Einstein relativity vs. aether-based theory!

[vacuum-mechanics]

Dear friends,

Anyone who is familiar with conventional Einstein special theory of relativity (STR) would found that it is non aether-based theory, i.e. it works on the concept of empty vacuum space. Anyway, nowadays there are increasing people which believe that vacuum space is not empty anymore, such as physicist like Frank Wilczek(a Nobel Prize winner in physics 2004), then leading to a realistic aether-based theory of relativity!

Here we will take a look for overall view; first we will summarize how Einstein had derived his conventional special theory of relativity (STR) as non aether-based theory. Next we will see why and how STR has to change to aether-based theory, and finally what we will gain from changing the base concept of the theory! To be continue.

Sincerely,
Nimit
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[vacuum-mechanics]

Dear friends,

Now letus start with principle of relativity (the first postulate for derivation of STR) which state that laws of physics are the same reference to any inertial frame. And this means that there is no privileged frame of reference, i.e. all inertial frames are equivalent whether it is a rest frame or a moving one. So in order to fulfill the mentioned condition, the space in which all inertial frames were occupied must be an empty vacuum space (not a physical one)!

Actually, the concept of relativity principle was first stated by Newton, in one of his corollaries to the law of motion: “The motion of bodies included in a given space are the same among themselves, whether that space is at rest or moves uniformly in forward in a straight line”. Note that Newton’s concept of nature of space and time is that there is empty vacuum space acting as the privileged frame of reference (otherwise the principle of relativity will not valid); while time is universal i.e. time is the same everywhere!

Next, in Einstein’s time, the question whether the aether is existed or not, was a hot debate then follow with the result of the famous Michelson-Morley experiment which seem to flavor that no aether is existed! Anyway, there is something crazy in the experiment; they concluded that there is the length contraction of the instrument’s arms (in the direction of the rotation of the earth). And it is easy to visualize the situation by using the analogous effect arisen from a “magic clock”; a mechanical wheels and gears clock below.

Figure 1 Magic clock vs. M-M apparatus.

Sincerely,
Nimit
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[vacuum-mechanics]

Dear friends,

According to Michelson-Morley experiment, it was done on a circular rotating platform lay horizontally. Now suppose we place a normal clock on the platform, then the clock’s shape would be squeezed and having a distorted shape as shown in diagram (c) depend on the direction on the earth surface. The reason is because there is a length contraction of the clock in the earth rotation direction in order to give the result of the experiment!

Remember that these pictures of the clocks were observed by someone who stays, for example, in the sun rest reference frame. For us who stay on the moving earth with the clock, what we sew is the normal (shape) clock! This is not because the distortion is too small to be noticed, but it is because the ruler is also distorted in the same scale. So we could never seen the distort part of the clock, and indeed we are facing with a magic clock!

Anyway the experiment’s result is not clear cut to rule out the existence of the aether, but here we will not argue further. Instead here we will prove that the aether is existed obviously by using a simple scientific experiment in the next post.

Sincerely,
Nimit
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[vacuum-mechanics]

Dear friends,

According to Michelson-Morley experiment, it was done on a circular rotating platform lay horizontally. Now suppose we place a normal clock on the platform, then the clock’s shape would be squeezed and having a distorted shape as shown in diagram (c) depend on the direction on the earth surface. The reason is because there is a length contraction of the clock in the earth rotation direction in order to give the result of the experiment!

Remember that these pictures of the clocks were observed by someone who stays, for example, in the sun rest reference frame. For us who stay on the moving earth with the clock, what we sew is the normal (shape) clock! This is not because the distortion is too small to be noticed, but it is because the ruler is also distorted in the same scale. So we could never seen the distort part of the clock, and indeed we are facing with a magic clock!

Anyway the experiment’s result is not clear cut to rule out the existence of the aether, but here we will not argue further. Instead here we will prove that the aether is existed obviously by using a simple scientific experiment in the next post.

Sincerely,
Nimit
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[vacuum-mechanics]

Dear friends,

Now, let us see how we could prove that obviously the aether is existed by using a simple scientific experiment below;

Two-solenoid experiment

In the diagram (a), sum of the created magnetic field is double, while in (b) the sum is zero. This is what it should be according to electromagnetic field theory, but the problem is where the created magnetic field energy was gone? We know that energy cannot disappear because it will violate the principle of conservation of energy! So the only sensible answer is that the magnetic energy was used to cancel the opposite rotational stress in the physical vacuum medium space! This is an obvious indirect prove for the existence of the aether, isn’t it?

Sincerely,
Nimit
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www.vacuum-mechanics.com .

