with my email exchange with the IEEE editor and he responded, "Frank, you must understand that the special theory of relativity (SRT) is the holy grail. It's the place where religion and science become one. If one has the audacity to suggest other possibilities, he is forever shunned, banned, and is a candidate for being burned at the stake."

Some of the currently observed oddities about the "vacuum" were not known when Einstein developed and published his theories, thus, reinforcing my view that Einstein reached conclusions with "incomplete information" (thanks to the Georgina Parry essay on a way to examine assumptions).

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Paul Reed replied on Jul. 22, 2012 @ 05:43 GMT

Frank

By condition I mean a presumed theoretical caveat. Not what is in 'space'. Einstein was clear about this:

Einstein (1922) Ether and The Theory of Relativity:

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Frank Makinson replied on Jul. 22, 2012 @ 18:20 GMT

Paul & Peter,

Einstein developed his theories based upon what was known at the time he made them, which included the assumptions he used. He revised his theories as new information became available. I seriously doubt Einstein would support a curved space theory of gravity from what is known today. The link below is a 1920 revision.

Relativity: The Special and General Theory (1920)

Einstein was aware of the Newtonian instantaneous influence at a distance, which is required to keep our planetary orbits from becoming ever increasing spirals. Einstein never mentioned permittivity and permeability in respect to his theories. I suspect Einstein did not know how to accommodate instantaneous influence at a distance and the presence of permittivity and permeability, thus he ignored them. Someone pushed him on the instantaneous influence at a distance issue, as he eventually responded with his "spooky" action at a distance statement.

There is a simple (ala Occam's Razor) explanation why the influence of gravity has a different "velocity" than the propagation velocity of the gravity field, but the explanation would invalidate SRT. The same explanation would accommodate the concept of quantum entanglement.

No need to go down the rabbit hole where we are constantly being taken, led by the disciples of the Mad Hatter.

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Paul

I agree there are many interpretations an misinterpretations of SR, including Einstein's own machinations. I suspect detailed analysis of what he did and did not say early on is far less important to science (though not to beliefs) than you might think. His final search for the Unified Field Theory was the unfinished culmination of his work. Having studied his life work and evolution of thoughts this is the point I picked it up from, and the solution offered by the DFM. i.e. it is not intended to be within' his earlier work but to help achieve his final goal and show his later conceptions therein to be logically correct by unifying it with QM.

Franks characterisation of the world and scientific environment Einstein was working within is important and correct.

Peter

Paul Reed replied on Jul. 23, 2012 @ 20:02 GMT

Peter

There are indeed, but isn't the starting point to understand what the man himself said SR was? Indeed, the confusion between 1905 & SR is the source of the problem really. SR, as defined by Einstein is simple. In fact it cannot be wrong, or indeed prove anything, because the circumstance in which it occurs is so conditioned.

Paul

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Jul. 24, 2012 @ 10:35 GMT

Paul

Yes, that is indeed where my long journey started. It can of course be 'wrong' if any one assumption is wrong (trivia of logic) but you make a good point in saying that it's domain may be so limited by it's assumption of empty space that it may simply be irrelevant.

What the DFM does really then is expand it's relevance to space as a medium. It does this by offering the third 'background frame' option, not considered.

He escaped from the illogical single absolute background frame by removing it completely. The DFM option is of co-moving frames which represent physically real and bounded inertial systems. All the paradoxes fall away, all anomalies are resolved, and SR is unified with QM. The problem is that, as Frank points out, it is different to what we're indoctrinated with so is unfamiliar and thus assumed wrong (as Feynman predicted the correct solution would be).

Peter

Paul Reed replied on Jul. 24, 2012 @ 19:37 GMT

Peter

Well I think, as per my response to you about 'ether/space', they 'wrote off' any effect on dimension that is caused by travelling through this 'medium', which certainly is something (as Einstein said), against time variance (which actually does not exist) which is accommodated for in the Lorentz transformation. Physically, it might be that matter travelling through 'space' and interacting with that which constitutes 'space' does encounter some dimensional effect, ie what you are referring to as background. This is in addition to the effect of gravitational forces which are 'transmitted' through the same 'space'. Now, that definitely causes a 'step change'(ie 'noticeable' alteration in dimension and momentum), supposedly. My point here being that the first effect is omnipresent. So apart from being similar to trying to track the leaf movement attributable to continental drift!, since it is all pervading there is no reference to establish relative difference. Unless, rather like reality expansion, the rates change in particular circumstances. But I suggest you go down the pub and have a couple of beers rather than tackling that.

SR does not need unifying with anything, it is a purely hypothetical circumstance that is bound to work, because it is so caveated. It's a bit like me defining cows as being...biological defintion of cow...that are just black and white. It is true in accord with its own definition. GR being the entire population of cows. The problem with relativity is in its interpretation through simultaneity and space time. Dimension alteration may or may not occur, and in respect of those two possibilities. QM is a different issue, this relies on a flase presumption as to what measurement does, and what for the most part is being measured. Because measurement (which is a form of sensing) cannot affect reality, it existed previously, and in most measurements it is not reality per se, anyway, that is being measured, but an effect resulting from an interaction with it (aka light). And reality must occur with certainty, it does not exist in some sort of 'muddled' state. This is a classic case of 'please do not adjust your sets we are having problems with transmission' gone wrong. The problem is us, not reality.

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Paul Reed replied on Jul. 25, 2012 @ 13:04 GMT

Peter

I was not happy with my notion of how the possible first order of dimension alteration was 'written off', as per above and in a response to you in a thread above started by me. I would say, after further disentanglement of this 'hall of mittors' that it was simply a case of realising it is omnipresent, and anyway, most light we are considering is generated within the earth's atmosphere. So for practical reasons, it was 'written off'. Concentration then turning to the gravitational force effect of dimension alteration.

Paul

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Jul. 25, 2012 @ 14:57 GMT

Paul

You are indeed in a hall of mirrors. The simple answer is not there. It's no good going round in circles, you must escape totally to a higher level.

It's Classical Physics (Relativity) that is not consistent with Quantum Mechanics so it is these two which, quite famously to physicists, need 'unification' to make sense of nature Paul. You really should refrain from dictating what 'is' and 'is not' without doing the years of homework it may take you to get a proper understanding of why they are not compatible. Doing so just means everyone will write you off as a fool.

Unless you realise what the problems are the chances of resolving them will remain at zero.

All sensible physicists now very well that they 'do not know'. However, to have someone arrive afresh and claim he does 'know', only classifies him as a complete dimwit in their eyes! In fact the more a genius knows you should find the less he claims to know. There are no 'facts', only opinions, agreement and dssention.

Peter

Paul Reed replied on Jul. 25, 2012 @ 17:26 GMT

Peter

The point you make is not a response to the point I was making, which related to a better explanation of how the 'first order of dimension alteration' was resolved away.

In reponse to what you do say, a better approach would be to question how reality occurs first, since that is what physics is establishing knowledge of, then it would become clear what 'unification' comprises. I am not dictating what is. Oh that I had such powers. I am saying a) physical existence is independent of sensory detection, b) physical existence involves alteration. Which, unless one invokes beliefs, I think is true.

"There are no 'facts', only opinions, agreement and dssention". Not so (!). Do not forget, we are assembling knowledge of reality here, not reality. By definition that is a closed system,because we are part of it, and therefore potentially fully knowable. And there is a factual answer in every circumstance. In some areas will may well never 'get to the bottom of it', but that is a failure on our part to discern what is there

Paul

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Peter

Since my last post, in researching material for a paper I am writing, I read a paper that sheds more light on the assumption issues. The author, J.H. Field, who has a cern.ch email address, used the term hypothesis and hypotheses, vice assumption(s), to describe what is influencing scientific thought. The paper was published in Physica Scripta - PHYS SCR , vol. 74, no. 6, pp. 702-717, 2006 DOI: 10.1088/0031-8949/74/6/018 , plus it is on arXiv.

Classic electrodynamics

At the end of section 6, the author states, "Regrettably science is, at the time of this writing, riddled by many 'hypotheses' of the type referred to in the first of the above quotations. One such hypothesis, that has persisted through much of the 19th century and all of the 20th is that: 'No physical influence can propagate faster than the speed of light'. This is contradicted by the arguments given above and, as discussed in the following section, also by the results of some recent experiments."

I note he used one of the several superluminal references I have cited in my new paper.

I found the term "virtual photon" and its characteristics interesting. It seems the "virtual photon" is a one-legged version of the traditional two-legged EM photon that has both an electric and magnetic field. Field didn't hesitate to use the term "instantaneous" numerous times in his paper. His paper passed peer review.

The paper I am preparing describes the mechanism that results in an "instantaneous" influence, and surprisingly, it uses the principles behind the virtual photon, which I had never heard of before.

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Frank

The Mad Hatter indeed still influences the topology we inhabit. I agree with almost all you say. But of course Einstein in EPR was decrying action at a distance.

I am only happy with a few rational aspects of supposed 'action at a distance' (AAD) and faster than light (c

Frank Makinson replied on Jul. 24, 2012 @ 19:12 GMT

Peter,

I don't think Einstein really understood the characteristics of electromagnetic (EM) fields and the medium in which they are permitted to propagate. The paper (Classical electrodynamics) by J.H.Field, cited in my previous post, attempts to provide a better explanation by invoking the term "virtual photon". Whether a one-legged virtual photon or a regular two-legged EM photon, the field possessed by the photon doesn't just go away after the photon has passed by on its journey, it diminishes at 1/r². Even after the photon actors have left the stage, just like a heavily perfumed person passing by, something about them remains where they have been and keeps spreading long after they passed by a particular viewing position.

In a previous post (Jul. 22, 2012), I stated I could not find a mention of permittivity-permeability (P-P) in Einstein's relativity theories. If Einstein had included these characteristics in his theories, he would have had to add some locality conditionals to justify the relativity concepts he published.

It is the P-P of the material in which an EM field is allowed to propagate that determines the velocity of propagation. It is the way we attempt to explain the velocity difference as light passes through two materials with different P-P that creates a problem. Light does not decelerate when it transitions from a vacuum and enters glass, nor accelerates after leaving, it changes velocity and the velocity change is probably instantaneous at the transition interface. Let the mathematicians argue about whether it is possible to mathematically present an instantaneous change in velocity.

I do not support the contention that there is "instantaneous" action at a distance regardless of distance. It just appears so within the confines of our solar system distances, a characteristic that is needed to allow the development of complex biological forms.

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Paul Reed replied on Jul. 25, 2012 @ 06:02 GMT

Frank

“I don't think Einstein really understood the characteristics of electromagnetic (EM) fields and the medium in which they are permitted to propagate”

As far as I understand it we still don’t. Also as an outsider, I get this impression of most people addressing what was said then as if it had just been said yesterday. When Lorentz postulated dimension change there were no cars, planes. Then we had two dreadful wars and a depression in between. Then the likes of me and Peter were born. In other words, although it appears ‘not long ago’, it was a completely different world.

Also, in my reading of these papers, as an outsider, which has value because I just read what is there, they were really talking about the electrodynamics of movement. Light just got ‘muddled’ up in this, one reason being that an expectation about the speed of light was what prompted the whole train of thought. Another one being because light speed was substituted for distance, incorrectly, in a (non) equation of time (ie it involved the concept of ‘then’ back, so a constant was attributed with variance. Instead of being A-B or B-A which is the same, the two became different).

On the subject of action. By definition, only that which existed at the previous point in time can potentially have any influence, and even then, by definition, that which can, will be limited to that which was adjacent to. In simple language, something cannot be directly affected by something unless it is next to it, and something cannot be affected by something which did not exist immediately previously. Now, that all might sound a dreadfully simplified summation of a very complex circumstance. But this is the power of considering things generically. Forget all the content-‘wood for the trees’ stuff. You alight on the essence of the problem here with the word “appears”. Fundamentally, we are sensing a movie, but in explaining it, we are not decomposing to the single frame level. Which is differentiatable by reference to the fastest rate of change which occurs in reality (ie a clock based on this unit of timing would ‘reveal’ all).

Paul

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Frank

Yes, and AE would have grasped at the 'locality conditionals' as 'Local Reality' was precisely what he was after in the end. Not just P&P but 2.72 degrees etc.

In terms of the 'photons field' I see that more as the photon itself spreading it's energy out into a wave pattern as it 'dissipates' as an 'entity'. The wave energy is then of many photons, and on the next charging interaction (over some 10^-9 secs) another 'entity' is emitted (Raman scattering).

The really tricky thing to grasp from my paper is the second 'velocity change' between media. Our minds are poorly developed to rationalise it and it needs rehearsal as it is hiding right before our eyes and impossible to 'see.'; I agree entirely with the 'velocity change' quantified by (not 'due to') the refractive index n of the medium. ('due to' is fooling ourselves). But what then if the medium is in co-motion with the other? We can rationalise a block of glass in a vacuum on Earth, but what about one doing 0.2c through space?.

This is the entirely independent kinetic change at the refractive plane. It is the frame transformation. n is a constant in glass whether doing 0.2c through space or at rest in the lab. Ergo; The 'velocity change' is due to relative n PLUS relative v. I identify the quantum process and effects which are massively important and resolve about every fundamental problem in physics.

But virtually invisible to human brains it seems? I'm sure you glimpsed it and it evaporated. That's it's party trick! Can you see it right now?

Peter

Paul

Light 'muddled up' with SR is certainly a view, but consider that light had long been established as just a short band of the em spectrum, so was always central to the 1905 paper. The solution he went for was quite inspired, unfortunately simply wrong. A simpler one existed, not spotted.

This is still difficult to 'spot' and absorb today, based on the process I describe in my essay and in the post to Frank above. Can you spot it? I'm afraid you've so far failed to get close!

The irony is that the solution is covering the lenses of our eyes, and indeed all our detectors.; Light changes to local c on arrival AT that layer.!!!

That is SO self apparent and consistent with the evidence we really can't spot that we haven't spotted it in our theory! It is the 'kinetic' speed change. And when we do so it pretends not to exist and disappears again.

Don't loose that as it's slippery as an eel, so come back to it, but as far as SR goes he saw he had had 2 options.

1. An absolute Ether background frame.

2. No Ether or Ether frame at all.

In fact there was a third option, undiscovered until now, that resolves all the issues;

3. Local 'ether' or matter frames (non-absolute).

Where a frame is simply a 'state of motion'. How are you doing with those deeper levels of understanding? You WILL need to read it at least 3 times and think hard to form a new 'hook' for it in your mind.

Peter

Paul Reed replied on Jul. 25, 2012 @ 17:33 GMT

Peter

re the cryptic word "muddled" have a look at my post my blog 11/7 19.33. Rather than me reating it here. I will refrain from responding to what you said here for now, because it's tea time. By the way, our little dog (Ralph) was used in a photo shooy today for an ITV programme.

Paul

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Frank Makinson replied on Jul. 25, 2012 @ 18:08 GMT

Paul,

"In other words, although it appears 'not long ago', it was a completely different world."

I do not know how old you and Peter are, but I received a General Class Radio Amateur license in 1948, when I was in high school, thus I have been aware of the electromagnetic (EM) world for some time. The environment in which EM waves propagate has not changed one wit since Hertz demonstrated their propagation, and cars, planes, wars and economic depressions have absolutely no influence on it. Peter stated the problem correctly by the quote in his essay:

"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them." Sir Wm. Bragg.

More on that in my response to Peter.

Peter,

Your quote, "In terms of the 'photons field' I see that more as the photon itself spreading it's energy out into a wave pattern as it 'dissipates' as an 'entity'. The wave energy is then of many photons, and on the next charging interaction (over some 10^-9 secs) another 'entity' is emitted (Raman scattering)."

The first sentence is somewhat like the concept presented by J.H.Field with the virtual photon, it has an influence beyond its EM dimension, its wavelength. The second sentence implies that a photon can change its basic characteristics, and this is true when you consider what happens to photons (EM waves) when they propagate as solitons. Einstein was in one of several generations that ignored the concepts identified by the Korteweg-de Vries equation (KdV equation for short) as applied to EM propagation. Some of the unusual effects observed from large object gravity shielding can be explained if gravity is an EM wave that propagates as a soliton. Interacting solitons can result in an abrupt change of direction of the field vectors, something that does not happen with the interaction between two conventional transverse EM waves.

In the 1990s, research on EM solitons revealed they could be exploited for long distance communications, and the results have been spectacular. This is why I constantly remind individuals of the existence of permittivity and permeability, as these characteristics have to exist for an EM wave to propagate, and as a soliton. It is necessary for one of the EM fields to have a longitudinal component for it to propagate as a soliton.

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Frank

Interesting. I wasn't familiar with KdV but find consistency with the soliton approach. I have assumed gravity in a topological / energy density way which is consistent with a standing soliton wave. Finding a natural step from here to the translating soliton (in a medium) is a bit beyond me at present.

I consider that the gravitational infinity of a singularity is complete nonsense as the soliton would produce the standing the toroid model of an AGN and magnetosphere, and have a Lagrangian point at it's centre of mass.

We do of course find such points at all centres of mass, (zero potential) so why do we assume singularities?

The Gaia probe, which should verify my stellar aberration model, is planned (ESA 2013) to sit in one of the (5) Lagrangian points in the Earth-moon-sun system orbiting the sun.

My intuition is now that P&P may be largely a matter medium quality, i.e. that the diffuse free electron (etc) plasma permeating space can modulate em waves but the 'dark energy background' can only propagate it at local c. When two dark energy 'space-time geometries' (clouds of ether if you wish) interact they produce tiny handed (twin? - i.e. toroid?) vortexes we call electrons etc. These then implement the modification to propagation speed to maintain c locally. A VERY important function!

Can you rationalise the implications of that in terms of the SR postulates from the Quantum mechanism?

These ions would also have their own quanta of gravitational mass, but implement 'curved space time', (or let's say 'precisely replicate' it) by coupling interactions. Each if them is then surrounded by a toroidal 'soliton' (topograhical again) which it carries with it until meeting an opposite handed vortex set, when they blend back into the 'ether'. ('are annihilated').

Do any of those ramblings make sense to you? The problem seems to that even the basic kinetic foundation of the model seems incomprehensible to many. Not just because most seem to think they know how things work already so don't try, but because our minds have not evolved to visualise the effects of multiple sequences of relative motion from different frames.

Peter

Peter,

Lagrangian points are a physics fact. Fortunately, Lagrange identified them before Einstein created the concept of curved space-time, a "physics fiction" that has put a strangle-hold on many aspects of scientific inquiry now for almost a century. Einstein developed his theories with "incomplete information", because he, his generation, and all those preceding, did not recognize that the system we live in provides mechanisms for the efficient transfer of energy, and the soliton is one manifestation of the mechanism.

The Newtonian instantaneous action at a distance (NIAAAD) within solar system dimensions and somewhat beyond, everywhere in the universe, is revealing another characteristic of the energy transfer mechanism. NIAAAD provides a specific delay in the dispersion of mass objects rotating about a sun, allowing specialized forms of energy to develop, which we quaintly refer to as biological life.

I have no idea what a "dark energy background" is. I'll stick to P&P, as we have observed EM velocity changes when the wave enters and exits materials with different values of P&P.

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Frank

I've never considered NIAAAD as you describe it, and certainly not as providing a dispersion delay allowing us to exist!

Do you not agree that a topological 'gradient', pre-set before a distant body arrives, finds and negotiates it, is mistaken for action at a distance? (as in a Gaussian 'pressure distribution'). In astronomical terms there is even "no consistent relativistic theoretical basis for the ecliptic plane" (i.e. IAU 2000 and USNO Circular 179; p6.) let alone stellar aberration (the 'constant' dropped in 2000 as 'falling raindrops' just don't accurately predict the effect).

Peter

Hi Peter,

Whew! I have to reiterate the comment from my own essay site about my being not so ambitious. :-)

I like the "world's a stage" metaphor. Your stage seems to be filled with strange characters from an Ionesco play, or maybe those in a Fellini movie doing all sorts of unrelated crazy things at once. And just maybe that's the way the universe really works, though I'm betting that there's a "center" to that action to which all the characters have to return.

We also seem to agree that this center is everywhere though hidden, with a critical difference:

When you speak of light speed determined by absorption and emission, you imply an observer-created reality. I say this, because the mechanics can't be symmetrical, and say something novel, as -- if I understand you correctly -- is your claim. You say light rays (or photons?) change speed (negatively accelerate) on detection and accelerate on emission by the same detector, which violates the second law of thermodynamics unless the negative acceleration on detection is equal to the positive acceleration on emission. So even if that's what "really" happens, the measured physics can't differentiate the phenonemon from a constant speed of light -- it's just as useful to say that light doesn't accelerate, that it's "born" a constant. That was Einstein's problem with the ether. It may exist -- we just don't need it to explain experimental results.

Thanks for an enjoyable read. Best wishes in the competition.

Tom

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Tom,

I'd missed your post. Excellent question, but simple solution; The asymmetry is purely a Doppler shift of the 'distance' between emission/waves/photons. The total energy is thus conserved; i.e. If the new medium is in rapid motion towards the source, yes the re-emission at c uses less energy per emission, but the emissions (wave peaks) are closer together. This explains why blue light...

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Tom,

I'd missed your post. Excellent question, but simple solution; The asymmetry is purely a Doppler shift of the 'distance' between emission/waves/photons. The total energy is thus conserved; i.e. If the new medium is in rapid motion towards the source, yes the re-emission at c uses less energy per emission, but the emissions (wave peaks) are closer together. This explains why blue light is more energetic. I wouldn't use the word 'accelerate' for light, but the effect is the same.

Also, the mechanics CAN be symmetrical. Consider the boundary mechanism as a dynamic fluid coupling. One side of the fluid is at rest in one frame, the other side co-moving, so at rest in the other frame. The whole fluid 'body' in between is in turbulence (Navier-Stokes) due to the constant (M-Hydro-D) mixing process.

