Much Ado About Nothing by Peter Jackson

Eckard hopes others will join this discussion on his blog, I do too, and also re-post this part to mine (first part 19th Aug in Eckards).

Eckard

EB; "I do not understand why and how Snell's law is recovered. What is an incident medium? Isn't rather a wave possibly incident? Which KRrefraction experiments and which KRrefraction effect do you refer to? Do you really maintain that refraction matters in the Michelson Morley experiment?"

1. M&M. Yes. I've found that probably nothing matters more in unravelling the paradoxes than the process at refractive and reflective planes, and it's effects. I have a paper just accepted for publication discussing this and explaining the Kantor and B&B interferometer anomalies. The Maxwell near/far field 'Transition Zone' (TZ) fine structure at the surface of all matter controls the process. I's equivalent to Earth's EM 'shock' (see Kingsley essay Fig of 'Cluster' findings), and Feist's detector discussed above, where light changes speed by relative v to the new local medium c/n. Which is why it's found to be c in all media.

2. Kinetic Revere Refraction (KRR). ALL experiments find the same. (Ko, Chuang 1977, Mackay, Lakhtakia 2006). When observed from an incident frame, light at near normal incidence passing into a co-moving medium appears to be 'dragged' by the medium (Grzegorczyk 2006). Snel's Law is then famously violated by the relative media motion. But when the light 'path' in the medium is observed from at rest in the MEDIUM frame, it's found that the REAL path is REVERSED.聽

It is this acceleration by the observer into the new frame (and thus at rest in the propagating medium) that recovers Snel's Law from his new frame.聽

3. Now put the two together. In the bizarre 'non linear optics' effects Snel's Law is similarly violated at the TZ, Fresnel refraction becomes what is termed 'Fraunhofer refraction', and frequncy changes. The TZ position is wavelength dependent for aerial emitters, but within 1 micron of the surface of refractive and reflective planes.聽

The solution explains why moving mirrors reflect light at c wrt the incident medium NOT wrt the mirror. In fact the initial reflection off the protons is at c wrt the mirror, but the electrons form a magnetohydrodynamic shock (as Kinsgsly graph) with the 'air' side of the turbulent TZ at rest in the air frame, so re-emitting at c with respect to themselves, as may be expected. All then falls into place.

The 'incident medium is the 'approach' medium, which may be a near vacuum, but none the less the 'outer layer' TZ electrons are propagated in that frame (explaining photoionization) and re-emit in that frame.

When I test that model on the dozens of astronomical anomalies in existence, they all fall into place like a giant jigsaw puzzle; re-ionization, aberration, ellipticity, IFR, Pioneers/Flyby anomalies, galaxy recycling, lensing, kSZ effect, intrinsic rotation, singularities, quasar jets, frames last scattered, CMB anisotropic flow, curved space-time, the LT, twins paradox, the list is almost endless. My essay gives the simple kinetic logic. It may at first seem complex, but the only issue is unfamiliarity.

Do ask about or query any part.

best wishes

Peter

Peter,聽

The issue is indeed of key importance. Shtyrkov (in Russian) tried an alternative explanation. The late Marmet's criticism of the Michelson/Morley experiment was a bit confusing and possibly not entirely correct.聽

If only you were more careful. You are persistently writing Snel's law. The usual spelling Snell refers to the Latinized name Snellius, cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snell%27s_law .

Didn't I point you a while ago to near vs. far field? Wikipedia has been focusing on some peculiarities of antennas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_and_far_field which are irrelevant for light and sound. My essay reveals the importance of directivity. Feist's transducer worked like a phased array or a collimator.聽

More tomorrow,

Eckard

Eckard

The near-far field transition zone is far more important I think than we realise. Yes you did direct me to a link to an aspect, which I thank you for as it did indeed caused me to explore it's more general application as a phenomena than I'd understood, and it's central importance to the process of implementing local c at ALL scales and both at emitter and receiver.

It was discussed in an accepted paper currently awaiting publication, resolving the anomalies remaining from the disproof of Kantor's emission theory experiment. but I expanded that part after more research, particularly of the Kerr and non linear optics effects. The antenna aspect is just a glimpse.

