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[3] viXra:2007.0104 [pdf] submitted on 2020-07-15 12:19:21
Authors: Tim Moon
Comments: 22 Pages.
Written entirely from an untutored viewpoint, this essay can only very tentatively venture some thoughts about a concept that very much belongs to the discipline of physics. This is the classical notion of naturally-moving reference systems; a concept central to thought experiments published a century ago, by Albert Einstein. A critical reading of one of these original accounts forms a springboard for detailed discussions; eventually they give rise to an argument for re-appraising the reference system concept. In the account in question, Einstein famously uses an imaginary train struck by lightning to illustrate his reasoning for the relativity of simultaneity. It seems this argument has been received with a widespread and almost unanimous approval, over the years. Yet it’s equally apparent that Einstein’s argument drew solely on classical mechanics; and it’s troubling that in preferring this simple logic, he allowed it to contradict the predictive force of his own famous postulates. So a sort of remedial analysis was undertaken: it accepted his postulates and applied them to the train scenario, independently of the classical transformation he chose. It is shown how this meticulous reanalysis leads unambiguously to the conclusion, not that simultaneity is relative, but that simuitaneity is conserved. Evaluating what to make of this disparate outcome leads to pursuing its resolution in much more philosophical terms. First, a review portrays how theoretical physicists’ views on the status of space have radically evolved over the last century. Adopting and adapting their current understanding, it’s suggested how naturally-moving systems might be newly characterised, not only in the old sense, by a spatial framework of material bodies, all moving uniformly in unison, but also by an additional content of equally co-moving segments of spatial field — areas which hitherto were seen only as abstractions from a stationary and homogenous background of empty space, through which the framework of matter moved. From the much newer perspective, these additional co-moving frame contents have highly dynamic substance. Taken together across multiple moving frames, they constitute super-plastic and holistically extended dynamic fields — such as electric and magnetic fields. On this speculative basis it’s explained how light waves would indeed show a constant ‘vacuum’ velocity in all frames, just as Einstein and Maxwell required — but would also be Galilean in nature, just like sound. A recent report of measurements directly supporting the reality of a Galilean view of light is cited.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[2] viXra:2007.0035 [pdf] submitted on 2020-07-06 18:22:57
Authors: Arnaud Andrieu
Comments: 4 Pages. 5 Figures
Based on the functioning of the mechanism of the anharmonic oscillator, the particle would oscillate between singularity and final matter. The path of the particle which therefore travels between singularity and final matter, passes through different steps and physical stage. Indeed the probability of presence of the particle is very high at the two edges of its well of potential (singularity and final matter), and where between two, its acceleration would be then almost instantaneous. In this case of the almost instantaneous displacement of the particle, this one becomes a flow, expressed in the quantum vacuum.The convergence of the energy of the quantum vacuum, in a smaller space, close to the singularity, then becomes in turn dark matter. At its opposite is the divergence of matter, expressed by quantum chromodynamics.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[1] viXra:2007.0002 [pdf] submitted on 2020-07-01 11:14:07
Authors: Jeremy Dunning-Davies, Richard Lawrence Norman
Comments: 3 Pages.
Following massive changes in the direction of thinking in physics towards the beginning of the twentieth century, it is beginning to seem that some articles which should have been seen as providing potentially significant developments were effectively consigned to the archives to be buried for posterity. Others appearing much later in the century appear to have suffered a similar fate by being published in obscure journals. Here four such articles – two in each category – are examined briefly to highlight the dangers of such action.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
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