Now as all electrons are essentially the same, with the same rate and type of 'spin', are they likely to re-emit charge energy at arbitrarily different speeds wrt themselves? or all at c? If 'Harmonic Resonance' is valid, so if at c set by the spin, (the only logical choice), then all light passing through the transition zone (TZ) either way can only emerge at the local c. No violation of any laws!. And it's true we "can't differentiate the phenonemon from a constant speed of light", but that's what we've been searching for, the SR postulates are now rendered logically derived direct from a quantum mechanism. That is a massive deal, it's Unification of the two sides of physics!

The only asymmetry of the PMD (charge) delay comes with lateral relative motion, explaining a whole host of kinetic anomalies, and implementing curved space-time by confirming what Heisenberg suspected but couldn't rationalise, that uncertainty has something to do with diffraction. And all not only without needing 'ether', but also removing any bar to local 'ether' frames as part of the hierarchical system.

There are vast implications not referred in the paper, and I was unambitious enough not to try to squeeze in any more detail of how gravity might emerge or the pre-big bang state. But all do agree with your (1 per universe) ultimate frame, and the invalidity of Bells great clanger (I just thought of that, is it original??)

Best wishes

Peter

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Hi Peter,

I like your paper. It has a composition of poetic style while also expressing some very important ideas. You are very right when you say that "both ontology and experimentation are required". The physics community needs to be reminded of that, often. I also agree with you when you say that there really is a medium.

I did find a minor typo, "Entering the new medium frame K' of of index n' (moving at v with respect to the incident mediums frame K), light changes speed by Dn + Dv." Of course, two "of" doesn't change the meaning.

Overall great paper. I think you'll do well in the contest. Good luck.

By the way, do you think this ontological medium has any relationship to quantum mechanics? Would you care to describe it?

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Hi Peter,

That was me. I thought I was logged in; oops.

Jason Wolfe

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Jason

The process derives Relativity direct from known Quantum Mechanisms, but how much 'relationship' to original QM is a good question. In uniting SR and QM both are slightly re-interpreted. Relativity is given a 3rd fundamental option, not requiring either an 'absolute frame' or 'empty' space, and QM is rendered deterministically consistent with Local Reality and Joy Christians findings.

Uncertainty is, as Heisenberg suspected,simply about diffraction and more complexity that we can currently resolve. Navier-Stokes hydrodynamics reflect it well.

The rotation of optical axis from 'asymmetry of charge' due to lateral motion is entirely new and precisely derives 'curved space time' in line with Minkowski's 1908 conception, just interpreted slightly differently by reviewing later assumptions. It only takes non-point particles and dynamic logic to find the massive solution. Maths cannot do so yet as it assumes point particles - another major incorrect assumption hiding the truth!

I'm disappointed few seem to grasp the importance or understand. Kinetic thinking is unfamiliar to most. But I'm impressed that you've at least partly succeeded. Thank you.

Peter

PS. Thanks for spotting the typo, there was also another, but Brendan couldn't replace it (suggesting most have typo's).

Dear Peter, "The Consciousness Connection" is accepted and on line, I hope you will find some time to read and comment it. Thanks Wilhelmus

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Peter I agree with your statements that spacetime is nowhere empty - there is no real vacuum anywhere in the universe. Hence there are indeed preferred local rest frames everywhere. This is tied in to the point that universe on large scales is better described by general relativity than special relativity. Any cosmologically realistic general relativity solutions has preferred rest frames. But this does also mean that special relativity calculations are not sufficient to analyse all this in depth - one needs to extend to general relativity (which I tried to explain using only ordinary calculus in my book Flat and Curved Spacetimes, written with Ruth Williams).

George Ellis

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George

I'm pleased you agree, most seem not to, or not to see the issue. The frames are equivalent to the CMBR 'Frames Last Scattered'.

But rather than simply reverting to the maths of general relativity and leaving SR unresolved what I have done is suggested a full physical ontology compatible with QM to bring the effects of both SR and GR within one real process.

Any views on that process, or any perceived inconsistencies, would be very welcomed.

Many thanks

Peter

Hi Peter

Just to let you know that I enjoyed reading your interesting essay and I found it in agreement with view. I realized that in general you also hold that there is some matter in the intergalactic space and that there is a preferred system of reference. The speed of light above all must be defined by a medium and not by "empty space" as currently proposed.

Congratulations for your work and good luck in the contest

Israel

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Israel

Thanks, essays can be fun as well as incisive, and findings predictive. At least that's what I set out to show. Perhaps I used too many layers and concepts, the really important bits take some thought to prise out, but evidence requires wide consistency.

I think the key is at the end, where stellar aberration is derived with a real quantum mechanism, consistent logic and without the use of photons. I think the importance of that is so far missed, but perhaps it needs another astronomer to see it, and one not hidebound by past assumptions.

Do review that (last fig) and comment if you can, but I'm very glad you enjoyed it and agreed anyway. Many thanks.

Best wishes

Peter

Dear Peter,

Thank you for an interesting and enjoyable essay! Apologies for being tardy in making my way over here. We're all dealing with the usual FQXi embarrassment of riches in terms of new essays to read and think about. I enjoyed your theatrical and poetic flair! You'll certainly not be open to criticism for lack of ambition here! You've provided much to ponder.

Reading your essay recalled to my mind a 2003 paper by Joao Magueijo, 'New varying speed of light theories' ( http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/astro-ph/pdf/0305/0305457v3.pdf ), which you might find interesting and at least tangentially related, if you've not already seen it. My own thinking, fwiw, leads me to conjecture that speed should be thought of as a dimensionless quantity. Regardless, it certainly does appear that the idea of space as "empty" is passe. Eddington has referred to space as "a mere negation," which is an interesting way to think of it.

Best of luck in the competition!

Cheers,

jcns

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jcn

I appreciate your comments. Magueijo went off on a different track. I've read his book but can't recall reading that paper, which sounds broader, so will do so.

I suspect I was a little over ambitious as the volume and quality of essays means we often have to skim or speed read, which means it's hard to follow constructions of complex concepts and effects of application. I appreciate that you did so, obviously an experienced reader.

Best of luck to you to. I hope you don't forget to score mine, as I won't yours.

Many thanks

Peter

Peter,

I just read your comments on Topic 1400. When Boscovich made the statement, "Again Boscovich first found no two entities can occupy the same space.", he had incomplete information, he was unaware of the existence of electromagnetic fields. These fields can occupy the same space and do not alter each other. Solitons are a different issue.

Superposition

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Frank

I agree, but I read the Boscovich derivation very differently. He was talking of 'atoms' or particles of non zero spatial dimensions, not relevant to 'fields' etc. And simply but I think brilliantly pointing out that they are NOT 'points' which means they are mutually exclusive spatially. Descrtes kind of agreed, as did Pauli in concept.

I find this is seminal for physics. Cartesian co-ordinate systems cannot 'overlap' as we assume. Frames are 'states of motion' not 'interlocking frame'-like. The structure of logical constructs then models them perfectly.

I may have shocked you with a soliton having 'spin'. I have good reason to suggest this, but it is a different conception and conversation which is consistent.

Do you know much of plasmons?, or Navier-Stokes magnetohydrodynamic turblence? A very important truth lurks there concerning frame changes. (a logical physical model for LT's).

Peter

Frank Makinson replied on Aug. 22, 2012 @ 05:28 GMT

Peter,

I have no knowledge of plasmons or hydrodynamic processes, but they are definitely phenomena that can transfer electromagnetic energy.

You use the term "spin" in relation to a soliton and I am not sure exactly what it means.

Photonic folks refer to helical waveforms as light with "orbital angular momentum" (OAM), but it is a misnomer. The photonic references I cite in my Helical EM Gravity paper are displaying a wavefront that propagates with the same characteristics as a regular EM wave with circular polarization. The wavefront gives the appearance of spin when it passes by a fixed point because the phase positions of the EM fields are generated with different angular positions at the source. The phase positions are fixed by the orientation of the generating process.

EEs never refer to a circular polarized wave as having OAM.

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Frank

Mixing between particle kinetic states or streams is the core of physical Inertial Frame Transitions in the DFM. The Navier-Stokes (unsolvable) magnetohydrodynamic equations apply to all shock turbulence. But the real revalation is applying this mechanism to the 'Transition Zone' between Maxwells near and far field terms for emitters (and receivers, and indeed all refractive planes). [Where the 'poorly understood' non-linear optics effects appear and Snel's Law fails].

Light is scattered at c locally by each electron. Ergo, the shock 'kinetic state mixing zone' is a 'boundary' between frames that enacts the transformation c' = c, (c locally each side). It does so via the quantum mechanism of coupling (absorption) and scattering, to produce all the effects we see, including implementing the postulates of SR. i.e. Unification of physics. This simple solution may indeed be so much of a shock it can't even be recognised!

The falsification is in the way this 'Discrete Field' mechanism resolves every paradox and anomaly in the book. I'll check out the photonic references in your paper, but plasmons may be a bit peripheral to that, though the surface magneto optic and (electro optic) Kerr effects (SMOKE) are at last explained, as is ellipticity.

Let me know if you can assimilate the mechanisms kinetics and implications.

I agree OAM is poorly understood. Is there anything that's not!? Perhaps think of a wavefront quantized and a plasmon as an 'overall shape' which may contain internal oscillations at a smaller scale.

Peter

Peter,

The following is a repeat of the post I placed in response to your comment on my essay. The post is actually equally appropriate for your essay site, so here it is again.

I have read your essay and I believe that the description of spacetime I develop in my book will help you quantify some of your ideas. For example, I show that spacetime is an elastic medium with impedance of Z_s = c³/G. This is obtained both from gravitational wave equations and from vacuum zero point energy density. The quantum mechanical model of spacetime that I develop has energy density of 10¹¹³ J/m³. This energy density is equal to the famous 10¹²⁰ ratio of vacuum energy density obtained from QED to the observed energy density of the universe obtained from cosmology and GR (10^-9 J/m³).

This large QED energy density is usually assumed to be impossible, but I show how it is not only possible but also essential for the existence of all particles, fields and forces. The point of interest to you is that I go on to characterize an electric field as a distortion of spacetime (a new constant of nature is suggested). When this constant is applied to electromagnetic radiation it is shown that the impedance of free space Z_o is equal to the impedance of spacetime obtained from gravitational waves. What this implies is that photons are a quantized wave disturbance that propagates in the medium of spacetime. This short post cannot address all questions but ultimately this relates to the perception that the speed of light is constant. The details are available here.

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Frank

An analogy; A jet of water is fired into a hot tub. Within the water at rest in the frame of the jet light does c/n (140,000miles/sec.) in the jet frame.

Light in the bit of water at rest in the hot tub frame is doing c/n with respect to the tub (140,000miles/sec).

Now the physical explanation of the LT. The light reaching the particles of the water in the jet is absorbed, then re-emitted at c by each particle, as at a lens.

Ergo; c' = c via a Quantum Mechanism, = Unification.

In a near vacuum the process takes a little more time and space. There's plenty out there.

The problem with this solution is that our assumptions get in the way, making it unfamiliar, so it remains the elephant in the room, too big to recognise as the elephant we're searching for. Can you make out it's shape?

Can anybody?

Peter

Peter

Thank you for your appreciation of my essay. Many people believe that the infinite nesting of matter is more preferable than the limited number of levels of matter. In philosophy, the same many prefer motion as a more general concept than rest. But in reality, motion and rest, infinity and limitations are opposites and can not exist without each other. Of the rest there is movement, if you look at the situation from a moving frame of reference. The same is in the structure of matter – even if the universe appears limited, outside you can expect a lot of similar universes.

I find in your essay the questions about real diffuse particle 'medium' in Universe, and how is the constant speed of light (CSL) logically explained. About the constancy of speed of light, see the article Extended special theory of relativity , where the question be raised.

Sergey Fedosin

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Sergey

I was astonished you found 'CSL logically explained' by the Quantum Mechanisms in my essay, but very pleased. Unfortunately the logical kinetic relationships seem too complex for most to penetrate and assimilate in application. The speed we have to read at to keep up with all the essays is a problem when concepts are multi faceted and unfamiliar.

But I've just found and looked over your MTR (your direct link didn't work) and it seems you had an unfair advantage; you'd found similar conclusions already, though analysed from a more complete mathematical, if less physical, basis.

I had also just to 'speed read' for now, but initially assess your theory as excellently derived, proved and presented and far more complete in many areas than the DFM. I have not yet penetrated it's inner depths, but I hope and think I have additional and complimentary aspects, so some merging is possible to the greater benefit. You may wish to explore other areas of the DFM, i.e. the emergent astronomical aspects discussed in Robert Oldershaw and Hope he's blogs etc. I'd be honoured if you did and will pass you some links.

I'm impressed you've established a place on wikiversity. How serious has your theory been taken by mainstream so far?

Best wishes

Peter

Peter

Ken Wharton has not responded yet to any post.Maybe a manifestation of the arrogance of a professional before layman?

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Yuri

Perhaps, or maybe we can be charitable and assume he is busy or on holiday.

Have you analysed the important kinetic effects emergent from the mechanism in my essay yet? It seems I may have made it too difficult to do so. Do you think so?

Peter

Yuri Danoyan replied on Oct. 4, 2012 @ 12:27 GMT

I gave you maximum today

Please don't forget impartially evaluate my essay

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Peter, I am working on an Intuitive Explanation for the Existence of Everything. It begins with one initial state of being...perfection. It anything existed in the beginning it was perfect. The only other possibility was nothingness. Then perfection created all possible objects, forces, and relationships that are not perfect. A point in nothingness was spherically expanded into a universe of possibility. This was the creation of space. Perhaps a simpler way of expressing it is to describe the universe as filled with imperfect objects, forces and relationships that actually exist. What we conceptualize as empty space is actually the existing potential for all objects, forces and relationships that could exist but do not exist.

If we are only looking for things that exist at the moment of observation we will see a universe that is filled with potential and very sparsely populated with evolved things. I value nothingness as a valuable gift. It is actually the potential to do the impossible. Everything that was impossible in the past and is now real in the present and future comes from the "empty space" in our universe. The dimension of space measures all of the possibilities that are within it. It accommodates what could happen which is a much greater magnitude of possibility than what has actually happened.

I appreciate your work and find it challenging. For me it supports the idea that when we observe with more accuracy we have to accept the possibility that some portion of previously empty space can become real.

Irvon

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Sep. 1, 2012 @ 16:21 GMT

Irvon

"Impossible means only it hasn't been done YET". Not only my favourite axiom but the way I live my life and view science. I can find an analog of your intuitive explanation. It is a real mechanism, as I'm a very 'locally real' guy.

It comes from recycling and re-ionization (an astrophysical anomaly not previously explained) by AGN's (SMBH's). Re-ionization breaks the matter of a galaxy (and other scales) down to it's purest form. More completely fresh matter condenses from the dark energy field by perturbation. That then makes the unique (less 'perfect' collections of evolving mass. The whole universe is then 'potential'.

My work explains how that non zero spatial matter evolves over non zero time on interactions. Present physics does not. It is indeed challenging to those only used to math to visualise the evolving effects of motion.Ken Wharton rationalises why correct maths can't do this. I hope my essay may make the top 35 to be studied more closely and judged and hope you think it worth helping.

Best wishes

Peter

Dear Peter,

Your paper is very interesting and is agreed with my paper. Please read my new paper which is related to your essay, http://vixra.org/abs/1208.0018

I think you indicating in your paper and agree with me the Lorentz factor is equivalent to refractive index. What I did I modified SRT in order to accept that. According to my theory the Lorentz factor can be determined by the difference of the vacuum energy, which is depending on the the difference of temperature, pressure and effective density. Thermodynamic laws are applied here. Hawking law of black holes proofs my idea, where Hawking connected the GRT with thermodynamic and quantum, and according to my theory I connect the SRT with quantum and thermodynamic by MSRT. Logically if GRT which is derived from SRT is connected with thermodynamic and quantum, also SRT must be. Please read also my comment on http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/1392 relative to the Hawking law of black hole.

Azzam

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There is much we agree on, but I read your paper and find it departs from or does not refer to the logical space-time structure mine uses, rather reverts to maths without establishing the mechanism.

I may have misunderstood parts, perhaps due to your imperfect use of a foreign language in explanations such as; "the time required for the light beam to pass the length of the moving train for the earth observer is independent of the direction of the velocity of the train compared to the direction of transmitting the light beam (Robertson [33]). Thus, if the light beam is sent inside the moving train from the end to the front –at the direction of the velocity- in this case for the earth observer according to his clock the required time

separation for the light beam to pass the length of the moving train is ∆t..."

I find refraction and c/n of all light at the train windows and medium, and thus invariant t to the 'Earth observer', but APPARENT (not real local) c+v. This is explained conceptually, ontologically and mechanistically, i.e. with no mechanical abstraction, and rigorously using the rules of logic. It meets observation, but I can't seem to renormalise (map) some of your results back to reality to do so.

Perhaps you can say if you get the same result as me for the classic 'lightning flashes at each end of the train. I find the observers on the train and embankment see them simultaneously, (at 1st order) but are not opposite each other when they do so. (by D= train v during propagation time t).

Although many other areas seem common to us, I also find up to apparent 10c for pulses in quasar jets (M87) from Earth but with no violation of local c due to collimation. This does seem contrary to your own explanation, or am I mistaken? Do you have any real mechanistic analogues for your maths?

Peter

Azzam AlMosallami replied on Sep. 2, 2012 @ 00:34 GMT

Dear Peter,

My postulate relative to the speed of light is taken from H. P. Robertson, Rev. Mod. Phys. 21, 378 (1949). This postulate was proposed by Robertson in order to interpret the negative result of the Michelson-Morley experiment. And by using the concepts of quantum theory in the boundary conditions I found there is an analogy between when a particle or the light is passing through...

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Dear Peter,

My postulate relative to the speed of light is taken from H. P. Robertson, Rev. Mod. Phys. 21, 378 (1949). This postulate was proposed by Robertson in order to interpret the negative result of the Michelson-Morley experiment. And by using the concepts of quantum theory in the boundary conditions I found there is an analogy between when a particle or the light is passing through a cube of length L or passing through a train of the length L. But in the case of the moving train moving with constant V, the velocity of the train leading to the vacuum energy inside the train to be increased. and thus when the light beam or a particle passing through the length of the moving train it is similar passing through higher potential determined the boundary condition x=0 to x=L. And thus, for the earth observer, since the Potential or the vacuum energy inside the moving is more increase than on the earth, thus it is produced the clock inside the train will move slower than the earth clock for the earth observer (time dilation). Same concept can be applied in the case of gravity by determining the potential and from the potential we can determine the time dilation. But the difference of my MSRT from SRT is relative to the rider of the moving train, how it takes his measurement from the earth surface. According to my MSRT, the rider is located in a higher potential and the earth observer is located in a lower potential. this case is studied and interpreted in my theory carefully which is leading to faster than light for the rider, where the events is moving faster on the earth than inside the train. In my theory, when the moving train is stopped, it is transformed from potential equals V to potential V=0. Same analogy, when the light beam passing through water, it is passing through higher potential, determining by the refractive index of water. The Lorentz factor and refractive index is same thing and equal, which can be determined by the potential or the vacuum energy. By this concept, quantum and relativity can be modified.

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Sep. 3, 2012 @ 14:53 GMT

Azzam

The train paradox evaporates when optics is used from the text books. There may be an analogy with your vacuum energy, because Doppler shift is also an energy shift. Perhaps you could see how close your mathematical solution comes to describing this underlying physical explanation, which has 100% logic and experimental proof.

In the rest frame of the train, light from the flashes front and rear enters the glass screens, does c/n (n=1.55) in the glass, re enters the air and does c/n in air (n=1.0003) or c in the vacuum (n=1) so in a short time both reach the observer sitting at the centre of the train simultaneously. All childs play OK?

The light from the flashes also heads towards the observer at rest half way between them on the embankment. It does c/n wrt the air (or c in vacuum), so a short time later also arrive at the observer simultaneously. Equally childs play Yes?

But do both observers see the flashes simultaneously. Of course they do. But during propagation the observer in the train has moved with the train slightly, so is of course no longer precisely opposite the other observer. No problem.

So do they see each other light up simultaneously? Yes, slightly after they themselves are lit up due again to the propagation time from one to the other.

So where than is the paradox? Why do we need length contraction and time dilation??? The contraction and dilation of energy (wavelength) is the Doppler shift of the signals in the train implemented at the windscreens, because they re-emit light at c wrt themselves. So the light from ahead is seen by the train observer blue shifted, and the light from behind red shifted, affecting energy, but of the light itself, not somehow of 'the vacuum'.

Can you find any error of simple logic and the laws of optics in that solution? Agreed, both SR and QM are better interpreted, and consistent.

Peter

Peter,

Your essay shows an artistic creativity that really sets it apart. And the title is so wonderfully ironic. There are so very many points stated that it becomes difficult to see how they are all related. But 2 points seem to correspond to the central points of my essay:

1. Your discussion of the inability to detect or access or discern the true velocity of energy transport in a pure vacuum (Poincare's unobservable and Minkowski's "imaginary" velocities). That really parallels my point that measurements require a charge to be present and so require analysis using the Maxwell equations with sources to model the situation where measurements are made.

2. You also identify Ewald and Oseen's extinction theory as being operative in energy transport. That is very much in harmony with the rigorous determination of the effects of dispersion in my paper. Though Ewald and Oseen's theory is worked out for charges in molecules having regular geometric spacing, it is related to the more general Lorentz-Lorenz formula for dispersion. Born and Wolf's "Principles of Optics" is the standard text explaining how the works.

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Stephen

Yes, I defined key jigsaw pieces then ran out of space to elaborate on precise relationships to make the consistent picture.

1. The importance on observation only by interaction is that the interacting mass must be non zero spatially (NOT a 'point') so it's kinetic state (frame) must be mutually exclusive, even if within and 'around' infinitely many others at all scales. This model then proves to be a 'magic wand' resolving anomalies en masse. The quantum mechanism of re-emitting (scattering) at c derives local CSL, so SR from QM!

