Comments in blue (p)"EMR propagates because it has nowhere to go but away from its source. Its exactly like two like poles trying to occupy the same space. It is self propagating. Its wave like properties, is due to the nature of the two fields of which it is composed.. they stretch." 1. If it has nowhere to go it might not go anywhere just as sound dose not travel in a vacuum my voice would have no where to go and thus it would go nowhere. 2.Experiments demonstrate something that has properties doing something that makes it hard to write it off as just nothing. 3. Scripture plainly outlines a Something out there that every thing out there is imbedded into... philip madsen <pma15027@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Martin, first up I want to say that I have the utmost respect for you, as I have come to experience your written word. Whilst I may not accept all that you teach, or say, you have been a cause in re-igniting my curiosity to learn and venture in new directions of all philosophy in science. I admire your command of the language. Thus it is in the spirit of learning and of my ignorance, that I make the following comment. You seem to be trying very hard to make the aether fit with some quantistic theory to make it conform with the ancient hypothesis of the aether being a hypothetical medium/fluid with properties that are due to a special type of material ..Why are you opposed to the idea that it does not have to be a material substance at all, and that wave propagation "through" it is due to an entirely different and new concept. I said "through" in quotation marks because I dispense with the term medium. EMR propagates because it has nowhere to go but away from its source. Its exacly like two like poles trying to occupy the same space. It is self propagating. Its wave like properties, is due to the nature of the two fields of which it is composed.. they stretch. OK yes I know you were about inertia and momentum, not EMR but, Why does "aether" have to be a special material with a new and special viscosity, that applies differently to matter at constant velocity to that which has acceleration? Last time I heard viscosity is a property inherent to a fluid. You seem to be trying to invent a fluid (via quantum mechanics) with discretionary properties as regards inertia, which to my mind means it is not a fluid at all. At the practical level for the purpose of trying to prove a fluids existence perhaps that makes for a possible hypotheses, but maybe unnecessarily so. Somehow it seems to me that we must get back to basics from scripture when trying to reason out how a geocentric universe can rotate with an aetheric firmament. To venture into using quantum theory to explain it appears to me to be no different to those creation scientists who try to justify evolution as intelligent design, on the one hand and on the other try to prove the universe is new , of only 7000 years or so old.. This latter way of thinking is of the Devil, at worst, or a weakness of faith at best, because it denies the omnipotent God as having the power to create a natural world. A world that would need in the natural order of science at least millions of years to have developed IF He had so desired to do it that way. BUT God tells us specifically that He side stepped all of that developement and created the world in six days, and it was an aged universe that he created, with light shining from stars that were light years away.. Yes for the unimaginative among you I say, he put in place in an instant the stars, with rays of light that were light years long, to shine on the earth in that day. This probably was the only time ever, when light was made to travel at infinite speed. Likewise He said , and I know I am being repetitive, "Before Abram was I AM. " To me that explains the aether, or else I am truly nuts. Philip. ----- Original Message ----- From: Martin G. Selbrede To: geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 8:51 AM Subject: [geocentrism] Re: Aether effects On Apr 24, 2007, at 5:21 PM, Dr. Neville Jones wrote: If maximons DO couple with matter: My original point was that if material objects are carried along by a rotating aether (such that net kinetic energy imparted is zero, as you state), then there must be a noticeable effect when those objects travel through, or against, this aether (even allowing for Allen's novel suggestion of currents within the aether), for then the flux must produce far more maximons "pushing against" our material object. This was what Markov was countering in regard to a liquid composed of maximons. This liquid has the intriguing property of having zero viscosity with regard to constant velocities, but non-zero viscosity in reaction to objects with changing velocities. (Again, I personally don't hold to either a LeSagean gas or a Markov liquid, but the extreme density form of these two models, where the mean free path constrains the underlying aetherons -- of whatever construction -- to stay localized near their current lattice positions due to crowding from their neighbors. The net flux through any material object is always zero: aether flux is conserved in this model, although the Bouw/Hanson approach to LeSage does not conserve flux since it treats matter as shielding that flux, rather than considering that matter shields acoustic pressure transmitted through the lattice. The effects are identical in either case, but with the rarefied aethers incumbent upon LeSage gas protagonists to support, there is no clear identification of the Planck Density with any element of the current universe at the subquantum domain. If these connections have been since established, I've not seen them reported.) If maximons DO NOT couple with matter: How would such an aether carry any material object along within itself? I think I mentioned this already, that inertial drag is to matter in the aether as Fresnel drag is to light rays in glass. I think in all fairness, Neville, your task is complicated because every person here on the forum has a completely different idea of what the aether is and how it should behave. So, interacting with Allen may or may not translate to an adequate response to Martin, or to Phil. You've got five blind men and an elephant, in effect. Your challenge, then, is to not tar with too broad a brush, but since knowledge of another person's views comes in to you piece-meal (usually by way of the person objecting to your criticisms), you've got something akin to vague, moving targets with poorly-defined outlines. So, I'm sympathetic with the challenges of pinning us aether guys down. It's like the old saw that if you have five economists, you'll have six opinions. Martin P.S. This reminds me of a comedian's commentary about all the out-of-focus photos of the legendary Bigfoot here in North America: "Bigfoot IS blurry. He's a creature with soft edges running around in the wilderness -- you can't get a sharp photograph of him." So it is with the aether theorists. The best you can do is pin one down at a time and figure out what his particular conceit is. That's just the nature of the beast. No pun intended. --------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. 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