Posting #7:- "Measuring Our Absolute Velocity"
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent oppositions from
mediocre minds." - A. Einstein
In the 19th century, science had concluded that reality was
based upon the Aether, a rigid medium that pervaded all of space. The Aether was
required to account for the ability of forces (electric, magnetic,
gravitational, etc.) to "act at distance" and through which the vibrational
disturbance known as light could propagate. Late in the century, the next
obvious step was taken. Attempts were made to measure our velocity through the
Aether. The most notable of those attempts was the Michaelson-Morley experiment
that, to everyone's chagrin, produced a null result.
The difficulty was first resolved in 1903 with conclusions by
Fitzgerald and Larmor. Fitzgerald concluded that what was happening was that
lengths became shorter in the direction of the velocity vector and Larmor
concluded that, if this were true, clocks must slow by a reciprocal amount. The
result was the Lorentz Transformation Aether Theory, which, in conjunction with
the fact that the velocity of light represented the most rapid means of
transferring information, insured that our absolute velocity through space could
not be measured. In 1905, Dr. Einstein showed that the theory could be derived
from fundamental principles and Special Relativity was off and running. When
examined objectively, both theories are found to be identical (cross-derivable),
and differ only in philosophical viewpoint.
Transformations and the limit on the transfer of information
imposed by the velocity of light, we could not, in principle, measure our
velocity with respect to it. The other viewpoint asserted that, because our
velocity with respect to the Aether could not be measured, it was not valid to
include the Aether in physical theory. This interpretation required that all
velocity reference frames were equally valid and reality did not consist of
space and time as separate entities but was a single entity that was named
space-time.
The mathematics of space-time work as long as one does not
make the common abuse of arbitrarily jumping from one velocity reference to
another in the same problem without compensation for the effects, but science
was still left with the problem of explaining "action at a distance". This
difficulty was overcome by the addition of the concept of "virtual exchange
particles" (photons, gluons, gravitons, etc.) whose existence was of such short
duration that the laws of quantum mechanics allowed them to "pop into and out of
existence" without violating the Law of Conservation of Energy and which acted
to exchange momentum (force) between physically separated entities.
The elimination of the Aether from realm of acceptable
physical theory did not result from observations or the application of rigorous
logic. It was eliminated instead by a consensus opinion upon the part of the
scientific community. Since the Lorentz Contraction-Aether Theory is a special
case solution of the Special Theory of Relativity, the existence of the
classical Aether cannot be disproved without also disproving Special Relativity.
The existence of the Aether can be verified, however, if information can be
transferred between physically separated locations at a velocity that exceeds
the velocity of light! If that can be accomplished, all that is necessary to
determine our "absolute velocity" through space is to compare the
synchronization of clocks set by the hyperluminal information transfer method
with the synchronization of clocks set by electromagnetic means. The difference
in their "now" readings would allow their "absolute velocity" to be measured and
the establishment of our absolute velocity through space (i.e.- the Aether) by
direct observation, exactly as Michaelson and Morley wished to do.
In the 1980's experiments were performed which showed that the
quantum coupling of the polarization of "paired photons" could be observed as
propagating at a velocity at least 4 times the velocity of light (and probably
at an infinite velocity of one is to accept a current interpretation of quantum
theory). It must be recognized that, since changing the polarization of a photon
does not change its energy, transferring information through the polarization
coupling of photons represents a transfer of information without the transfer of
energy. Since the transfer of energy is not involved, there is no theoretical
restriction currently known on the velocity of that transfer. The paired photons
travel at the velocity of light, but their polarization can travel at any
velocity (including infinite). The limitation on the velocity of energy encoded
information transfer results from the fact that the Lorentz Transformation for
Energy is 1/(1-V^2/C^2)^0.5 becomes infinite at the velocity of light. This
limitation clearly does not apply to quantum numbers such as the polarization direction of photons.
The diagram of the experimental setup is shown in the first figure below. This experiment can readily modified by
changing its instrumentation so as to allow the absolute velocity of the setup
to be measured directly without affecting the validity of its operation. See the second figure below. It does not seem unreasonable, if a
sufficient number of paired photons are observed, for the errors in observation
to be reduced to the point where our absolute velocity through spaced could be
measured to an accuracy of better than +/-400 miles per second. (A recent report
described a similar effect observed over a distance of over 70 miles and should
allow a much more accurate determination.) THE SUCCESS OF SUCH A MEASUREMENT OF
"ABSOLUTE VELOCITY" DOES NOT DEPEND UPON PHYSICS SINCE THE NECESSARY RESULTS OF
PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS HAVE ALREADY BEEN DEMONSTRATED, IT ACCOMPLISHMENT IS NOW A
ROUTINE ENGINEEERING PROBLEM WHICH IS EASILY SOLUABLE. The demonstration of an
"absolute velocity" would, however, throw the currently accepted idea of
space-time into a cocked hat (where it undoubtedly belongs since it is based
upon a consensus opinion and not provable fact) and return science to the idea
of the classical Aether. (The text associated with these diagrams can be
accessed at "The Einstein Hoax".
Remember that Dr. Einstein warned, "We have not proven that
the Aether doesn't exist, we have merely proven we do not need it (for
calculations). Also remember that it took 25 years of peer pressure to cause Dr.
Einstein to relinquish the idea of "absolute time" (equivalent to believing the
Aether) and accepting the unproven consensus viewpoint of space-time as a single
entity.
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