2. Extinction represents this process in a diffuse medium. Each interaction changes (extinguishes) all varying 'relative arrival' speeds to the local c. This explains birefringence, and allows curved space-time as a refractive effect, again resolving all the many anomalies of Astronomy! Astronomy won't publish the papers as it appears to contradict SR (yet it derives the postulates). 'Ewald-Oseen' is just used generically.

3. Stellar Aberration is one of the most important solutions that emerge, predicting the aberration pattern precisely, which NO theory or algorithm can otherwise do without empirical refraction added in. It even explains the reasons behind the fluctuations causing the IAU to abandon the 'constant' in 2000.

The essay is just the tip of the iceberg. The model's predictive power seems to evaporate all the issues with whatever I point it at!

Did you check my end notes formula? The model needs better formulation that I'm capable of. I hope if you can see the bigger picture that emerges you may be able to help.

Peter

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Eckard hopes others will join this discussion on his blog, I do too, and also re-post this part to mine (first part 19th Aug in Eckards).

Eckard

EB; "I do not understand why and how Snell's law is recovered. What is an incident medium? Isn't rather a wave possibly incident? Which KRrefraction experiments and which KRrefraction effect do you refer to? Do you really maintain that...

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Peter,

Excellent essay. We are both trying to prove the same point. My essay is very basic but I am attempting to point out something about the Einstein field equation. I have recently added a sketch to help explain it (you can find the essay here. ) and would appreciate any comments you have to make on how to more clearly bring my point across.

Regards,

Jeff

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Jeff

Thanks. We give very different proofs of very similar things. I'll comment on your blog, but I turned from maths to ontological construction testing for the reason you give. Ken Wharton also exposes our foolhardy reliance on maths.

You might test this model; The axial anisotropic CMB flow is a scaled up version of a quasar jet. The CMB anisotropy itself has been resolved by computer into a helix, which precisely matches the quasar model, as the outflow jets from AGN's.

I have shown that AGN's are part of a galactic recycling process, re-ionizing all the dead stars and planetary matter to re-start the process with an open spiral on a perpendicuar axis. The common 'Kinetic decoupling' (perpedicular halo rotation) is thereby also finally explained along with other effects. Take a look at Centurus A (NASA HST) for a scale model of the universe.

Expansion is thus not accelerating but mainly reducing, except from the other end of the axis to the 'great attractor' (nonsense of course) in the direction of Leo. I've determined galaxies recycle every ~10-12Gyrs (a massive quasar peak is at z=1.7) so our 2nd iteration of the Milky Way is in middle age. A better analysis of the CMB anisotropy might constrain the same factor for our universe. (There may then be infinitely many numerically as well as temporally). If you're interested I'll link you to a past paper (new one in review).

Last technical point; I've found algerbaic vector apace cannot model motion as it's based on geometry where motion is an invalid concept, but I do know that to get a 'plus' sign hit; ampersand hash 43 semicolon. Like this; +

Peter

Jeff Baugher replied on Sep. 5, 2012 @ 14:33 GMT

Peter,

I would be very much interested (and perhaps others) on the papers you referenced.

Thanks (and for the advice on the +, drove me crazy!)

Jeff

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Jeff

Good, links below. Rob McEachern's brilliant analysis is also consistent with the basis of my analysis method, but I think you've read it.

You'll have to allow for the fact that the ontological construction termed the 'Discrete Field' model has continued to come on by leaps and bounds over the last year. The resolutions of anomalies are like a flood from a breached dyke. This means the papers are far from up to date. (The latest ones are currently either in review or accepted but not yet published).

The first short read may be last years essay. http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/803

Then the helical CMBR asymmetry one posted on vixra. http://vixra.org/abs/1102.0016

A 2010 one on aberration was http://vixra.org/abs/1007.0022

There are more but all older still.

Do point out any obvious updates needed!

Thanks

Peter

Peter,

So far, I have only skimmed over your paper, but I would like to make a few initial comments.

In your essay, you ask: "How is the constant speed of light (CSL) logically explained?" You also stated "Assumption 2. Frequency is real..."

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Peter,

So far, I have only skimmed over your paper, but I would like to make a few initial comments.

In your essay, you ask: "How is the constant speed of light (CSL) logically explained?" You also stated "Assumption 2. Frequency is real..."

For Einstein these two points were closely linked, and represented a rather intractable problem. His solution to the problem was, in effect, to DEFINE the speed of light to be constant. Why?

Consider the idealized case of a single frequency light wave. The light waves coming from most objects of astrophysical interest, first arrived at earth long before any observer existed to measure the characteristics of the wave's leading edge, such as how many meters it traveled in a measured number of seconds. And the trailing edge has still not arrived, so it cannot be measured either. In other words, the wave is always there. In other words, it never "moves" at all. Furthermore, most such objects produce waves that have a constant amplitude. In other words, the only actual observable, that ever changes, is the wave's phase. By computing the derivative of the phase, one obtains an inferred frequency.

There are three possible reasons for the phase to change as a function of time. First, the source of the wave may be doing something that creates a wave with those phase characteristics. Second, relative motion between the source and the observer may create those phase characteristics. Third, the wave travels through a medium, that induces a phase change. Einstein's problem, was that there is no way to decide between the first two phenomenon, or any combination of the two, for the case noted above. Furthermore, he believed the third to be of no importance, in a "vacuum".

From an intuitive, causal point-of-view, one "should" define the frequency to be a constant, and equal to the frequency created by the source, and then "blame" any resulting observable phase changes as due to the relative motion. But Einstein had no way of determining what the created frequency was. So instead, he defined the relative speed of the wave to be the constant, and "blamed" any resulting peculiar, observable phase changes on a peculiar "Addition of Velocities" law. This choice was also a logical choice, given Maxwell's computation of a constant speed of light. But, of course, that computation is tied to the fact that the source is at rest with respect to itself, so no motion induced phase changes need to be considered.

As you have suggested, since frequency, wavelength and propagation speed are all coupled, once you fix one, as a constant, the others have to bend accordingly.

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Robert.

Binary star evidence confirmed flight time irrespective of emitter vector, (etc.) so there was also empirical logic to fixing c, even if he couldn't build it into a consistent ontology. Yes I agree with your analysis, but a deeper read should hopefully expose natures underlying ontological construction.

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Robert.

Binary star evidence confirmed flight time irrespective of emitter vector, (etc.) so there was also empirical logic to fixing c, even if he couldn't build it into a consistent ontology. Yes I agree with your analysis, but a deeper read should hopefully expose natures underlying ontological construction.

A good new viewpoint may be this one; Consider Earth and our iono/atmosphere as a (non rotating for now) glass sphere. It has a refractive index say n=1.5, so light passes through at say 200,000kps. This is approximately equivalent to ALL lenses, and we can NOT detect (see) light except via such a lens.

Of course n is a constant, so n=1.5 in all frames, as found, and as the SR postulates. So light changes speed by relative 'n' entering the frame F', and also, if the lens is in motion, (wrt the propagation medium and another nearby lens F) by relative v of the lens. It must of course do so if interacting particles scatter at c. So, as we find, light within all media of n=1.5 does ~200,000kps in the medium frame.

The observer in the medium frame (ALL direct observers!) finds c/n, plus a reduced wavelength lambda (you term 'phase'). So what of frequency? f is only a derivative, and c=f.lambda is a constant. But only considered LOCALLY

An observer would have to change frame to observe (directly detect) a 'change' in f. An observer in approach frame F may, via scattered signals, see 'apparent frequency' with respect Frame F, which would be DIFFERENT to f with respect to frame F', which is REAL.

The implications of this are quite massive. The SR postulates direct from a Quantum Mechanism, which also produces space-time and removes all the paradoxes. It IS the Local Reality AE sought. You may need to sit and think over this for some time.

The big problems with it are; that it is entirely unfamiliar, seems too obvious and self apparent, does not emerge from mathematical abstraction, and conflicts with all our beliefs and many assumptions. In which case it would seem to stand zero chance of being comprehended and assimilated. There is little extant in our minds to 'hook' it on. It is however, literally, hiding right before our eyes, spread over the surface of the lenses ever ready to change light speed to local c.

The main assumptions challenged are those I've identified in the essay. But it does need a slow read and much thought, so unfortunately again, as last year, only a handful seem to see the implications.

I believe and hope you can extract them as you've already found and falsified the biggest barrier to open the way ahead.

Peter

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Robert H McEachern replied on Sep. 6, 2012 @ 21:31 GMT

Peter,

I am aware of the binary star evidence and the much older moons of Jupiter evidence. But there remains the problem of the difference between phase velocity and group velocity.

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Sep. 7, 2012 @ 10:10 GMT

Robert

I agree waves are still poorly understood. I've written the odd paper from optics and more original viewpoints. I eventually resolved to the term 'signal velocity' for the purposes of c, more equivalent to group velocity. I have no clue how this may relate to information theory. Does it?

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Peter

I remembered your post

" My last years essay was a top 10 finalist but not a winner (a crime perhaps?). Fair? and expert? I don't now, but the Solution, of course."

I often watching community rating and wondering when i see lady among leaders

Her submission was Sep. 6, 2012

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Sep. 7, 2012 @ 17:07 GMT

Yuri

Decrypting natures fundamental secrets was tricky, but somehow seems a little easier than decrypting you messages!

I've seen a few good ladies essays doing well. Has this one admitted her sex?

I'd hoped you may have read and gleaned some of the findings worth discussing from my essay. (This is after all the intent of the blogs here, yes?)

But I know there is much to read and digest.

Peter

Yuri Danoyan replied on Sep. 9, 2012 @ 01:54 GMT

Peter

Accepting the reality of space as a medium not big discovery

Major question to guess all picture one cycle

I see the Universe only this way

Big Bang; Present; Big Crunch

c=10^30; c=10^10; c=10^-10

G=10^12; G=10^-8; G=10^-28

h=10^-28; h=10^-28; h=10^-28

alfa =10^-3; 1/ 137; 1

e=0,1 ; e=e ; e=12

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Yuri

Agreed. What IS big and missed is the implications. If something IS there, like all the pair production ('fluctuations') then it modulates light speed by re-emitting absorbed light at c.

If is simple kinetic logic that then UNIFIES PHYSICS because all such matter can only re-emit at c, so we, a 'detector' can only ever FIND c!!!!!

When applied, this mechanism not only gives 'Local Reality' but also resolves about every one of the many scores of anomalies in physics. Unfortunately is doesn't 'LOOK' the same as the old familiar assumptions, so isn't recognised. It's simply dismissed however successful it is.

'Seemple' as the Meercat said to his human audience. Was he correct?

Peter

Yuri Danoyan replied on Sep. 9, 2012 @ 20:06 GMT

Who is Meercat ?

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Yuri

A meercat is an animal. They appear to have learnt the English language very precisely and rapidly (I'll try to find their teachers if you wish). They now look out at human beings and say; 'Seemple' (Which is 'simple' with a meercat accent.

I'm not sure if humankind is bright enough to yet understand to irony and veracity of the meercats opinion.

Peter

Now i understand your sarcasm...

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Hi Peter,

I'm looking now at the Doppler equations in your essay near the end. First of all, I should point out that a couple of posters have asserted that the Lorentz

$\gamma$

factor is due to refraction. That's close but not quite true. Refraction requires there to be a differential in the speed of energy propagation between different points, or some type of boundary interface so that different parts of the wave progress at different speeds. The proper description of the origin of the Lorentz

$\gamma$

factor is dispersion.

I've not yet seen what I consider a rigorous derivation of the relativistic Doppler effect and haven't had the time to develop one myself yet. So what will follow is only a preliminary analysis. I'll post again shortly as I need to hop off a train on my way to work now.

Cheers,

Steve

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Stephen,

What dispersion at c locally achieves in my model is a differential in the speed of energy propagation within different spaces (frames), by implementing a boundary interface mechanism so that different parts of waves progress at different speeds.

The key here is that relative closing, or APPROACH velocity, is v + v, so therefore also c + v, but that at the moment of...

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Stephen M Sycamore replied on Sep. 10, 2012 @ 17:46 GMT

Fortunately I hopped off the train last, well behind everyone else. However the train had just come to a stop so that the dwindling Eddy currents sparked into a micro wormhole catapulting me several tens of minutes into the future where I could safely step out ahead of everyone else ;^)

I'll have to peek more at your paper...

Steve

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Very good Essay, Peter. I am going to give you an high score.

Cheers,

Ch.

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Peter,

The following "simple answer" of yours is absurd (and accordingly catapulted your essay to the top of the community rating list):

"If light travels at a speed of distance d divided by time t (d/t = km/sec) then how can it be found always at c (~300,000km/sec) by all moving observers? A simple answer would be that light changed speed on arrival. Light would then travel at c= d/t through a background medium, but change to local c when meeting an observer."

Pentcho Valev

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Pentcho Valev replied on Sep. 10, 2012 @ 17:58 GMT

And this is both absurd and mysterious (the combination is highly valued by Einsteinians):

"In SR only one case was assumed for observing 'speed' with constant c. We describe a second case, where c is unaffected but where an 'apparent' speed c+/-v is also allowed."

Pentcho Valev

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Stephen M Sycamore replied on Sep. 11, 2012 @ 06:03 GMT

Dear Pentcho,

We haven't been taught to think about, let alone understand the actual physical processes involved where fluctuating EM fields interact with charged particles in the general sense that Peter's essay explores. So it is no surprise that you might think an exploration of its effects "absurd". I could point out a number of papers here which propose highly extravagant new types of physics (which conflict with rather than compliment known physics). But of course none of that is necessary. It has been shown that the Maxwell equations and the Lorentz force law are perfectly able to say exactly what the physics are.

Steve

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Pentcho Valev replied on Sep. 11, 2012 @ 06:35 GMT

Steve,

The absurdity is in Peter's claim that the speed of light is variable (c'=c+v) prior to the light meeting the observer but then on arrival miraculously becomes constant c'=c (so that Einsteinians can safely sing "Divine Einstein" and "Yes we all believe in relativity, relativity, relativity").

http://www.haverford.edu/physics/songs/divine.h
tm

DIVINE EINSTEIN: No-one's as dee-vine as Albert Einstein not Maxwell, Curie, or Bo-o-ohr!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PkLLXhONvQ

We all believe in relativity, relativity, relativity. Yes we all believe in relativity, relativity, relativity. Everything is relative, even simultaneity, and soon Einstein's become a de facto physics deity. 'cos we all believe in relativity, relativity, relativity. We all believe in relativity, relativity, relativity. Yes we all believe in relativity, relativity, relativity.

Pentcho Valev

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Sep. 11, 2012 @ 15:24 GMT

Pentcho

You have misunderstood the model. It would indeed be absurd if speed varied "prior to the light meeting the observer." You have not absorbed the body of the essay, which says the contrary; Nothing happens to speed of propagation until the change of medium. This is as optical science, just poorly interpreted until now.

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Pentcho

You have misunderstood the model. It would indeed be absurd if speed varied "prior to the light meeting the observer." You have not absorbed the body of the essay, which says the contrary; Nothing happens to speed of propagation until the change of medium. This is as optical science, just poorly interpreted until now.

Consider a light wave in a diffuse medium, 99% of which passes by a co-moving lens, but 1% of which interacts. The 99% caries on at c wrt the background medium. The 1% changes speed in accordance with the refractive index of the lens, and passes through the lens at new speed c/n WITH RESPECT TO THE LENS MEDIUM.

It is simply that last sentence that most human brains have not yet evolved to comprehend and visualise kinetically. The 'n' is due to the different dispersion delay, but the SECOND factor, delta v is due to relative media v.

The 1% meeting the lens is absorbed by the free electron particles at the lens surface. They then re-emit at c, but Doppler shifted because THEIR c is NOT the same as the BACKGROUND MEDIUM c.

The confusion is due to our forgetting to adjust for observer frame. If a single observer at rest in the background watches the whole process, he will see the apparent combined speed change as the light enters the moving medium.

If the observer ALSO accelerates into the lens frame WITH the 1% of the light signal, he will then of course find local c/n.

We have merely been, until now, incapable of dealing with that number of variables all in one go. This result removes all the paradox and anomalies from our observations. It does NOT quite support SR as interpreted up to now. The assumption of length contraction of rigid bodies is not required, as there is both real and apparent light speed (the latter from real c in another 'passing' frame). It does however make logical sense of the postulates themselves.

If you didn't absorb all that you really do need to read it about three times and assimilate it or it will evaporate, because it is quite different to the old paradoxical assumptions we're used to when applied.

Peter

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Dear Peter,

You have written yet another essay in defence of SR and I appreciate your saga regarding that.BTW,please go through the essay of Benjamin F. Dribus who, like your DFM, wants to use 'quantized reference frames' inorder to describe reality.

Please,go through my essay too and send in your comments to my forum.

(http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/1543--Sreenath B N.)

Warm regards and good luck in the essay contest.

Sreenath.

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Sep. 11, 2012 @ 15:38 GMT

Sreenath

I come to bury Caesar not to praise him. Not quite true as Einstein was clearly a true genius, getting so close even without knowing space isn't empty! But I show how with just a bit of tidying up to remove the paradoxes SR can be logical, and a similar tweak to QM then fits SR properly.

Gravity (GR) emerges as a combined energy effect, that is, Visible Matter plus 'Dark Matter', plus dark energy, as a simple energy density distribution; where there is more energy focussed into matter there is less dark energy, so (gravitational) pressure asymmetry. But there was no space to elaborate on that. Even the explanation I just gave to Pentcho had to be curtailed in the essay so many missed it.

I look forward to reading yours this year, if it's as good as last year it'll get a good score, and I hoped you liked mine enough to give it the top mark Petcho's vision of the future (above) foresaw.

Very best wishes and good luck.

Peter

Dear Peter,

While I think you do make some useful observations regarding the importance of plasma in the universe, I am compelled to point out a crucial misrepresentation of the right image in 'Figure 1'. The superimposed image caption states: "Visible 'Dark Matter'. Galaxy Cluster CL 0024+17."

The Figure 1 caption states:

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Anonymous replied on Sep. 12, 2012 @ 11:34 GMT

James

Dark matter must be denied as well as supported, that's science, and I think you make as good a fist of it as possible. I also agree your comments and that interpretations (as they must) vary. I set out to falsify it myself some years ago and followed exploration as well as the two competing teams and eventual 'task force'. I tended to read some 30 papers a week (the MNRAS alone had 56 in just one of 3 Sept volumes so far). I was initially astonished by the data, much of which, with respect, you ignore or are not aware of, but eventually a clear picture dawned on me, not matching most interpretation, but more consistent with the actual findings, of all sorts. I know I won't change your mind, but must explain anyway.

I now do not agree with your comment that dark matter; "cannot consist of any ordinary detectable matter and does not emit any EM radiation." It can indeed consist of baryonic matter despite assumptions. Plasma considered as 'stem cell' type pairs is not detectable except kinetically and gravitationally. There is a plethora of both gravitational and kinetic evidence. A whole pile of other anomalies are then resolved by such a model, from Interstellar Faraday Rotation, through ellipticity to the Voyager anomaly, lensing and light delays.

We now estimate the rotational velocities of galaxies via the red and blue shift of the dark matter haloes. The related kinetic Sunyaey-Zeldovich effect has been known for decades, and a recently derived kinetic term from Atlas 3D work is referred in my essay. Related light delays can be over 3 years!!!

i.e. The dark matter couples with all em waves, re-emits them at c within the halo as it rotates (so slows it down one side and speeds it up the other) then when it leaves' it's out of phase, but does c across the intervening spce.

Please refractive index n=

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Sep. 12, 2012 @ 12:21 GMT

James

Anon was me, not only a logout but half the post gone! I think I referred to plasma n=

James T. Dwyer replied on Sep. 12, 2012 @ 14:15 GMT

Peter,

Thanks very much for your courteous response. While I am a lay person, I have spent >30 years identifying and solving critical operational issues in some of the world's very largest computer systems. I'm quite used to encountering many conflicting interpretation of observational data. As the primary goal of this contest is to "Encourage and support rigorous, innovative, and influential thinking about foundational questions in physics and cosmology", I don't think it would be appropriate to bow to any interpretation of 'dark matter evidence' based solely on the credentials of the interpreter. Nothing personal.

If I understand correctly, the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect has been used to detect galaxy clusters since, unlike dark matter, the vast, hot plasma comprising the intracluster medium physically interacts with the photons of the CMB, producing large scale optical distortions in the microwave background signal. The independence of supposed galaxy cluster dark matter, inferred by identified weak gravitational lensing, and the gaseous intracluster medium has been established by their spatial separation due to galaxy cluster collisions. Interestingly, the weak lensing effects are not separated from the clusters' galaxies by those collisions...

I am not aware of any peer reviewed published reports using the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect to identify galactic dark matter halos. In the interest of rigorous investigation, can you provide some references for visible dark matter?

Sincerely, Jim

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Sep. 12, 2012 @ 14:24 GMT

James

Just to give you a flavour, a Sept AGN paper abstract is here, discussing the high density jets of re-ionized matter. And one thing I forgot the Milky Way certainly DOES 'still have' and AGN. (iro Sagattarius A) Not (back) up to any great speed yet, so the 14 hypervelocity stars it has spat out recently are still in one piece, but there's also plenty of ions and gas.

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James

Just to give you a flavour, a Sept AGN paper abstract is here, discussing the high density jets of re-ionized matter. And one thing I forgot the Milky Way certainly DOES 'still have' and AGN. (iro Sagattarius A) Not (back) up to any great speed yet, so the 14 hypervelocity stars it has spat out recently are still in one piece, but there's also plenty of ions and gas.

