When I say that light is resting, I mean that light is resting in the same way that the stars are resting in their positions relative to the earth. For centuries we have looked up at the sky to find Polaris is where we expected it to be. Orion seems for the most part unchanged. For all intents and purposes, the stars seem fixed and stable in relation to this old moving earth of ours.
Yet we know that the stars move...move very quickly indeed. Yet their motion in relation to ours (because of their extreme distance from us) seems no motion at all. The stars would appear to be at rest in the heavens.
We didn't always think this to be the case. There was a time, during the infancy of science, when we thought the stars were moving in circles around the fixed and immoble earth. We have learned better thanks to the sacrifices and studies of brave observers of the skies.
So light which appears to be in motion to us now, will someday be known to be at relative rest in relation to a universe that moves. In ancient days the tyranny that held up scientific progress was the notion that the earth was at rest. This notion was based firmly upon scientific observation. It was agreed to by virtually all the learned men of science. We held it as scientific truth for over a thousand years. Yet it was what Einstein would call "an apriori given". The Ptolemaic model of the universe was indeed useful. It ordered daily life and made it possible for sailors to find their way across the seas. Yet the earth-centric doctrine was false.
I have quoted it before, but Einstein's words are worth quoting again:
"Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such an authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens. Thus they come to be stamped as "necessities of thought," "a priori givens," etc. The path of scientific advance is often made impassable for a long time through such errors. For that reason, it is by no means an idle game if we become practiced in analyzing the long commonplace concepts and exhibiting those circumstances upon which their justification and usefulness depend, how they have grown up, individually, out of the givens of experience. By this means, their all-too-great authority will be broken. They will be removed if they cannot be properly legitimated, corrected if their correlation with given things be far too superfluous, replaced by others if a new system can be established that we prefer for whatever reason."
So I would ask: Can the velocity we call the speed of light or "c" be legitimated? Over a hundred years ago, Michelson and Morley floated an interferometer on a pool of mercury and thereby determined that light moved at the velocity "c" in relation to all points of reference. They thereby infered that there was no ether through which light was propogated. If light had propogated through an ether, the rotatable interferometer would have detected that light was not moving at a constant rate of speed in relation to the orbiting earth. At certain times of year the earth would have turned back upon the ether and the speed of light should have slowed. But light didn't slow. Its velocity remained constant from every frame of reference.
But Michelson and Morley were making a brash assumption--namely that light was moving at all.
If light moves at the same velocity from all frames of reference, two things are possible: either light is indeed moving at a constant rate of speed in relation to all observers (a curious and somewhat counterintuitive kind of motion); or, all observers are moving together along an as yet undiscovered axis through the light which is at relative rest to us observers.
Sadly, we held on to the "a priori given" that the stars were moving at the same speed in relation to all earthly observers for over a thousand years. I wonder how long the "a priori given" that light is in motion will keep progress in science at bay. It has kept science at bay for over a hundred years already!!
I will be the first to admit that I am a fool. I have nothing but my gut and the gift of inspiration (a quixotic gift indeed) which tells me that all of science is headed down the wrong track. They have ginned up a dimension of time (which can neither be verified nor observed). They have applied a constant speed to the most common instrumentality in the universe (light), without even taking the time to wonder if a constant speed in this instrumentality might actually mean a universal velocity through an instrumentality which is actually at rest.
I suspect a thousand years must pass before the new Copernicus comes to save us from our ignorance. May God send him as quickly as possible so we can escape the "Alice in Wonderland" physics that arises from general relativity and quantum mechanics.
The universe is moving. It is moving very fast. It is moves according to laws of motion first established by Newton, but it moves through a 4-space.
I know I'm probably insane/wrong.
But in my world, there is no time dilation...only the appearance of time dilation. Objects do not actually shrink in the direction of their motion in my world...they only appear to shrink. In my world particles need not be entangled or in two places at once, because particles have 1 more dimension than we think. They extend into 4-space and intersect 3-space at many points. There is no spooky physics in the resting light universe. What appears to be spooky is simply the interaction of an object of four physical dimensions with a universe of only three physical dimensions.
Yet what seems clear to me, is obviously clear to no one else. I must be mad (insane). The Wick is burning with a wild light. I will remain here in my cave of resting light and amuse myself with clever arguments that nobody hears.
Regards! Regards! Regards!
Wick


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