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<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2 face=Arial>Hi Chip,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2 face=Arial>Many thanks for sharing your paper -
quite a Tour de Force!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2 face=Arial>I've had a read of it, and whilst
duly impressed I don't feel that I'm the person to critique most of it; it's not
my specialisation and it would take me a lot of time (more than I have) to work
thru the various points you make. It's apparent even to me, though, that
your results hang crucially on the concept of a unique objective rest-frame (aka
the aether) in which everything else takes place - please correct me if I'm
wrong on this. This in turn, I believe, requires overturning the
widely-held (including in this group) view that phenomena grouped under SR are
results of an objective reality - the symmetry of all inertial reference frames
- rather than subjective experience. if colleagues in this group (and
elsewhere) who hold that view cannot be persuaded otherwise then I can't see how
they could accept your reasoning on all the other various issues, regardless of
how compelling that reasoning may be.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2 face=Arial>This is a topic on which I feel I'm
on rather firmer ground. I believe that you and I are of like mind (with
minor differences) with regard to this subject. It seems to me that, to
hold water, your paper must first establish unequivocally that SR is the result
of subjective experience rather than objective cosmic reality of the sort that
it's widely held to be. Whilst I fully support your premise in this
respect, I don't actually see that happening in your paper.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2 face=Arial>You refer to John Bell's views, based
on his own cogent proof that information must, and does, travel faster than c
and his contention that Lorentz-Fitzgerald(/Larmor/Heaviside) contraction goes
some way to explaining outcomes of SR; that's part of the picture, but far from
all of it. You've also referred to orthogonality of linear and cyclic
motion of energy travelling at speed c in a helical path, almost certainly
leading to the Pythagorean formula for time dilation; whilst that's clearly true
for linear motion orthogonal to the plane of the circular energy-path, the
general case is significantly more complex, be it for a single particle or a
multi-body system.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2 face=Arial>There is a wide field of other
experimental observations that also need to be addressed if one is to put SR on
the right footing for a paper such as yours: Fizeau's experiment; anomalous
aberration of starlight; magnet & coil induction experiment;
frame-independence of Maxwell's equations; Einstein's thought experiment on
travelling alongside a photon at speed c; and more generally, the reciprocity
shown in the (skew) self-inverse nature of the Lorentz Transformation, which
appears to fly in the face of the notion of a unique preferred frame but which
also (I understand) is consistent with work in the LHC relating to switching
between lab frame and 'rest-frame' of relativistically-moving
particles.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2 face=Arial>I have fully successfully addressed
and resolved all of these issues (and more - I could talk at length on the
limitations of Hasselkamp's experiment as proof of SR!); I believe I have shared
various aspects of my findings in this group (I recall at some stage discussing
the issue of reciprocity at some length with Albrecht). I don't see any of
these issues being aired in your paper - but without those issues being 'put to
bed' I can't see how SR can be considered to have been explained, and without
that happening I don't see how followers of conventional SR can take your
findings on board.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2 face=Arial>[As I say, I may have understood,
your results may be sustainable in a conventional aether-free-SR universe;
that's not how I read it, but if I've misunderstood feel free to ignore all of
the above.]</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2 face=Arial>I hope you find these observations
useful, my aim here is to support you in making your excellent work as robust as
possible - which must surely include 'heading off at the pass' any suggestions
that your results are invalid since they depend on a maverick unproven &
unprovable interpretation of SR.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2 face=Arial>With very best regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2 face=Arial>Grahame</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=chipakins@gmail.com href="mailto:chipakins@gmail.com">Chip Akins</A>
</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org
href="mailto:general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org">'Nature of Light and
Particles - General Discussion'</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, January 09, 2018 12:12 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [General] Benefits of our discussions</DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV class=WordSection1>
<P class=MsoNormal>Greetings to All<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>I wanted to start by thanking each of you for the discussions
we have on this forum, and by thanking Chandra for creating this
forum.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>The major reason for my gratitude is the productive way this
discussion has kept my attention on the fact that we have to consider all
aspects of physics. We have to keep in mind the details as we reverse engineer
this amazing system which is our universe. And this forum has done just
that for me.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>I studied physics, off and on, for 27 years, and then began
studying intently and doing research regularly for the last 25 years. But
I did not make much real progress in understanding until becoming involved in
discussions with a few other physicists and then especially after joining this
group.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>While I am grateful for this group and the discussions we
have. <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>I now have a specific request of you.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>It seems to me that I have somewhat accidently stumbled onto
what may be an important step for physics. What I would really appreciate
from each of you is for you to read the attached, and tell me why you feel it is
wrong, or why you feel it is right.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>The attached is definitely a work in progress, for every week
or so I discover something else which seems to support the approach presented.
And I still have a large list of references and acknowledgements to
add.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Thank you all for your comments and for taking the time to
read this.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Your input would undoubtedly be helpful.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Warmest Regards<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Chip</P></DIV></BODY></HTML>