Some are certainly worth paying for. The 'bipolar structures' referred in this one is a bit complex but can include 'kinetically decoupled' haloes and cores (rotating the other axis) which the recycling model explains.:

Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, Eliot Quataert The physics of galactic winds driven by active galactic nuclei MNRAS Volume 425 Issue 1, pages 605–622, 1 September 2012 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.
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Active galactic nuclei (AGN) drive fast winds in the interstellar medium of their host galaxies. It is commonly assumed that the high ambient densities and intense radiation fields in galactic nuclei imply short cooling times, thus making the outflows momentum conserving. We show that cooling of high-velocity shocked winds in AGN is in fact inefficient in a wide range of circumstances, including conditions relevant to ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs), resulting in energy-conserving outflows. We further show that fast energy-conserving outflows can tolerate a large amount of mixing with cooler gas before radiative losses become important. For winds with initial velocity vin ≳ 10 000 km s−1, as observed in ultraviolet and X-ray absorption, the shocked wind develops a two-temperature structure. While most of the thermal pressure support is provided by the protons, the cooling processes operate directly only on the electrons. This significantly slows down inverse Compton cooling, while free–free cooling is negligible. Slower winds with vin ∼ 1000 km s−1, such as may be driven by radiation pressure on dust, can also experience energy-conserving phases but under more restrictive conditions. During the energy-conserving phase, the momentum flux of an outflow is boosted by a factor ∼vin/2vs by work done by the hot post-shock gas, where vs is the velocity of the swept-up material. Energy-conserving outflows driven by fast AGN winds (vin ∼ 0.1c) may therefore explain the momentum fluxes of galaxy-scale outflows recently measured in luminous quasars and ULIRGs. Shocked wind bubbles expanding normal to galactic discs may also explain the large-scale bipolar structures observed in some systems, including around the Galactic Centre, and can produce significant radio, X-ray and γ-ray emission. The analytic solutions presented here will inform implementations of AGN feedback in numerical simulations, which typically do not include all the important physics.

There are scores of recent ones more relevant to halo density and morphology.

Peter

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Nov. 21, 2012 @ 12:29 GMT

Jim,

An MNRAS 'Dark Matter' paper also on arxiv. I thought of Mario and you when reading it. July 2012 paper. It's consistent with scores of others, right or wrong, but uses a different method to constrain particle densities. It's treated as I suggest, simply as 'matter' that is not yet within our limited detection capabilites (which may soon be changed by Gaia etc).

'Optical' images are also improving, and right out to cluster scale. The concept or term 'exotic particles' is very rarely used in astronomy. The 'warm hot intergalactic medium' (WHIM) is far more familiar. i.e. as this weeks ESA bulletin; Combined Planck optical image

I believe that should give you more than adequate evidence to back up the lead proposition in my essay, and hopefully clarify the understanding of 'dark matter' in astronomy as opposed to in 'theory'.

Best wishes.

Peter

PS I'll also post this on your own string.

James T. Dwyer replied on Nov. 23, 2012 @ 04:24 GMT

Peter,

Thanks for the references. I'll try to review the research report later.

However, wouldn't 'warm hot' baryonic matter, configured as a vast, gravitationally bound, rotating galactic halo ~3 times the diameter of the visible galaxy, that was sufficiently dense to produce the observed flat rotation curves of the visible galactic disk - necessarily emit detectable EM radiation?

Also, at least the ESA article you referenced makes no mention of 'WHIM' as dark matter - it instead states that astronomers cannot find as much baryonic matter as expected:

"But there's a problem: the amounts of baryonic matter detected via astronomical observations in the distant, ancient Universe and in the nearby one do not match. Astronomers have struggled to locate about half of the baryonic matter expected to be present in the local Universe."

The article goes on to suggest that undetected WHIM constitutes the missing BARYONIC matter - not any dark matter.

Thanks,

Jim

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Dear Pentcho,

It's the beauty of having identified a homomorphism between relativistic 4 vector equations and Newtonian-Galilean 3 vector equations that for most common problems you may choose which framework you wish to work within and the numerical results will be equivalent to what you get in the other framework. That homomorphism is:

$\Delta E = f(t, x, y, z, q, m) \qquad \rightarrow \qquad \Delta E = f(-ct, x, y, z)$

Where the left hand side is what could be called the Maxwell-Thomson-de Broglie relations and the right hand side the Poincare-Einstein-Minkowski relations. A similar homomorphism may be written for momentum also.

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Pentcho,

The Mystery may now be resolved, and the apparent "absurdity". (I post this here as you had multiple points above and I've already responded to the main one there). My 'mysterious' sentence was;

"In SR only one case was assumed for observing 'speed' with constant c. We describe a second case, where c is unaffected but where an 'apparent' speed c+/-v is also allowed."

What this means is; When Einstein considered SR he assumed that anything that even 'appeared' to move faster than c HAD to be denied, i.e. a pulse of light in a Fibre Optic cable, or better still, gas filled waveguide tube, pinned to a passing Concord doing Mach2 could not be seen at c

Peter,

Thanks again for your reply, which was to some extent helpful in identifying the source of confusion. However, I must point out that you've not addressed the specific reference to the image caption referring to "Visible 'Dark Matter'. Galaxy Cluster CL 0024+17." As demonstrated by the NASA & Wikipedia references, this is definitely a misinterpretation.

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Jim

Our 'dark matter' Halo is 10^12 solar masses, far more than visible baryonic matter. In my caption I put 'dark matter' in inverted commas as I'm clearly saying I'm not proposing the common interpretation. That density is consistent with kinetic effects and CMB data as well as gravity, but I also accept your own proposal as worthy of consideration.

Mine is simply one of the alternative valid views; That we live in a 'dark energy/ matter universe' where visibly baryonic matter in only

James T. Dwyer replied on Sep. 13, 2012 @ 13:47 GMT

Peter,

Thanks very much for your consideration. I must say, though that the image caption "Visible 'dark matter'" certainly does not even clearly convey your assertion that it represents (as stated in the Figure 1 caption) "... a diffuse plasma medium of ions, CO and molecular gas." Neither interpretation is correct, as the 'visible' 'clouds' actually illustrates a gravity map inferred by the researchers. No plasma medium has been detected within any inferred galactic dark matter halo - no 'clouds' or anything else is visible there.

Sorry to be so obstinate - I do see value in your emphasis on the importance of plasma media in the universe. I'm just compelled to clarify points of confusion.

Best wishes - you're doing very well in the competition!

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James

Thanks. The 'map' is overlaid on the image on the left, also showing REAL X ray results. The caption is, correctly, on the visible band HST image. That was precisely my point; That 'dark matter' need NOT be some mysterious unknown substance. The Ostriker quote gives the 'Concordance' view which I vary from. That fact, or that it's a different modification to yours, cannot make it...

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Thanks. The 'map' is overlaid on the image on the left, also showing REAL X ray results. The caption is, correctly, on the visible band HST image. That was precisely my point; That 'dark matter' need NOT be some mysterious unknown substance. The Ostriker quote gives the 'Concordance' view which I vary from. That fact, or that it's a different modification to yours, cannot make it 'incorrect.'

Your following comment "No plasma medium has been detected within any inferred galactic dark matter halo - no 'clouds' or anything else is visible there." is indeed incorrect.

Firstly you have two propositions; 1. "No plasma medium has been detected", which is quite wrong. 'detection' covers all forms of detection not just the limited visible wavelengths. It is detected everywhere, and generally at increasing densities nearer matter. Its normally considered as 'electron density'. Gravitation is only one indicator of a number used. In fact I disagree with gravitational mass estimation level from lensing as it ignores the kinetic diffraction well known from optics etc. (and kSZ).

2.; "no 'clouds' or anything else is visible there." Agreed, plasma scattering is not detectable in the optical range, but is otherwise. CO and molecular gas can only come from bound ions (from pair production). Wherever we find gas being formed we find the ions that form it (less in long established undisturbed gas clouds). Also check the sums; the gravitational effects can and do include the gas itself (or the plasma density is even greater!)

I'm sorry if my thesis appears to disagrees with yours, but that does not make mine wrong. I make mine very clear in the text, there are no ghost-like dark characters, just Eddie and the electrons, and Penny and the protons, who might just couple one day!

I've now read Evaraldo's essay as you suggested, and commented. It's original and I can see why you like it, as it offers your idea support. But beware of being unscientific. I suggest the best science is about 'falsifying' a model, so zeroing in and honestly analysing the conflicting, not supporting evidence. Evaraldo's does seem to conflict with much evidence, i.e. he has ring galaxies expanding not accreting! (just look at the 'spokes of the Cartwheel galaxy) so it should be an interesting process.

You'll have seen from my papers (I hope) that I do however agree with his note ref formation from Quasars. Do comment on those.

Best wishes.

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James T. Dwyer replied on Sep. 13, 2012 @ 18:25 GMT

Peter,

"The 'map' is overlaid on the image on the left..."

This is incorrect - the gravity map overlay I've repeated referred to is included only in the image on the right. The process using weak gravitational lensing to generate the gravity map used to produce the artificial dark matter 'cloud' overlay image is clearly and undeniably explained in the NASA announcement: Hubble Finds Ghostly Ring of Dark Matter. Both the overlaid and unmodified images are included in that document.

If you will refer to the above NASA document I'll be happy to discuss any issues you might have.

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James,

You're right. If we considered 'visible' as only the optical em range the right hand image is also not strictly 'visible', same as as the left one. However, in astronomy we're almost never dealing with the optical range (which is a tiny part of observation), so 'visible' is shorthand for visible 'at' 'in' or 'by'...' i.e. it's synonymous with 'detectable'. It is a very...

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James,

You're right. If we considered 'visible' as only the optical em range the right hand image is also not strictly 'visible', same as as the left one. However, in astronomy we're almost never dealing with the optical range (which is a tiny part of observation), so 'visible' is shorthand for visible 'at' 'in' or 'by'...' i.e. it's synonymous with 'detectable'. It is a very anthropocentric view to think the 'visibly' range is more important than any other. Astronomy is by it's very nature NOT anthropocentric! The ring shown was 'detectable' by the standard lensing based mass estimation techniques that have been used for decades. The technique is not that complex, based largely on radius of curvature. Remember, our eyes use lensing, so even our visible image of the universe depends on it! Present astronomy is equivalent to 'bionic eyes', including taking lensed images and inferring both original image and lens characteristics.

The matter is indeed then rendered 'visible', and that sense it is better than just 'optical range' detection, but, I agree it is also open to as much or even more misinterpretation as other observation (certainly including optical!

I also agree that estimation of galaxy and cluster mass from lensing is faulty. It has always been to high, and I consider 'caustics' and 'gravity wells' are used too liberally as 'patches' to cover the cracks. The 'Curved space-time' basis is in any case still unexplained (however many claim it is!).

But consider this carefully; It is not just lensing that tells up of the IGM, and whether from 'space-time curved by gravity' or from simple diffraction by the (mainly) free electrons found, (with protons, positrons, CO and basic bound molecular gas) the lensing exists. (Look carefully at the optical image and you can see the many curved 'smears' around the centre which they used).

Now we know plasma DOES refract light, and very effectively, but has a refractive index very close to 1. That's why it normally isn't detectable optically. That does not mean it is not visible by other means (including first hand by Voyager 2, and other closer probes including Cluster).

Now I say the plasma etc. we find out there moves and diffracts just like plasma anywhere else, so acts like a giant lens, and propose that the fact that lensing can be quantitatively explained in this way, along with unexplained effects such as kSZ, Faraday Rotation, ellipticity, aberration, Chirality etc, is no accident. Nothing we have found contradicts this hypothesis, only current interpretation does so.

You have a different view, which I agree should be studied considered equally with all others, as the de Souza proposal. So I should then ask questions, such as do you agree there is diffuse plasma CO and molecular gas out there, and why that might not be expected to behave with the plasma we find locally. The question is one I have asked proponents of the mainstream interpretation, with, as yet, no credible answer.

I hope that fully answers your points.

Best wishes

Peter

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James T. Dwyer replied on Sep. 16, 2012 @ 05:16 GMT

Peter,

Thinking more about the additional effects contributing to galaxy cluster lensing, as you mentioned, I recalled seeing the Nature News article back in June, Galaxy clusters caught in motion, clearly describing the recent identification of the kSZ effect. That had been my first exposure to either the tSZ of kSZ effect.

Interestingly, I commented back then, speculating that the SZ effects should apply not only to CMB photons but all others as well, likely contributing to weak lensing effects produced by galaxy clusters that are now attributed only to gravitational effects. I further speculated that the result may be the overestimation of the total galaxy cluster mass necessary to produce the identified weak lensing effects. This then would at a minimum result in the overestimation of dark matter present within galaxy clusters.

My assertion is that the hypothesized enormous amounts of galactic dark matter have been misconceived, and that huge galactic DM halos do not actually exist.

That would not necessarily preclude the existence of dark matter to explain observed galaxy cluster lensing, or its inference (however that's accomplished) as the structural backbone of the 'cosmic web'.

I strongly suspect that, at large scales, no enormous dark matter halos envelop galaxies. I'm also beginning to suspect that, at very large scales, much of the effects attributed to dark matter in and among galaxy clusters may be the product of ICM and amorphous plasmas, as I think you suggest.

Best wishes on your work (although I suggest you focus on galaxy clusters & above :-) Jim

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Peter,

Thanks for you consideration and understanding. However, I object to the use of the term 'visible' in regard to the dark matter illustrated in your Fig. 1 image of galaxy cluster Cl 0024+17. That image has effectively been 'photoshopped' by NASA to illustrate the presence of dark matter that has been inferred through a complex series of analyses including the statistical analysis...

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Peter,

Thanks for you consideration and understanding. However, I object to the use of the term 'visible' in regard to the dark matter illustrated in your Fig. 1 image of galaxy cluster Cl 0024+17. That image has effectively been 'photoshopped' by NASA to illustrate the presence of dark matter that has been inferred through a complex series of analyses including the statistical analysis of minute optical distortions imparted to thousands of background galaxies - a very complex process subject to error. Again, the process is described in Hubble Finds Ghostly Ring of Dark Matter. As you say, I don't think the optical effects produced by the ICM is adequately considered in galaxy cluster weak gravitational lensing analyses used to infer dark matter.

No, this is not an issue of semantics, the term 'inferred' is applied to describe how the presence of dark matter is hypothetically determined. The term 'visible' indicates that an object can be seen through the direct detection of photons, usually but not necessarily those within the visible spectrum. Many objects, including the intracluster medium (ICM) of galaxy clusters, are visible using X-ray telescopes, for example. The 'clouds' illustrating the inferred presence of dark matter in the referenced NASA document do not represent any photons. NASA also did not intend those 'clouds' to illustrate the presence of any enormous clouds of plasma encircling the galaxy cluster. As such, I insist that your Fig. 1 image caption is misleading, as the statement: "The 'clouds' represent a diffuse plasma medium..." is completely false.

In the case of galaxy clusters, I agree with you that identified weak gravitational lensing results from the combined effects of ICM diffusion and the gravitational curvature of spacetime distorted by the combined mass of the cluster's galaxies and the more massive ICM.

Where your conception differs from both my essay and Mario Everaldo de Souza's A New Model Without Dark Matter for the Rotation of Spiral Galaxies: The Connections Among Shape, Kinematics and Evolution is that you seem accept the analyses that compensatory mass provided by some form of undetected matter is necessary to account for identified gravitational effects. My essay and de Souza's (along with several galactic models referenced in my essay that also do not require dark matter to account for observed spiral galaxy rotation) are complementary: I argue that galactic dark matter is erroneously inferred, while de Souza's model explains spiral galaxy evolution without dark matter.

Regarding "So I should then ask questions, such as do you agree there is diffuse plasma CO and molecular gas out there, and why that might not be expected to behave with the plasma we find locally:"

The presence of massive, hot plasma comprising the ICM of galaxy clusters is confirmed by detection of x-ray emissions. I don't think there is any compelling evidence that enormous massive halos of plasma envelope galaxies, contributing to their discrete rotational characteristics. I think that only proper representations of ordinary galactic mass and its gravitational effects is necessary to account for galactic rotational characteristics.

At this point in our discussion I cannot expect you to acknowledge the inappropriateness of your "Visible 'dark matter'" caption. I also understand that I'm being intractable in my arguing this point, but I assure you there is nothing personal intended.

Best wishes, Jim

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I agree for non astronomer readers the word 'detected' would have been better here. Working in 3 sciences I have to regularly switch 'languages' subconsciously. Discussing an astronomical image with my 'FRAS' hat on, the term 'visible' is appropriate, but I agree, human eyes nor the HST can 'see' it, only it's effects. You'll recall I don't subscribe to long range 'photons' but your...

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Jim

I agree for non astronomer readers the word 'detected' would have been better here. Working in 3 sciences I have to regularly switch 'languages' subconsciously. Discussing an astronomical image with my 'FRAS' hat on, the term 'visible' is appropriate, but I agree, human eyes nor the HST can 'see' it, only it's effects. You'll recall I don't subscribe to long range 'photons' but your point is also valid for waves. However, the detection certainly isn't 'completely false', just based on as questionable an interpretation as most other theories!

Where I think you are mislead, affecting your view, is that what is termed 'weak lensing' does NOT mean and is not 'weak' in the way you suggest. All characteristics, including the shape (a disc to a thin arc), deflection (thousands of parsecs), and temporal delta, are very sold and substantial. Did you know that the delay to light from lensing can be over three years!! (One side of a lensing body to another, confirmed by precise spectroscopic pattern matching emissions). I'm saying you certainly WILL find compelling evidence if you look harder in the right places. It is a crime that the best places, the PR journal pages, are 'pay per view'. But you can't refuse to pay then refuse to recognise the existence of the compelling evidence there! (Also; have you read the links I gave you yet. It seems not). I've campaigned for better access; http://independent.academia.edu/JacksonPeter/Papers/1920871/
SUBJUGATION_OF_SCEPTICISM_IN_SCIENCE and it's slowly coming, at least in the UK.

What is far more important is the main thrust of my essay, that there is NO OTHER CURVATURE OF SPACE TIME than refraction. The matter doing the refracting itself has 'gravitational potential' so the whole thing can be resolved with no mystery or strange non-detectable dark matter. Did you look a the Rick Kingsley-Nixey essay Fig 2? you're arguing over relative trivia while missing the big picture!

Have a look, and lets get back to science.

Best wishes

Peter

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I am thinking to the detection idea, or collapse in quantum mechanics, reading your Act 1-Scene 1.

I am thinking on the double slit experiment: the screen is a quantum macroscopic object; so is the photon that make interference, or the multiple screen not-correlated electron (and proton) to make quantum effect? Is it possible to distinguish the two effects?

In general a measure is a collapse of a quantum function using a macroscopic object, this is the reason of my problem.

I think that the Act 1-Scene 2 is very interesting: what happen in a half transparent(index n)-half vacuum tube in movement with velocity v, with two mirror that reflect a photon? What is the law n(v) in the rest system, and in the movement system? What happen for a neutrino in the same system? If there exist an hypothetical transparent observer (like very intelligent jellyfish), then the light velocity is the maximum velocity in the medium (for example glycerol)? The neutrino is more quick!

I must make some calculus, but your article give me some suggestions.

Amusing event: the same post has been write before (for error) in the Matthew Peter Jackson blog!

The netiquette require the erasing of this post.

Saluti

Domenico

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Domenico,

The mirror problem resolves with c in the medium frame both on approach and after reflection, because the 'transition zone' must of course work both ways. It is equivalent to a 'fluid dynamic coupling' of inertial frames. At the boundary there are electrons at rest in BOTH media frames, with turbulence between, but all re-emitting at their own c. This applies to ALL media. Only the extinction distance changes (with 'birefringence' apparent during the change).

I think this has proved too difficult dynamic visualisation of most readers, so introducing theoretical speculative neutrino's would just confuse more. We need to assimilate the concept that there is BOTH real and APPARENT speed, so apparent superluminal speed is allowed with no violation of c.

At the (twin-slit) back screen, there is no co-motion, so the (probably part re-blended) arriving 'photon' or wave energy charges the particles, and as each reaches threshold energy it re-emits, forming the small 'dot' pattern. The intensity of combined interacting waves from the 'slit edge' emissions changes across the screen according to Huygens construction to form the interference pattern. This can simply be shown in simple experiments I've done myself. By moving the back screen position during the experiment. A 3D interference picture can then be built up in the space behind the slits. You may have read this last year; http://vixra.org/abs/1007.0022

Does this accord with your thoughts? What it does seem to do is unify all physics and derive curved space time from QM by changing the optical axis of re-emissions ('refraction'). Is that emerging for you, or can you see any shortcomings?

Also the little maths I give has been challenged. Do you have a view on that?

Many thanks, and Best wishes

Peter

James Putnam replied on Sep. 16, 2012 @ 18:46 GMT

Peter,

I recognize that you are well prepared to defend your view. I have read about it over and over:

"I think this has proved too difficult dynamic visualisation of most readers, so introducing theoretical speculative neutrino's would just confuse more. We need to assimilate the concept that there is BOTH real and APPARENT speed, so apparent superluminal speed is allowed with no violation of c."

I don't think that I have having a problem visualizing it. But there remains something that I have asked in past and feel uncertain about of your answer:

Does relativity's length contraction consist only of remote appearances due to effects which occur upon the photons, doing the reporting, during their travels including their arrivals? In other words, does the original object suffer length contraction as a real local physical effect before the reporting photons begin their travels and undergo their own changes? Is length contraction only a remote visual effect?

Time and talk may have blurred my memory about your position. But, I do find myself reading your messages and today at least am uncertain about your answer. Thank you.

James

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Domenico Oricchio replied on Sep. 17, 2012 @ 21:55 GMT

I am interested, and I am thinking, on the macroscopic interaction of the macroscopic objects (lens, mirrors, screen, etc.) with quantum object (for example light): each measure in physics is obtained, in general, using macroscopic object.

I think that the quantum effects can be obtained from the noise in the screen (different phases in the screen electron) of the double slit experiment.

I see in your article a study of the interaction of the photons with the macroscopic object to justify the constant speed of the light: I see this like a maximum interference (interaction) between electrons and photons; I don't know if this point is true, but it is very interesting.

