[General] SR

[Chip Akins]

Hi John W, Vivian, and Grahame

 

For me, sharing the concept that we may have some invalid preconceived ideas embedded in our commonly accepted theory, is the only unselfish thing to do.

 

It would of course be easier to just watch and listen as each idea is argued.

 

But is the spirit of attempting to help, and in the spirit of continually learning, participation is of course required.

 

When we analyze the motion of many of our electron models in a Euclidian three dimensional space, we see that relativistic principles are automatically present.

 

If the stuff that light is made of moves through space at c, and particles of matter are made of this same stuff, confined and moving through space at c, then relativistic transformations are a natural result. This natural result is framed in a Euclidian three dimensional space.  This set of circumstances shows a cause for relativistic properties of matter moving through space.  The space we used to model this causal form of relativity is a fixed frame where motion causes a change in the confined propagation which creates matter.  That motion which causes the relativistic changes, is and must be referenced ultimately to the space the particles are in.  So if this is the cause for relativity, which seems likely, then all motion is NOT relative. But rather, all motion is relative to space. 

 

Experimentally we get pretty much the same answers in either version of relativity, but the one which is founded on cause seems to be the more likely of the two.

 

If we use the all motion is relative approach, we must throw out the causal mechanisms we found using the fixed speed of light in empty space, and try to invent new cause. There is only one relativity, and one or the other of these scenarios must be chosen.

 

There are many experimental indications that light does indeed travel at a fixed speed in empty space. If this is true then there must be a cause. It comes down to a simple matter in the end. Do we prefer to accept experimentally compatible theory based on assignable cause, or do we prefer to accept experimentally compatible theory based on arbitrary mind stimulating conjecture and ignore fundamental cause?  

 

John W.  If we view space and fields using the contemporary framework, and never explore any framework outside that narrow definition then, yes, it indeed does limit our ability to see the range of possibilities.  So yes, it does prevent us from exploring and finding the answers if they actually lie outside that accepted set of boundaries. It often takes us a long time to see that what we have believed is not a reflection of the reality of nature.  Until we really look, we don’t know how profound an impact a simple misconception has had on our body of understanding.

 

 

Warm Regards

 

Chip

 

From: General [mailto:general-bounces+chipakins=gmail.com at lists.natureoflightandparticles.org] On Behalf Of John Williamson
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2017 4:07 AM
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Cc: Mark, Martin van der <martin.van.der.mark at philips.com>
Subject: Re: [General] SR

 

Dear Grahame,

I'm intrigued. Whyever do you think the idea that all inertial frames are equivalent is holding up progress? Comments in red below

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From: General [general-bounces+john.williamson=glasgow.ac.uk at lists.natureoflightandparticles.org] on behalf of Dr Grahame Blackwell [grahame at starweave.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2017 11:25 PM
To: Nature of Light and Particles - General Discussion
Subject: Re: [General] SR

Dear Viv,

 

I'll try just once again:

 

(a)  I don't believe I've heard anyone in this group propose that there's an absolute reference point in the cosmos.  Such a suggestion would of course be meaningless without a defined set of axes accompanying it - and even then the concept would be highly problematic.  It appears that you may be confusing this with the point that IS at issue, since you don't appear to have addressed that point in any way (repeated yet again under (d) below).

 

(b)  As far as I know, nobody in this group takes issue with the abundance of experimental evidence showing that the speed of light measures identically from/in every inertial reference frame; I myself have reiterated time and time again (including most recently in my post yesterday) that the experimental evidence precisely fits the accepted model of SR, including the measured invariance of light speed from all such frames (please note my use of the term 'measured').  [The fact that you feel the need to reproduce such copious evidence in support of this point again suggests to me that you appear to have misunderstood the absolutely fundamental point at issue.]

 

(c)  Also, I agree with you 100% - as I believe certain others in this group do also - that the cyclic-photon (or whatever one chooses to call it) model of particle structure fully accounts for this observed phenomenon, together with others grouped under 'Relativity'.  I've made this point myself many times, as I believe Chip has also.  I agree totally, therefore, that this structure provides for the causation of 'Relativistic' phenomena, including the invariance of the measured speed of light (there's that 'measured' again!).

