The Tyranny of Relativity
Abstract
Various criticisms and refutations of a pre-relativistic classical model of electromagnetic radiation have been presented in mainstream theoretical physics since the beginning of last century. Critics of the then established classical model cite various experiments as evidence, including experiments made by Michelson Morley, Sagnac, Ives Stillwell and deSitters’ double star refutation of a classical emission model of light. Here in this paper these criticisms are addressed and themselves refuted, showing how all these observations and experiments and others to date can still be made to be consistent with a non relativistic classical model of light where light travels at c relative to the source only. And is wave only not particulate. This is achieved simply by interpreting Michelson Morley experiment at face value: In that all this experiment did was show theorists that the aether did not impede the velocity or deflect the path of light.
Introduction: 1) Michelson Morley experiment
The first step to restoring the reputation of a classical wave only model of light is to correctly analyse the famous 1887 Michelson Morley experiment, which incidentally predates Einstein’s first paper on Special Relativity. The experiment and its theoretical ramifications are well known as it supposedly provided the evidence that refuted the concept of a ponderable aether through which wave only light was supposed to propagate.
After the 1887 experiment, theorists of the day were perplexed by the results of MMX in which the speed of light was shown to be not affected by any motion of the experimental setup as it rotated around the earth and solar axes. The conclusion at the time was that there could be no ponderable aether and that if there were no aether then how could light be considered to be a wave if there was nothing to wave in. Here in this paper the argument is made that this was an odd conclusion to make. And that what theorists should have realised back in the early 20thC was that the Michelson Morley and subsequent experiments didn’t disprove the existence of an aether/vacuum. They only proved that, down to measurable limits, the velocity of wave only electromagnetic radiation through the aether/vacuum was not impeded or deflected.
Quite why theorists after 1887 didn’t realise that there still was an aether/vacuum but it just wasn’t made of atomic particles or what’s now called baryons is puzzling. Why couldn’t the aether be a medium that had only one observable quality? That it could hold one or more different magnetic fields at any one point in space but not be made of atomic particles. Because as we now know it is not the aether/vacuum that slows down or deflects light. It is the atoms that are floating within that aether/vacuum which effect the velocities and direction of EMR.
And an even more profound implication of MMX that no theorist has also ever considered is that not only is light observed to travel always and only at c in the source frame, it always travels at c regardless of how the experiment moves relative to any other reference frame whilst the light travels out from the source and back to the interferometer. In other words MMX shows us that when light leaves the source it is quite literally dragged (but not rotated) around by the source to fulfil the requirement that it travels always and only at c out from and back to the interferometer/source in the apparatus. This is a fact backed up by a centuries worth of observations. From MMX to Sagnac to Ives Stillwell through to current versions of these experiments.
Some argue that this conclusion I suggest here can be refuted
as it is based on current technological limitations only. And that with a sensitive enough apparatus the rotation of the experiment once a day around the earths axis will be measureable. However those who would present this, forget first that physics theory is only refutable if there are the observations that can refute the theory. And so far no observations of this possible measurement have ever been made. And further to that if there were to be a future experiment that could detect a fringe shift in MMX due to its rotation around the earths axis…this would also refute the theory of Special Relativity.
And so in conclusion one has to accept that contrary to myth MMX did not refute any classical wave only model of light. And further to this, one has to make the irrefutable conclusion from MMX that light can be dragged back and forth by the source after the light has left the source. As long as the light travels back and forth at c relative to the source frame as per the MMX apparatus. Because that’s exactly what is being observed and measured in any MMX style apparatus.
So one must ignore any claims that experiments like Ives Stillwell, Sagnac and others provide evidence that is inconsistent with a wave only classical model of light. Because these are all false claims. As the following analysis made here in this paper on some of the most commonly cited examples show.