I know that different velocity of the light in the different medias is due to the emission-absorption of the photons (between two collision the light velocity is constant) but these interactions don't happen for the neutrinos; so in a media we can have a signal that are more quickly of the light in the media.

I see interesting points in your essay.

I shall read your the arxiv article.

Saluti

Domenico

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James

Lengths contract by an intuitive Doppler shift process due to the non zero distance between components of matter. It does NOT then apply at all to 'idealised rigid bodies', either real or apparently. Luckily there is no such thing as a completely rigid body, but there are degrees of compressibility.

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James

Lengths contract by an intuitive Doppler shift process due to the non zero distance between components of matter. It does NOT then apply at all to 'idealised rigid bodies', either real or apparently. Luckily there is no such thing as a completely rigid body, but there are degrees of compressibility.

The non-zero time of interaction during media co-motion is the key. Imagine a compressible body on collision course with a medium. When they interact the spaces between the particles close up = length contraction. Now back to SR; Say a light pulse or string of photons lasts 1/10th sec (or is 30,000km 'long'). If it enters a co-moving medium of n=~1 approaching at v= 3,000km/sec it will compress, or 'contract' by 10%, agreed? As the propagation speed is still ~c, to an observer at rest in the new medium the length of TIME of the pulse in his frame will also have reduced by 10%.

This is purely a Doppler effect, but on wavelength lambda. Frequency is only a derivative of lambda and speed, so follows inversely due to conserved c in all frames. (I identify the quantum mechanism = all re-emission at c).

Now a different case; An observer staying at rest in the first frame watching two light pulses distance D apart enter the other frame (the co-moving medium). This is again intuitive. He will see the same thing; the distance between the pulses contracted. No tricks, fully intuitive and real, except of the course the SPEED of the pulses in the other medium is then only apparent, not real.

Finally the case of the light reaching an observer. Consider the observers lens a 'medium', which it is, and this is then precisely the same as the first case. Lambda changes subject to observer medium motion. So all real physical changes.

This simple reality implements CSL via the quantum mechanism and axiom of absorption (at any closing speed) but re-emission at local c. Ergo, physics is unified with causal Local Reality, and neither QM or SR have any paradoxes.

I'm a little dismayed so few seem to be able to assimilate that from the essential components in the essay . Was there anything above exceptionally difficult to understand, or that you're not comfortable with?

If so do point them out, if not, any ideas how it can better be communicated?

Best wishes

Peter

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James Putnam replied on Sep. 17, 2012 @ 13:42 GMT

Peter,

Ok, I think what I have been missing in my question is that I am not asking about special relativity. I am interested in what happens in the real world. If there is a long straight closed tube with a vacuum inside it, and, that tube is lying stationary on the surface of the Earth, and, an object inside that tube is moving through it at very high speed relative to the tube and Earth, will that object experience length contraction as a real physical effect due to its velocity relative to the tube and Earth? What happens to photons afterwards is not a point of confusion. I picture the object as a thin rod with its length parallel to the tube.

James

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Sep. 17, 2012 @ 17:59 GMT

James

No. It would not contract. Either in reality or apparently.

I think you misunderstood my previous reply. I was also certainly not discussing special relativity but only the real world. The real mechanisms I describe produce all the effects we observe.

Someone once drew up theory to try to try to explain the apparent paradoxes in those observations (i.e. CSL). The real mechanistic solution bears little resemblance to that theory, and shows there were b=never any real paradoxes, just m=limited comprehension.

This is important as it also makes sense of QM, meaning that all classical observed effects are fully explained by (known but better interpreted) quantum mechanisms. Is this is too big for physics to assimilate?

Peter

PS Back to your rod. There are two varying cases. If the rod is accelerated it will contract during acceleration (not much if it's rigid). And if the observer is at rest as the rod moves further into the distance, then there will be an 'apparent' contraction, which we call 'perspective'. Both these, like the primary cases in my last post, should be intuitive. Are you in agreement?

James Putnam replied on Sep. 17, 2012 @ 18:21 GMT

Peter,

Ok I am clear about your view. Thank you.

James

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dear Peter

this is just to say that I enjoyed reading your essay

as you expected (your post on the blog for my own essay) I found in it some intriguing physical intuitions and a little theatre, all combined in enjoyable reading material

best wishes for the competition

Giovanni

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Dear Peter,

I'm just now realizing that there is a way to experimentally verify the validity of one aspect of what you've written and what has been shown mathematically in my essay. Please see the recent post for details.

Steve

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Sep. 18, 2012 @ 17:10 GMT

Stephen

Interesting "there's nothing preventing "apparent" motion faster than c", (your blog Wolfram link) when it seems such a big deal to most that they can't rationalise or assimilate it, or the important consequences.

I've also had challenges about my use and definition of 'signal velocity', so the Sommerfeld and Brillouin use and 'definition' is helpful.

There are indeed already a number of experiments verifying this, including the finding of light reflecting from a moving mirror at c wrt the vacuum not the mirror. I have no lab, but do let me know what you have in mind. I have suggested some other experiments in a paper on the Kantor falsification accepted and due out soon. Send me an email (address above) and I'll pop something through to discuss.

Many thanks

Peter

Dear Peter,

This is for your kind information that my recent article published yesterday in the 'arxiv' along with my two colleagues (http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3765) has, I feel,something to do with your DFM.

I hope you grasp the significance of the article to your DFM and reply back.

Best regards,

Sreenath.

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Sreenath

I'm delighted at the verification the new arxiv paper offers. This also seems consistent with the 1955 Jauch and Rohrlich (QED) verification of the relative energy loss from bremsstrahlung radiation from the 'Compton effect' of acceleration due to interaction. I had no room to include the Marmet quantification which was; 2.73x10^-21 (K^-2).

Frankly I have not yet deeply considered the relevance or realtionships there or with my own work so your thought would be appreciated. How consistent do you think it may be with the interaction quantification in my essay?

I might even slip a small citation of your derivation into my present main paper draft.

Many thanks

Peter

Hi Peter,

A nice overview of assumptions that are taken for granted and how they relate to the trouble with physics. It was a pleasure to read.

Thanks for pointing out how assumption 5 relates to my essay. I show that objects are cut off from attaining the speed c via an unexpected quantum mechanical effect and not the Lorentz transform. But even more astounding special relativity is still intact.

Thanks for visiting my essay blog and helping my cause.

Good luck in the contest,

Don L.

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Peter,

The frequency of the light waves as measured by a stationary observer is f=c/L, and by an observer moving with speed v towards the light source f'=(c+v)/L, where L is the wavelength. Also, in the frame of the moving observer, the formula f'=c'/L' is valid.

These are textbook formulas - if you accept them, please answer the following questions:

c' = ? ; L' = ?

Thanks, Pentcho Valev

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Pentcho Valev replied on Sep. 22, 2012 @ 19:13 GMT

You cannot derive c' and L' from f=c/L, f'=c'/L' and f'=(c+v)/L, can you Peter?

Pentcho Valev

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Sep. 22, 2012 @ 20:10 GMT

Pentcho

I can indeed. As f is a derivative, from f=c/L we may then find c = fL. We then consider the case, as found in reality, that on entering a new medium, wavelength L changes.

Now there is more than one observer case, as I pointed out on your string. But to keep it simple to start with, for an observer who CHANGES frame (observes in the emitter frame K then accelerates into the detector frame K') we may consistently obtain delta L and delta f to give c' = f'L'. We also then have f'=c'/L'. In other words wavelength and frequency can change inversely which conserves local c. Which is precisely as we find with Doppler shift, but misinterpret as we forget f is a mathematical derivative using a 'speed' (and thus time) not a 'real' physical quality.

In the other case of an observer who remains in the emitter frame, he will find apparent c+v (but not by actual interaction with the original emission).

Logic must be applied to mathematics as well as to nature. In logic I claim my Mr Spock trumps your belief led Captain Jim!

Peter

PS; The case of an observer accelerating from detector frame K' to emitter frame K in the opposite direction to the light gets VERY interesting, he does not interact with the original light pulse at all (except when both are accelerating). can you now work out what speed he finds the PASSING pulses apparently doing (wrt him) both before and after accelerating? I admit is IS initially quite testing, but once grasped is far more intuitive than the present nonsense!

Peter

Pentcho Valev replied on Sep. 22, 2012 @ 21:01 GMT

Peter,

You forget f'=(c+v)/L but that is the gist of the story. For all waves other than light waves, when the observer starts moving towards the wave source with speed v, he finds that:

- the frequency shifts from f=c/L to f'=(c+v)/L

- the speed of the waves shifts from c to c'=c+v

- the wavelength does not change (L'=L)

For light waves, the observer finds that:

- the frequency shifts from f=c/L to f'=(c+v)/L

Since the measured frequency shifts in exactly the same way for all waves (light waves included), it is reasonable to conclude that the mechanism is the same: the shift in frequency is due to the shift in the speed of the waves. That is, for light waves, just like for any other waves:

- the speed of the waves shifts from c to c'=c+v

- the wavelength does not change (L'=L)

Pentcho Valev

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Heaven Breasts and Heaven Calculus

http://vixra.org/abs/1209.0072

Since the birth of mankind, human beings have been looking for the origin of life. The fact that human history is the history of warfare and cannibalism proves that humans have not identified their origin. Humanity is still in the dark phase of lower animals. Humans can see the phenomenon of life only on Earth, and humans' vision does not exceed the one of lower animals. However, it is a fact that human beings have inherited the most advanced gene of life. Humans should be able to answer the following questions: Is the Universe hierarchical? What is Heaven? Is Heaven the origin of life? Is Heaven a higher order of life? For more than a decade, I have done an in-depth study on barred galaxy structure. Today (September 17, 2012) I suddenly discovered that the characteristic structure of barred spiral galaxies resembles the breasts of human female essentially. If the rational structure conjecture presented in the article is proved then Sun must be a mirror of the universe, and mankind is exactly the image on earth of the Heaven.

http://galaxyanatomy.com

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Dear Peter,

I've recently been finding comments on others threads that link to your work in a very positive manner. Congratulations! You seem to be making converts (as these are new names). That's great! And congratulations on your current ranking. It's a long hard slog, but your persistence seems to be paying off. Best of luck in this competition. I haven't yet ranked you, but am saving it for the end, when you may need it the most.

Best,

Edwin Eugene Klingman

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Sep. 25, 2012 @ 10:33 GMT

Edwin

Much appreciated. I find it hard to comprehend that the simplest of ideas seems the most difficult for physicists to assimilate. As I've just posted to Georgina: That a pair of photons 'passing by' a lens which is moving towards the source have a different distance between them and speed to those (adjacent ones after) entering the lens medium and optical nerve. The massive implications still seem to be missed by those too indoctrinated with standard assumptions.

To spell it out; This derives CSL for all observers from a quantum mechanism at the lens surface. This equals what Penrose termed the Holy Grail; The Unification of Physics.

An ontology of frames emerges with the same hierchical structures as Logic (TFL) and PDL) and when it's applied elsewhere it's absolute power and completeness emerges, including in Cosmology. Yet it is still invisible to most. It's quite bemusing. I suppose, as the post below shows, we are only human, run by emotion and belief.

Best wishes

Peter

I repost here my response to Peter's comment, originally posted at Mario de Souza's essay blog, as Peter has done on my essay's blog...

Peter,

I can only take offense to statements such as "Your comments don't make sense, I assume as based on misunderstandings." I will respond more rationally.

In relation to my comments (about the Bullet Cluster), they are entirely consistent...

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Sep. 26, 2012 @ 11:40 GMT

Jim

I'm now at a loss to understand your comments. Data must be consistently explained, as, when it's not, no support is given to theory. I tried to help, as asked, by identifying where the belief that radial disc outflows existed came from. It seemed you or Mario may have misinterpreted 'radial distribution' and/or 'velocity dispersion' as implying such motion so I explained their meanings. I'm quite flumoxed by your reaction and misinterpretation of my own comments, including that ALL matter interacts with em waves, but dispersion varies.

It seems a problem with receptiveness to wide speculative theory in cosmology is a tendency among non astronomers to cite such views as 'evidence' of fact, when of course it is not. Only the data gives evidence. The PRJ's at least allow a certain standard to be relied on for credible citation, even if they do mainly promote the ruling paradigm.

You've decided not to avail yourself of either data or most PRJ papers. That's fine, but it's not then reasonable for you to then accuse me of being wrong and insulting when I point out that the data itself does not accord with the theory. That is honest science!

If you wish for an astronomers advice on facts, he should give you the best facts available. The problems come with interpretation, which I agree may be quite rotten to the core. But if the data does not fit your theory it can't be the data assumed wrong without rigorous alternative explanation. Right or wrong that's how it works. I'd assumed you didn't want your thesis to just be dismissed by astronomers. I really don't feel I can offer any more.

Peter

James T. Dwyer replied on Sep. 26, 2012 @ 16:56 GMT

Perter,

Thanks so much for another lecture, but it seems you are still ignoring the evidence provided by the separation of gravitational potential and x-ray emitting gasses in galaxy cluster mergers. Again, the consensus interpretation among professional astrophysicists seems to be that this provides clear evidence of dark matter's existence since the lensing effect attributed to it cannot be produced by the ICM.

Also, please be aware that we have not been discussing the thesis in my essay at all - we've been discussing the thesis of Mario's essay. I think that Mario's thesis is valid and provides support for my thesis, but I already had supporting references in my essay for models producing observed spiral galaxy rotational characteristics without dark matter or modified gravity.

I'd be more than happy to discuss the thesis of my essay any time you wish, but we have not been addressing astronomers' invalid expectations for spiral galaxy rotation that led to the erroneous requirement for galactic dark matter.

Back to your thesis, I urge you to very carefully consider the evidence provided by the separation of gravitational potential and x-ray emitting gasses in observations of galaxy cluster collisions.

Sincerely, Jim

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Anonymous replied on Sep. 26, 2012 @ 20:32 GMT

Jim

If someone resists accessing actual evidence but proposes something contrary that's fine, but that's called speculation not science and I'm sure you can judge how its veracity is viewed.

You now 'urge me to consider' evidence assuming I have not done so for both that and far better evidence very closely for some years. You assumption is incorrect. But I also still don't agree...

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Jim

If someone resists accessing actual evidence but proposes something contrary that's fine, but that's called speculation not science and I'm sure you can judge how its veracity is viewed.

You now 'urge me to consider' evidence assuming I have not done so for both that and far better evidence very closely for some years. You assumption is incorrect. But I also still don't agree your characterisation (last para). I'll do my best again to explain, as long as you don't call it 'lecturing'!

When galaxies and clusters collide, let's say the 'fine structure' (whatever) surrounds them is disturbed. This is invariably found as more dense CO and molecular gas towards the barycentre and a more diffuse electron based plasma (when detectable) towards the outer halo (or IGM/ICM). (They overlap because one begets the other!) Now I'm sorry, but if you've studied as much data and research as I have over the years you will find a clear pattern, consistent with the following description (and I'm not just spouting any mainstream 'dark matter' theories).

The molecular gas clouds are only concentrated in different parts of space to the plasma because they 'started' in different parts of space so are affected differently. Now the lensing found does not 'JUST' correlate with the visible molecular gas, at WHATEVER wavelength it scatters light (normally investigated at multiple frequencies). All the condensed matter there is assumed to have gravitational potential according to it's mass just like it does in our back yard. The change in motions of the visible matter correlates with this basis and provides an approximation of density of the NON visible 'clouds'. These are normally thus considered as 'dark matter', either as some exotic new particles or not. I propose not, because the densities are consistent with electron densities found locally (The Kingsley Figure 2 I referred you to, and the international standard ionospheric model at up to 10^14 particles/cm^-3 at shocks).

Now there is also other evidence, quite complex, but lensing is the main and largely independent second 'check'. It quite simply does not correlate with the visible gas, at least 'alone'. But now we get into interpretation'. Mainstream uses 'curved space-time' to estimate galaxy mass, but gets anomalously high masses. More and more (inconsistent with relativity) use my method of diffraction by matter for lensing (as smaller lenses) which is more consistent with the REAL data (Sauron, Atlas 3D etc).

The lensing then simply implies spatial distribution and density. Most of mainstream just call it 'dark matter density', but that just means it's not visible and includes a broad church of options. Plasma 'scatters' far better directionally than gas (that's what 'self focussing' means). So that's why the gas visible at X ray has no effect on lensing, which is indeed a proof of the plasma thesis. (Unless you really believe the nearby galaxy cluster 'bends' a pure vacuum - as current mainstream expects us to, but that gas does not).

Now I've tried other models which don't work, and tried for some time to falsify (NOT verify!) this, but failed. Yet I still have an open mind.

Now none of this has much to do with my essay, which just exposes the underlying quantum mechanism the 'particle' based lensing implies, and more than a handful of other anomalies. But you did ask.

I'm sorry if your beliefs and Mario's thesis are different, that's fine let them be if you prefer, and as I recall I have no problem with any other parts, but I don't believe in hiding from inconvenient scientific truths, and hope you're the same.

Peter

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Peter,

We're now discussing my claim that the separation of lensing effects and x-ray emitting intracluster media falsifies your assertion that the effects attributed to dark matter can be attributed to plasmas. Please do Mario the favor of excluding remarks about him from this discussion, as he has made no such claims and in fact I've had no discussions with Mario about this claim of...

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Peter,

We're now discussing my claim that the separation of lensing effects and x-ray emitting intracluster media falsifies your assertion that the effects attributed to dark matter can be attributed to plasmas. Please do Mario the favor of excluding remarks about him from this discussion, as he has made no such claims and in fact I've had no discussions with Mario about this claim of mine. He has nothing to do with this discussion - this is just between you and me.

Secondly, as I have provided several sources that conclude that the separation of lensing effects from x-ray emitting gases in high velocity galaxy collisions provides evidence for the existence of enormous masses of not just 'non-visible' matter but effectively non-interacting non-baryonic, weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). Please see Chandra posting. This is not just 'little old me' making this claim, it seems to be the consensus "mainstream" astrophysical community.

As I understand, 'undisturbed' galaxy cluster morphology can be generalized as tending towards a spherical distribution of mass centered around a common center of mass, generally coincident with the geometric center of the cluster. There the gaseous intracluster medium is densest and hottest, emitting high energy x-rays. There is also often an enormous galaxy located near the center of mass.

The consensus interpretation of collided galaxy clusters, as I understand, is that the disperse gasses comprised of baryonic particles physically interact upon collision, absorbing their momentum slowing their forward motion.

It is thought that the colliding clusters' sparse galaxies do not physically interact - their momentum allows each group of galaxies to continue their established relative motion until gravitation eventually slows their progress.

The gravitational lensing effects of collided galaxy clusters are typically coincident with the location of the two separated groups of galaxies. However, since the collective mass estimated for the galaxies is thought to be insufficient to produce the identified weak gravitational lensing effects, it is presumed that enormous amounts of dark matter coincident with the galaxies is contributing most of the mass necessary to produce the identified gravitational lensing effects.

It is crucial to understand that the inferred dark matter could only be coincident with the two groups of non-interacting galaxies if the dark matter was also non-interacting. The only interaction that could have occurred between the two groups of galaxies and any possible dark matter was gravitational.

The principal requirement for the inferred dark matter is that it could only have gravitationally interacted with any of the clusters' mass upon collision. As I understand, the p[articles of colliding plasma clouds would physically interact much like the hot gases in the intracluster medium - their forward progress could not have continued such that they would located coincidentally with the sparse, non-interacting galaxies.

If you can explain how ionized gas or plasma particles within the two colliding galaxy clusters could have avoided all physical interaction with other disperse particles, allowing their momentum to carry them along with the clusters' galaxies, I'd be very happy to try to understand.

Sincerely, Jim

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"Our physics needs ontology, philosophy needs nature.

Too weak those two alone, far greater wholes than sums of parts.

The road forks in the mist, we must decide, anon, not later.

Reject false points and lines, rotate in time, follow your hearts!

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Hi Peter,

I read your essay over the weekend and enjoyed it greatly. Julie and I are fighting the same corner with our essay, not only by insisting on the value of philosophy for arguments in physics, but also by using philosophy and ontology to reflect on the idea that space cannot 'really' be nothing. Of course our and your position goes the other way too, and discoveries in physics can have deep implications for philosophy. As you say in your sonnet, "Our physics needs ontology, philosophy needs nature."

In our case we used the physical discoveries about the vacuum to redefine the notion of 'nothing', and by extrapolating from that were able to come up with our notion of "energeum" which fits the bill for a neutral monist stuff, which is something philosophers have been looking for for some time.

The deep nature of energeum, and of space as a real medium as you have defended it to be, is going to be an interesting task to unravel. I believe that there is a good explanation for everything that exists or happens, and that there is no principled argument for why any of these explanations should be beyond the range of what science and philosophy working together can discover.

Good luck in the competition!

Regards and thanks,

David

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Thanks, the rise of maths over philosophy has had no success in fundamental advancement. I think it's an essential tool that must be improved, but no more than that. Also, and this has been missed, both must learn more from the rules and structure of logic.

I propose an inertial frame is precisely equivalent to a proposition. It truth propositional logic (TPL) Propositions are discrete but hierarchical, so may be compound and 'nested'. Each compound proposition must be resolved within itself, then with respect to it's neighbour. It has no relevance to anything 'once removed'. i.e. OIt is REAL and LOCAL, with boundaries. Dynamic (Modal) logic follows that and applies it to kinetics ('interleafing'). Frames are then mutually exclusive, but as small as each electron (if in motion in it's LOCAL background).

Steve Sycamore just posted a JJ Thompson quote;

"... the super-dispersive property is due to the presence of the electron, in other words that the electron provides its own ether."

I see no conflict with energeum, as the electrons are condensed from it's energy to implement change. The key is in the 'motion', which as a concept must be relative, i.e. change (between 1 and 0?). Does that fit OK with you?

Peter

Peter,

We're now discussing my claim that the separation of lensing effects and x-ray emitting intracluster media falsifies your assertion that the effects attributed to dark matter can be attributed to plasmas. Please do Mario the favor of excluding remarks about him from this discussion, as he has made no such claims and in fact I've had no discussions with Mario about this claim of...