 

(d)  That last point actually underlines the whole crux of the matter: (i) there is no need for the generally accepted proposal that all inertial reference frames are objectively equivalent; 

 

Agreed, but this is certainly NOT generally accepted. There is merely a statement that IF one takes this as a premise, THEN certain things follow (a good many of which happen to coincide with observed reality). There is, as far as I know, no proof of premise in ANY theory. By definition any logical construct rests on its axioms. One can find a deeper theory which contains another, but it then rests once again on its own axioms, but subsumes the other. There are, as I have said before, a whole basket load of theories which lead to SR, including some that predate Einstein relativity. So what?

 

There is a good argument anyway to say that there is no such thing as a truly inertial frame (isn't this what you have argued effectively in your redshift argument in the past Viv?).

 

(ii) there is no evidence to support this assertion (which is not the same as the truism that measured speed of light in all frames is invariant);

 

On the contrary there is evidence that the assertion is false - in detail. One can easily load a spaceship with instrumentation that can readily distinguish between different inertial frames. This is not a big item for discussion.

 

(iii) there is no causation offered to support that notion. 

 

Look, any theory rests on a set of axioms for which there is no “cause”. As I said in the previous note Maxwell contains implicitly, space, time, multiplication, division, differentiation, charge, and fields, none of which are given a “cause”. The axioms are merely assumed. This is the way theories work. You make some shit up and then see in how far your shit agrees with observed reality. Ok, I agree that there is a sociological problem, in that in any era there is a general consensus as to what axioms are “true”. If that is what you have been arguing must be challenged all along I am with you 100 percent!

 

This is the issue that exercises and drives me and others who question the veracity of SR as it is generally preached: the claim that all inertial frames are objectively symmetric does not follow logically from the data showing that this appears to be the case - in fact, as you yourself have noted, that appearance is fully explained by cyclic-photon particle structure. [Just to briefly clarify the distinction between this and "an absolute reference point" somewhere in the cosmos: the CMB defines a unique reference frame - but I don't think anyone would suggest that it defines a reference point of any kind.]

 

There are a lot of preachers preaching, but most of them do not really understand relativity beyond SR at all. Grahame, this is not and has never been a claim of SR. SR is just the simple set of relations - the trigonometry of rulers and clocks in uniform motion, as measured by rulers and clocks (made of light, or slower stuff than light). SR itself does not contain, or need,   "the claim that all inertial frames are objectively symmetric". . One can derive it simply from the properties of confined light, as you say and as I have done years (decades!) ago. So have many others. For goodness sake what is all the fuss about? 

 

I really don't know how else to put this.  This issue does not question any of the points you've made - it agrees with them 100% - apart from your non sequitur (in my view) that "SR is not a good [consideration] to challenge".  Certainly SR as an observer effect is beyond question; to claim that it should be accepted without question in its present widely-accepted form - as an objective reality rather than a subjective experience, in relation to frame symmetry - is in my view totally counter to the best principles of scientific inquiry.

 


Look, I kind of agree with this, but do not agree at all that "other people" think that, or ever thought that, SR is "an objective reality". The whole initial point was, in fact, exactly the opposite: an argument against any particular objective reality. I certainly do not, and never did thing that SR is "an objective reality"even as a fresh undergrad meeting it for the first time. Good grief, why oh why are we arguing about this?

 

Viv, I really don't know how to put this as strongly as I feel it needs to be put.  All the evidence that I've seen points to 100+ years of self-delusion by the scientific mainstream, painting itself into a corner with unquestioning acceptance of a proposal that's illogical, unproven, unexplained and now counter to our understanding of the structure of material particles which renders it totally superfluous.  This is not in any way to discount the raft of evidence that you've provided - simply to state that it has no bearing on the point I'm making.  To propose "Nothing to see here, let's consider something more worthwhile" (as you seem to be in your last sentence) is IMO to advocate perpetuation of a misconception that's arguably blocking our access to a potentially vast field of new scientific discoveries.  Some of those potential discoveries could be make-or-break for the future of our species.

