Re: Relativity is a Dutch discovery


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Easy - the 'aether wind' in principle defines a preferred direction that
is
specifically precluded by either the definition or the assumed properties
of
inertial frames. This is the crucial difference between LET and SR.
They
have exactly the same math but their physical interpretation is quite
different.

Oops man , sorry , the aether i am talking about does not cause any
wind. It is not an air medium that carries sound together with it. I
think of aether as a hollow medium that carries information about the
matter moving in it.

If it is stationary in one frame then relative to another frame it is
moving - that is what is meant by 'wind'. This 'wind' exists because it is
stationary in a frame and is independent of if the aether is a material
substance, mathematical construct, or philosophical device. If it exists as
part of your dialectic, and is stationary in a frame, then it is moving
relative to another frame, because the frame it is stationary in is moving
relative to that frame, so an aether wind exists. This is precisely what is
meant by an absolute frame of reference. An aether, by definition, defines
such a frame.

The moment you drop a photon it starts moving with constant speed c
relative to the aether.


You are drawing an incorrect classical analogy. Single photons do not have
the property of 'movement.', since movement is not a QM observable. For
observables, QM objects in general do not have well defined values until it
is measured ie they do not have those properties independent of measurement.
In general it is a kind of 'superposition' of states where it does have that
value and does not have that property in any sense at all eg when the
position of a particle is not measured it does not even have the property of
position, because it is in general the superposition of a lot of different
positions. The most you can say is it has a very small chance of being
outside a range of positions. This is the superposition principle of Dirac
and lies at the very heart of quantum weirdness. In particular it is the
fact the superposition uses complex numbers.

Thanks
Bill


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