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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Chip, Macken:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">I have a different approach to the stiffness of the space.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Just look at the Slide#12 in the attached document.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">I conclude Ether as the Complex
<b><i>Tension</i></b> Field (CTF) based on the fact that this CTF allows the perpetual velocity “c” for light
<b><i>WAVES </i></b>through it<b><i>,</i></b> same everywhere. Therefore, from Maxwell’s equation “epsilon” and “mu” are the most important determinants of the space stiffness. These two constants have been measured repeatedly since the beginning of physics.
I have presented this approach in my 2014 book (“Causal Physics”) and many of my earlier papers. Fortunately, math is accessible to undergraduate students (Slide #12).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Chandra. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">PS: The attached document is a cut out version of my1-hr. seminar today to our graduate students. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> General [mailto:general-bounces+chandra.roychoudhuri=uconn.edu@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>John Macken<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, October 06, 2017 1:30 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Nature of Light and Particles - General Discussion' <general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org>; 'Hodge John' <jchodge@frontier.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [General] Stiffness of space<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#20188C">Hi Chip,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#20188C"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#20188C">I do have an answer for your question about the stiffness of space. I have been working on this for a long time and I believe that I have come up with some amazing results. Attached is my latest version of
a paper I have been writing on this subject. Here is the abstract from this paper.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#20188C"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Abstract:
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Gravitational waves </span>(GWs) have some characteristics of acoustic waves.<span style="font-size:11.0pt">
</span>For example, GWs <span style="font-size:11.0pt">have amplitude, frequency, intensity, propagation speed and encounter</span> spacetime as having a<span style="font-size:11.0pt"> quantifiable impedance. These
</span>characteristics <span style="font-size:11.0pt">permit</span> GWs to be analyzed to obtain the apparent “acoustic” properties of spacetime. The result is that GWs encounter spacetime as if it is
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">an extremely stiff elastic medium</span> with a large energy density. The energy density encountered by GWs scales with frequency squared and equals Planck energy density (<span style="font-family:"Cambria Math",serif">∿</span>10<sup>113</sup>
J/m<sup>3</sup>) at Planck frequency. <span style="font-size:11.0pt">This matches the vacuum energy density predicted by quantum
</span>field theory at this frequency. This finding <span style="font-size:11.0pt">
makes a new contribution to one of the major mysteries of physics known as the cosmological constant problem.</span>
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">An analysis of the </span>GW<span style="font-size:11.0pt"> designated GW150914 is also given as a numerical example. A model of vacuum energy is proposed</span> to be Planck length vacuum fluctuations at Planck frequency.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#20188C"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#20188C">John M.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#20188C"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> General [<a href="mailto:general-bounces+john=macken.com@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org">mailto:general-bounces+john=macken.com@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Chip Akins<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, October 06, 2017 8:16 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Hodge John' <<a href="mailto:jchodge@frontier.com">jchodge@frontier.com</a>>; 'Nature of Light and Particles - General Discussion' <<a href="mailto:general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org">general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [General] Stiffness of space<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Hi John H<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Not like inertia.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Chandra and I both feel that space is comprised of a tension medium.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">But if that is the case then it seems that medium must be very “stiff”.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">So that it would take a large force to displace space a small amount.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">But the stiffness would be due to the tensor strength of the medium.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Space would then be “frictionless” for all practical purposes. But would oppose displacement with a force.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Chip<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> General [<a href="mailto:general-bounces+chipakins=gmail.com@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org">mailto:general-bounces+chipakins=gmail.com@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Hodge John<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, October 06, 2017 9:57 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Nature of Light and Particles - General Discussion <<a href="mailto:general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org">general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [General] Stiffness of space<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">"Stiff" like inertia?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Hodge<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">On Friday, October 6, 2017 7:22 AM, Chip Akins <<a href="mailto:chipakins@gmail.com">chipakins@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Hi John M<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Earlier, while reading your work, I noticed you discussed the stiffness of space.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">I am looking for some insight into how to quantify just how “stiff” the medium of space is. Hoping to relate fundamental force to fundamental displacement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Do you have any thoughts on how to address this issue?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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