As another astronomer I'm familiar with Dutchman Willebrord Snellius and commonly use the original 'Snel' (as also referred in the Wiki article). I accept the double 'l' has now become more common, but not 'lack of care'. Should we 'dumb down' all spelling to common modern use and U.S. English? Perhaps I suppose.

I agree Marmet's 'n' based red shift via coupling; "It is found that in ordinary conditions, the energy loss per collision is about 10^-13 of the energy of the incoming photon." (1988) for the Doppler effect, but he was simply incomplete.

One other effect is from the lateral motion of the particles during interaction. The other is more complex involving scale expansion of space combined with amplitude reduction (sphere expansion) giving an apparent red-shift. I won't try to explain it in detail here but it also refutes acceleration of expansion.聽

These taken as a set (with other aspects) the 3D jigsaw puzzle of nature comes together quite perfectly! I appreciate you are one of the few helping the model with attempted falsification.

Note I also posted a reply in the string above (below Aug 19).

I look forward to your 'more tomorrow'

Peter

Peter,

I consider our present discussion innovative, rigorous, and related to a still not yet for good settled key question. Tomorrow is over. I apologize for being too short of time for providing a convincing reply. Wave phenomena are utterly manifold in acoustics, optics, and electro-magnetics.

You pointed me to the almost forgotten Wallace Kantor. This led me to what Ekhard Preikschat wrote on ether theory during the recent 17th annual NPA meeting. I hope, Valev, Perez, and others will join our discussion.

Best,

Eckard

Jeff

Thanks. We give very different proofs of very similar things. I'll comment on your blog, but I turned from maths to ontological construction testing for the reason you give. Ken Wharton also exposes our foolhardy reliance on maths.

You might test this model; The axial anisotropic CMB flow is a scaled up version of a quasar jet. The CMB anisotropy itself has been resolved by computer into a helix, which precisely matches the quasar model, as the outflow jets from AGN's.

I have shown that AGN's are part of a galactic recycling process, re-ionizing all the dead stars and planetary matter to re-start the process with an open spiral on a perpendicuar axis. The common 'Kinetic decoupling' (perpedicular halo rotation) is thereby also finally explained along with other effects. Take a look at Centurus A (NASA HST) for a scale model of the universe.

Expansion is thus not accelerating but mainly reducing, except from the other end of the axis to the 'great attractor' (nonsense of course) in the direction of Leo. I've determined galaxies recycle every ~10-12Gyrs (a massive quasar peak is at z=1.7) so our 2nd iteration of the Milky Way is in middle age. A better analysis of the CMB anisotropy might constrain the same factor for our universe. (There may then be infinitely many numerically as well as temporally). If you're interested I'll link you to a past paper (new one in review).

Last technical point; I've found algerbaic vector apace cannot model motion as it's based on geometry where motion is an invalid concept, but I do know that to get a 'plus' sign hit; ampersand hash 43 semicolon. Like this; +

Peter

Jeff

Good, links below. Rob McEachern's brilliant analysis is also consistent with the basis of my analysis method, but I think you've read it.

You'll have to allow for the fact that the ontological construction termed the 'Discrete Field' model has continued to come on by leaps and bounds over the last year. The resolutions of anomalies are like a flood from a breached dyke. This means the papers are far from up to date. (The latest ones are currently either in review or accepted but not yet published).

The first short read may be last years essay. http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/803

Then the helical CMBR asymmetry one posted on vixra. http://vixra.org/abs/1102.0016

A 2010 one on aberration was http://vixra.org/abs/1007.0022

There are more but all older still.

Do point out any obvious updates needed!

Thanks

Peter

Robert.

Binary star evidence confirmed flight time irrespective of emitter vector, (etc.) so there was also empirical logic to fixing c, even if he couldn't build it into a consistent ontology. Yes I agree with your analysis, but a deeper read should hopefully expose natures underlying ontological construction.

A good new viewpoint may be this one; Consider Earth and our iono/atmosphere as a (non rotating for now) glass sphere. It has a refractive index say n=1.5, so light passes through at say 200,000kps. This is approximately equivalent to ALL lenses, and we can NOT detect (see) light except via such a lens.

