[geocentrism] Re: Aether effects

Martin,
   
  Thank you. Nice response.
   
  I read your reply to the criticisms of North and Nieto a few years ago, in 
fact I think I still have a printed copy of it somewhere. Whilst I agree with 
your position regarding GR, I am not convinced by the Planck-particle liquid 
plenum aether idea, since this relies upon density and we have then gone full 
circle back to matter-matter interaction. Also, I see no reason why certain 
"fundamental" physical constants should be related to one another, this being 
an idea which, if carried far enough, would result in the conclusion that we 
should all be cooked to a crisp due to the temperature of the universe.
   
  I do accept that the mathematical foundations of this novelty are sound, as 
you rightly allude to by saying that it was reviewed by Stephen Hawking, but I 
feel that this approach is, frankly, absurd. Rather than saying that objects 
would pass freely through it, my position is that not even light would pass 
through it (all radiative energy would be absorbed immediately by this enormous 
energy sink).
   
  Furthermore, celestial objects do not exhibit uniform rectilinear motion, 
rather their velocities are constantly changing.
   
  My opinion, therefore, is that the plenum aether is a non-starter.
   
  Best wishes,
   
  Neville.
  

"Martin G. Selbrede" <mselbrede@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  Neville,   

  Viscosity conventionally considered is a measure of a frictional coefficient 
(so-and-so centistokes, for example) related to resistance to change in 
displacement, or, in other words, it is velocity-dependent in its effect. 
Operationally, a workable aether only resists change in velocity (its 
coefficient and higher order terms are arrayed not with the first derivative of 
displacement with respect to time, but with the second).    

  It was calculation of these factors when analyzing a hypothetical liquid 
composed of maximon particles (maximon particles bear the Planck density) that 
led Markov to the proof that such a liquid comprises a "quasi-isotropic space" 
-- in other words, an aether composed of such ultra-dense particles functions 
like "empty space" as currently observed. Objects can travel through it freely 
without impediment, but the aether resists acceleration while conserving 
constant-velocity rectilinear motion. Newtonian macro observations are thus 
preserved in the classical limit, and his three laws of motion fall out of the 
properly normalized viscosity function. The key factor is the nature of the 
coupling at this scale -- THAT is what differs between matter-maximon 
interaction versus matter-matter interaction (from where we get our 
conventional notions of viscosity and its effects).
  

  Markov published this work in the compendium "The Very Early Universe," 
containing the Proceedings of the Nuffield Workshop held in 1983; this volume 
was edited by Hawking, Sykos, and Gibbons.  In other words, these research 
results passed the scrutiny of Stephen Hawking: there's nothing fishy with the 
physics.  I cited this material in a 1994 article which I believe is available 
at www.geocentricity.com (I think Dr. Bouw identifies it as "A Response to Drs. 
Nieto and North" by Martin Selbrede -- you have to drill down a bit to find it).
  

  In any event, we need to distinguish between conventional notions of 
viscosity, and viscosity related to Markov-compliant aethers. The terms are not 
equipollent, because different derivatives of the spatial displacement are 
affected, respectively, in the two cases.
  

  Martin


       
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