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On Nov 15, 8:47 pm, Carlos L <carlo...@lix.intercom.es> wrote:
> > On Nov 13, 2:13 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Pentcho, if you take the time to understand the conventional concepts
> > of electromagnetic waves and the works of James Clerk Maxwell, there
> > is simply no reason to persit in the belief that a "luminiferous
> > aether" exists.  Also, the aether theory has so many holes in it that
> > it can be dismissed out of hand.  The most notable of these is the
> > notion that the aether can propagate transverse waves, somthing it
> > itself that would require the aether to be a solid, since only a solid
> > media transmits transverse waves, which makes it a bit difficult for
> > the earth to traverse through it.
> > [...]
> > I hope that this post does not stomp on anyone's toes. It is intended
> > to be helpful.
>
> > Harry C
>
>  Harry, a big hole in mainstream Physics is to argue that the aether
> must be a solid because light produces transversal forces. (I agree
> that AFAIK only a solid can propagate *standard transversal waves* but
> this is not important once it is understood that light waves are not
> standard transversal waves).
>
> This is the abstract of a section of the "EVE model of the aether":
> ----------------
> It has often been argued that if the aether is the medium for the
> transmission of electromagnetic waves it must have the mechanical
> properties of rigid solids since only then it could be able to sustain
> transversal waves that are the basis to explain the polarization of
> such waves. It is here argued that an aether of aetherinos (that has
> more in common with a rarefied gas than with a solid) is also able to
> exert transversal forces and to implement the polarization of
> electromagnetic waves. An aetherino travelling from an emitter E to a
> detector R along the straight line E-R imparts an impulse i to the
> detector. This impulse will also have a component perpendicular to E-R
> if the elementary detector (i.e. an electron of the detector) is
> itself moving with a non zero component of its velocity perpendicular
> to E-R. It is here argued that in this model of the aether this
> transversal impulse is not trivial since it has the following two
> characteristics:   1) The transversal impulses suffered by an
> elementary detector from a flow of aetherinos modulated in such a way
> that the density of aetherinos in the flow is periodically smaller and
> bigger than that of the standard undisturbed aether, will alternately
> (with the same periodicity of the aetherino's flow)  increase and
> decrease the transversal velocity of the target electron. 2) Such
> resonance will be favoured if the transversal direction is coincident
> with the preferred direction in which the charges of the emitter
> oscillate because it is along such direction that the density gradient
> of aetherinos manifests itself at the detector.
> ----------------
>
> http://www.ineunte.com/model/EVE7/Eve7.htm
>
> I also hope that this post does not stump on anyone's toes. It is
> intended to be helpful.
>
> Carlos L

The aether is but does not exist as matter or anything else. Light
creates spacetime as it propagates.

--
Laurent