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Peter,

We're now discussing my claim that the separation of lensing effects and x-ray emitting intracluster media falsifies your assertion that the effects attributed to dark matter can be attributed to plasmas. Please do Mario the favor of excluding remarks about him from this discussion, as he has made no such claims and in fact I've had no discussions with Mario about this claim of mine. He has nothing to do with this discussion - this is just between you and me.

Secondly, as I have provided several sources that conclude that the separation of lensing effects from x-ray emitting gases in high velocity galaxy collisions provides evidence for the existence of enormous masses of not just 'non-visible' matter but effectively non-interacting non-baryonic, weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). Please see Chandra posting. This is not just 'little old me' making this claim, it seems to be the consensus "mainstream" astrophysical community.

As I understand, 'undisturbed' galaxy cluster morphology can be generalized as tending towards a spherical distribution of mass centered around a common center of mass, generally coincident with the geometric center of the cluster. There the gaseous intracluster medium is densest and hottest, emitting high energy x-rays. There is also often an enormous galaxy located near the center of mass.

The consensus interpretation of collided galaxy clusters, as I understand, is that the disperse gasses comprised of baryonic particles physically interact upon collision, absorbing their momentum slowing their forward motion.

It is thought that the colliding clusters' sparse galaxies do not physically interact - their momentum allows each group of galaxies to continue their established relative motion until gravitation eventually slows their progress.

The gravitational lensing effects of collided galaxy clusters are typically coincident with the location of the two separated groups of galaxies. However, since the collective mass estimated for the galaxies is thought to be insufficient to produce the identified weak gravitational lensing effects, it is presumed that enormous amounts of dark matter coincident with the galaxies is contributing most of the mass necessary to produce the identified gravitational lensing effects.

It is crucial to understand that the inferred dark matter could only be coincident with the two groups of non-interacting galaxies if the dark matter was also non-interacting. The only interaction that could have occurred between the two groups of galaxies and any possible dark matter was gravitational.

The principal requirement for the inferred dark matter is that it could only have gravitationally interacted with any of the clusters' mass upon collision. As I understand, the p[articles of colliding plasma clouds would physically interact much like the hot gases in the intracluster medium - their forward progress could not have continued such that they would located coincidentally with the sparse, non-interacting galaxies.

If you can explain how ionized gas or plasma particles within the two colliding galaxy clusters could have avoided all physical interaction with other disperse particles, allowing their momentum to carry them along with the clusters' galaxies, I'd be very happy to try to understand.

Sincerely, Jim

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Sep. 27, 2012 @ 10:29 GMT

Jim

Than was rather dense with assumptions with which I disagree, and also read like more of a 'Lecture' than my reply! A most fundamental one made is that dark matter 'can't be baryonic' or interact. This is certainly often suggested but far from proven, and there's ample evidence of gravitational interaction (also with and of galaxies themselves when close enough to do so). If we start from different assumptions we can't fail to end up with different conclusions.

(Your comment in para 2 seems to suggest you agree with high densities of non-baryonic 'dark matter', but perhaps you could clarify).

As you seem resistant to investigating n-body systems semi-analytical modelling of evolving gravitational effects (consistent with my thesis and most patterns found) I've tried to find some good quality non speculative papers on arXiv. there are precious few. However, one of the top teams in the field, led by Kevin Pimbblet, have logged some MNRAS papers there. One much cited work is here; http://arxiv.org/pdf/1104.0711v2.pdf

Please do read it all through carefully, (you'll notice it presents maximum data and findings but draws no conclusions where uncertainties remain) then perhaps we'll be able to communicate properly on more solid foundations rather than simply state different beliefs. You'll note the comments about Xray detection and electron densities, which are consistent with most data and PRJ papers, if not with a number of other theories, some of which you cite. Both are valid, but overall weight of (real) evidence does lean heavily towards ions. I should add that ions here while referred mainly as free electrons include the other fundamental particles including positrons, as found happily annihilating away recently in the ionosphere!

Do revert once you've read the paper.

Peter

James T. Dwyer replied on Sep. 27, 2012 @ 11:44 GMT

Peter,

There was NO assumption that dark matter cannot interact - that was established by the evidence - the location of the identified lens effects relative to the point of collision and the non-interacting galaxies (I'm specifically referring to the Bullet Cluster here). Again, this is not just my interpretation but, as best I can determine, the consensus interpretation of the...

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Peter,

There was NO assumption that dark matter cannot interact - that was established by the evidence - the location of the identified lens effects relative to the point of collision and the non-interacting galaxies (I'm specifically referring to the Bullet Cluster here). Again, this is not just my interpretation but, as best I can determine, the consensus interpretation of the astrophysics community. Whatever produced the lens effects could not have physically interacted with any other material during the collision.

The disperse x-ray emitting gas from the two galaxies did interact, that is why they remain near the point of collision - unlike the non-interacting galaxies and whatever produced the lensing effects.

I asked one thing of you - to explain how disperse ionized gas or plasma particles could have proceeded far beyond the point of collision, as did the galaxies. You have not complied. Instead you dismiss the compelling visual evidence that the lensing source (including the clusters' galaxies) did not interact during the collision.

That the lens effects remain coincident to the galaxies following collision indicates that the galaxies almost certainly contribute to the identified weak gravitational lens effects. No dark matter would be necessary if there were some systematic error in the estimation of collective galactic mass, but I am not capable of identifying any such error, so I cannot make that claim. The alternative is that weakly interactive massive particles are present contributing to the lensing effect also produced by the clusters' galaxies.

There is no need to complicate this analysis - as established by consensus, the location of the lens separate from any gaseous matter is clear evidence that the identified weak gravitational lensing effects could not have been produced by any disperse gaseous material, including molecular gas, atomic gas, nucleons or electrons, since disperse particles within the two colliding galaxy clusters would have interacted as did the x-ray emitting gas.

The onus is on you to disprove the consensus interpretation that the separation of lensing effects from gaseous galaxy cluster intracluster media precludes their contributing to the identified weak gravitational lensing effects.

Jim

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Sep. 27, 2012 @ 12:46 GMT

Jim

What you 'determine' as the 'consensus of the astrophysics community' is most certainly not. I already pointed out that was 'cherry picking' from the full gamut of theories available, which is simply not what astronomers do.

I'm sorry but if you don't wish to look at the full evidence, and maintain a 'partisan' not balanced view, there is no more to discuss and your proposal is unlikely to be taken seriously by the 'astrophysics community'. I have serious research to do and can now afford no more time on this.

Peter

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Peter,

When the observer starts moving TOWARDS the light source with speed v, the frequency he measures shifts from f=c/L to f'=(c+v)/L. When the observer starts moving AWAY FROM the light source with speed v, the frequency he measures shifts from f=c/L to f'=(c-v)/L. Can you justify these frequency shifts based on your light-changed-speed-on-arrival theory? You write in your essay:

"If light travels at a speed of distance d divided by time t (d/t = km/sec) then how can it be found always at c (~300,000km/sec) by all moving observers? A simple answer would be that light changed speed on arrival. Light would then travel at c= d/t through a background medium, but change to local c when meeting an observer."

Pentcho Valev

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Pentcho Valev replied on Sep. 28, 2012 @ 15:32 GMT

Peter,

You wrote: "In the Doppler shift case, due to motion (in non-zero time) it is distance that changes. So shifts in f are found because effective L [L is wavelength] changes on interaction with a detector."

When the observer starts moving TOWARDS the light source with speed v, the frequency he measures shifts from f=c/L to f'=(c+v)/L. Is this frequency shift due to a change in the wavelength? If yes, start from the wavelength change and derive the frequency shift. If not, the frequency shift is due to a speed of light shift: relative to the observer, the speed of light shifts from c to c'=c+v.

When the observer starts moving AWAY FROM the light source with speed v, the frequency he measures shifts from f=c/L to f'=(c-v)/L. Is this frequency shift due to a change in the wavelength? If yes, start from the wavelength change and derive the frequency shift. If not, the frequency shift is due to a speed of light shift: relative to the observer, the speed of light shifts from c to c'=c-v.

Pentcho Valev

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Pentcho

Analogy; You shrink, and sit at rest in the NEW medium frame (K' at n=1), which is doing v through the background frame (K at n=1). You are at the refractive plane with a tape measure and a stopwatch. Your bird at rest (K) in the approach medium has told you the approaching waves are doing c and are 10 metres apart in her frame.

As a wave hits the refractive plane (at...

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Pentcho

Analogy; You shrink, and sit at rest in the NEW medium frame (K' at n=1), which is doing v through the background frame (K at n=1). You are at the refractive plane with a tape measure and a stopwatch. Your bird at rest (K) in the approach medium has told you the approaching waves are doing c and are 10 metres apart in her frame.

As a wave hits the refractive plane (at relative c+v until the collision) you hook the end of your tape measure to it and start your stopwatch as it continues at c in the new medium frame (K'). Now when the next wave hits the refractive plane you look at the tape measure. Because you are approaching the oncoming waves you find a SHORTER distance than 10 metres! Only THEN can you check your watch and calculate the frequency (actually your mate 'Brains' who does that is well behind you up the optic nerve). Now the trouble with Brains is that he can calculate 'f' ok, but he can't see the big picture, so the silly sod complacently assumes his simple maths are good enough to describe nature. As a number of essays here point out, maths is only a very simple abstaction. In this case it was TOO simple. It is wavelength LAMBDA that changes to give the inverse change in it's time based observable derivative 'frequency', conserving c in all frames.

Back at the BIG scale, what we've all been missing is the important detail, and we've just been making that dumb simplistic assumption that we can ignore lambda. That wrong assumption is what has maintained the current paradigm and paradoxes. There can be no detection without a lens medium, all lenses are made of dense matter, and all matter re-scatters absorbed energy at c. Local c. NOT some 'absolute' c.

There are three elements to your formula; f, c, and L. If f and L change inversely c is conserved. All precisely as always found. There never was a need for the assumption of "no background frames" implicit in the STR, background frames are always LOCAL or 'discrete', not absolute, so fully equivalent to the almost infinite 'compound proposition' structure of logic. The POSTULATES of SR are then identified as not the problem, and are logically produced by the quantum mechanism of Raman scattering, Unifying physics at last.

Note, there are a number of 'cases', which are the cause of confusion, of both observer frame and signal transitions at frame boundaries. The Cartesian system must be completely abandoned. It uses geometric 'vector' space and motion is not a valid concept in geometry. Inertial frames are simply 'states of motion', so apply to ALL matter in relative motion, and are separated simply by an acceleration. Length contraction is then simply what happens in a car crash! Nature is far simpler than old physics, just unfamiliar at first, as Feynman predicted. And that is the ontological construction of the 'discrete field model' (DFM).

Do re-read the essay with that new light pouring in, ask any questions, then mark your own papers and pass me the scores.

Peter

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Pentcho

Yes, but different for each observer case. Case 1 is for an observer remaining at rest in the APPROACH frame as the new medium passes him by (he can thus only see the passage of light waves (or lets use a string of pulses) via scattering from the particles of other medium). ANSWER; He sees apparent c+v. But remember nothing anywhere is REALLY breaching c, he's just an Einsteinian so fooled by the sequence of fairy lights in the other medium each lit up in turn by each pulse and scattering light at c. So ALL light really does c (modified by any n value

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Pentcho,

Yes I can show delta lambda, but you must drop those assumptions to see it. The above post crossed in cybersapace with yours of 15.32, and got cut in half! So first I'll complete that, with Case 2, then reply separately to the 15.32 post.

In case 1 of an observer fixed in the APPROACH frame you'll have seen once a pulse enters the new lump of medium moving past him, he is...

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Pentcho,

Yes I can show delta lambda, but you must drop those assumptions to see it. The above post crossed in cybersapace with yours of 15.32, and got cut in half! So first I'll complete that, with Case 2, then reply separately to the 15.32 post.

In case 1 of an observer fixed in the APPROACH frame you'll have seen once a pulse enters the new lump of medium moving past him, he is allowed to see APPARENT c+v because nothing actually breaches c (If you find anything doing so let me know).

CASE 2. Is an observer accelerating into the new medium rest frame (or comparing notes after the event with the one in the approach frame). In the case with the new medium moving AWAY from the source; At rest in that medium he obviously (?) finds the wave peaks further apart. Now just freeze frame and step backwards in your mind and think a bit. We know VERY WELL that all high frequency waves are short, and all low frequency waves are long for any given speed, and we also know JUST AS WELL that wavelength changes with frequency in Doppler shifts, because ALL experimental evidence finds precisely that when dealing with emitters and with media. Many have assumed, as have you, a 'simpler' condition for a receiver where the wave is absorbed. I will show you it is however the SAME condition, because the lens medium comes BEFORE the processor (brain) NOT in the same place or after it.

The lens medium is n=1.38, and the waves or signal pulses pass through this and along the optic nerve BEFORE they can be timed and frequency calculated. The brain tester is the entirely separate shift due to relative n. But if we set the two refractive indices the same the net delta lambda due to relative V is exposed. It looses it's hiding place and comes to light (to the intelligent mind).

The calculation is a little complex due to the motion of the refractive plane during the two peaks (or pulses) meeting it. So it needs f - c/L with the change in L modified by vt and a z or gamma factor, because this is a 'Doppler LT'. Enough for now as there's a lot of new thinking to absorb, but I'll give you an analogy for delta L giving delta f in answer to your 15.32 post.

Best wishes

Peter

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Pentcho Valev replied on Sep. 29, 2012 @ 14:58 GMT

Peter,

"we also know JUST AS WELL that wavelength changes with frequency in Doppler shifts..."

This is simply not true. At least for waves other than light waves, when the observer starts moving with speed v towards the wave source, the frequency shifts from f=c/L to f'=(c+v)/L, the speed of the waves relative to him shifts from c to c'=c+v and the wavelength remains unchanged: L'=L. This is trivial, Peter.

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Sep. 30, 2012 @ 16:08 GMT

Pentcho

I've shown how CSL is derived for all observers, WITH (local) background frames via an underlying quantum mechanism. Wavelength (lambda) and frequency change inversely to conserve c. Wheeler was correct. It was TOO simple to see!

Your ingrained assumptions are blinding you. You claimed the change to lambda was not true "other than light waves". Well firstly; when sound waves actually ENTER and propagate through a co-moving medium of COURSE the wavelength changes! You are not thinking about the important mechanisms between the detector interaction and the brain. This is indeed new, so will be unfamiliar.

But we are of course here only DEALING with light waves anyway, so you have no falsification.

Any objection is beyond trivial, it is clearly wrong! So if you disagree, and don't think your assumptions are the problem, revert to the scenario and try to falsify it.

Peter

Hello Peter, hope this finds you well. Inspired by you, I have taken to encouraging essay writers to read and rate their fellow contest contributors' work.

This is group message to you and the writers of some 80 contest essays that I have already read, rated and probably commented on.

This year I feel proud that the following old and new online friends have accepted my suggestion that they submit their ideas to this contest. Please feel free to read, comment on and rate these essays (including mine) if you have not already done so, thanks:

Why We Still Don't Have Quantum Nucleodynamics by Norman D. Cook a summary of his Springer book on the subject.

A Challenge to Quantized Absorption by Experiment and Theory by Eric Stanley Reiter Very important experiments based on Planck's loading theory, proving that Einstein's idea that the photon is a particle is wrong.

An Artist's Modest Proposal by Kenneth Snelson The world-famous inventor of Tensegrity applies his ideas of structure to de Broglie's atom.

Notes on Relativity by Edward Hoerdt Questioning how the Michelson-Morely experiment is analyzed in the context of Special Relativity

Vladimir Tamari's essay Fix Physics! Is Physics like a badly-designed building? A humorous illustrate take. Plus: Seven foundational questions suggest a new beginning.

Thank you and good luck.

Vladimir

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Peter

Yours is the only essay exposing new underlying physical reality. I've just read it again, and there was far more detail embedded than I recalled from the first read. It's a bit of a brain teaser folowing the implications of 'evolving interaction' as you put it, but an eye opener. I'm very please mine is compatible and describes the 'frame boundary' physics. I particularly like you 'fluid dynalic coupling' (or 'magnetohydro'-dynamic..) analogy.

I think you desereve to win by far. Quite brilliant thinking.

Very best of luck in the final results. Let's hope you find an intelligent and open minded judge who can see it.

Peter

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Sep. 29, 2012 @ 12:48 GMT

Richard,

Very Kind. Yes I agree its a major advance, of physics if not of understanding (quite yet). It is quite difficult to assimilate the mechanism, particularly as evolving kinetics are involved, and as it is indeed an unfamiliar concept. You flatter, but you too found one of the key mechanisms, which I think opened the door in our mind to the whole picture. For most that door is still shut, and they can't be blamed for that. I confirm the helical or twin vortex toroid soliton wave/perticle you describe is also straight out of the top drawer and consistent with my 'Discrete Field' model (DFM) as well as others here. I assume that was you above by the way, with similar 'cut'n paste' issues to those we're all having. I'm taking Brendan's advice and mainly writing elsewhere and pasting in when done (says he writing this reply straight in!)

The subject of this competition was ideal for finding new physics to rid us of the confusion, but it seems we all have to dig deeper still to extract the hidden assumptions. Many thanks for your support. Last year I called the essay '2020 Vision' as a double entendre stating that I estimated it would take until 2020 before the way out of the mess I present is actually fully understood and starts affecting things. I always was an optimist!

Best wishes

Peter

Peter.

I will reply to your post here under your thread, in two parts. This is part I.

You wrote about my essay: http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/1549

“Viraj, We agree about the inherent foundational errors and seemingly most other things. Perhaps we view the world similarly, ……. Super essay, I agree with almost all, and a good score coming. I felt while reading...

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Viraj

Reply to Pt.1. You introduce the term "when the photon confronts a constraint" and say; "In this case mass m and lambda L vary conjugately to m' and L' while the linear velocity c remains constant."

My thesis starts by stating that I am considering only the condition where the 'photon' confronts and interacts with a medium particle or 'constraint'. I am thereby proposing that...

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Viraj

Reply to Pt.1. You introduce the term "when the photon confronts a constraint" and say; "In this case mass m and lambda L vary conjugately to m' and L' while the linear velocity c remains constant."

My thesis starts by stating that I am considering only the condition where the 'photon' confronts and interacts with a medium particle or 'constraint'. I am thereby proposing that the standard assumption (which you outline well) is not the prime case in reality (except where birefringence occurs during progressive interaction in diffuse media). In fact I have identified that the 'constraint' you refer largely occurs at the surface (fine structure electrons) of a dense medium, including a lens. This means that in ALL cases involving lenses made of matter (i.e. all cases period!) your derived f x L = f' x L' = c is the case.

I thought that was entirely clear in my essay, but it seems not as I go on to the consequences, which is why I complimented you on your clarity. If you look at my last years essay that may emerge more clearly; http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/803

So, as I suggested, CSL is derived from photon interaction (and detection) and re-scattering at c locally, precisely as the upper case lines you write above.

I did not take offence at your accusation that my Act 1 is based on a "whimsical fiction" because I now that only meant you hadn't yet grasped the above, or realised that I do indeed know what 'current physics' suggests, and that, and why I am proposing differently. You can see a detailed explanation of the primary effect on lambda on entering a new medium in my reply to Pentcho above. (14.09 Analogy;...). This is a completely new fundamental understanding of the mechanism of 'detection'. But as Steve agrees below, we need to dig far deeper to extract the hidden assumptions preventing us seeing it in a different way.

We have come to the same basic conclusion from very different directions, and I've carried on and explored the beautiful new simple world of intuitive physics that it exposes. I also uncover the actual quantum mechanism that produces CSL. You must consider that perhaps these extra dimensions you are not familiar with yet may be a reason why my essay is scored highly and yours is still underrated. But I must say there are still many who cannot see even the obvious bits of mine which we have in common!.

As say to you and Fred below, I am completely honest about my thoughts and intentions, but normally don't rush into scoring until I've had a response, to see how much comprehension it shows, and in case it's insulting. I have to say your initial response is testing! But I also well understand your frustrations.

I haven't looked at part 2 yet, and will respond below.

Best wishes.

Peter

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Dear Peter,

I feel the need to highlight your powerful words of wisdom here:

"The subject of this competition was ideal for finding new physics to rid us of the confusion, but it seems we all have to dig deeper still to extract the hidden assumptions."

We would probably all like to rest easy. But not only do we all seem to need to work hard to properly understand one another, the understanding we reach together is yet another challenge going forward.

Thanks for your observation,

Steve

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Peter,

Nice use of literary allusions in your essay. I want to answer the charges Viraj had made about possible backstabbing and scoring in this contest as that might seem untoward. Beyond the quality of the essays which of course differ, there is likely to going to be a strong correlation with the number of people who read and score one's essay. You are one of the most friendly of all the contestants and have commented on many of the essays in this contest. In fact, you have also promised a large number of the essays good scores, as can be seen be doing a google search using: site:fqxi.org "jackson" "score" '2012". So it is understandable that if some percentage of these folks actually read your assay and find it interesting, you will receive more good scores than an essayist that is not as well known.

Fred

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Viraj Fernando replied on Sep. 30, 2012 @ 01:48 GMT

Hi Fred,

Thanks for your impartial observations.

I would like to clarify one point. You seem to think that the essays with the highest aggregates of scores are automatically at the top of the list. Not necessarily.

How the ratings work is, if you get even one very good score, at this stage you are high on the list. It is the average that works. So at this stage even if a few have read and rated your essay, your position on the list depends on the average and not the aggregate.

But come the end of the rating process, your average needs to be in the highest 35 with at least ten ratings to enter the finals. That’s all you need,

If one has a lot of good scores aggregated early enough by canvassing, then it is difficult to bring the average down by the other authors ganging up against you and giving you low scores.

I think the contest is not properly organized. The authors should not have been given the option to do the ratings. It should have been left for an independent panel.

