PSI Blog 20160217 LIGO: Gravitational
attraction is dead
Numerous readers have
requested that I comment on all the commotion concerning the recent discovery of
gravitational waves via the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
(LIGO). I will assume that this is the real thing and not just another false
alarm.
First, let me quote
from page 190 of "The Scientific Worldview" (2007),[1]
which is similar to what I wrote in my early manuscript of 1984:[2]
“Current
government-supported work involves the search for gravitational waves, the
general idea being to detect the results of explosions or collapses of
celestial bodies. The success of the project would put the kibosh on the
attraction hypothesis. Systems philosophy would shudder, but probably would
regain composure by interpreting the data as yet another “proof” of Einstein’s
“space curvature” as the “mechanism” of gravitation. Of course, it really would
prove nothing more than that space is not empty and that it contains a material
medium capable of transmitting motion over great distances.”
Second, let me
mention that this is just another “Einsteinism”: “correct prediction, wrong reason.” Although
the gravitational-wave press conference totally ignored it, the long-awaited
discovery of gravity waves means that THE ATTRACTION HYPOTHESIS IS DEAD—we
will have to adopt the push hypothesis instead. A gravitational signal proven
to come from a source a billion light years away certainly did not arrive here
because of any “attraction” we might have. It is much like a far-away explosion
that we hear via the normal changes in air pressure that travel from source to
ear. Can we educated folks now refrain from thinking of gravitation as an
attraction? Please?
Third, we can now
give up the idea that space is empty. The experiment confirms that AETHER
MUST EXIST. The press reports stating that the waves travelled through perfectly
empty space via compression and decompression are ludicrous. That could never
happen. All wave motion requires a medium. That is why Einstein’s corpuscular
theory of light is equally ludicrous. Wave motion without a medium is like
having water waves without water.
Fourth, the
experiment did add one bit of information: the speed of gravitation and the
speed of light are identical. That is because they both use the same medium:
aether. Presumably, the investigators were able to see the explosion through telescopes
and measure the gravitation effect at the same time. This destroys the Le Sage
push theory,[3]
which requires gravitation to travel at 20 billion times the speed of light.[4]
The LIGO signal was delayed by 6.9+0.5 milliseconds due to the distance between the
two measurement stations (Livingston, LA and Hanford, WA). It would take light 10
milliseconds to travel the 3,030 km distance overland along the curvature of
Earth and slightly less time to travel the 3002 km distance along the chord directly through Earth. Presumably, the black hole merger did not occur exactly along the projected line between the two stations. If the waves traveled at the speed of light, any value less than 10 milliseconds would indicate there was an angle involved. A value greater than 10 milliseconds would indicate that the velocity was less than c.
Fifth, the correct
theory of gravitation is the one we proposed in 2012 as the "Neomechanical
Gravitation Theory" (NGT).[5]
The theory states that aether pressure tends to be highest away from ordinary baryonic
matter—just the opposite of atmospheric pressure. Baryonic
matter then acts like a vacuum, causing errant material objects to be pushed
toward massive objects. Thus, in NGT, gravitation acts locally, in the same way
that a helium balloon is pushed upward in the atmosphere due to local pressure
differences. Unlike other push theories, NGT does not hypothesize corpuscles or
gravitons rushing toward objects from far away at superluminal velocities. The
aether particles are already there, surrounding and permeating all baryonic
matter. Actually, NGT has much in common with the much-ignored theory proposed
by Newton 300 years ago.[6]
The key feature of both theories is the presence of aether, which has just been
confirmed by the gravitational wave experiment.
The universal
presence of aether makes it possible for us to detect waves from distant
galaxies, whether they are waves due to light or waves due to explosions that
appear as changes in gravitational pressure. The waves detected by LIGO really
are not a significant cause of most gravitation, but they are proof that the
aether exists.
The discovery gets us closer to finding out what is causing Steve Puetz’s
Universal Wave Series cycles[7]
that are appearing in our analyses of time series data of historic geological,
astronomical, biological, and climatic records.[8]
There seem to be no limits to the frequencies of these cycles. They range from
days to billions of years.
And from George
Coyne:
“This article on
gravity is quite interesting:
http://goodfelloweb.com/nature/cgbi/presgrav1.html
I think that the LIGO discovery gives much support to your NGT. The fact that Einstein predicted gravitational waves does not make his GRT correct. It seems more rational that these waves are occurring in the medium of aether than empty space.”
Amen.
[1] Borchardt, Glenn, 2007, The
Scientific Worldview: Beyond Newton and Einstein: Lincoln, NE, iUniverse, 411
p. [ http://www.scientificphilosophy.com/ ].
[2] Borchardt, Glenn, 1984, The scientific worldview: Berkeley, California, Progressive Science Institute, 343 p. [ http://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.16123.52006 ].
[3] Le Sage, G.L., 1784,
Corpuscular theory of gravitation: Memoires de Berlin for 1782, v. 404 [ http://bibliothek.bbaw.de/bibliothek-digital/digitalequellen/schriften/anzeige/index_html?band=03-nouv/1782&seite:int=0495
].
[4] Van Flandern, Tom,
1998, The speed of gravity - What the experiments say: Physics Letters A, v.
