The secret quantum kernel of relativity

We human beings perceive the passage of time,
because we have memory of past events. But,
does time exist as an independent entity, objectively
as opposed to subjectively? NO. Do you think the
Moon does not exist when you are seeing its light
here on Earth? Where is the Moon in that moment,
then? If the light takes t_m = 1.28223038 s to travel
from the Moon to Earth's surface, does it mean that
the Moon only exists for you when it emitted that light?
If there is no way to detect the current Moon's position,
but its past position. does it mean you are the center
of the universe and that everything else only existed as
past event for you? The notion of time creates a lot of
paradoxes, and it seems all of them are living in Einstein's
relativity. Einstein's claimed :

" I like to think that the Moon is there
even if I am not looking at it."

This claim refers to the hope that although we are
doomed to observe retarded positions of the Moon
due to the finite speed of light c, we should assume the
Moon still exists in its current position because we will
be able to see it after t_m = 1.28223038 seconds.
This phenomenon is dubbed aberration of light, and was
the struggling issue that gave rise to Einstein's relativity.

It is often claimed that gravity lacks aberration, that it
seems to 'propagates' instantaneoulsy. According to GR
the speed of gravity is actually c. Of course, GR needs to
claim this because of the burden is put on spacetime curvature.
If spacetime wouldn't be curved by mass/energy, then we
would need a different mechanism to account for gravitation
and its associated relativistic phenomena.

In the dawn of Einstein's relativity there was also Gerber's
gravity that was prematurely ruled out. This Gerber's gravity
told us about a retarded gravitational potential, that was able
to account for Mercury's extra perihelion advance with the same
accuracy that GR does. Gerber claimed that the potential that a
body feels is not the instantaneous potential defined by newtonian
gravity, that there is a time for that potential to propagate from
source to body. So, Gerber's gravity told us, in some sense,
that there is a finite speed of gravity, akin to aberration. If the
newtonian potential created by a central point-like mass M at
distance r is V(r) = -GM/r, then Gerber's gravity claimed there
is a retarded potential V_G, defined as

V_G(r) = V(r) (1/(1 - r'/c)^2),
where r' is the first derivative of
distance
r wrt time, and c is the speed of light in
the
vacuum.

Gerber was unable to justify/rationalize the factor f = (1/(1 - r'/
c)^2).
The great success of GR at the time ruled out Gerber's gravity and
any attempt of explaining gravity through retarded potentials.
But, we can recover Gerber's idea and link it to the idea of speed
of gravity. We only need to think that gravity has also aberration
like
light, but its speed c_g can be higher than c at some locations.
If c_g is the speed of gravity at distance r, we can rewrite Gerber's
retarded potential as

V_G(r) = V(r) (1/(1 - c/c_g)^2),
where c/c_g is the ratio between two
aberrations (i.e. light/gravity).

If c_g >>> c, then V_G(r) reduces to newtonian potential,
where the speed of gravity is regarded as infinite. If c >>> c_g,
then the potential vanishes, V_G(r) = 0.

General Relativity stole us the possibility for dealing with
superluminal speeds, and it created an impassable causal
barrier, because all the burden was put on spacetime curvature,
so hiding superluminal phemomena into that curved spacetime.

Do you think tides here on the Earth's surface are being
caused now by the relative position of the Moon t_m = 1.28223038
seconds ago there, or by its current position (which can't be seen
now by means of light, but in a future event)?
Aren't tides dynamics evidence that there exists gravity
aberration? The gravitational forces that move tides are
created at a speed c_g > c, although it is denied by GR.
We should claim like Galileo Galilei:

"And yet tides move earlier".

In conclusion, what is that secret that GR is hiding from
us? The secret quantum kernel of relativity is that there
are EM waves that can travel faster than light, they are
virtual photons propagating longitudinally, and they actually
carry momentum. A phenomenon called quantun tunneling
can be created through a potential barrier, and this can
be interpreted as a mechanism which can transduce
transverse waves into longitudinal ones through that barrier
and then transduce them again into transverse ones at the
other side of that barrier. It is claimed that quantum tunneling
is a non-local phemomenon that takes place in zero time
(instantaneously), but it would be slightly incorrect, because
longitudinal waves would exhibit finite speed of propagation,
although higher than c in some locations. Knowing deeper
this phenomenon of quantum tunneling would allow us to
detect gravitational waves by means of longitudinal-transverse
transducers. Devices capable of transforming longitudinal EM
waves (virtual photons) into detectable photons (light). It is not
sci-fi, there are actually devices called SQUID http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQUID
and Quantum Tunnelling Composites (QTCs) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Tunneling_Composite
The latter QTCs, according to my hypothesis, can tranduce
longitudinal EM waves into transverse ones in the first step,
and those transverse ones into longitudinal in the second step.
If you could split a QTC into two pieces, A and B, you would be
able to detect gravitational waves through the A device, because
it would emit detectable photons (light). And through B you could
transduce photons into gravitational waves.


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