<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><div style="direction: ltr;">Hi John</div><div style="direction: ltr;">It is clever to associate the gravitational waves with a vacuum energy 'proving' the existence of the latter. I put proving in quotes because in other models the vacuum energy is taken for granted as a starting point but in the Einsteinian world things have been abstracted and complicated way beyond what is necessary, and Special Relativity made it necessary to struggle against established physics just to say the ether exists. Worse in General Relativity mass causes warps and twists in spacetime, not the ether. A much simpler theory is possible. </div><div style="direction: ltr;"><br></div><div style="direction: ltr;">Jettison spacetime, and adopt a discrete ether with a maximum c but variable speed of light <c, you end up with an absolute Lorentzian universe in which transformations do occur naturally, the vacuum has density where light slows down (Eddington's concept of an index of refraction of space). In such a world gravitational waves will propagate as you described them, like light, through a medium perhaps with the specific properties you deduced, in a natural way. I added perhaps because in the type of theory I am involved in where the ether consists of an array or matrix of nodes, the value of the Gravitational constant as measured in a macro world of many nodes is very different from that of G_o at the node-to- node level.</div><div style="direction: ltr;"><br></div><div style="direction: ltr;">Is it me talking or the beer, excusable in this heat?</div><div style="direction: ltr;">Cheers</div><div style="direction: ltr;">Vladimir</div><div style="direction: ltr;"><br></div><br>_____________________<div><a href="http://vladimirtamari.com">vladimirtamari.com</a></div></div><div><br>On 14 Aug 2016, at 7:35 am, John Macken <<a href="mailto:john@macken.com">john@macken.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Hello Everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Attached is a draft of a new technical paper that I have just written titled “<b>Gravitational Waves Verify the Existence of Vacuum Energy</b>”. I would appreciate any comments, suggestions or criticism from this group. I am planning to submit it to a journal in about one week. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">While I have not participated much recently in the group discussion, still the group did influence this paper. In the past the main objection to my model of an electron and photons was criticized because it was based on the existence of vacuum energy with the very large energy density predicted by quantum field theory. Martin summarized the objections succinctly when he wrote, “If it cannot be measured, it does not exist.” Shortly after that time, the announcement was made that the first gravitational wave had been detected by LIGO. Finally, this was the proof that I have been waiting for. The gravitational wave had measured the properties of vacuum energy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Gravitational waves strongly interact with vacuum energy and prove its existence. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The attached paper takes the experimentally observed LIGO data plus other gravitational wave information and proves that the “stiffness” of spacetime encountered by gravitational waves can be quantified and modeled. I believe that reading this paper will result in improved models of electrons and photons because the vacuum is not an empty void. The properties of the vacuum must be incorporated into these models. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">John Macken<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><GWs Verify VE.pdf></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>If you no longer wish to receive communication from the Nature of Light and Particles General Discussion List at <a href="mailto:vladimirtamari@hotmail.com">vladimirtamari@hotmail.com</a></span><br><span><a href="<a href="http://lists.natureoflightandparticles.org/options.cgi/general-natureoflightandparticles.org/vladimirtamari%40hotmail.com?unsub=1&unsubconfirm=1">http://lists.natureoflightandparticles.org/options.cgi/general-natureoflightandparticles.org/vladimirtamari%40hotmail.com?unsub=1&unsubconfirm=1</a>"></span><br><span>Click here to unsubscribe</span><br><span></a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>