250, no. 1-3, p. 11 [ http://www.ldolphin.org/vanFlandern/gravityspeed.html
].
[5] Borchardt, Glenn, and
Puetz, Stephen J., 2012, Neomechanical gravitation theory, in Volk,
Greg, Proceedings of the Natural Philosophy Alliance, 19th Conference of the
NPA, 25-28 July: Albuquerque, NM, Natural Philosophy Alliance, Mt. Airy, MD, v.
9, p. 53-58 [ http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.3991.0483
].
[6] Newton, Isaac, 1718,
Opticks or, a treatise of the reflections, refractions, inflections and colours
of light. The second edition, with additions. By Sir Isaac Newton (Second ed.):
London, Printed for W. and J. Innys, printers to the Royal Society, 382 p. [ http://books.google.com/books?continue=http%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%2Fdownload%2FOpticks_or_A_treatise_of_the_reflections.pdf%3Fid%3DTwhbAAAAQAAJ%26output%3Dpdf%26hl%3Den&id=TwhbAAAAQAAJ&q=queries#v=snippet&q=query%2021&f=false ].
[7] Puetz, Stephen J., and
Borchardt, Glenn, 2011, Universal cycle theory: Neomechanics of the
hierarchically infinite universe: Denver, Outskirts Press, 626 p. [ http://www.scientificphilosophy.com/
].
[8] Borchardt, Glenn, and
Puetz, Stephen J., 2010, Unified cycle theory: Integration toward a cause:
Proceedings of the Natural Philosophy Alliance, 17th Conference of the NPA,
23-26 June, v. 7, p. 46-52 [ http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.2990.7361
].
Prokoph, Andreas,
and Puetz, Stephen J., 2015, Period-Tripling and Fractal Features in
Multi-Billion Year Geological Records: Mathematical Geosciences, p. 1-20 [ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11004-015-9593-y
].
Puetz, Stephen
J., and Borchardt, Glenn, 2015, Quasi-periodic fractal patterns in geomagnetic
reversals, geological activity, and astronomical events: Chaos, Solitons &
Fractals, v. 81, no. Part A, p. 246–270 [ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2015.09.029
].
Puetz, Stephen
J., Prokoph, Andreas, and Borchardt, Glenn, 2016, Evaluating alternatives to
the Milankovitch theory: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, v. 170,
p. 158–165 [ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jspi.2015.10.006
].
Puetz, Stephen
J., Prokoph, Andreas, Borchardt, Glenn, and Mason, Edward W., 2014, Evidence of
synchronous, decadal to billion year cycles in geological, genetic, and
astronomical events: Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, v. 62–63, no. 0, p. 55-75
[ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2014.04.001
].
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3 comments:
Re: "Fourth"
The source of the "Grav waves" was reported to be 500 million LY away, right?
In that case, at the SOL it would have taken them 500 million years to arrive here.
The fact that they arrived real time, here on Earth suggests Grav waves travel instantaneously throught the Universal Field.
As in my theory.
Re: not due to attraction but push is not proven. Gravitational waves are only partial energies from the event. They have nothing to do with the fundamental pull of mass.
That can be explained by my oscillation theory.
George
GB: "... Presumably, the investigators were able to see the explosion through telescopes and measure the gravitation effect at the same time."
I haven't seen any indication that this is true. Neither the press release nor media articles identify the source of the signal, only the directional vector as somewhere in the "Southern Celestial Hemisphere". The distance is merely a calculation *assuming* light velocity of gravitational propagation. While that may be correct, this signal doesn't prove it.
No telescope could "see" black holes colliding, though radio telescopes might detect ultraviolet emissions in proximity. The evidence doesn't even preclude the possibility that the effect was a result of the collapse of two large binary stars, rather than black holes. Assuming 1.3 billion-light-years distance, not even the Hubble Telescope could detect such a short-duration burst.
Nor do I believe that the signal establishes either a pull or push theory of gravity, much less an aether medium for the effect. At best, it shows a cyclical variation in gravitational force when two massive objects rotate around each other, which is not the kind of "wave" of space "distortion" that Einstein was talking about.
LIGO is certainly an impressive engineering achievement ... at a cost of $620 million to taxpayers. It's not obviously worth the expense and certainly isn't going to give us anti-gravity cars or FTL spaceships.
The discovery of gravitational waves not only proves the existence of aether but also shows that the most cherished and accepted theory in regressive physics, specifically Einstein's General Relativity “providing a unified description of gravity as a geometric property of space and time, or spacetime” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity.
is untenable.
I understand why physicists who are heavily invested in regressive physics tenets have not immediately come to this conclusion, but what is preventing the young physicists who are less committed in this ideology from reaching the logical realization that GRT must be false? Could it be the affect of many years of studying regressive physics resulting in gradual indoctrination into this orthodoxy? Is it possible to attain a PhD in physics if one rejects General Relativity Theory? I very much doubt it would be.
Physicists interested in gaining more accurate knowledge and increased understanding of how the universe works need to abandon GRT as an explanation for gravity and seriously consider Dr. Borchardt's Neomechanical Gravitation Theory which maintains that gravitation is the result of “pressure gradients that develop initially due to vortex motion in the aether” with “variations in aether density produced by compression waves”.
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