Michelson’s
Sufferings
A.
D.
Rudnev
Chapter 2. Aether or
“Space”?
When we began our research
work on this topic (it was in 2000) we too departed from aether.
And soon we understood that there are a great number of contradictory
properties behind this term – everyone gave it different
properties which
couldn’t exist together. These properties are obvious not to
be objective.
First let’s refer
to the Wikipedia:
- Aether (from Greek –
‘upper
air’) is a polysemantic term.
- Aether, in Greek mythology,
is an upper (mountain), superthin
(tenuous), transparent and radiant air layer which is breathed by the
gods; the
personification of this world layer, quintessence, the fifth element.
- Aether (world aether,
lumeniferous aether) in physics
from the 17th
century to 1930s – is an intermediate pervasive
material medium that fills all the
vacuum and all the space between the particles of common substances,
its
oscillations are to be electromagnetic waves.
This theory was suggested by
the physicist N. Tesla (Pic. 2 on the
right).
Others consider that aether fills all the space between bodies and gas
molecules (Pic. 2 on the left). Others use this term only in connection with the space.
Authors of some works
on aether immediately make a terrible mistake considering aether
immobile [2], but
there are no real reasons for it.
Pic. 2. Main variants of aether
perpresentations.
The word ‘lumineferous’ should be excluded from
aether characteristics as it is
a too one-sided word, aether is to transfer radio waves as well.
Besides, it is
to transfer gravitational energy (this is a force structure). It goes
without saying
that it is to react to body acceleration. There is one more barely
noticeable property
– aether doesn’t block body motion with low-level
acceleration, it is
compliant. A possibility to ‘cut out’ a piece of
space and put it into fixed volume
indicates the discreteness of its structure. In an effort to reconcile
these views
we begin to understand the structure consisting of charged particles
– free
electrons. It is an old Faraday’s idea – to
represent space either as a stretched
thread or as a compressed structure [3]. Coulomb’s law
provides the existence
of the characteristics of the second variant. Taking into account a
possibility
of forming electric and magnetic fields it is a structure having no
alternative.
And as all solid bodies (conductors and dielectrics) contain free
electrons as
well, all the space is penetrated by this structure (Pic. 3). The
higher electron
density is, the higher medium density is [4].
Pic. 3. Space structure.
This model doesn’t have the structure drawbacks of Pic.
1: the left picture doesn’t create connection between a body
and space, and the
right one doesn’t show the influence of body mass.
Now it seems that all types of substances have common structure with
different
electron density. It is rather incorrect to call it aether as
properties are different.
It is nothing else but the world space, the properties of its every
separate volume
depend on a medium type and gravitation at the point.
We will not consider here the reasons why electron density is spread in
this
way. It is a nuclear property. One can read a bit about it in
[5, 6]. There is no need in
proving it, because the proof of the correctness of electron and atom
structures
is confirmed by the facts [7, 8]. There is an animation representation
of these
structures on the site [9]. Here we will only state the quantitative
characteristic of charge to mass ratio
(C/kg)
(1)
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