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A Theoretical Framework of Absolute/Relative Motion and the Speed of Light
viXra, 2018Co-Authors: Henok TadesseAbstract:This author has already proposed a new theory, Apparent Source Theory ( AST ), that can explain the Michelson-Morley experiment, the Sagnac effect, the Silvertooth experiment, the Roland De Witte experiment, the Venus Planet radar range data anomaly ( analyzed and reported by Bryan G Wallace ) and other experiments. According to AST, there will be an apparent change in position of a light source as seen by the observer, for absolutely co-moving source and observer. The 'null' result of the Michelson-Morley experiment (MMX) is explained as follows. The effect of absolute motion is just to create an apparent change in position of the light source relative to the detector. There will be no (significant) fringe shift in the MMX for the same reason that there will be no (significant) fringe shift if the source position was actually, physically shifted slightly. The fringe shift in Sagnac effect is explained as follows. The source will be apparently shifted away relative to the detector when looking in the backward direction and shifted towards the detector when looking in the forward direction, hence creating a path difference. Einstein's thought experiment ( 'chasing a beam of light' ) is re-interpreted and used as one of the foundational arguments in this paper. The new interpretation is that it is the phase velocity of light that is always constant irrespective of source, observer and mirror velocity. The group velocity behaves in a more conventional way: it is independent of source (absolute) velocity but depends on observer and mirror velocity. For an observer moving near the speed of light away from a light source, the phases will still move past the observer at the speed of light while the group will be at rest relative to the observer. The new theoretical framework consists of two theories: 1. Apparent Source theory 2. Exponential Doppler Effect of light theory . The results of many light speed experiments can be derived from these two theories. Apparent Source Theory determines the phase and group delay of light, whereas Exponential Doppler Effect theory determines the frequency/wavelength of light.
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Apparent Source Theory and Stellar Aberration
viXra, 2018Co-Authors: Henok TadesseAbstract:This author has already proposed a new theory, Apparent Source Theory ( AST ), that can explain the Michelson-Morley experiment, the Sagnac effect, the Silvertooth experiment, the Roland De Witte experiment, the Venus Planet radar range data anomaly ( analyzed and reported by Bryan G Wallace ) and other experiments. According to AST, there will be an apparent change in position of a light source as seen by the observer, for absolutely co-moving source and observer. The 'null' result of the Michelson-Morley experiment (MMX) is explained as follows. The effect of absolute motion is just to create an apparent change in position of the light source relative to the detector. There will be no (significant) fringe shift in the MMX for the same reason that there will be no (significant) fringe shift if the source position was actually, physically shifted slightly. The fringe shift in Sagnac effect is explained as follows. The source will be apparently shifted away relative to the detector when looking in the backward direction and shifted towards the detector when looking in the forward direction, hence creating a path difference. Einstein's thought experiment ( 'chasing a beam of light' ) is re-interpreted and used as one of the foundational arguments in this paper. The new interpretation is that it is the phase velocity of light that is always constant irrespective of source, observer and mirror velocity. The group velocity behaves in a more conventional way: it is independent of source (absolute) velocity but depends on observer and mirror velocity. For an observer moving near the speed of light away from a light source, the phases will still move past the observer at the speed of light while the group will be at rest relative to the observer. A contradiction between Apparent Source Theory and the phenomenon of stellar aberration has been found. The contradiction if found to be due to a conflict between conventional stellar aberration theory and the unconventional nature of Apparent Source Theory and hence is only an apparent contradiction.
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The Shapiro Delay Experiments in Light of Apparent Source Theory and the Venus Planet Radar Range Data Anomaly
viXra, 2017Co-Authors: Henok TadesseAbstract:This paper reports on the large round trip time variations observed in the Shapiro delay experiments, as reported by Bryan G Wallace , whose claim will be confirmed according to Apparent Source Theory. The 'anomalous' variations in the measured round trip time could be larger than the reported gravitational time dilation effect, typically by a factor of about five to ten. Such large anomalous variations in the round trip time that could be attributed to either the ether theory or the emission theory may have been discarded from the raw data to arrive at the relativistic prediction. The argument in this paper is that Apparent Source Theory predicts that there must have been large variations in the round trip time in the Shapiro delay experiments. And this claim is supported by the reports of Bryan G Wallace. All this casts doubts on the integrity of the experimenters. Therefore, not only did they discard data showing large variations in round trip time, they must also have manipulated the remaining data in order to 'prove' gravitational time dilation.
