The Aether Medium Is Made of Waves by Jason Mark Wolfe

Peter,

I hope you won't mind if I share the Grand Design with you; a simple version. Aether waves are the ontological building blocks of our universe. All the properties of light (permitivity, permeability, etc.) are built into them. They were inspired by wave-functions of the form,

[math]\psi = e^{i \omega t}[/math]

and the two postulates of special relativity.

#1. The laws of physics are the same in all inertial frames of reference.

#2. The speed of light in free space has the same value C in all inertial frames of reference.

These postulates are hard to explain ontologically, but there is a way. One has to assume that the laws of physics are implemented by the set of (aether) waves that obey,

[math]c = \lambda f[/math]

Inertial frames are a mathematical tool that allows you to set up a coordinate system; but I will refer to them in the ontological sense when I say: inertial reference frames are made of those same aether waves. Particles with mass are the smallest physical objects that can be described with inertial frames. Whatever equations and descriptions are used to describe particles of the Standard Model, those equations describe one or more aether waves. Quarks, gluons, protons, neutrons, hadrons, electrons, leptons all have a unique spectral signature, a range of aether medium frequencies. When those particles are annihilated by their antiparticle, the spectral signature is released as gamma rays. It is this spectral signature that establishes that particle's relationship to its inertial frame's clock (progression of time). This is the simplest way that Standard Model particles can obey the postulates of relativity; they are made out of aether waves which satisfy c = wavelength*frequency.

We experience inertia because the composition of frequencies that make up our particles, they have to frequency shift from one set of aether wave frequencies to another set of aether wave frequencies. We experience this as a force that disturbs inertia.

Hi Vladimir,

I am delighted that you enjoyed the paper. I am very pleased that you got the " Fourier-like universal wave aether " idea.

You asked an excellent question, "I would not go so far as to say that the aether itself is made of waves. Waves of what?"

What are these waves made of? I modeled the idea after wave-functions. In a way, these waves are made out of probability, which sounds evasive and hard to imagine. Waves of aether? What does that mean? Basically, aether is a type of empty space that supports the characteristics of light. The closest analogy I can think of is a virtual environment that has rules; the aether would implement that set of rules.

Hi Vladimir ,

I want to applaud your paper for "A proposal to reconstruct physics from simple physically realistic first principles is outlined using a Beautiful Universe model." The theoretical physics community should be looking for a simple physically realistic building block of some kind from which to construct the laws of physics.

As a very simple approach to answer this very question, I modeled the aether wave after the wave-function for a plane wave and the two postulates of special relativity. I said that aether waves don't have to be physically tangible for them to exist. They are allowed to be extremely subtle.

There is only one definition of an aether medium that makes any sense: it has to be a "light bearing aether". Whatever the true ontological medium really is, it enforces the invariance of the speed of light.

Hi Vladimir,

I'm not convinced that the speed of light, in a vacuum, can be changed locally because of general relativity. Is this experimentally verified?

Hi Vladimir,

I just mean that I expect the proper speed of light in a vacuum to reliably be c = 3x10^8 m/s. If the proper speed of light in a vacuum changes from this value, then the permitivity and permeability of free space will change as well. After all,

[math]c^2 \epsilon_0 \mu_0 = 1[/math]

In other words, the proper speed of light in a vacuum is reliably constant.

Hi Jeff,

I agree with your second statement, that aether waves cause the 3 spatial dimensions (and time) to exist, apart from which nothing would exist.

The physicics community is motivated by the desire to explain everything with a model. My motiviation is different. I started off with the assumption that gravity drives and acceleration field generators are allowed by nature. So I had to figure out what was the ontological nature of space itself. Afterall, general relativity is about curving space-time. If I'm trying to curve space-time, then I have to know what space-time is. Furthermore, I need some way to curve it without using ridiculous amounts of mass-energy. So basically, I took the two postulates of special relativity, I combined them with wave functions, and I created an aether medium that obeys SR and QM.

Since gravity causes light to freequency shift along the radii of the gravitating body, I decided to try it in reverse. The idea is to emit a linear EM frequency chirp, repeatedly. I hope that this will cause the immediate space-time to curve, thus inducing a gravity field.

For this to work, I have to overcome conservation of energy, but not violate it. Anyway, thank you for inquiring.

