There are no doubt many things that could be raised here. I think that the deepest misconceptions are never even discussed. One deep error can lead to half a dozen or more errors at the next level and only compounds from there. So I want to raise a small number of misconceptions only, which are related to each other, and which I think compound into the whole structure that is stuck for a way to go from here.Has science taken a wrong turn? If so, what corrections are needed?
1. The fundamental laws of the universe are those of electromagnetism and it is non-linear.
The establishment would not waste there time replying to me on this because they "know" that I am wrong. So I can only guess at the "reasons" or "prejudices" that they have that lead to that conclusion. Firstly, they know that Maxwell's equations are linear because that has been known from the beginning. So I have to overturn that idea and at the same time preserve the facts that lead to that being believed in the first place.
a. The reason that I am so sure that E/M is non-linear is that we have sense and they work. OK, that needs explaining. If E/M was linear, that means that all E/M waves just travel through each other without interaction. And yet we can see things, so clearly something interacted. It is totally undeniable that an interaction occurs. So the excuse appears to be made that E/M can interact with matter and matter is different stuff. I don't buy that. So I have to say ...
b. Matter is E/M spherical standing waves which means that the field strength gets very strong as you approach the centre. That means that the non-linearity gets much greater very close to "particles" (which term is to be understood always as "E/M spherical standing waves"). If we are to have a single set of equations that describe everything then we cannot have matter and e/m being made of different stuff. They must be made of the same stuff because they interact.
c. So why is it that light appears to be linear in most circumstances? We can see distant galaxies, and that light is criss-crossed by other light traveling from every part of the universe through every point along its path. And it gets here without any obvious interference in most cases. The answer is simple. In most places in the universe there is very little matter nearby and only very low e/m field intensity. Therefore the non-linearity is extremely miniscule. Therefore it looks for most purpose like light is linear.
d. Why then does this change when light gets near matter? We know that when light travels through matter it actually changes velocity by a substantial percentage, -25% in water, -33% in glass and as much as -75% or more in metals. Quite clearly the non-linearity becomes huge when light gets very near to atoms, especially atoms with larger atomic weights.
e. If we want a unification of everything then we must recognize the non-linearity or we will have many more equations than we really need. In my case I think these things are best understood by going back to the old concept of the aether. This will explain the non-linearity in obviously valid mechanical terms. However there is so much mental baggage that is carried by physics that mentioning aether makes you a crackpot. So be it. That means only crackpots can make progress. You can do it without aether, but it is much harder because there is no obvious explanation for the form of the non-linearity. The equations of e/m are the equations of a tensile aether. The operators like div and rot used in e/m actually refer to stretching and rotation of the aether. E/M makes sense when these vector (or other forms) are understood as mechanical operations.
f. So why does a non-linearity arise in the aether? Especially, why does it do so near matter? Let us look first at what are the properties of a tensile medium. A tensile medium propagates waves according to the standard wave equation - the same wave equation used by Maxwell in the E/M equations. A wave equation takes the form (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_equation):
d^2u/dt^2 = c^2 (d^2u/dx^2 + d^2u/dy^2 + d^2u/dz^2) (Note I expanded del^2 to the three space dimensions).
What this equation says in simple language is that the sum of the curvature of the field in the three space dimensions causes the change in the change of the field over time. And the proportionality depends on the wave speed of the medium.
There is only one place there to make the system non-linear, and that is to have c be a variable. Why should the wave propagation speed be variable? Quite simply because the aether sometimes gets stretched. The effect is exceedingly small in outer space, but in matter the aether has so much activity that the aether has a higher tension. The exact same thing happens in a guitar string - if it is plucked lightly it has one frequency, but if plucked energetically the string tension is increased and the wave propagation speed goes up and as a result the frequency also increases.
g. So we must recognize that c is a variable. It depends on the local aether tension which in turn depends on the level of e/m activity, which is clearly much greater in matter than elsewhere. But didn't Einstein prove that c is constant? No, he didn't, he assumed that it was. But he never assumed that it was constant in matter because everyone knows that it is not. There is a thing called refractive index which is the inverse of the speed of light in the material, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refractive_index which states:
So It is always accepted that c is variable, especially in matter. in relativity the variation that is denied is only to do with moving frames of reference.The refractive index (or index of refraction) of a medium is a measure of how much the speed of light (or other waves such as sound waves) is reduced inside the medium.
