Posting #47:- A Basic Look at the Aether
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mediocre minds." - A. Einstein
Until the start of the 20th century, the fundamental structure of the Universe was considered to be based upon the claasical Aether. This viewpoint ran into trouble when the Michealson-Morley Experiment failed to detect the velocity of the Earth through the Aether, an apparent logical impossibility. The difficulty was resolved when Fitzgerald and Larmor showed that the units of measurement for time and parallel length changed inveresly as a result velocity through the alleged Aether. The concept was derived mathematically two years later by Dr. Einstein as the Special Theory of Relativity. This theory did not disprove the existence of the Aether but, in Dr. Einstein's words, "remember gentlemen, we have not disproven the Aether, we have merely shown that we do not need it for calculations".
It is constructive therefore apply tests which are simple enough to be understood, and perhaps applied by high school students of physics. Consider a volume of space, perhaps a meter on a side which contained no matter at all. Does that volume of space have observeable properties? If it does, then there is "something" in that volume, IT IS NOT MERELY EMPTY SPACE! If it is not empty, then it must contain a medium which we may dub the Aether. Let us the examine the possible observeable properties of that allegidely "empty" volume.
The simplest measurements which can be made is the observation of its dielectric constant, permeability, and charachteristic impedance (300 ohms). Observation reveal these properties and permit their measurement. Furthermore, the observations are simple enough to be made with the equipment in a good high school physics lab.
With a little more sophistication, one recognizes that an electric field will produce a stress in the space as a result of its dielectric constant. Similarly, a magnetic field produces a stress in the space as a result of itss permeability. Early in the 19th century, it was shown that a rate of change in the electric field produces a transverse magnetic field and a rate change of the magnetic field produces a transverse electric field. This observstion was codified in Maxwell's Equtions and predicted the propagation of electromagnetic (e.g.- radio etc.) waves. The velocity of propagation of those waves was shown to be determined as the square root of the product of the dielectric constant and permeability of that space.
There is an additional property of space which we can infer from Newton's Third Law of Motion (for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction). When a material object is on the surface of the Earth, it experiences a force. If it us accelerated it also experiences a force. Consider what happpens when you sit in the driver's seat of a car. You experience a force which presses your derriere into the seat, the seat pushes upwards on you and you press downwards on the seat! Then, when the car accelerates, a second force is experienced which presses you body against the back of the seat. In order for these forces to occur, Newton's Third Law requires that a force exist which pushes you downward and/or backward. NEITHER THESE FORCES ARE OBSERVEABLE! Since both of these forces are unobserveable, mainstream physics declares them to be FICTITIOUS!. So much for Newton's Third Law, or could it be that the thinking of mainstream physics is defective?
It was recognized early that the "hypothetical" Aether had to be a solid since it propagated transverse electromagnetic waves, which pass freely though it, and which cannot propagate through a fluid. This raised the problem as to how solid matter can move freely though the solid Aether. The problem vanishes if one accepts the idea, (frequently proposed by mainstream physics) that material particles consist of standing waves (presumedly electromagnetic). (See Posting #44.)
If we observe our cosmology in view of the preceeding, the surety of inertial motion both near and far and the lack of any any observeable chromatic dispersion of the light from distant sources tells us that, not only must the Aether be a solid, it must be n0n-granular.
Without accepting the Aether, modern physics had to do a fast shuffle to prevent its intellectual failings from being obvious. If one accepts the Aether, however, the conceptual difficulties disappear. The concept of the Aether allows for a medium which has the required properties and which can exert the necessary forces to satisfy the requirements of Newton's Third Law and of gravity. And in view of Special Relativity, the concept of the Aether is is entirely consistent with the results of observation (assuming that their implications are properly thought through).
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