Eckard,
It seems in nature things 'are what they are'. The discrete and helical nature of field dynamics has proved a universal truth. I can't see it's 'immodest' to identify truths or applications. The helical dynamic applies to the case of a yacht rig and recognising that has made the boat detectably faster.
I have proved that experimentally beyond any doubt, demonstrating that those who dismiss the theory as nonsense are wrong. Now you have joined them. Somehow my surprise at mankind's analytical limitations reduces all the time. The troglodytes insist it's my "genius as a yachtsman" that makes it always win. it's me insisting it is NOT, which is surely the diametric opposite to 'immodesty!!' Are you now joining them? or can you see the validity of the dynamic.
The 'velocity gradient' of wind is well understood, as due to surface drag. The relative 'apparent wind' vector effect, different on each tack, is also well known, but less well understood. Discrete field dynamics directly rationalises the effect; The wind at each altitude is in a slightly different 'inertial frame' so from a single observer rest frame (the mast) the direction 'measured' is 'rotated' with altitude. Do you suggest that doesn't make sense??
Have you yet checked out Dayton Millers Mount Wilson findings? (ins 1933 paper) (see also quotes below) Do you challenge them? Or have another explanation?
Best wishes
Peter
"the indicated effect was not zero; the sensitivity of the apparatus was such that the conclusion, published in 1887, stated that the observed relative motion of the earth and aether did not exceed one-fourth of the Earth's orbital velocity. This is quite different from a null effect now so frequently imputed to this experiment by the writers on Relativity.
Miller showed that there is a systematic effect in the original M-M data indicating a speed of the Earth relative to the Aether of 8.8 km/s for the noon observations and 8.0 km/s for the evening observations. He believed that the aether was entrained ("dragged along") by the earth.' (yet he couldn't explain the altitude deviations).聽
After years of careful experimentation, Miller indeed found a systematic deviation from the null result predicted by special relativity, which greatly embarrassed Einstein and his followers. Einstein tried to explain it away as an artifact of temperature variation, but Miller had taken great care to avoid precisely that kind of error. Miller told the Cleveland聽Plain Dealer聽on January 27, 1926,
"The trouble with Professor Einstein is that he knows nothing about my results. ... He ought to give me credit for knowing that temperature differences would affect the results. He wrote to me in November suggesting this. I am not so simple as to make no allowance for temperature."