h. If matter has more energy and that stretches the aether, wouldn't that make c get higher inside matter rather than lower? Yes, it would. However it also makes light travel by a much more circuitous path because the atoms and particles are always in vibration and light gets strongly influenced by this. That effect seems to be twice as great as the other meaning the final result is an apparent slowing down.
i. What about light, doesn't it come in photons? Well, light is emitted by matter in discrete amounts and is absorbed in the same discrete amounts, but in between I reckon that the e/m field is entirely continuous and there is no such thing as a photon identity. QM has somewhat agreed with this, but when Feynman says "light is a particle", it causes endless confusion. Light, like everything else is a wave. The only particle nature it has is the discreteness of the events that cause its emission and absorption by matter. Those events are discrete, because an electron van only orbit in certain arrangements (and likewise for nucleon arrangements) as the in between states are unstable and fall back either to the original arrangement or the new different one.
j. So why is it that it seems that we see something far away as if a photon was emitted there and absorbed here? The answer is because there was an emission there and an absorption here and they are causally connected. Did I just contradict myself? No. The connection is through the continuous e/m field. The wave emitted just adds to the continuous e/m field that exists everywhere (or the wobbles of the aether if you like) and the affects propagate according to the wave equations. Experiments in the 1950s have proven that a single emission event can cause multiple absorption events (or one of none) according to "luck" because the distribution is a poisson one with mean 1. In fact a laser could not work if a single emitted photon could not cause interaction multiple times. How else would there get to be multiple "photons" with identical phase?
k. So if that is so, how does the double slit experiment work? Why does light appear as either a particle or a wave but no both? Where does this duality come from? The answer is that it is always a wave. The particle nature refers only to the absorption of e/m energy by an atom (or molecule or nucleus or whatever). The statement that when the slits are watched the particle only goes through one slit is based on a big oversight. When a single emission of a photon occurs, then the proportion of its outgoing wave energy going through each slit is typically only about 1 part in a million or less. This means that the chance of each photon being detected is less than 10^-6 at one slit and the same at the other. So the chance of seeing both 10^-12 or not very often. When the very rare event happens of both being detected it will be assumed to be coincidence. My claim can be easily tested by experiment and I am quite confident of the result. If the light source is very dim and a large reflector is used to catch nearly all of any outgoing wave and then focused through a lens towards a half-mirror splitter so that almost all of the emitted energy arrives half at each slit, then I predict that even with low brightness source, there will be many more occasions where the two slits see the same wave / particle.
l. When these views are adopted, it becomes very clear what the confusions are in standard thinking. It opens up the possibility of experiments that easily prove the view correct. It also allows the real work of working out the correct waveform of particles to be examined. Non-linear standing waves are not likely to be solved analytically. But simulations based on a tensile aether will allow stable forms to be found that should have corresponding properties to the know particles. I am pretty convinced that this would totally revolutionize particle physics.
m. I have not found any problem with this view adapting to all known experimental results. This is very important as the historical results must stand. But the wrong turns must be abandoned.
n. There are additional things predicted as a result of such a view that have not been recognized even by other people who agree with me that there is a Wave structure of Matter (WSM). Firstly, if e/m is non-linear, and matter is spherical standing waves, then the non-linearity is very large near the centre of particles. This means that particles are not 100% stable, but must evolve over time. The primary evolution is that any non-linear standing wave must develop harmonics. These harmonics are always multiples of the original frequency. Any unification of e/m with matter must have this property, even though I may be the only person in the world saying so.
o. It follows that the mass of particles must vary over time. This same conclusion (arrived at via a different path) has been reached by Arp and Narlikar and is caused VMH or variable mass hypothesis. It causes two direct results. The first is that over time all transition frequencies vary with the particle mass changes so that matter gets bluer with time. Yes, I said bluer, meaning higher frequency. We see distant galaxies as they were in the past when all matter had lower or redder frequencies. The further away galaxies are the further back in time we look and the redder they seem.
p. The second effect is that the absorption of energy by particles means that the outgoing part of the standing wave is weaker than the ingoing part. Gravity really does suck. This explains that matter behaves in accord with Lesage gravity. There should be gravity shadows and this would lead to testable predictions. And Feynman was wrong about this too.
OK, I am running out of alphabet, so will stop there. There is surely more, but it is all related.
I think that it all flows logically from 1 above. But most people have never contemplated these things. I am trying to make a groove that others can deepen in the future so that eventually it becomes the path most traveled.
Enjoy the ride
Ray
