Re: Luminiferous aether
- From: "FrediFizzx" <fredifizzx@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 21:35:06 -0700
"Sam Wormley" <swormley1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Luminiferous aether
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether
|
| In the late 19th century the luminiferous aether ("light-bearing
| aether"), or ether, was a substance postulated to be the medium
| for the propagation of light. Later theories, including Einstein's
| Theory of Relativity, demonstrated that an aether did not have to
| exist, and today the concept is considered "quaint".
|
| See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether
|
| Most current physicists do not see a need to have a medium for
light
| to propagate. The combination of relativity and quantum mechanics
| render the concept unneeded. However, this doesn't mean it doesn't
| exist (just that it doesn't have to), and there remain a number of
| problems in modern physics that would be simplified with such a
concept.
|
| A few physicists (like Dayton Miller and Edward Morley) continued
| research on the aether for some time, and occasionally researchers
| still explore these concepts. While it is not difficult to create
| aether theories consistent with the Michelson-Morley experiment, it
| is much harder to remain consistent with all of the related
experiments
| of modern physics. Any new theory of aether must be consistent with
| all of the experiments testing phenomena of special relativity,
| general relativity, relativistic quantum mechanics, and so on.
Volovik says it like it is very well in his book "The Universe in a
Helium Droplet" page 461 sect. 33 Conclusion;
"According to the modern view the elementary particles (electrons,
neutrinos, quarks, etc.) are excitations of some more fundamental medium
called the quantum vacuum. This is the new ether of the 21st century.
The electromagnetic and gravitational fields, as well as the fields
transferring the weak and the strong interactions, all represent
different types of collective motion of the quantum vacuum."
It is easy to do quote mining. However, quantum "vacuum" charge = +,-
sqrt(hbar*c) gives substance and meaning to the "new ether". All that
is required is to take vacuum polarization to tree level. Dirac was on
the right track with his "sea". Dual space-time is part of the answer.
We keep trying to get rid of the fundamental medium but it just keeps
coming back. The most recent evidence being that of JLAB's experiment
finding that "sea" strange quarks contribute to 5 percent of a proton's
magnetic moment. Virtual particles are real and all observed elementary
particles are necessarily a mix of real and virtual. A Dirac Sea
modified so that it works better is simply a mix of "less than virtual"
particles. Supersymmetry? Maybe.
FrediFizzx
http://www.vacuum-physics.com/QVC/quantum_vacuum_charge.pdf
or postscript
http://www.vacuum-physics.com/QVC/quantum_vacuum_charge.ps
http://www.vacuum-physics.com
.
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