From: mpc755 on
On Apr 18, 11:00 am, mpc755 <mpc...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 17, 1:00 am, Surfer <n...(a)spam.net> wrote:
>
>
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> > On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:07:46 -0700 (PDT), General Omar Windbottom
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> > <rlolders...(a)amherst.edu> wrote:
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> > >www3.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw
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> > I had a quick look at your website and the following caught my
> > attention:
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> >http://www3.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw/newdevyear/2007/July.htm
> > <Start extract>
>
> > The Meaning of alpha
>
> > The numerator of Eq. (5) is the square of the unit electromagnetic
> > charge and the denominator is the square of the unit gravitational
> > “charge”, for Atomic Scale systems.  Equivalently, the numerator can
> > be viewed as the strength of the unit electromagnetic interaction and
> > the denominator can be viewed as the strength of the unit
> > gravitational interaction, for Atomic Scale systems.
>
> > <End extract>
>
> > I found that interesting, because alpha is given a role in gravity in
> > the theory described here:
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> > Gravitation, the 'Dark Matter' Effect and the Fine Structure Constant
> >http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0401047
>
> "There we see the first arguments that indicate the logical necessity
> for quantum behaviour, at both the spatial level and at the matter
> level. There space is, at one of the lowest levels, a quantumfoam
> system undergoing ongoing classicalisation. That model suggest that
> gravity is caused by matter changing the processing rate of the
> informational system that manifests as space, and as a consequence
> space effectively ‘flows’ towards matter. However this is not a ‘flow’
> of some form of ‘matter’ through space, as previously considered in
> the aether models or in the ‘random’ particulate Le Sage kinetic
> theory of gravity, rather the flow is an ongoing rearrangement of the
> quantum-foam patterns that form space, and indeed only have a
> geometrical description at a coarse-grained level. Then the ‘flow’ in
> one region is relative only to the patterns in nearby regions, and not
> relative to some a priori background geometrical space"
>
> Aether and matter are different states of the same material.
> Aether is displaced by matter.
> Displacement creates pressure.
> Gravity is pressure exerted by aether displaced by matter.
>
> What is described as "space effectively ‘flows’ towards matter" is the
> pressure exerted by the aether towards the matter.
>
> "Then the ‘flow’ in one region is relative only to the patterns in
> nearby regions"
>
> "the state of the [ether] is at every place determined by connections
> with the matter and the state of the ether in neighbouring places" -
> Albert Einstein
>
> The state of the aether as determined by its connections with the
> matter and the state of the aether in nearby regions is the aether's
> state of displacement.

http://home.netcom.com/~sbyers11/

Quote from Albert A Michelson's lecture circa 1899.

"Suppose that an aether strain corresponds to an electric charge, an
aether displacement to the electric current, aether vortices to the
atoms; if we continue these suppositions, we arrive at what may be one
of the grandest generalizations of modern science, namely that all the
phenomena of the physical universe are only different manifestations
of the various modes of motion of one all-pervading (substance), the
aether. The day seems not to distant when the converging lines from
many apparently remote regions of thought will meet on some common
ground. Then the nature of the atom and the forces called into play in
their chemical union, the interactions between these atoms and the non-
differentiated aether as manifested in the phenomena of light and
electricity , the structure of the molecule, the explanation of
cohesion, elasticity and gravitation, all of these will be marshaled
into a single compact and consistent body of scientific knowledge."

I would modify the statement to read:

all the phenomena of the physical universe are only different
manifestations of the various states of one all-pervading (substance),
the aether.

http://www.tu-harburg.de/rzt/rzt/it/Ether.html

Albert Einstein:

"the state of the former is at every place determined by connections
with the matter and the state of the ether in neighbouring places"

I would modify the statement to read:

The state of the aether as determined by the connections with the
matter and the state of the aether in neighboring places is the
aether's state of displacement.