Who in the Community will have the time to read all 270 odd essays and do a systematic rating? In such a situation, FQXi should not put ( as they are doing now) a few “Top Essays” only in their main site highlighting them in the Community Forum, while leaving no opportunity for other essayists lower down to get the attention to their essays, of the Community who are the real voters. By this highlighting of “Top Essays”, by FQXi, it is those essays that will tend to get rated by the Community and not others. (Others only randomly if at all).

Instead of the funds being used for Prizes, these funds should have been given to independent reviewers to select the best 35 essays for the Judges to decide. (No Prizes means only those who are serious would have entered).

Best regards,

Viraj

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Sep. 30, 2012 @ 17:22 GMT

Fred, Viraj

Thanks Fred. I hope you also spotted the new fundamental mechanism deriving the 'classical' from the 'quanta' without paradox. But it does take a bit of 'self build' to fit the sequence together and see the effects.

Viraj is correct about the scoring system. I also agree his essay is underrated, but I would as it mostly agrees with mine! Many may not agree.

Viraj, if you look at my last two essays you'll see I've had much practice trying to get the complex concept across when it is so 'unfamiliar' when viewed from a 'current physics' standpoint. There is not just one assumption we need to drop but the series of 8 I identify. Most minds can cope with 3 at a time. That is why physics will probably remain blind to it until around 2020 (as the double entendre title of my essay last year - which finished 10th in the community standings).

But Viraj, look at last years prizes. They bore little resemblance to the Community places. I recall the second finisher was completely ignored, as was mine. I feel mine needs to be in single figures to be taken seriously.

The judges can only read a limited amount, and Community scores only serve to keep that within reason. But I do think Constantinos is correct and with near 300 entries it should perhaps be 50 read. Perhaps a % of entries would be more sensible? But I think the competition is a massively valuable resource and very well run, so changes need careful thinking through. One thing to improve may be publicity, getting more physicists and 'public' to read and comment. A lot of effort by authors seems to go to waste.

Best wishes

Peter

Dear Peter,

Here is Part II

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Viraj

I agree, engagement and critical review are most valuable. Just dismissing new ideas without effort to understand the viewpoint they arise from, as you felt Lawrence Crowell did (he seems experienced at it) is of little value to anyone. But let's be honest with ourselves, this is precisely what you've done with mine. Most of your comments on my string are about your own ideas and...

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Viraj

I agree, engagement and critical review are most valuable. Just dismissing new ideas without effort to understand the viewpoint they arise from, as you felt Lawrence Crowell did (he seems experienced at it) is of little value to anyone. But let's be honest with ourselves, this is precisely what you've done with mine. Most of your comments on my string are about your own ideas and essay, not mine!. It's human nature.

But let's discuss those criticisms. I don't accept nature is just mathematical. As Wheeler said "we should not do calculations until we already know the answer" (I'd just say an approximation is needed.) This is as the important sequence of; Correct conception first, THEN apply the maths. That is all I am suggesting. I would think you must surely have done that as a naval architect? There are a swatch of brilliant essays explaining the real place and limitation of maths; Wharton, Schafly, Mc Eachern, Sycamore etc. Maths is an 'abstraction' which information theory shows is capable of far less complex evolution than nature, so our algorithms can only ever be simplistic abstracted models of the real thing, and wgen we try to 'renormalise' or map them back against evolved nature they wont do it accurately. Some mathematicians even think that means 'nature' is 'wrong' and the maths is correct! I think we need better maths, not more reliance on it. One tiniest wrong concept to start with and a thousand pages of maths can be rendered nonsense, so let's explore possible better fundamental understandings first. I cite the results as proof of the success of this, but you have not yet studied and assimilated them.

I also agree "We need to set aside the dichotomy between particles and waves." But your explanations do look apparently rather fixed on photons. My own findings are consistent with the Plank ('loading theory'), Reiter, Regazzas, etc, concept of quantized emissions, blending out until next interaction so non zero 'time of charge'. Now think conceptually and very carefully; In fact the 'ban' on a background medium is lifted by OUR ontology, which always gives a LOCAL 'background frame' because all scattering is at c LOCALLY. Therefore we need no 'absolute ether' frame, which is the only thing logically falsified.

And have you analysed my responses to Pentcho yet as suggested? Or my previous essays? You don't mention them. I'm happy to go into yours in more depth on your string, but please do re-read mine without using prior assumptions so jumping to conclusions, and I think you'll find the clearer commonality, and perhaps valuable hints to better present yours. I think the fact we arrived at stage 1 CSL via different routes makes the thesis far stronger.

I hope that's helpful. Best wishes.

Peter

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Peter,

For this contest, I decided to go through and comment on essays of interest and see what responses I got to my own essay. There are over 250 entries, so I narrowed down my evaluations. For only those who responded, I decided to reread and provide my evaluations before time expired, not making it a popularity contest but keeping in mind that I entered for an exchange of interesting ideas, whether I agree or not. Some concepts are superior and more persuasively supported.

Jim

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Sep. 30, 2012 @ 16:55 GMT

James

Sensible approach. I aimed to read most, but not 300 even speed reading! (which I find pretty useless for grasping complex concepts). I've been astonished by the high quality of so many this year, and mostly say so where due. My comments to Vijay were entirely sincere. I'm a bit disappointed he seems to have misunderstood the mechanism I describe, but I'll explain that in my response. I haven't scored Vijay's yet as I do prefer at least a short response first, but I think it's undervalued, and on my list he's pencilled in for a good one.

You'll confirm though I discussed yours that I did not 'Promise' you a high score (ref Fred's comment above), though I did indeed rate it quite well for reasons perhaps different to most but good none the less. In fact I have no compunction in revealing I gave yours an unheralded 8. I recall you has not assimilated the 'content', which comment was very helpful to me. I do hope you may have done so now if you've re-read it, but I admit it is a very big ask! As Stephen has spotted, it really does need some very deep fundamental assumptions rooted out and incinerated. Even then the concept, when grasped, can slip away again without regular rehearsal. Do tell me what in particular came up against your 'truth wall'.

Very best wishes in any case

Peter

Peter,

I wrote: "At least for waves other than light waves, when the observer starts moving with speed v towards the wave source, the frequency shifts from f=c/L to f'=(c+v)/L, the speed of the waves relative to him shifts from c to c'=c+v and the wavelength remains unchanged: L'=L. This is trivial, Peter."

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Peter,

I wrote: "At least for waves other than light waves, when the observer starts moving with speed v towards the wave source, the frequency shifts from f=c/L to f'=(c+v)/L, the speed of the waves relative to him shifts from c to c'=c+v and the wavelength remains unchanged: L'=L. This is trivial, Peter."

You replied: "Wavelength (lambda) and frequency change inversely to conserve c. Wheeler was correct. It was TOO simple to see! Your ingrained assumptions are blinding you. You claimed the change to lambda was not true "other than light waves". Well firstly; when sound waves actually ENTER and propagate through a co-moving medium of COURSE the wavelength changes! You are not thinking about the important mechanisms between the detector interaction and the brain. This is indeed new, so will be unfamiliar."

Peter, I was referring to what the whole world - both relativists and antirelativists - teach. I did not give quotations but now I am forced to do so:

"Sound waves have speed c, and f and L are related by c=Lf. For an observer moving relative to medium with speed u, apparent propagation speed c' will be different: c'=c±u. Wavelength cannot change - it's a constant length in the medium, and same length in moving coordinate system (motion does not change lengths). Observed frequency has to change, to match apparent speed and fixed wavelength: f'=c'/L."

"vO is the velocity of an observer moving towards the source. This velocity is independent of the motion of the source. Hence, the velocity of waves relative to the observer is c + vO. (...) The motion of an observer does not alter the wavelength. The increase in frequency is a result of the observer encountering more wavelengths in a given time."

"If an observer moves towards a stationary source with speed Vr, the observer sees the wave crests with a speed: V'=V+Vr. Wavelength remains the same, so the modified frequency is: f'=V'/(lambda)=(V+Vr)/(lambda)=fo(1+Vr/V)"

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Pentcho Valev replied on Sep. 30, 2012 @ 17:36 GMT

Peter,

You also wrote: "You are not thinking about the important mechanisms between the detector interaction and the brain. This is indeed new, so will be unfamiliar."

I find this more than irrelevant. However the FQXi community find it extremely valuable, hence your top rating.

Pentcho Valev

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Sep. 30, 2012 @ 18:07 GMT

Pentcho,

"I was referring to what the whole world - both relativists and antirelativists - teach." I agree. Our teaching is simplistic. That is why physics is in such a mess with no way out visible. The simple beliefs in your quotes are long held, and if you have your way, will remain held even longer. Perhaps forever!

I'm saying we should use our brains more to find the way out. By definition this will be 'different' to what we are used to. What you are saying is that the solution I offer 'must be wrong as it's different.' In fact Feynman pointed out the right answer "must be different, so will look wrong!"

So each can't be judged against current beliefs, but must be judged for logical self consistence (as just passed 100%), and consistency with empirical evidence.

Well however much you may try to suggest otherwise, em waves are found empirically doing c/n in all media! (i.e. CSL). So mine is the only ontological model the DOES met all empirical evidence 100%!!!! And it has NO down side. Tell me what inconsistencies you imagine there are and I'll show you why they are not.

You've failed to falsify it, so why not just test it, and embrace it. If you disagree then go back to my analogy and try again. I suggest you'll just keep failing. It works perfectly, and at's the only way SR is ever going to be replaced by logical physics.

Peter

Pentcho Valev replied on Sep. 30, 2012 @ 19:17 GMT

Peter,

As far as the Doppler effect is concerned, the "observer" or "receiver" or "detector" is just a line the wavecrests reach:

"Fermilab physicist, Dr. Ricardo Eusebi, discusses the Doppler effect..."

So your "important mechanisms between the detector interaction and the brain" are completely irrelevant.

Pentcho Valev

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Peter,

You asked: "Can you calculate frequencies of arriving signals without using your brain?"

Certainly not. Using one's brain is indispensable. For instance, Tony Harker uses his brain and calculates both the frequency and the speed of the light waves relative to the moving observer:

Tony Harker, University College London: "The Doppler Effect: Moving sources and receivers. The phenomena which occur when a source of sound is in motion are well known. The example which is usually cited is the change in pitch of the engine of a moving vehicle as it approaches. In our treatment we shall not specify the type of wave motion involved, and our results will be applicable to sound or to light. (...) Now suppose that the observer is moving with a velocity Vo away from the source. (...) If the observer moves with a speed Vo away from the source (...), then in a time t the number of waves which reach the observer are those in a distance (c-Vo)t, so the number of waves observed is (c-Vo)t/lambda, giving an observed frequency f'=f(1-Vo/c) when the observer is moving away from the source at a speed Vo."

If "in a time t the number of waves which reach the observer are those in a distance (c-Vo)t", then the speed of the light waves relative to the observer is c'=c-Vo, in violation of special relativity.

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Oct. 1, 2012 @ 08:47 GMT

Pentcho

So as your brain measures the frequency, the impulse spacing that REACHES your brain is the only spacing that matters. Yes?

Ergo any change between the surface of the lens and the brain is of the utmost importance! Ignoring this is why physics has remained in the dark.

Assuming that mechanism is "completely irrelevant" as you suggest is the big mistake science has been making, and quite falsifiably. The frequency the brain measures is a direct result of the wave peaks CLOSING UP on detection (interaction) at the lens as it moves towards the source; so f and L BOTH change! That then must always conserve local c.

Surely even the most deep rooted of old assumptions are exposed as lacking when you apply your brain to this.

Peter

Pentcho Valev replied on Oct. 3, 2012 @ 07:40 GMT

Peter,

Your statement (and respective "theory") that the Doppler shift depends on "the process between the lens and brain" is just as reasonable as the statement "The greenness of the crocodile exceeds its length". The fact that your community rating is so high speaks very badly of the community.

Pentcho Valev

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Peter,

1. I will accept your comments about my essay are sincere.

(Funnily, it appears some readers did not like my attitude in my posts to you about this matter. My essay plummeted yesterday by about 30 places!!! Who cares!!).

2. You wrote: “One thing to improve may be publicity, getting more physicists and 'public' to read and comment. A lot of effort by authors seems to...

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Viraj Fernando replied on Oct. 1, 2012 @ 17:58 GMT

Peter,

First of all I would like to correct something you have mentioned about someone else. What I meant about Lawrence Crowell is the exact opposite. In my opinion he seems to have the exceptional ability to get the essence of another’s view point even with a quick browse. And I quoted his comment to confirm, that he too had come to the same conclusion as Sergey Fedosin, that all...

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Oct. 1, 2012 @ 19:30 GMT

Viraj

I absolutely agree about non-liner affects. As an astronomer these can however become significant due to scale, such as in lensing. Another is the kinetic Sunyaev Zeldovich (kSZ) effect I discuss, still not yes assimilated into mainstream theory. At smaller scales is 'kinetic reverse refraction' (KRR), well proven but still totally ignored by present theory as it simply won't fit! ...

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Viraj

I absolutely agree about non-liner affects. As an astronomer these can however become significant due to scale, such as in lensing. Another is the kinetic Sunyaev Zeldovich (kSZ) effect I discuss, still not yes assimilated into mainstream theory. At smaller scales is 'kinetic reverse refraction' (KRR), well proven but still totally ignored by present theory as it simply won't fit!

All does fit once you stop stumbling over axioms like f and lambda and fit the parts together. An axiomatic theory can only be tested with the specified axioms! I well know that frequency has always been considered the fundamental property, and why. It seems here that I am up against one of the deepest rooted assumptions we have. However clearly I show that wavelength lambda (unobservable) DOES change with f on actual detection ('sampling' by the matter based medium of a lens) still few can accept testing, in an unbiased way, dropping the priority given to the only 'observable'; frequency. It also means grasping the differences observed from different observer frame cases, which Pentcho for one has studiously ignored to the point of dipping his head in tar! You didn't say if you'd read our conversation, do comment on the analogy I identified.

In fact the algorithms I provide show simply how c' is derived from c by not trying to conserve lambda but conserving the wave function itself, i.e the laws of physics! KRR also violates Snell's Law, but this can again be recovered once we apply the known fact that lambda DOES change between media and treat c as conserved between frames, again as actually found!! Only 'beliefs' stop us recognising this underlying physical truth. Yes there are other aspects to explain, all explained elsewhere, but the 9 pages was crammed too densely as it was!! (did you also look over the formulae in the end notes).

Thanks for the other agreements, and I'm clearer on photons. I agree we must focus on commonalities not semantics, but the strict dynamic logic followed needs dynamic visualisation of evolution of interaction to follow it as 'vector space' maths is yet not able (it needs 'time stepping' quantum maths). If you can take each stage on board as axioms then the complex kit of unfamiliar parts turns into a thing of simple beauty at the end, just like a yacht perhaps?.

Best wishes.

Peter

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Peter,

As said in my forum, I think that your essay deserves to be evaluated by the judges. I will comment now in the specific question that you asked me about the Yukawa or 'screened Coulomb' potential.

The Yukawa potential is a modification of the Newtonian potential based in some distance scale r₀. For distances r₀ >> r, we obtain the Newtonian potential. For larger distances, we obtain deviations from the Newtonian potential. There are at least two difficulties with this approach. First, we obtain a series of 1/r, r⁰, r¹, r²... corrections to the Newtonian 1/r² force. You need fine-tuning of r₀ for minimising all except the 1/r term. Second, we observe both Newtonian and non-Newtonian behaviour for a given distance, whereas a Yukawa potential provides different behaviour only for different distances.

Milgrom proposed an acceleration-scale modification of Newtonian gravity for solving such issues. This scale is a₀. For small accelerations a₀ >> a we obtain the non-Newtonian 1/r force. For larger accelerations a >> a₀, we obtain the ordinary Newtonian force 1/r². Milgrom law explains why there exists both Newtonian and non-Newtonian behaviour at the same distance. Concretely, Milgrom law explains why some galaxies show non-Newtonian behaviour, whereas others do not.

Further research explained in my essay allows us to go beyond Milgrom well-tested law, explaining phenomena that his law cannot explain, including the physical meaning and value of a₀ (Milgrom obtained the value from observations).

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Oct. 2, 2012 @ 15:43 GMT

Juan

Thanks. That gave me a little more insight. I do also see Yukawa with a little more flexibility, mapping the sharper cut off to virial radii, and a physical analogue from the high particle shock densities we're now finding in space exploration (10

After studying about 250 essays in this contest, I realize now, how can I assess the level of each submitted work. Accordingly, I rated some essays, including yours.

Cood luck.

Sergey Fedosin

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Dear Peter,

That’s a very interesting essay and creative writing style. Your ideas and though experiments conduct us to an entirely new view on relativity and light. But I’m afraid I couldn’t understand your ideas more in depth since I couldn’t follow all you math. It will take more time. I’m not very good on relativity so I need a step by step reading and checking the equations for understanding it in depth. I was also interested in your use of propositional and dynamic logic. I believe these other logics (temporal or dynamic) will be very important for understanding not only relativity but all physics. You do not apply these logics more carefully in this essay, have you already done or you are currently working on it? Anyway, we have similar interests, and I would like to keep our discussions beyond the scope of this essay…

Wish you all the best!

Frederico

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Hello Peter,

You have a well constructed essay which should gain you high marks.

Since I endorse an Emission-theory model of light, there are very few contentions in your paper to which I can relate. An issue I would like to discuss relates to three of your comments in Act 1:

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Nov. 12, 2012 @ 20:35 GMT

Tom,

Thanks. I agree emission at local c for all particles, so inertial systems. In that case there is no appropriate single word for the speed increase, and the word 'acceleration' may be misunderstood. Language lags behind and is a drag on understanding of nature. In last years notes I suggested a few new words. Guess how many caught on!

The term 'emission theory' is also inadequate, as the DFM is not such it terms of classical d/t, but is indeed at the quantum scale. This very fact and underlying mechanism can unify QM and Relativity by deriving the SR postulates and curved space-time. But I often feel as if mankind has been hypnotised not to recognise the importance of that, and indeed to look away whenever the answer appears!

Your 'belief' about coupling events is certainly cutting edge mainstream Raman scattering theory so should not be challengeable evidentially. However, you are forgetting the primary source of n and Doppler shift which is coupling harmonics. ( i.e. n is valid even with no co-motion) That is what 'hides' the kinetic effect.

Sorry I didn't notice your post earlier.

Best wishes

Peter

Peter

i gave 10 to you

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If you do not understand why your rating dropped down. As I found ratings in the contest are calculated in the next way. Suppose your rating is

$R_1$

and

$N_1$

was the quantity of people which gave you ratings. Then you have

$S_1=R_1 N_1$

of points. After it anyone give you

$dS$

of points so you have

$S_2=S_1+ dS$

of points and

$N_2=N_1+1$

is the common quantity of the people which gave you ratings. At the same time you will have

$S_2=R_2 N_2$

of points. From here, if you want to be R2 > R1 there must be:

$S_2/ N_2>S_1/ N_1$

or

$(S_1+ dS) / (N_1+1) >S_1/ N_1$

or

$dS >S_1/ N_1 =R_1$

In other words if you want to increase rating of anyone you must give him more points

$dS$

then the participant`s rating

$R_1$

was at the moment you rated him. From here it is seen that in the contest are special rules for ratings. And from here there are misunderstanding of some participants what is happened with their ratings. Moreover since community ratings are hided some participants do not sure how increase ratings of others and gives them maximum 10 points. But in the case the scale from 1 to 10 of points do not work, and some essays are overestimated and some essays are drop down. In my opinion it is a bad problem with this Contest rating process. I hope the FQXI community will change the rating process.

Sergey Fedosin

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Please don't forget impartially evaluate my essay

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Hi Peter,

your essay presents ideas in a very original and creative way. However, I hope you won't mind if I say that the 3 act play format hindered rather than helped my reading!

Best wishes,

Lorraine

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Oct. 5, 2012 @ 15:00 GMT

Lorraine

Many thanks. Some can visualise kinetically, others not. The format was partly to help thinking in way most are not familiar with, and clearly break down the rather cumbersome set of 8 connected assumptions that reform to create the ontological construction.

I'd hoped you may comment on whether or not you agreed the rather important underlying mechanism exposed for unifying QM and Relativity. Perhaps the format distracted you. It is complex (otherwise it would have been found before) I'm certain well under half here did assimilate it.

But thank you kindly anyway.

Peter

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sorry Lorraine, but Peter and me, we don't understand anything of your reasoning :)

It is true no Peter? a ball and a sphere are in a bar, do you think that the number 11 and 42 are unified because the Ex says that the nD strings are ok.

Of course the parallelizations of quantization are universal and spherical.:) I love this platform.

Revolution spherization.

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Dear Peter

The points you cover in your essay are fundamental. I totally agree with you that, as you said in my entry, ''motion seems at the heart of misunderstanding in physics''. Physics actually is the science of motion, and any new thoughts or conceptions of motion can lead to major breakthroughs. And I think your essay could provide a new such conception. Besides that, I feel your...

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Oct. 5, 2012 @ 15:16 GMT

Daniel

Thanks for your long post. You assimilated what many failed to, the 'relational conception', but didn't quite also find the link with the 'local preferred frame' structure.

I only have a mo but I'll first conceptualise then analogise; All matter has it's own exclusive state of motion (frame). Light instantaneously changes speed to c wrt all frames on arrival. Let that sink in deeply and be kicked around for a bit.

Now imagine each particle of matter as the driver of a car. The car is the limit of the frame. It forms the physical boundary. It contracts when it changes frame to that of a truck coming the other way, and light entering it hits the screen and changes speed, to d c wrt the car.

Just consider all that for a while. I'll get back, or do revert to discuss.

Best wishes

Peter

James A Putnam replied on Oct. 5, 2012 @ 15:39 GMT

Dear Peter,

You said to Daniel:

"Now imagine each particle of matter as the driver of a car. The car is the limit of the frame. It forms the physical boundary. It contracts when it changes frame to that of a truck coming the other way, and light entering it hits the screen and changes speed, to d c wrt the car."