2)Fizeau experiment
Fizeau is another experiment that confused both relativists and their aetherist predecessors. In that their incorrect assumption was that for a classical model the speed v of water flow should be added to or subtracted from the speed of light in water. Presumably this erroneous assumption was arrived at by ignoring the fact that atoms sit as separate particles within the emptiness of the vacuum. At the time the accepted aetherist prediction was for the light to be dragged fully by the velocity v of water. However Fizeau observed a drag at less than the value expected. Interestingly enough Fresnels’ drag coefficient did make the correct prediction. Despite being based on an outdated partial aether drag model. An interesting case of the right formula for the wrong model. That Fresnel correctly predicted the observed drag decades before Fizeau is a significant achievement that has been largely overlooked because of its association with an aether drag model. Although the assumption that fresnels coefficient correctly models the observed change in velocity of light in the Fizeau setup is debatable as Fizeau observed an exact 1/2 fringe shift from the predicted full aether drag shift (+-v) if light were dragged fully by the water. Yet in fact the Fizeau formula predicts a 3/7 shift which should equate to an observed 3/7 slowing of light from the waters velocity. Not the observed 1/2 velocity shift. In other words Fizeau’s results in fact do not match that predicted by the fresnel coefficient and by association, Special Relativity. Why this is the case is not ever mentioned in any literature on the subject and does potentially present a problem for any theory.
Ignoring this problematic observation, to model the outcome of Fizeau for a classical wave only model involves treating the moving water in the Fizeau column as a more or less optically dense medium and as follows:
Assume the water is a collection of atoms/molecules floating in the ‘empty’ space of the aether/vacuum. As the light beam moves through the water, the light travels at a constant speed in a straight line through the vacuum between these molecules in the water. But the lights velocity through the water is impeded slightly by each molecules’ atoms as compared to its velocity if it were in just an atom free vacuum. Hence the slower velocity and the refractive index 1.33 for water. And, if the water moves towards the source, the light will encounter more atoms per second and move even slower. Because the light’s velocity through the moving water is now slower as the light is interacting with more atoms per second. Making the moving water a slightly more dense optical medium. But notice the light speed through the moving column isn’t slower by the total speed v of the water molecules . Its reduced speed is dictated by a percentage based on the increased amount of atoms the light beam encounters per second.
Here the traditional Fizeau formula c/n +- v(1-n^2) is used to describe this change in velocity due to change in density and refractive index. And this change in density is not the same as v, but as a percentage of v, as this formula correctly shows.
However to calculate and better explain Fizeau as a classical experiment one can also use a new formula presented here on this blog and for the first time. This formula shows more clearly the simple classical connection between the increased velocity and the resulting percentage change in optical density, ie refractive index of water, due to the waters motion:
c/[n+-(v/c x n)]
As described earlier, the light beam will encounter more or less water molecule/atoms when the water moves relative to the source making the water medium a more or less dense medium for the light to travel through. To model this change in optical density classically one must first define the new refractive index of the moving water by dividing the water velocity v by c in the above formula and then multiplying this by n (1.33) of water to calculate the percentage change in the refractive index of water due to the movement of the water. And then either subtract or add that small percentage difference to the usual refractive index 1.33 of water to give the relative increase or decrease in density and thus derive a new refractive index for the moving water, dependent on its velocity in the experiment. At which point a simple calculation of c/n with this newly derived refractive index of water n will correctly predict the final observed velocity of light in the moving water. As shown in the formula:
c/[n+-(v/c x n)].
Which incidentally gives the same result as the original cited Fizeau(Fresnel) formula.
Proving Fizeau can be adequately explained classically without invoking relativity.
Considering Einstein cited Fizeau as a key reason for developing his special theory of relativity, the irony of the Fizeau experiment is that it proves that the speed of light in water is variable if one also moves the source at v and not the water at v relative to the source. That is if the water and observer don’t move and are in the same frame but the source instead slows down or speeds up in the water column. Contradicting the central premise of SR that the speed of light must always be a constant defined by n for water. Technically, the Fizeau experiment refutes relativity.
3)DeSitter refutation
In the decades following 1905, Willem deSitter tried to refute a classical model of light by saying that if light travelled only at c in the source frame as some classicists like Ritz were still arguing for in the early 20thC, then light would “pile up” as it travelled through space. And that this ‘ piling up’ of light in transit, would be observed in light from double star systems when observed from earth. As no such piling up was observed, he claimed this refuted any wave only classical model. Unfortunately there is a serious flaw in deSitters argument. Because in trying to prove that light was constant in all frames and did not travel at c in the source frame only as a classical model proposed, he falsified his calculations and prediction for a classical model by incorrectly having light travel at a variable speed in the source star frame as it travelled to earth from the double star system. A strange contradiction considering he was trying to disprove classical theory’s central premise that light only and always travelled only at c in the source frame!