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Modified Emission Theory an Alternative to the Special Theory of Relativity
viXra, 2016Co-Authors: Henok TadesseAbstract:The null result of the Michelson-Morley experiment is a strong and compelling evidence for emission theory of light. Emission theory, unlike ether theory, can also explain Bradley stellar aberration. There is also the less known Bryan G Wallace analysis of Venus Planet radar range data anomaly, which could be explained only by emission theory. The lunar laser ranging experiment is yet another evidence for emission theory. The emission theory was abandoned because : 1) it was not compatible with Maxwell's electrodynamics: it predicted frozen light for a light source moving with velocity of light away from an observer 2) moving source experiments showed that the speed of light is independent of source velocity. Bradley observed no variation of the angle of aberration with different stars, demonstrating that the speed of light is independent of the velocity of the stars. The first of these problems is solved by a new interpretation of Einstein's thought experiment ( 'chasing a beam of light ' ): constant phase velocity and variable group velocity of light. For an observer moving away from a light source at the speed of light, the phases will still move at the speed of light relative to the observer, but the group will be 'frozen'. This interpretation requires that Doppler effect depend only on source observer relative velocity, demanding a new symmetrical law for Doppler effect of light. This is the Exponential Law of Doppler effect of light proposed in this paper, which can easily explain the Ives-Stilwell experiments. The second problem is resolved by a new hypothesis that the effect of absolute motion of a light source is to change the speed of light relative to the source so that the speed of light is independent of source velocity. Ether theory and emission theory are seamlessly united into a new theory. This is also in line with light having both wave and particle properties. The ether doesn't exist, but absolute motion does. The conception of the Michelson-Morley experiment was fundamentally flawed in that they considered light as ordinary material waves . A new interpretation of absolute motion is proposed.
M. A. Butler - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Hidden Time, Hidden Space: Crossing Borders with Occult Ritual in the Song Military
Battlefronts Real and Imagined, 2008Co-Authors: M. A. ButlerAbstract:In 1104, the official Li Fuxian (fl. ca. 1100) lamented that, though in former times, battle was conducted according to ritual (li)[1], military practices of his time were not.1 But, despite Li’s complaint to the contrary, ritual remained an essential element of warfare in the Song dynasty (960–1279). The military was braided into the Song ritual network in many ways, both symbolically and practically. Great (that is, successful) military thinkers were oftentimes deified, after which court debates ensued on what were appropriate offerings for these strategists.2 Loyal troops received bonus emoluments on the occasions of the suburban sacrifice ritual, performed once every three years.3 Even weapons and equipment were manufactured and distributed according to a ritual hierarchy so that “the troops would respect ritual.”4 In addition to these means of ritual integration, military manuals of middle-period imperial China—Secret Classic of Venus, Planet of War (Taibo yinjing; ca. 759); Tiger Seal Classic (Huqian jing; submitted in 1005); and Comprehensive Military Essentials (Wujing zongyao; completed by court order in 1044)—document ritual practices. Such practices include prayer texts, instructions for sacrifice, moral admonitions, war initiation and conclusion rites, prognostication, divination, and other rituals that today would be termed occult.5 This chapter is concerned with one of the latter ritual genres, a type of occult ritual based on the use of the cosmograph (shi), which gained great momentum during the Song.
Linda A. Hinnov - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Astronomical metronome of geological consequence.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018Co-Authors: Linda A. HinnovAbstract:In PNAS, Kent et al. (1) describe a remarkable geochronologic correlation arising between the continental Triassic–Jurassic Newark Basin strata of eastern North America and the time-equivalent Chinle Formation of western North America that has far-reaching consequences for geology and astronomy, as follows. In geology, a reliable “metronome” in the geologic record with a sufficiently short repeat time would greatly enhance the resolving power of the geologic timescale. Astronomers recognized the potential importance of a dominant 405-ky cycle in Earth’s orbital eccentricity variation for supplying such a metronome (2, 3), leading geologists to turn to the stratigraphic record of astronomically forced paleoclimate change to search for this cycle. In fact, one of the first geological studies to describe 405-ky scale stratigraphic cycling was on the Triassic–Jurassic Newark Basin lacustrine strata (4, 5) recovered in the National Science Foundation-funded Newark Basin Coring Project, in which each of the prominent 60-m-thick McLaughlin cycles in the cored sequence was assigned a 412.885-ky periodicity based on a now-legacy analytical astronomical solution, BRE74/BER78 (6, 7). Since the 1990s, there have been dozens of reports for strong 405-ky scale cycles in stratigraphic sequences from around the world that appear to bear out this astronomical calculation (8). However, not one of these reports has presented incontrovertible support from independent geochronology that links specific 405-ky cycles, identified by their order of appearance relative to the present day, to those in the astronomical solution. Until now, this has included the Newark Basin, which, besides the flood basalts at the top of the core series, suffers from a lack of datable materials—for example, volcanic ashes—that could help establish a numerical timescale for the core series. In astronomy, the 405-ky cycle in Earth’s orbital eccentricity variation is due to a periodic interaction between the orbital motions of Venus (Planet … [↵][1]1Email: lhinnov{at}gmu.edu. [1]: #xref-corresp-1-1