This description causes me to ask again for you to distinguish between: Local changes of the speed of light and its effect upon photons, and: That which happens physically to objects such as cars and drivers. My current understanding of your position is that cars and drivers do not themselves physically suffer relativity effects due to relative velocities. I will also ask about clocks. If a clock is moving close to and horizontally to the surface of the Earth will it slow down its time keeping function? One more question, If a common macroscopic clock is moved from a stable high position above the Earth to a stable position on the Earth will it have changed size and rate of its time keeping function due to General Relativity type effects?

I am asking only about the immediate local physical effects on the objects themselves and not about what happens to photons after having left the objects or about photons that may be arriving to the objects.

James

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James A Putnam replied on Oct. 5, 2012 @ 20:52 GMT

Peter,

I posted a message with questions above in this thread. Am pointing to it in case it got buried too quickly to be noticed. Thank you.

James Putnam

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Dear Peter,

Congratulations for the essay. Nice way to package as a play interesting ideas.

Best regards,

Cristi Stoica

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Peter, I also suffered the attack. I was oscillating about 21-26 since the last week and suddenly yesterday I dropped 50 positions in about 15 minutes.

I have very important information about what happened. I sent you an email for discussing the actions to take before I post this delicate info in my forum and in topic/1263

Regards

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Oct. 5, 2012 @ 13:50 GMT

Juan

Yes, it seems we could 'multiply rate' for a while, so yours suffered as mine and a dozen or more others with massive almost 'instant' drops. This smells very bad and seems to needs action from Brendan urgently to avert a major scandal and restore credibility. I've seen no response yet.

Peter

Official answer by Brendan in topic/1263

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Peter

Yours is the only essay with a new fundamental mechanism adavancing physics, and it also stays right on topic identfying the wrong assumptions we've been using. it needs a new way of thinking, so many may be blind to it. I do hope more and more see it.

A 10 from me, Well done.

Rich

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MAX PLANK:

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents; it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out and that the growing generation is familiarized with the idea from the beginning.

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Oct. 5, 2012 @ 22:29 GMT

Jin

I think Planck was correct. But they've now found a way round it. Before they 'die out' they now indoctrinate a new generation by failing those who don't toe the line. That is a portent for the end of the experiment on mankind. Perhaps a student rebellion is needed against the worst. But there are still many open minded and non arrogant and complacent Professors. Have faith and show mankind can prevail by making it happen. I can now provide the tools.

Perhaps China or the East is the only place the change must now start to succeed.

Best wishes

Peter

Mr. Jackson,

congratulations on the well written, *fun* to read, essay, packed with thought provoking facts. There are many essays in this contest challenging the assumption that space is 'empty'. Let us hope that our message will not fall on deaf ears.

After the things will settle down, which thankfully is soon, and we all can relax about the ratings, I would very much appreciate your feedback on my essay (topic 1547).

Congratulations on making the list of finalists! (even though I confess that I disagree with one of your opinions and that is, "In reality there is only ever ONE absolute time!" -- the important thing is that we can agree on most).

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M.V.

Thank you kindly. Perhaps more could resolve the Chinese puzzle than I expected, though it still seems few have completed the full ontological construction. For some it may have been written in Chinese! I appreciate your comments. I'll try to initially speed read yours, I may ever break the 200!

I must explain the one absolute time better then you may agree. To any observer there is local time in his own frame, (Proper Time) then there are different apparent rates of passing within arbitrary many OTHER frames, and all signals emitted in these frames are Doppler shifted when entering his own frame. But for each system, i.e. universe there is a collective 'state of motion', just like there is for a galaxy. THAT is the one 'absolute' time to which I refer. It is for all purposes irrelevant for anyone inside each universe. Local background frames are the key, and always exist, hierarchically nested. My essay should perhaps now be re-read with that in mind to become clearer, though the essay is the tip of the iceberg ontology.

Did that sound closer to your intuition?

Peter

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Peter, congratulations on making the list of finalists!

And sorry for the delay. I needed a break from physics and enjoy some birthdays going around. I don't do physics all the time, like most people here. For me it's a compulsion that comes and goes and usually does not last this long. Suddenly I felt exhausted. But it's not over for you, lol. Enjoy the ride!

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Peter, congratulations on making the list of finalists!

And sorry for the delay. I needed a break from physics and enjoy some birthdays going around. I don't do physics all the time, like most people here. For me it's a compulsion that comes and goes and usually does not last this long. Suddenly I felt exhausted. But it's not over for you, lol. Enjoy the ride!

Re time, no matter how good an explanation you come up with, I cannot agree, simply because my conception of time is totally different. To me, it is what emerges locally and completely dependent on local conditions. I understand that we are wired in such a way that we examine whatever process in the framework of absolute time in our heads, but I do not believe that this abstraction exists in reality. Just like some people here argued for absolute reference frame. The same there, to me it's an abstraction that cannot be head in reality. But let's see what the panel of experts will say on these matters. Perhaps I simply do not understand your point.

Thank you for your comments on my essay in my thread. I understand that you read it very fast and based on this formed an opinion of it having "lost touch with underlying reality with... extra dimensions". Oh well, lol, I understand your take, even though I hoped that I did a good job explaining on the example of Flatland how we could live in 4D and not know it. See, in 4D the paradoxes vanish and a very coherent scheme of the universe emerges. I especially thought that my idea of how gravity works in 4D was interesting, explaining why voids are empty (that's where repulsive aspect of gravity lives) and even referenced a paper that describes the deformation of a dwarf galaxy in a nearby void, very much in line what the logic of the scheme I proposed.

Don't know if you will feel like reading my essay again. You probably have not read quite a lot of essays too. I know I have not and need to catch up. It was just impossible to read them all in a short time and give each a deserving evaluation. That's what makes your interest in my essay especially valuable to me and also understandable why you did not see it the way I did. I should have written it better! lol

Again, congratulations on making the list of finalists and good luck with the rest of the competition!

-MV

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Hi Peter,

You indicated you would comment on my essay on my 'string'. And it seems to be your policy that you comment only on those essays whose authors have commented on yours. I have fulfilled that bargain quite well. I am awaiting your comments on "Geometrodynamics of Energy" with which I have explained cardinal relativistic phenomena without reference to space-time whatsoever. I have proved the constancy of the velocity of light etc. etc.

Here's my essay: http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/1549

I request you to respond under my essay.

Hoping to hear your comments.

Best regards,

Viraj

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Oct. 6, 2012 @ 18:01 GMT

Viraj,

Yes, I consider it courtesy to read & reply. I did so on 28th Sept on your string (the 'blog' comments under your essay) to which you have not yet replied as you seem to have missed it. If you reply to that there and I miss it please flag it up here for me.

To explain my 'policy', I'll always try to respond to comments, and read the essays, otherwise my priorities are 1/ Titles seeming to disagree with my findings (valuable falsification), 2/ Titles of interest or I wish to learn more about, 3/ Titles that seem to agree with mine, and 4/ Authors I know do good quality work. I think I managed over 200, though many part speed-reading, which can 'bounce off' important concept without care.

That does mean I missed 2 in the top 10! but can now read and absorb them more thoroughly. I've been very impressed with the hight quality, running to many outside the top 100!

I note you have no orange bands on your replies, which means you're not 'logging in' (bottom left of page) to respond.

I look forward to your response.

Best wishes.

Peter

Thank you Peter, for your comment on my page.

Your thoughtfulness is appreciated. So that I may finish reading and rating papers all the papers I can, before the cutoff, detailed comments will have to wait. Be assured yours was included in those I read, however.

I had to work at it, though, as the semi-conversational tone was not so easy for me to follow. Or perhaps it simply makes one stop to think often, and I was hoping it would pull me forward instead. More later.

I wish you good luck.

Regards,

Jonathan

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Oct. 6, 2012 @ 18:42 GMT

Jonathen

Thanks. It was designed to to help you stop and think, because the intellectual powers needed to assimilate each revised assumption and form the kit of epistemological elements into the full ontological construction are well beyond most of humankind. Most brains can hold 3 concepts at once and visualise interactions. This required EIGHT! and eight MODIFIED assumptions, then also...

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Jonathen

Thanks. It was designed to to help you stop and think, because the intellectual powers needed to assimilate each revised assumption and form the kit of epistemological elements into the full ontological construction are well beyond most of humankind. Most brains can hold 3 concepts at once and visualise interactions. This required EIGHT! and eight MODIFIED assumptions, then also kinetic EVOLUTIONS of the interactions.

Stops for review and assimilation were essential. And it was no good trying it all mathematically as maths is at the heart of why it has NOT been found before. Wire frame Cartesian systems CANNOT fully model motion or it's effects. It needs real 'planes' and 'bodies' (3D) as referred by Einstein, then complex 'time stepping' maths only just now being developed. You did very well catching more than just the 'glimpses' most do.

The underlying solution to CSL via the quanta is simple as Wheeler predicted. But getting physicists there from where they are at present is a mountain climb!

The astonishing thing was finding that the ontology of real inertial frames precisely matches the structure of Truth Propositional Logic!! (TPL)

In TPL, a 'proposition' may be co-joined to form a compound proposition, which may itself be a smaller part of a main proposition. Each compound part must be resolved within itself in sequence before it can be resolved with respect to the main proposition. But the main proposition may also be part of a compound proposition, which may be resolved 'locally' with the smaller compound parts remaining. This gives a nested hierarchical but mutually exclusive system of propositions, which can go in ad infinitum.

Now we just substitute real 3D 'inertial frames' for 'propositions' and that is the structure of space-time. Each is mutually exclusive (as Einstein's space s in motion within S) bounded by a 'membrane' to provide the acceleration mechanism, precisely as a 'fluid dynamic coupling' at ALL scales! ('fine structure' surface electron TZ). We've just sent some probes up to better explore Earth's.

This has major implications throughout physics. I've now looked at almost every inconsistency (scores of them) in science to test the model. Each time it fails to be falsified and resolves anomalies at will. It's infuriating. I almost feel I'm cursed, with the task of trying to drag the majority of physics 100+ years back to reality! What chance?! All help gratefully accepted. You'd need to look beyond this tip of the 'iceberg' to the main body if interested. A number here who are like minded are interested in a large collaboration. If you really do grasp and agree the fundamental underlying mechanistic solution let me know.

I look forward to your 'more later'.

Best wishes

Peter

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Peter

Congrats. You and Tejinder are the only authors in the top ten 2yrs running. But why has your most fundamental discovery of the mechanism for CSL not made inroads into physics yet? I'm not a physicist, but in medicine such an advancement would be headline news within a matter of weeks (then admittedly years before the pills are swallowed). There seems an air of suspended disbelif, or has no-one noticed? I'm quite intruiged, though looking at the comments, many seem to have seen it but perhaps just not quite yet absorbed it.

I know architecture is PhD level and also needs professional qualifications, but are you also the only non full time physicist in the top 10? As in my own discipline, there is too often resistance to those not felt as 'in the club'. I hope you don't feel any sense of exclusion. It is you at the heart, and they wandering in poorer light further from the truth. (I thought you'd like that one!) Lovely peom by the way. It may even go down in history one day.

My very best wishes in your seemingly thankless task.

Judy

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Author Peter Jackson replied on Oct. 6, 2012 @ 20:22 GMT

Judy

So incisive. Changing a ruling paradigm in physics is far easier than changing the orbit of the sun round our AGN, but may take a little time (I may have been optimistic last year suggesting 2020). There are many 'ideas' out there, no system of assessment, and all focussed on their own agenda's so 'new' truths struggle to emerge. Your 'headline news' may be after 40 years of subjugation, as was proved with quasicrystals.

Interesting point on what I call comprehension. See my reply to Jonathen above. I suspect you're right.

Someone said reaching PhD level gives you the right to be wrong, which is how I felt, not any right to be right. Many in physics seem to feel otherwise, or a superiority and right to ignore or condescend to fellow man. You must know that temptation. It's easy to give in to, but we must recognise it and the rot it brings to have a chance of stopping it.

'Exclusion'? Hmmm. No, I never felt I wanted to join a crowd as I'd only see what they saw. 'Non full time'? True I still have to run the consultancy and don't have to earn money from physics, but as an FRAS and APS member and spending twice the time on research and writing than most professors that may be arguable! No, time is tight (want to buy a yacht?) but I'm very happy where I am. Thanks for those kind and interesting thoughts.

And strictly it was a sonnet not a poem. The Chaucerian iambic pentameter is about as initially tricky compared to rhyming couplets as learning new assumptions is for anyone indoctrinated with old ones, so I thought it appropriate in this context. But just a bit of fun really to lighten things up. Glad you enjoyed it, and great to hear from you.

Best wishes

Peter

Hi, Peter

I've just gotten to reading your essay, which is way over my head, though I am attracted to its general aims. I've long been fascinated by the concepts and assumptions in SR. My intuitive (and very non-professional) take has been that the constant speed of light is an inevitable consequence of using light to measure all things. In effect: a problem of self-reference! Similarly, the problem of an absolute frame of reference boiled down to using light to detect motion through the specific medium for transmitting light. At the time (c 1900) nobody imagined "matter" that was not involved with electromagnetic signals. Yet somehow the dogma was established of constant c, that "nothing can travel faster than light", and that there is no medium permeating space that could serve as a preferred frame of reference.

p.s. I finally responded to your comments on my thread, for which thanks

Dan

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Peter,

You still have not deduced the Doppler frequency shift, from f=c/L to f'=(c+v)/L, by assuming that the wavelength changes somewhere between the lens and the brain. Again: The observer is stationary and measures the frequency to be f=c/L. Then the observer starts moving towards the light source with speed v and the measured frequency becomes f'=(c+v)/L. If the observer moves away from the light source the frequency is f'=(c-v)/L. Just deduce f'=(c+v)/L and f'=(c-v)/L from the variable-wavelength assumption.

You are the leading antirelativist now aren't you? (Don't tell me you are Einsteinian deep in your heart.)

Pentcho Valev

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Peter,

I am sorry to say that what you have written does not make sense.

You wrote:

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Viraj

I'm sorry but I'd thought the ball was 'back in your court' to respond to my Oct 1 post on my blog or to my earlier post on yours. I was also flat out fighting the slow system, reading essays and responding to (250+!) posts. But my most sincere apologies must come for your rating, as I've checked, and did not indeed get to score your essay despite my genuine notification of intent. To...

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Pentcho.

Doppler shift is observed IN the new frame, by observer B, NOT by the stationary observer A watching the moving '3D block' of medium go past him. Same with sound. If you're moving with the ambulance you don't hear a Doppler shift. OK?

Observer A at rest with the original source in the background medium finds the light reaching him direct from it is doing c. Still...

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Pentcho Valev replied on Oct. 7, 2012 @ 05:17 GMT

Peter,

"Get a line of people 1m apart to walk past you at 3mph (or call it 'c' mph) and record the frequency."

OK. In an analogous (Doppler) scenario, I am stationary relative to the light source and the wavecrests (=people) pass me at c.

"Now stand beside a travellator and get then to do the same but stepping onto the travellator and continuing at c mph. You will find they have increased apparent speed, and increased wavelength (spacing), but pass you at precisely the same frequency!"

But Peter this is no more analogous to the Doppler scenario. In the Doppler scenario, I stop being stationary ans start moving towards the light source with speed v. Analogously, at the aiport, I start walking along the line of people with speed v, in the opposite direction. The spacing between people remains the same (1 m) but their frequency and speed relative to me increase.

Pentcho Valev

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Pentcho Valev replied on Oct. 7, 2012 @ 17:50 GMT

Peter,

Roger Barlow explains the frequency shift in terms of varying speed of light, c'=c+v, and constant wavelength:

Roger Barlow, Professor of Particle Physics: "The Doppler effect - changes in frequencies when sources or observers are in motion - is familiar to anyone who has stood at the roadside and watched (and listened) to the cars go by. It applies to all types of wave, not just sound. (...) Moving Observer. Now suppose the source is fixed but the observer is moving towards the source, with speed v. In time t, ct/(lambda) waves pass a fixed point. A moving point adds another vt/(lambda). So f'=(c+v)/(lambda)."

Is Roger Barlow right, Peter?

Pentcho Valev

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Pentcho

If you're not in their frame you see apparent c+v. Not 'real' c+v because their real (walking) speed in THEIR frame is still c. An observer at rest in that frame (standing on the travellator) would find their speed as c.

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Hello Peter,

It is good to see that you are in the final evaluations. I am among the lucky also, assuming there are no more ripples in the IGM (or the essay ratings), but I think your inclusion is well-deserved. And your encouragement of my work is also greatly appreciated. I trust the judges will treat you well.

Regards,

Jonathan

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Dear Peter,

Please find attached a file forerunner.

Eckard

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Eckard

Many thanks re; 'forerunner'. First, Steve is one of the few who understands almost completely. 2nd; I would say your 'knowledge' is not 'wrong', but understanding too incomplete to date to fully rationalise. I explain below, but 3rd; The 'forerunner' is simply the 2nd part of the 'birefringence' found by Raman. There was scant space for this, so to clarify; In some media (i.e....

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Eckard

Many thanks re; 'forerunner'. First, Steve is one of the few who understands almost completely. 2nd; I would say your 'knowledge' is not 'wrong', but understanding too incomplete to date to fully rationalise. I explain below, but 3rd; The 'forerunner' is simply the 2nd part of the 'birefringence' found by Raman. There was scant space for this, so to clarify; In some media (i.e. birefringent and diffuse matter) The emissions only interact progressively, so the part which has not yet coupled indeed carries on undelayed on the old axis (we call 'vector'). Subject to particle characteristics, i.e multiple spin types, we will find 3 (tri-refringence) or more axis at once. In space this process may take many kiloparsecs. The observed effects in that case are gradual 'curvature' of the light and weak 'gravitational' lensing, which is density dependent.

But now back to your; "speed of propagation refers to the medium but neither to the emitter nor to the receiver." Which is both entirely true and fully consistent with the above, but this will initially test your intellect!;

The immediate instantaneous emission is wrt the EMITTER. This is indeed however only as far as the transition zone (TZ) between the near and far field, (which I thank you for flagging up) because the 'medium' WITHIN the TZ (the near field) is in the same kinetic state as the emitter. The TZ is therefore the frame boundary. Thereafter the emitted 'signal' changes speed to c wrt the FAR FIELD, which is the medium OUTSIDE the TZ, which we call the 'Local Background' of the emittter, or the 'next frame up'.

The distance to the TZ may be less than a micron, or 100+km (Earth's bow shock), or 100+ au's ('AU' is now 'au' by the way) to the sun's heliosheath, or, for the galaxy, the Halo. Remember there may be infinitely many smaller spaces ('s') within each and every larger space ('S'), precisely as specified by Einstein (1952).

So Pentcho's emission theory is correct in a very local domain, but then also correct in lots more local domains (frames) at all scales, which may be DIFFERENT to the first. Re-emission is always at c. (I was delighted to find Dowdye's earlier consistent thesis, but rather after developing the DFM - so he's guilty of common anticipatory plageurism!)

The process is symmetrical, so a reflector is also an emitter. Light arrives at the fine structure TZ of the mirror, is changed to c wrt the mirror, is absorbed again and re-emitted at c wrt the mirror, but on re-negotiating the TZ does exactly what all other emissions do, changes to c wrt the medium. That explains one of the biggest inconsistencies in current theory (along with many others).

If that doesn't seem entirely logical after a couple of re-reads please do say why and I'll try to explain it better.

I've suggested a few verification experiments in the imminent Hadronic Jouranl Paper discussing Kantor and mirrors.

Best wishes

Peter

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Pentcho Valev replied on Oct. 7, 2012 @ 21:26 GMT

Peter, Eckard,

Let us forget the emission theory for a while. X wavecrests hit the STATIONARY observer in a unit of time. Accordingly, the speed of the waves relative to him is XL, where L is the wavelength. Then the observer starts moving towards the light source so that X+Y wavecrests hit him in a unit of time. Accordingly, the speed of the waves relative to the MOVING observer is (X+Y)L. Is that correct?

If it is, the speed of light (relative to the observer) varies with the speed of the observer, in violation of special trelativity.

Pentcho Valev

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Eckard Blumschein replied on Oct. 8, 2012 @ 06:19 GMT

Peter,

You vehemently argued that the speed of light can globally exceed c. If I recall correctly, you claimed this idea of you being confirmed because velocities of 6c were observed in cosmology. Do you still maintain this idea?

Pentcho,

In case of optical waves you are provable correct. There are people including me who do consider you correct in that respect with light, too. Me and you are however wrong if the notions of time and space are redefined in a grotesque manner called Einstein's special theory of relativity.

Eckard

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I wrote: "X wavecrests hit the STATIONARY observer in a unit of time. Accordingly, the speed of the waves relative to him is XL, where L is the wavelength. Then the observer starts moving towards the light source so that X+Y wavecrests hit him in a unit of time. Accordingly, the speed of the waves relative to the MOVING observer is (X+Y)L. Is that correct? If it is, the speed of light (relative to the observer) varies with the speed of the observer, in violation of special relativity."

Peter replied: "Yes, but you must specify WHICH waves, because the interaction creates a 2nd set, which are the ones the processor (or brain) 'times' to find f. We may term there 'refracted' waves R. The incident waves 'I' are those which include both the approaching waves and those 'passing by' the lens (also then equivalent to 'forerunners'). "Accordingly, the speed of" THOSE 'I' "waves relative to the MOVING observer is (X+Y)L"

That is satisfactory to me, Peter. These are the waves whose speed is assumed constant in special relativity (but is variable in the real world). As for the 2nd set of waves, R, that you refer to:

Peter: "... the interaction creates a 2nd set, which are the ones the processor (or brain) 'times' to find f. We may term there 'refracted' waves R."

...you can study them if you need to but I think that is totally irrelevant insofar as relativity is concerned.

Pentcho Valev