Jason Wolfe

Hi Jeff,

"I view matter as waves that travel as holes in the aether (versus a particle). "

As holes? I am familiar with holes (and electrons) from solid state physics and semiconductor physics. Such a hole is an absence of an electron. But now I am puzzled by your idea that matter travels as a "hole" in the aether. I believe that de Broglie waves tell us that matter (electrons, protons, etc) are groups of aether waves that move together. When a particle meets its antiparticle, that which groups the aether waves (into a particle) cancels out. The result is that the energy stored in the particle is now released as a gamma ray burst.

I am perfectly OK with the idea that a hyperspace might coexist with out space-time. I believe that someday we might figure out how to build a spaceship that can travel through hyperspace thus traveling faster than light. In my interpretation,

space-time is made of waves that obey,

[math]c = \lambda f = \frac{1}{sqrt{\epsilon_0 \mu_0}}[/math]

In contrast, hyperspace is made of waves that obey (the same equation but with c'>>c). The equation won't output.

The idea is that two universes, with different physics constants, can coexist without one universe being aware of the other. Hyperspace matter can pass right through us without our noticing it.

My point is that each universe has its own set of aether waves. Each set of aether waves has its own set of physics constants. If aether waves don't exist, then neither does the progression of time nor the existence of distance.

Hi Jeff,

I mentioned hyperspace for two reasons. First, I wanted to convey the idea that the fundamental building blocks of our universe, and others like it, are aether waves; the physics constants c and h are characteristics of those waves. Second, hyperspace is a fun idea that might even be true. Hyperspace is a way to beat relativity by traveling faster than light, without time travel or any of that impossible stuff. Sure you could travel fast enough, faster than light, to see your own light image jumping into hyperspace; but you can't stop it. You can't stop yourself from jumping into hyperspace.

If there were aether waves with a speed of light characteristic, then there would be no distance and no progression of time. Is it possible to make the aether waves of our space-time cease to exist inside of a 55 gallon drum? Or some suitable volume? I don't know.

Hi Jeff,

I've thought about hyperdrives for a while and this is what I think needs to occur. First, we must discover the gravity drive; a gravity drive is an opto-electronics device that can generate an acceleration field equivalent to gravity. In other words a device that can curve space-time. In my essay, I descrescribe such a device.

Second, such a device must generate an acceleration field from a curved surface that is stronger than the event horizon of a black hole. In other words, the acceleration at the event horizon of a black hole is,

[math]a = \frac{v^2}{r} = \frac{c^2}{r}[/math]

If you build acceleration field generators on a spaceship that can create acceleration fields stronger than this, from a hemisphere with a radius smaller than r, then the spaceship will enter hyperspace.

Am I describing it clearly?

Jason Wolfe

Hi Jeff,

The only building blocks I am using are aether medium waves that obey

[math]c = \lambda f[/math]

Mass is of course made of particles; each particle has a unique frequency signature or fingerprint. That way, when a particle and antiparticle annihilate each other, gamma rays are released. A particle is just a composition or cluster of aether waves, a cluster of aether waves frequencies. There is energy content that excites those aether waves across a range of frequencies.

Inertia is just the tendency of matter to continue to occupy the same set of aether waves as it moves through space. The reason that we feel acceleration and deceleration of an automobile, for example, is because when we slam on the breaks or apply the gas, we are forcing the particles of our body, of everything in the car, to change to another set of aether waves. Aether waves are things that extend across space. Inertia is when we travel along the same set of aether waves. We feel a force when we change to another set of aether waves.

Hi Jeff,

The whole idea of aether waves is that I wanted to be able to say something about the properties of space and time from a mechanistic point of view.

Wave-functions are just mathematic solutions for quantum systems; wave-functions are not considered to be physically real objects. Just because I can't physically touch a wave-function doesn't mean that it can't be something that carries the ontological properties of space and time.

If the vacuum of space was made of wave-like objects that acted like quantum waves, then it would be no surprise that we have to use wave-functions in the QM mathematics that describes quantum systems.

What about special relativity? After all, it is pretty strange that all inertial frames observe the speed of light (vacuum) to be the same. So I followed that logic. If wave-functions, however unphysical, are somehow responsible for the characteristics of space, then such waves should obey the speed of light (somehow). We're talking about waves.

[math]c = \lambda f = \frac{1}{sqrt{\epsilon_0 \mu_0}}[/math]

is a wave equation. Why not let aether waves embody the characteristics of light such as the permitivity and permeability of free space? Then, we let the wavelength of these aehter waves (which behave like wave-functions) express the existence of distance in space.

Likewise, we have a whole range of frequencies. Why not let the frequencies of the aether waves cause the progression of time in an inertial reference frame?