Dear Solar!
After a long self imposed absence (from posting here) I feel compelled to congratulate you on a truly brilliant thread!
I note our cyberspace friend
'Kiwi' brought to our remembrance JungleLord (Dean) and even StephenR turned up to comment in the thread!
Whilst you have taken the most gentlemanly, softly ,softly approach , I feel this forum and it's underlying incomplete EU theories have lacked someone to put the Aether, and the outstanding work of the scientific giants of the past like Tesla who's work fundamentally rested on such concept....
front and centre into the discussion !
Oh! JL we miss those bold brash contentious bursts of inspiration!
I think Bob Johnsons EU talk (a few years ago) ought have been a MAJOR reality check and course changer in the EU theory promoted here (Thornhill, Scott Talbott et al). Simply attempting to explain our universe in basic EE terms of mysterious not understood ions and electrons ...simply is inadequate!
It is clear to me from years of reading that at least Wal Thornhill clearly acknowledges the "universal medium" but for some reason shys away from building around the fundamental "stuff".
Crikey, even Einstein in his Leiden Lecture 1921 acknowledged it
"According to the general theory of relativity space without ether is unthinkable; for in such space there not only would be no propagation of light, but also no possibility of existence for standards of space and time (measuring-rods and clocks), nor therefore any space-time intervals in the physical sense. But this ether may not be thought of as endowed with the quality characteristic of ponderable media, as consisting of parts which may be tracked through time.
"The idea of motion may not be applied to it."
To those budding keen Thunderbolts EU would be evangelists that I see floating around and appearing in forums in cyberspace
First GET THIS (what Solar said):
Solar wrote:...
To me, as demonstrated with the Superluminal Waves video, it is THIS “medium” that is being
Pulsed by Stars providing the illusion of “action-at-a-distance”, and it is This “field” that is ‘absorbed’ and interconverted into “kinetic energy” by all “particles” as “charge” as well as being configured to their internal motions.
Nonetheless you get to decide. Though some things are stated as fact these are thoughts for consideration extrapolating on experiments long ago demonstrated by Tesla/Ampere with contributions from a great many others obviously.
It is my opinion that a “universal medium” is desperately needed in the Continuum that this Universe must surely be and all EM Phenomena garner their puissance from such a medium. The ‘haze’ of EM Phenomena has become a miasma preventing the eyes from seeing what is there. Once the noise, (and it is a type of noise relative to the harmonic nodes of the ‘background’), of EM Phenomena is “suppressed”, just as Tesla sought to do, just as in the
Superluminal Video the Presence of ‘Something’ – the magnitude of which is able to oscillate, or reverberate - is revealed.
This is the vantage point from which I view some of these phenomena and the variety of theories that accompany them. It is only through consideration of a “universal medium” that “cascades” into a multiplicity of ‘’objects’, ‘phases’ and phenomena that the whole of EM Theory progressed in the first place. Sure, the focus has been on Aetherometry, Eric P. Dollard, some Konstantin Meyl, and Electric Universe (*the concept*). Tesla’s work and concepts heavily influences the experimental foundations of first three therefore they MUST infuse the conceptual basis of the last regardless of who is positioning an EU hypothesis of any kind imho.
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PS Oh Lloyd, Upriver, (and Charles Chandler -if you read this) .... NO! Solar is not talking secret choir speak, just being a gentleman and accepting your right to choose after examining his material!
You can amass a website of all the alternative theories and speculations you like but if you leave out the aether... they are worthless!
PSS Charles, I left here because I lost the plot and was rude to you. You will not remember but I do offer my sincere apology for that!