The question should be, how did he manage to convince his peers of his day that he proved that light could not travel only at c in the source frame? When the maths of his calculations proving this impossibility for a classical model was clearly false and unscientific.
The answer to his theoretical sleight of hand was although he correctly assumed that a classical model predicates a constant speed in one frame only. His mathematical faux pas was not to have light move at c only in the source frame as a classical model dictates. But rather his calculations had light at c only in the observer frame. A frame that moved relative to the source! Completely ignoring the basic tenet of a classical model so as to conveniently and spuriously refute it as competition to relativity.
4)Sagnac
Sagnac, like MMX has been grossly misrepresented by critics of a classical model simply by once again incorrectly calculating how long the two light paths are when the setup (ring or mirrored) is rotating. One only has to look at the many various calculations, illustrations and computer simulations that have been created since the experiment was first performed by Sagnac that show the ring rotating around the central axis with the light travelling at a constant speed in both directions as the source/detector point rotates in one CW or CCW direction. To deliberately make these calculations for a classical model incorrect they have pretended that when the mirrored setup rotates the light will travel at a constant speed (c +-v) in the lab, not at a constant speed c in the source frame. This is the same mistake that deSitter makes. Because they have forgotten that light in a classical model must always travel at a constant speed c in the source frame only. Not at a constant speed c in any or all other frames. So if one looks at any incorrect rotating calculation used for Sagnac, you can see that the incorrect calculation for a classical model has light travelling at a variable speed relative to the rotating source.
Any correct calculation/simulation for a classical model has to have the source not move in its own frame and the mirrored setup rotating around the static source. One path will always be longer than the opposite path in this frame. (This is illustrated in an associated video and blogpost elsewhere on this blog.) This is the correct frame to calculate light path lengths for a classical model. It will always give a path difference. Contrary to false claims by relativists trying to erroneously discredit the old pre relativistic classical wave only model of light.
5)Faster than light, instantaneous transmission of information over great distances using effects first discovered in MMX
To follow on from section 1) a further effect can also found in the Michelson Morley experimental observations. As is also discussed above in section 1 of this post the experiment shows that light appears to be dragged back and forth for any observer in any frame that is not the source frame. In that as long as light is observed to travel always at c in the MMX source frame then it will appear to be dragged back and forth as it propagates away from the source in any observer frame that has relative motion to the source. Conversely it follows that if a source emits light that propagates away from the source and arrives at an observer, then if the source is then moved or vibrated rapidly back and forth relative to the observer, the observer will Instantaneously observe this vibration in any light that has already left the source before the vibration in the source was started. The result is that the Michelson Morley experiment gives us the blueprint for a design of a mechanism that will give faster than light, indeed instantaneous, transmission of information through a vacuum over great distances. Truly an important invention first published here on this blog for the upcoming space race. Just imagine what is within easy reach of future mars unmanned robot landers; Virtually instant communication between ground control and the robot lander. How much faster the current NASA mars explorer robots could operate with this easy to construct communication device. Yet because the backwards mindset of relativists and their unscientific theories controls our scientific community, we are being held back in space exploration.
This hi lites the advantage a wave only classical model has over relativity. Classical physics is based always and only on what is observed. Relativity is usually based only on what is assumed. Observations seem to be ignored by relativists.
6)Particles at detectors explained as quantised waves
All of the previous analyses of the experiments cited above have not yet mentioned Newtons particle and Einsteins photon. However in any classical wave only model as the one outlined here in this paper it is imperative to stress that light is never considered to be a particle. It’s always wave only. This doesn’t necessarily matter for the above analyses of experiments but for more observations using photodetectors a classical explanation of light incident on a photodetector plane is necessary.
When dots appeared in film and photo detectors in various experiments the automatic assumption was that these are proof of the wave/particle duality of light and that it is considered to sometimes be a particle.