Of course n is a constant, so n=1.5 in all frames, as found, and as the SR postulates. So light changes speed by relative 'n' entering the frame F', and also, if the lens is in motion, (wrt the propagation medium and another nearby lens F) by relative v of the lens. It must of course do so if interacting particles scatter at c. So, as we find, light within all media of n=1.5 does ~200,000kps in the medium frame.

The observer in the medium frame (ALL direct observers!) finds c/n, plus a reduced wavelength lambda (you term 'phase'). So what of frequency? f is only a derivative, and c=f.lambda is a constant. But only considered LOCALLY

An observer would have to change frame to observe (directly detect) a 'change' in f. An observer in approach frame F may, via scattered signals, see 'apparent frequency' with respect Frame F, which would be DIFFERENT to f with respect to frame F', which is REAL.

The implications of this are quite massive. The SR postulates direct from a Quantum Mechanism, which also produces space-time and removes all the paradoxes. It IS the Local Reality AE sought. You may need to sit and think over this for some time.

The big problems with it are; that it is entirely unfamiliar, seems too obvious and self apparent, does not emerge from mathematical abstraction, and conflicts with all our beliefs and many assumptions. In which case it would seem to stand zero chance of being comprehended and assimilated. There is little extant in our minds to 'hook' it on. It is however, literally, hiding right before our eyes, spread over the surface of the lenses ever ready to change light speed to local c.

The main assumptions challenged are those I've identified in the essay. But it does need a slow read and much thought, so unfortunately again, as last year, only a handful seem to see the implications.

I believe and hope you can extract them as you've already found and falsified the biggest barrier to open the way ahead.

Peter

Robert

I agree waves are still poorly understood. I've written the odd paper from optics and more original viewpoints. I eventually resolved to the term 'signal velocity' for the purposes of c, more equivalent to group velocity. I have no clue how this may relate to information theory. Does it?

An aspect poorly considered in representations is that, considering a soliton as a 'wave bundle' moving at c, the phase of the waves moving within the bundle only has a relevant speed wrt the rest frame of the bundle. Indeed they 'die out', as they are only 'fluctuations', or in a 3D particle model represent 'spin' so may 'return symmetrically' anyway. This puts to bed the issue of electron spin being superluminal. It's also consistent with light waves being re-emitted on an 'optical axis' NOT normal to the causal wavefront plane (as proved in Calcite crystals etc.) rather than; "'rays' made up of photons on 'vectors'!"

So the 'flight time' across space of the 'entity' or wavefront containing the information would remain the tool we have to work with wrt c.

But now my point. We have to consider the propagation 'medium', which we can consider as Boscovich's 'particles with sphere of influence' or Einstein's 'mass spatially extended' without invoking 'ether'.

My proposition is that massive bodies, from particles upwards, can move, WITH their local 'spaces' (i.e. Earth atmosphere & ionosphere, and the Sun's Heliosphere), which is why we find the dense astrophysical shocks at the boundaries (See Kingsley Essay Fig 2.)

Now everything else falls into place. And I do mean everything. CSL, CMB anisotropy and frames last scattered, the BCI/ECI frame issue, the aberration problem, Pioneer/Voyager/Flyby anomalies, Local Reality, Twins Paradox, etc.

But as those are all swept under the carpet what value has a model that explains them?

Does that make any sense to you?

Peter

Yuri

Agreed. What IS big and missed is the implications. If something IS there, like all the pair production ('fluctuations') then it modulates light speed by re-emitting absorbed light at c.

If is simple kinetic logic that then UNIFIES PHYSICS because all such matter can only re-emit at c, so we, a 'detector' can only ever FIND c!!!!!

When applied, this mechanism not only gives 'Local Reality' but also resolves about every one of the many scores of anomalies in physics. Unfortunately is doesn't 'LOOK' the same as the old familiar assumptions, so isn't recognised. It's simply dismissed however successful it is.

'Seemple' as the Meercat said to his human audience. Was he correct?

Peter

Yuri

A meercat is an animal. They appear to have learnt the English language very precisely and rapidly (I'll try to find their teachers if you wish). They now look out at human beings and say; 'Seemple' (Which is 'simple' with a meercat accent.

I'm not sure if humankind is bright enough to yet understand to irony and veracity of the meercats opinion.

Peter