[vacuum-mechanics]

Dear friends,

Now, let us see how we could prove that obviously the aether is existed by using a simple scientific experiment below;

Two-solenoid experiment

In the diagram (a), sum of the created magnetic field is double, while in (b) the sum is zero. This is what it should be according to electromagnetic field theory, but the problem is where the created magnetic field energy was gone? We know that energy cannot disappear because it will violate the principle of conservation of energy! So the only sensible answer is that the magnetic energy was used to cancel the opposite rotational stress in the physical vacuum medium space! This is an obvious indirect prove for the existence of the aether, isn’t it?

Sincerely,
Nimit
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[Bogie]

OK, well ... first, I don't quite understand why you ask where the magnetic energy has gone. Is a magnetic field a potential energy that affects charged particles that enter it but no electron energy flows through it unless charged particles enter the field from some other source? I'm not sure of that and that is why I ask. If so though, the electrical current that produces the magnetic field flows as electrons move through a conductor, but I didn't know that electrons actually move when there is a magnetic field. I thought the field had only the potential to affect charged particles that enter the field.

But let's not let that fall into the same conclusion as the Michelson-Morely experiment. I like your explanation of the length contraction affecting the measurement device and the rate at which clocks measure time in an accelerated reference frame. I would support a conclusion that space is not ever empty as it would have to be in a perfect vacuum. For goodness sake, photon energy certainly fills all space and at the very least there is a constant flow of very low frequency light energy in all directions at all points in space isn't there?

[Ava202]

OK, ...... I would support a conclusion that space is not ever empty as it would have to be in a perfect vacuum. .......

A perfect vacuum typically refers to a total absence of normal particles. But we know what you speak of and agree that the void of space is filled with a media, a fundamental stuff, that permits the transport of energy in an EM mode. And further agree with many that this fundamental stuff is the raw 'material' from which all matter is made.

[vacuum-mechanics]

Dear Bogie,

OK, well ... first, I don't quite understand why you ask where the magnetic energy has gone. Is a magnetic field a potential energy that affects charged particles that enter it but no electron energy flows through it unless charged particles enter the field from some other source? I'm not sure of that and that is why I ask. If so though, the electrical current that produces the magnetic field flows as electrons move through a conductor, but I didn't know that electrons actually move when there is a magnetic field. I thought the field had only the potential to affect charged particles that enter the field.

Normally in our daily life, we are facing with two kinds of magnetic field; first is magnetic field which was arisen from a permanent magnetic material and second is one which was generated from flowing of direct current through a solenoid. [Actually, when there is a flowing of direct current in any conductor, there always created a magnetic field around, but usually was neglected due to its small amount, and in order to increase its amount we use many (turns of) conductors – a solenoid!]

But let's not let that fall into the same conclusion as the Michelson-Morely experiment. I like your explanation of the length contraction affecting the measurement device and the rate at which clocks measure time in an accelerated reference frame. I would support a conclusion that space is not ever empty as it would have to be in a perfect vacuum. For goodness sake, photon energy certainly fills all space and at the very least there is a constant flow of very low frequency light energy in all directions at all points in space isn't there?

Yes, of course there is plenty of photons fills space and which was conventionally interpreted as the relic of the big bang! Here it is a good analogy to visualize that it is similar to what there is plenty of water ripples fill on the surface of the sea. While water ripples was created by disturbing force (from the surrounding winds) causing sea water to vibrate and appear as the ripples, instead, photons which was created from energetic atoms (in stars, etc) propagating through space via vacuum medium.

Sincerely,
Nimit
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[vacuum-mechanics]

Dear friends,

Nowlet us continue our story… Due to the existence of vacuum medium as the privileged reference frame, we have to modify STR fromnon aether-based theory toaether-based theory one. And in order to do that we have to reinterpret concept of the conventional relativity principle to a new one; i.e. changing it from “laws of physics are the same reference to any inertial frame” to laws of physics are the same reference to the vacuum medium privileged reference frame”!

Together with the first hypothesis of STR, we also have to change the second hypothesis of STR from “light velocity is the same for any observer” to “light velocity is the same reference to the vacuum medium privileged reference frame”. Actually we need not have to mention about this second hypothesis because the nature of light is also one of laws of physics!

Next, for our modified STR, wecan also derive Lorentz transformation (which was used to keep laws of physics invariant) as the conventional STR does. But what we got is a better concept of the transformation; i.e. it could explain the philosophic problems (increasing mass, length contraction and time dilation) which occurred in the conventional STR!

Sincerely,
Nimit
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