This ignores centuries of the physics of oscillation, resonating systems and resonant catastrophe. We have centuries of observations of real world macro objects that will sympathetically resonate when subjected to external wave energy at or around that objects natural resonant frequency. And not only will they sympathetically resonate to incident wave energy, these macro objects are observed to store and release this energy in pulses to another external system. It is proposed here that this also happens to the atoms or collections of atoms in each pixel in any photo detector. The incident electromagnetic wave energy is observed to elicit resonance at and around that photodetectors atoms natural resonating frequency. And we know from observations of visible resonant systems that resonant systems release their energy in pulses. This is what’s called classic resonant catastrophe. And so for photodetectors the classical model has EMR wave energy incident on the detector atom. The detector atom resonates sympathetically and then releases it in pulses to the electron cascade in the circuit. Or simply transfers the resonance to the next atom in the electric circuit. To be then sent to a pc screen as a pulse and to be mistaken by quantum theorists as a particle of light hitting the photo detector.
7)CERN particle paths as wave only interferences.
The same logic is used here to explain the sub atomic particles apparently “seen” in colliders. Once again theorists have ignored centuries of study of wave interference. Young showed us in 1827 that two light sources could interfere to produce bands of light and dark on a 2 dimensional screen. In 3 dimensions those 2 overlapping interfering wavefronts produce what’s called an annulus ring. That’s 2 expanding wavefront ‘bubbles’ overlapping and producing a single expanding ring of interference as they propagate out in space from their separate sources at c.
If one calculates what happens when three coherent sources each produce an expanding wavefront bubble. Then it can be shown here that the first two waves will produce a single annulus ring where the brightness from interference between the two is at its greatest. And as the third overlapping wavefront bubble can only interacts at two points on that annulus it will produce two identical opposite direction single particle like paths that are a direct consequence of 3 separate expanding coherent waves interfering at only two points in space. These “paths” produced by the 3 expanding wavefronts are identical opposite twins. And can be either spiral, curved or straight. This is exactly what is observed.
In summary the proposal here is that the apparent ‘particle’ paths in colliders are in fact interference paths between 3 energy wavefronts overlapping as they spread out after being emitted by 3 protons colliding. Those “paths” represent the point of greatest energy due to wave interference between 3 expanding overlapping wavefronts. Simple geometry of wave only propagation in space explains this illusion of particles in cloud detectors. No wonder China has cancelled their new super collider this November 2025. They read my earlier blogpost and YouTube video on my blog and realised that the particles in colliders were illusions. And it was a waste of billions of pounds of money looking for mythical particles in particle accelerators like CERN.
Ives Stillwell
There are various erroneous claims made for a classical model of light from Einstein through Ives Stillwell to the present. All of them claim that a classical model predicts no offset for the Ives Stillwell experiment. As we know, an offset is observed. Supposedly ruling out a classical model of light which apparently predicts an even displacement of light from Doppler shifting. The reason why this claim has survived unchallenged for so long is simple. The various formulas evoked for "classical" are actually not correctly modelling light as c+-v for a classical model because they incorrectly use wavelength w instead of frequency f. One must calculate the offset using frequency and then convert that result to wavelength to check against the observed wavelength offset. The excuse relativists use is that one must model Doppler shift for light in a classical model by erroneously assuming there is an aether and that this imaginary aether/vacuum slows light down. This is pseudoscience from relativists. Because they conveniently ignore the earlier results from MMX in 1887 that show that the aether/vacuum does not impede or deflect light paths velocities and direction. If MMX showed that light in a classical model was not impeded by the aether/vacuum,…why do relativists insist that a classical model of light must ignore the 1887 MMX experiment?!
If one wishes to *correctly* model observed speeds for a classical model the following formula using f must be used:
Assuming v is 0.005, and f is the emitted source frequency as in the Ives Stillwell experiment.
1.005 X f = f1(forward)
0.995 X f = f2(rearward)
Calculate the two Doppler shifted frequencies. Convert both shifted frequencies f1&2 to wavelength w1&2 and average them out ((w-w1)+(w2-w)/2). This gives an average predicted offset for a classical model, that now matches the observed offset in the Ives Stillwell experiment. Verifying that a classical model is still very much consistent with Ives Stillwell.
GPS
Probably one of most misused excuses to refute a classical model is GPS, although technically it involves modelling atoms as well as light for a classical model. Following on from section 6 “Particles at detectors explained as quantised waves” it is assumed here in this paper that atoms in a wave only classical model are not considered to be particulate but rather as wavelike like resonating systems in the vacuum of space.
