20191127

Can aether save relativity?


PSI Blog 20191127



“The dark substances that permeate the cosmos could be the aether in disguise NASA/N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley) and NOAO/AURA/NSF”


New Scientist thinks so:


Although reformists might think these claims by regressive physicists are hopeful signs, they should not hold their breath. In addition to aether denial they would have to give up the photon and spacetime along with the rest of the contradictory nonsense associated with relativity. In other words, they could not “save relativity” without discarding it entirely. Current funding sources will not allow that. Best they tread lightly.

A few quotes:

“Tom Złosnik, a cosmologist at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, is one of those looking to achieve that goal. Like Jacobson, his original intention was to paint a unified picture of quantum gravity that incorporated an aether-like field. But as he and his colleagues got stuck into the mathematics, they made a remarkable discovery. The aether that fit best into their model was one that matched the demands cosmologists made of dark matter. “The result,” says Złosnik, “was general relativity with a dark matter dust.

They published that result in late 2018. At about the same time, Richard Battye at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics in Manchester, UK, published a paper suggesting the aether could explain dark energy as well. He and his team followed in Złosnik’s footsteps, using an expanded form of Jacobson and Mattingly’s Einstein-aether theory to see how such models tallied with cosmological data.”

The author’s (Brenden Foster) conclusion:

“Whether the aether actually does make up dark matter, dark energy or both, the dark sector may be the best place to look for clues, says Blas. “It opens a window of detection to the aether.” We could check any experiment that probes the properties of dark matter to look for signs of a preferred frame, he says.

If anything does turn up, it would be an irony of truly cosmic proportions. More than a century after its banishment from the realm of respectable science, the aether could be the very thing we need to help make sense of the universe. In the graveyard of failed ideas, something ethereal is stirring.”

[GB: A “preferred frame,” I think not. “Dark Energy,” I think not. There is no “preferred frame” in the Infinite Universe, with each microcosm in motion, whether aetherial or not. They will never discover “Dark Energy” for two reasons: 1) Energy does not exist; it is a calculation and 2) The magical Dark Energy is an ad hoc invented to save the bogus universal expansion idea promulgated by relativity itself.]


20191120

Negative Results in Search for Dark Matter Consistent with Infinite Universe Theory

PSI Blog 20191120 Negative Results in Search for Dark Matter Consistent with Infinite Universe Theory

Guest Blog by Pierre Berrigan:

Hello, Glenn!

Here is something that you will most certainly find interesting:

In an article published this 25th of October in Science Advances (https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/10/eaax4539), Garcon et al report the negative result of the latest search for dark matter. Garcon used ultra-low field nuclear magnetic resonance to probe the hypothetical dark matter halo that surrounds galaxies.

The experiment would have detected the presence of dark matter bosons with masses 7.8x10e-14 eV or above. The fact that none was observed sets an experimental limit to the possible mass of dark matter particles.

It is interesting to note that this value of 7.8x10e-14 eV, which converted to grams gives 0.14x10e-47, comes very close to the value of 0.98x10e-47 grams as calculated by you in IUT as the maximum value for aether particles.



[GB: Thanks so much Pierre. Nice catch. You sure know your stuff! Other readers should know I calculated that value from Planck’s constant, which implies there is a “smallest unit of motion.” I assumed anyone trying to discover that would be evaluating the collision of a single aether particle with baryonic matter. There probably are “smaller units of motion” produced by aether-2 particles but we may not be able to detect them at this time, if ever. BTW: This discrete nature of the aether is one of the reasons relativity cannot be reconciled with Quantum Mechanics. Special Relativity Theory assumes space is perfectly empty and General Relativity Theory assumes spacetime also is perfectly empty. In other words, the fields in relativity are immaterial. They are just mathematical idealizations that cannot exist in reality.

You can see where this is going. Regressive physicists eventually will have to give up their aether denial. Dark matter will remain elusive as long as Aether Deceleration Theory is ignored as the physical cause of gravitation.[1]]

[GB: BTW: Here is another article on the failure to find Dark Matter:

Why dark matter's no-show could mean a big bang rethink

We can't find any trace of cosmic dark matter – perhaps because our models of the early universe are missing a crucial piece, says astrophysicist Dan Hooper




[1] Borchardt, Glenn, 2018, The Physical Cause of Gravitation: viXra:1806.0165.



20191113

Quantum weirdness could allow a person-sized wormhole to last forever?


PSI Blog 20191113 Quantum weirdness could allow a person-sized wormhole to last forever?



Wormholes have been a staple of science fiction for decades
L. CALCADA / EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Egads! New Scientist continues to be a treasure trove of regressive nonsense:


Note: No real scientist would believe such outlandish stuff no matter what his math said. Hint: Go back and check your original assumptions!

20191106

Why does the universe exist?


PSI Blog 20191106 Why does the universe exist?

The answers to this age-old question are reviewed in this 17-minute TED talk by Jim Holt:


Of course, the correct answer is that it is impossible for the Infinite Universe not to exist. As an idealist, Jim does a fair job on the subject within the limitations of that indeterministic philosophical position. But once people get off their idealistic high horses, the answer becomes obvious.

Nothingness and perfectly empty space are equivalent. They are the same idealization. All things in the universe exist on the continuum between perfectly empty space and perfectly solid matter. The empty space and solid matter endmembers do not and cannot exist—they are idealizations. All real things have properties akin to each of those ideals. The doorway does not have to be perfectly empty for us to leave the room while not crashing into the not perfectly solid wall.

Like all the other “Big Questions” religious folks denigrate science for its inability to give answers that might satisfy their quest for idealistic eternal life. Sorry, the Infinite Universe can produce an infinite number of things, but perfectly empty space and eternal life are not among them.