With regard to testing for the presence of aether/zpe
using an expanding or contracting 'magnetic' field If
you haven't yet, check out;
http://www.keelynet.com/spider/b-100e.htm
Experiment of Albert Michelson
In 1881 Albert Michelson designed a device, by which
means he intended to detect the motion of the Earth
relative to a filling space medium - to the ETHER. He
based the device on two things: the generally shared
conviction of the existence of the motionless ether
and on the Galilean transformations.
The results obtained in his experiments differed from
those expected in a striking way by their zero
magnitudes. As a matter of fact, there were not any
results obtained at all. So, a vacuum of convictions
arose in physics, and a crisis arose in science. Wave
of this crisis rolled as far forward in time as to
still rule science today, and though, for more than
one hundred years, haveing been discussed and tested
quite a lot, the question about the physical nature of
the surrounding world is still as vague as one hundred
years ago.
Many scientists sweat over the question, why the
Michelson interferometer did not work, but a
satisfactory answer still was not found. Returning to
the circumstances which were a base for creating the
special relativity theory, it should be especially
emphasized that, because of the complexity and near
incomprehensibility of the theory it did not occur to
anyone to investigate the processes of the
interference of counter-acting waves moving between
the translucent mirror O and the full mirrors M, N.
(Ivanov found that the dimensions of the entire
interferometer contract to fit his transformation, on
all 3 axis (x,y,z), not just the x,y axis of the
standard Lorentz transformations on which relativity
is bsed! All because of a compression of standing
waves from interference in the medium in which it
propagates...detectable when the wave
generator/oscillator AND detector are BOTH in motion.)
Another excellent experiment on proof of the aether;
E. W. Silvertooth, "Experimental Detection of the
Aether", Speculations in Science & Tech, V10 N1, pages
3-12
which I don't currently have, however;
http://www.energyscience.co.uk/bib/1990a.htm
Abstract: The effect of energy in standing waves upon
the component wave velocities is discussed. The
Silvertooth experiment, using a specially constructed
photo detector that can scan along a standing optical
wave with anomalous results, is shown to have a
possible explanation which suggests that the energy
can affect wave velocity. The technological
implications of the Silvertooth experiment are of
sufficient consequence to warrant further
investigation.
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YOU HAVE GOT TO READ THIS TOTALLY COOL PAPER!!!!!;
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dp5/worlds.htm
"The ether cannot be detected directly by physical or
chemical means. However, scientists reasoned that if
the earth moves through a stationary ether, there
should be an appreciable 'ether wind' blowing over the
earth, which should produce slight variations in the
speed of light in different directions. The first
experiments to test this hypothesis were conducted by
A.A. Michelson in 1881 and by Michelson and E.W.
Morley in 1887.
However, the experimental design they used failed to
detect an ether wind of the size expected. No
scientist at the time concluded that the ether did not
exist.
Michelson himself drew the conclusion that the earth
carries a portion of the ether along with it as it
orbits the sun, so that it is surrounded by its own
etheric envelope or atmosphere.* This is certainly
plausible, but since the earth and its surrounding
ether move through the solar ether, and the solar
system in turns moves through the galactic ether, a
far larger ether wind still ought to be detectable by
the right types of experiment.
*H.A. Lorentz and others proposed an alternative
explanation: that as a result of motion through a
(fixed) ether, objects contract slightly in the
direction of motion and clocks run slow. An entrained
ether is compatible with some degree of length
contraction and clock retardation ('time dilation').
And indeed a series of experiments have been carried
out in the course of this century, using increasingly
sophisticated techniques, which have done exactly that
[2].
In 1913 Georges Sagnac measured the variation in the
speed of light caused by rotating the experimental
apparatus. He regarded this experiment as proof of an
ether, and it's interesting to note that the 'Sagnac
effect' forms the basis for the modern ring-laser
gyroscope, which is widely used by ships and aircraft
for navigation.
In 1925 Michelson and Gale carried out a larger-scale
version of this experiment and measured the effect of
the earth's rotation on the speed of light. More
recently, E.W. Silvertooth and S. Marinov, using
similar methods, have detected the galactic motion of
the earth and solar system towards the constellation
Leo.
These results contradict one of the fundamental dogmas
of standard, etherless relativity theory -- that the
speed of light is an absolute constant for all
observers. Attempts by orthodox relativists to explain
away these results have failed, and nowadays they tend
to avoid any mention of them. Thus, the claim found in
numerous textbooks and encyclopaedias that the
existence of an ether has been disproved, is a gross
distortion of the truth.
Blavatsky predicted back in 1888 that the ether would
be rejected, and she warned that scientists could not
abandon it 'without incurring the risk . . . of
pulling down the pillars of the Temple of Science, and
getting buried under its roof' [3].
In his 1905 paper on special relativity, Einstein did
indeed banish the ether. He argued that it was
'superfluous', and replaced it with the fiction of
'empty space' [4].
However, it took well over a decade before his theory
won general acceptance and supplanted the original
theory of relativity, developed during the first five
years of the century by Henri Poincaré and Anton
Lorentz, which was firmly based on the existence of an
ether.
All that remains of the old ether theory is the
concept of 'force fields'. But whereas fields had
earlier been understood as currents of ether, the
modern theory offers only a mathematical description,
and has no satisfactory explanation of what they are
or how they can act at a distance.*
In addition to electric, magnetic, and gravitational
fields, particle physicists postulate an all-pervading
'Higgs field' to account for the origin of mass. And
quantum theory predicts that the vacuum of space is
teeming with normally undetectable 'zero-point'
energy, in the form of electromagnetic radiation
fields (the zero-point field) and short-lived
'virtual' particles (the 'Dirac sea') [5].
Most physicists simply ignore this vast ocean of
energy, or 'quantum vacuum', but many experiments have
been carried out which confirm that something like it
does exist. Some physicists are investigating the
possibility that mass, inertia, and gravity are all
connected with the fluctuating electromagnetic energy
of the zero-point field [6].
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--- Doug Renner wrote:
> <snip>
> I've always wondered if the M-M experiment was
> doomed to failure, since it
> was performed within the Earth's magnetic field. In
> terms of the ether,
> the Earth's magnetic field may be like a big bubble
> pushing its way
> through the drifting flux, while the M-M
> interferometer experiment was
> performed inside this bubble, so it would of course
> detect little if any
> drift.
>
> I speculate that the Michelson-Morley experiment
> might be analogous to using an anemometer
> indoors, then concluding there is no such thing as
> wind.
>
> > Instead, there is merely a lack of the full
> difference which the
> > observer's motion ought (according to the old
> theory of time and space) to make.
> > Prof. Miller very pertinently asks whether
> Einstein -- and Eddington and Jeans
> > and all the rest -- ought to assume (and base a
> whole theory of cosmick entity
> > on that assumption) that the Michelson-Morley
> experiment always gives zero
> > (reckoning any difference from that as error),
> when in truth it always gives a
> > fairly constant difference from zero; in the
> direction that the earth's motion
>
> My idea is to perform the interferometer experiment
> within an EXPANDING or COLLAPSING magnetic
> field.
>
> Does anyone know if this has ever been done?
>
> Doug Renner
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