Because resonating systems are always observed to respond to more or less external force by lowering or raising their resonant frequency, then this same classical observation is used to correctly predict that atoms, being resonating systems will lower or raise their natural resonant frequencies when subjected to more or less external force. This is exactly what is observed in GPS. The caesium clock atoms will speed up their natural resonant frequency in response to a reduction in the force of gravity where there is also an increase in radius distance from the centre of planet earth. Because GPS clock atoms are farther out from the centre of earths gravity field, they oscillate faster. Time doesn’t change with altitude, the clocks tick rates are speeding up or slowing down in response to more or less gravitational force.
Another false argument that is sometimes used against this being relevant for a classical model is that for classical theory the force of gravity is always erroneously assumed to be defined by r^2 in Newtons’ gravitational acceleration formula F= m1 +m2/r^2. An odd hypocritical condition for relativists to impose on a classical model, considering they accept that the force of gravity on mass in a gravitational field is relative to radius in their relativistic model. Not radius squared. Why is it OK for force to be different from acceleration for relativity theory, but not OK for a classical model to make this same assumption. When did Newton ever claim that acceleration is the same as force? Never.
But this false assumption about what the force of gravity is in classical physics is designed to have classical automatically fail the GPS test
Because in a classical universe we can observe with our own eyes that you need to apply a constant force to an object to get a constant acceleration. The object isn’t observed to accelerate all on its own. So for a classical model one must use a constant force of gravity (potential) applied to a point mass to get it to a constant acceleration.
And so it is this constant force (potential) on an object that is the true force of gravity in a classical model. Which means of course that to model resonance effect from gravity at different radii in a non relativistic classical model one must use r, not r squared.
To give Einstein credit, he realised that Newton and Laplaces potential defined the force of gravity more accurately than acceleration. He realised what both Newton and LaPlace had already discovered centuries earlier. Which is that Newtons little g (acceleration )was only a product of a force of gravity acting on a mass.
And finally to explain what is this mechanical classical explanation for gravity one need look no further than a revised wave only LeSagian push gravity theory to find the classical solution to what is behind this force of gravity. And it ties atoms neatly to waves for a wave only classical universe.
Atoms are pushed down towards centres of larger masses by wave only “push” radiation. Not the original LeSagian particles which failed to accurately explain why masses didn’t increase constantly when subjected to the external LeSagian force of push gravity. These waves are all the electromagnetic waves that exist from all EMR sources in an infinite non Big Bang universe. Mass is derived from EMR. EMR is produced when mass moves relative to other masses.
And it is no accident that modelling the shadow of the earth on a satellite using arc degrees of the earth’s shadow as seen from the satellite gives a shadow gravity area that increases with r. Not r ^2. Confirming push gravity as a valid explanation for different tick rates in GPS.
Conclusion
By correctly calculating predicted effects for light in a classical model one can make all known observations and experimental results consistent with a classical model. As long as that model assumes light is not a particle in a viscous aether. But is instead a wave only phenomena that always travels at c relative to its source in this aether/vacuum. In this paper only a few key experiments are analysed but one can apply the classical model to any know observation. Simply by ignoring the same incorrect assumptions cited above in this paper that critics of a classical model erroneously apply to it to ensure it fails the above cited experimental or observational tests.
Reference
1)On the Relative Motion of the Earth and the Luminiferous Ether. 1887, Michelson,Morley
2)On the Electrodynamics of moving bodies. 1905, Albert Einstein
3)The Hypotheses relating to the Luminous Aether and an experiment which appears to demonstrate that the motion of bodies alters the velocity with which light propagates itself in their interior. 1851, M. H. Fizeau
4)A proof of the constancy of the velocity of light (1913),Willem de Sitter
5) Recherches critiques sur l'Électrodynamique générale. 1908, Walther Ritz, Annales de Chimie et de Physique. 13: 145–275.
6)The luminiferous aether demonstrated by the effect of the wind relative to the aether in a uniformly rotating interferometer (1913),Georges Sagnac
7)An Experimental Study of the Rate of a Moving Atomic Clock. 1838, Ives,Stillwell