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,
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[4] Van Flandern, Tom,
1998, The speed of gravity - What the experiments say: Physics Letters A, v.
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[5] Borchardt, Glenn, and
Puetz, Stephen J., 2012, Neomechanical gravitation theory, in Volk,
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[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.):
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[7] Puetz, Stephen J., and
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[8] Borchardt, Glenn, and
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Prokoph, Andreas,
and Puetz, Stephen J., 2015, Period-Tripling and Fractal Features in
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Puetz, Stephen
J., and Borchardt, Glenn, 2015, Quasi-periodic fractal patterns in geomagnetic
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