 

I think this may be true. In making up a new theory one must always question the bases, of course - but one has to replace them with something that explains all of experiment, and there remains the fact that the analogy of light waves, and the Doppler shift of light as it is observed,is not consistent with there being a medium in the same way that sound is carried by matter for example. One needs to do better than this. As to your specific point: I do not see how the principle of equivalence of inertial frames affects this either way, either impeding or helping it at all. Rotating light, for example is as non-inertial as one can get and remain physical!

 

That's all.

 

Grahame

 

That’s all from me too!

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From: General [general-bounces+john.williamson=glasgow.ac.uk at lists.natureoflightandparticles.org] on behalf of Dr Grahame Blackwell [grahame at starweave.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2017 11:25 PM
To: Nature of Light and Particles - General Discussion
Subject: Re: [General] SR

Dear Viv,

 

I'll try just once again:

 

(a)  I don't believe I've heard anyone in this group propose that there's an absolute reference point in the cosmos.  Such a suggestion would of course be meaningless without a defined set of axes accompanying it - and even then the concept would be highly problematic.  It appears that you may be confusing this with the point that IS at issue, since you don't appear to have addressed that point in any way (repeated yet again under (d) below).

 

(b)  As far as I know, nobody in this group takes issue with the abundance of experimental evidence showing that the speed of light measures identically from/in every inertial reference frame; I myself have reiterated time and time again (including most recently in my post yesterday) that the experimental evidence precisely fits the accepted model of SR, including the measured invariance of light speed from all such frames (please note my use of the term 'measured').  [The fact that you feel the need to reproduce such copious evidence in support of this point again suggests to me that you appear to have misunderstood the absolutely fundamental point at issue.]

 

(c)  Also, I agree with you 100% - as I believe certain others in this group do also - that the cyclic-photon (or whatever one chooses to call it) model of particle structure fully accounts for this observed phenomenon, together with others grouped under 'Relativity'.  I've made this point myself many times, as I believe Chip has also.  I agree totally, therefore, that this structure provides for the causation of 'Relativistic' phenomena, including the invariance of the measured speed of light (there's that 'measured' again!).

 

(d)  That last point actually underlines the whole crux of the matter: (i) there is no need for the generally accepted proposal that all inertial reference frames are objectively equivalent; (ii) there is no evidence to support this assertion (which is not the same as the truism that measured speed of light in all frames is invariant); (iii) there is no causation offered to support that notion.  This is the issue that exercises and drives me and others who question the veracity of SR as it is generally preached: the claim that all inertial frames are objectively symmetric does not follow logically from the data showing that this appears to be the case - in fact, as you yourself have noted, that appearance is fully explained by cyclic-photon particle structure. [Just to briefly clarify the distinction between this and "an absolute reference point" somewhere in the cosmos: the CMB defines a unique reference frame - but I don't think anyone would suggest that it defines a reference point of any kind.]

 

I really don't know how else to put this.  This issue does not question any of the points you've made - it agrees with them 100% - apart from your non sequitur (in my view) that "SR is not a good [consideration] to challenge".  Certainly SR as an observer effect is beyond question; to claim that it should be accepted without question in its present widely-accepted form - as an objective reality rather than a subjective experience, in relation to frame symmetry - is in my view totally counter to the best principles of scientific inquiry.

 

Viv, I really don't know how to put this as strongly as I feel it needs to be put.  All the evidence that I've seen points to 100+ years of self-delusion by the scientific mainstream, painting itself into a corner with unquestioning acceptance of a proposal that's illogical, unproven, unexplained and now counter to our understanding of the structure of material particles which renders it totally superfluous.  This is not in any way to discount the raft of evidence that you've provided - simply to state that it has no bearing on the point I'm making.  To propose "Nothing to see here, let's consider something more worthwhile" (as you seem to be in your last sentence) is IMO to advocate perpetuation of a misconception that's arguably blocking our access to a potentially vast field of new scientific discoveries.  Some of those potential discoveries could be make-or-break for the future of our species.

 

That's all.

 

Grahame

 

 

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