Shannon’s View on Wheeler’s credo by Eckard Blumschein

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Dear Vladimir,

1) Yes, I see it reasonable to not use local times but a common time scale all over the universe. Lorentz introduced local time as to rescue the ether hypothesis. Einstein applied Poincaré synchronization against logic to moving relative to each other AB too.

2) Yes, distortion of space and time is not necessary.

3) I do not see an ether lattice required. In that Einstein in 1905 was perhaps correct, by chance.

4) I am not sure if I understood what you meant.

Regards,

Eckard

Vladimir Tamari

Dear Eckard sorry for the delay to respond.

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3)what I meant by the word ether is quite different than what most 19th. c. physicists meant. Hertz had a different idea - that everything - matter, radiation and space itself is electric - ie a building block - a lattice of dielectric units. Einstein used the word only in relation to the vacuum - as opposed to solid matter.

4) I was referring to what you emphasized in point 2 here that distortion of space and time is not necessary. By pronouncing a constant speed = space traversed / time Einstein made it necessary that space and time as dimensions become flexible and related. If an object, say a meter stick moves at a certain velocity, it contracts. This contraction can be explained as space itself contracting (as in SR) or as in my lattice theory - its length contracts but lattice space remains unchanged and absolute. Ditto for time vs. clock time.

Best,

Vladimir

Eckard Blumschein

Dear Vladimir Tamari,

I would appreciate if you or someone else could explain to me: What is wrong with my endnotes? In an empty space (vacuum) only two items take part in the propagation of light: sending and receiving antenna, no observer unless it is the receiver, no medium, no lattice, nothing at all.

Best,

Eckard

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