The Aether Medium Is Made of Waves by Jason Mark Wolfe

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?

Hi Hoang,

Thank you for taking the time to read my essay.

You asked: "Does there need to be a particle with mass for everything have volume? If so, then why the mass of everything change when moving from the Earth to the Moon? Higg boson is lighter by the Moon's gravity is weaker than of Earth?"

According to the famous equation E=mc^2, mass is just stored energy. This stored energy can be released in a particle-antiparticle annihilation event. When that occurs, both particles are converted to photons (gamma rays).

The mass of something, let's call it mass m, is the same on the Earth, the moon, in space, everywhere. What changes in the acceleration of gravity. The gravity on earth is 1g, so the force that a mass exerts on a scale is F=mg. On the moon, the acceleration of gravity is much less (approximately 1/6), so the force of gravity is F = (a/6)*m = ma/6.

Again, thank you for reading my essay.

Best wishes,

Jason Wolfe

Hi Don,

It's pretty amazing to meet someone else who worked at Tek. I hope you've moved on to bigger and better things.

The aether is meant to express that the vacuum of space and the geometry of space-time are "something", a medium of some kind, as opposed to the scientifically accepted "nothingness". The Michaelson & Morley experiment struck down "aether particles" and "aether winds" and paved the way to special relativity (which is accurate). SR and GR are very accurate mathematical descriptions of physics. But space and space-time are not made out of mathematics; they are made of some kind of medium which has properties. Such a "fundamental medium" is obviously not made of atoms or particles. In my view, this fundamental medium is made of that which wave-functions are meant to describe.

Thank you for looking at my paper. Good luck in the contest.

Jason Wolfe

Hi Georgina,

It is always good to hear from you. Yes, I will read your paper and evaluate its elegance.

Good luck to you in the contest.

Best wishes,

Jason Wolfe