"In many theories, the Sun perturbs the values of the constants by a factor roughly proportional to the Sun's Newtonian gravitational potential, which scales as the inverse of distance, r, between the Earth and the Sun. Since r fluctuates annually, reaching a minimum at perihelion in early January and a maximum at aphelion in July, the values of the constants, as measured here on Earth, should also oscillate in a similar seasonal manner." - D.J. Shaw and J.D. Barrow,
The internet has made it possible to now bring under scrutiny more of those privileged documents used by the establishment to discountenance logical new proposals by quoting sections of documents that hitherto only they have access to. The definition of a second, depends on the frequency of Caesium 133, see 2.1.1.3 and the BIPM says in section 1.5 that by some mechanism gravity can influence frequency.
I have posted on the "Q&A with David Rideout: Testing Reality in Space" blog on the discordant statements and implications for our physical theories so no need repeating here. Now, from the paper by J.D. Barrow and D.J. Shaw, excerpts of which I quote above, the question arises:
1. Whether in view of the annual change in the Earth-Sun gravitational relationship, there can similarly be an annual change in the "second" as defined?
2. Since gravity slows light according to General relativity, and the Sun's slowing of light transit-time over a given distance has been verified by experiment, if GR is sacrosanct, will the light transit-time over one metre distance on Earth be slower in early January and faster in July when solar gravity is at a minimum?
3. Although, D.J. Shaw and J.D. Barrow shy away from the question being adherents of General relativity, preferring instead to concentrate on the fine structure constant, it is now an open secret that the value of light velocity is no longer sacred and their own paper suggests that it can similarly vary due to gravitation influence. My value for co in flatter, gravitationally freest space-time is 299,792,458.2087m/s, is slightly higher than the c 299,792,458m/s measured under the Earth's gravitational influence, in accordance with Equation 3 in Einstein's paper here.
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