* I’ve tried to believe, really I have. Heaven knows I’ve tried, almost every day for the past 8 years. But I still doubt the foundations of modern physics.
* Regarding Special Relativity, evidence against an aether and a universal reference frame doesn’t convince me. Regarding General Relativity, evidence that massive bodies bend light and attract other massive bodies owing to deformation of space doesn’t convince me. Regarding Quantum Mechanics, photon properties and definitions are too paradoxical and mercurial. It seems to me that aether is, that gravity is mediated by aethereal activity (as are electromagnetic forces), and light is aether waves. I have no quarrel with other standard-model particles and forces.
* I don’t see how gravitational waves could do work on the Ligo detector and every other object in their path unless the massive objects producing the waves are impeded in the process, and that should happen even if the universe had no other massive objects to receive the waves. That slowing must be due to interaction with aether and it must be relative to aether’s coordinates.
* Would existence of aether obviate the paradoxes of special relativity such as contraction of the universe in the direction of a fast-moving observer? And by the way, two massive objects in mutual orbit would surely experience centripetal force even with no other body in the universe, revealing a universal reference frame. The objects would approach each other as they lose angular momentum to the aether, and collide.
* I don’t see how a light wave could experience no time progress between leaving a source and hitting a target unless it touched source and target simultaneously, despite a wave length much shorter than the distance from source to target (eg from one galaxy to another). An all-purpose photon definition might help.
* Aether is an elastic medium filling all space, the substrate of force fields; and it propagates force-field disturbances, ie energy waves. I imagine it to be very busy with waves of every kind passing through every point randomly in many random directions simultaneously. Waves can interact with matter particles, transferring linear and angular momenta to and from matter particles mostly self canceling or quickly reversed.
* And by the way #2, I suspect that gravitational lensing may be a mirage, such as we see on a hot road or desert or as allows long-distance radio -- refraction by a transverse gradient of matter density, in these cases air density. An extreme case of this might account for light being trapped in a black hole and in an optic cable.
* Waves pass through each other unaffected. Judging from solar sails, they shove massive particles gently in their propagation directions giving their momentum to the particles in the process. Could this effect be dark energy and shading of it be gravity? Could gravity and electromagnetism be different blends of the same waves?
* I don't know whether my speculations agree with those of a prolific and thoughtful YouTuber named Robert Distinti, but I hope so.
Saturday, September 14, 2019
Monday, August 12, 2019
Implications of "gravitational" waves
* As a recreational scientist, I try to discern physical properties from system behavior and to consider implications of such properties. Recently I’ve been wondering about properties of space and concluded that it is not empty but filled with a highly resilient low density medium named aether, which is subject to geometric and electromagnetic disturbances which are propagated as waves.
* Physicists have detected gravity oscillations believed to have emanated from a pair of distant objects orbiting their combined center of gravity just before mutual absorption. The effect is expected, since the gravitational attraction when the objects lie on the line to us exceeds that when the objects are transverse to the line to us. These gravity oscillations wiggle distant targets including us, this being the signal detected by LIGO.
* The act of wiggling is a transfer of energy to the targets, energy that has traversed a great distance from its source. The initial transfer of energy from source to its neighboring space (aether), must have impeded the source's motion. That impedance or resistance likely accounts for the fact that the wave-producing objects approach each other and merge.
* A corollary of this logic is that all objects moving through space lose momentum as they do work on that space (actually space-filling aether) – so gravity should eventually collapse all matter associations suspended by momentum, ie planet systems, solar systems, galaxies and galaxy clusters. Each collapse should result in an explosive release of matter clouds containing higher-weight atoms as is supposed for collapsing stars.
* These are the implications of gravitational waves. But what is the interaction between matter bodies and aether that accelerates the bodies toward each other? What are the properties and actions of aether that account for gravitational attraction, the acceleration matter bodies toward each other? That's fun to contemplate.
* Physicists have detected gravity oscillations believed to have emanated from a pair of distant objects orbiting their combined center of gravity just before mutual absorption. The effect is expected, since the gravitational attraction when the objects lie on the line to us exceeds that when the objects are transverse to the line to us. These gravity oscillations wiggle distant targets including us, this being the signal detected by LIGO.
* The act of wiggling is a transfer of energy to the targets, energy that has traversed a great distance from its source. The initial transfer of energy from source to its neighboring space (aether), must have impeded the source's motion. That impedance or resistance likely accounts for the fact that the wave-producing objects approach each other and merge.
* A corollary of this logic is that all objects moving through space lose momentum as they do work on that space (actually space-filling aether) – so gravity should eventually collapse all matter associations suspended by momentum, ie planet systems, solar systems, galaxies and galaxy clusters. Each collapse should result in an explosive release of matter clouds containing higher-weight atoms as is supposed for collapsing stars.
* These are the implications of gravitational waves. But what is the interaction between matter bodies and aether that accelerates the bodies toward each other? What are the properties and actions of aether that account for gravitational attraction, the acceleration matter bodies toward each other? That's fun to contemplate.
Saturday, August 3, 2019
Officer in Garner death
* On the MSNBC Sunday show, Al Sharpton usually addresses racial-justice issues responsibly. Not so when it came to Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson and Eric Garner’s death in New York. In these cases he incited resentment of police unjustifiably, excessively and regrettably. Regrettably because resentment leads to contempt hence to crimes and their sequelae. Excessively because Sharpton kept provoking his audiences already riled. Unjustifiably because the officers in these two cases were not guilty of wrong doing – the shooting of Michael Brown was provoked and defensive; the neck hold on Eric Garner was not the cause of death.
* Each of these victims was breaking the law. Each was very large and resisted arrest.
* Michael Brown assaulted then threatened his arresting officer and was approaching him when shot. It is proper for a lone cop to shoot before closing with an oncoming belligerent. The witness lied about the event.
* Several officers were needed to subdue Garner, each trying to control an available part, including his neck. The neck-hold did not cut off Garner’s airway as evidenced by his continued utterances. Heart-failure patients experience a drowning sensation ("can't breathe") during and after exertion. The sensation supports the reflex response to exercise, that being deeper and faster ventilation to support exertion. The sensation is due to lactic acid and carbon dioxide in the blood coming from working muscles (this together with diminished blood oxygen). Another response supporting exertion is faster and stronger heart beats, signaled by sympathetic nerves and secreted adrenalin. Likely Garner’s damaged heart, unable to endure the extra work, experienced ventricular fibrillation, which is lethal. That is an ordinary heart attack. In the brief struggle, the sympathetic stimulation would have been due to mental excitement more than the metabolite changes. His heart probably didn’t stop due to pressure on the neck artery (carotid body), since that would render him unconscious quickly and would be quickly reversible. In any case, his death was accidental not intentional.
* Therefore, the officers involved in these two deaths did not commit crimes and should not be punished or hated.
* Each of these victims was breaking the law. Each was very large and resisted arrest.
* Michael Brown assaulted then threatened his arresting officer and was approaching him when shot. It is proper for a lone cop to shoot before closing with an oncoming belligerent. The witness lied about the event.
* Several officers were needed to subdue Garner, each trying to control an available part, including his neck. The neck-hold did not cut off Garner’s airway as evidenced by his continued utterances. Heart-failure patients experience a drowning sensation ("can't breathe") during and after exertion. The sensation supports the reflex response to exercise, that being deeper and faster ventilation to support exertion. The sensation is due to lactic acid and carbon dioxide in the blood coming from working muscles (this together with diminished blood oxygen). Another response supporting exertion is faster and stronger heart beats, signaled by sympathetic nerves and secreted adrenalin. Likely Garner’s damaged heart, unable to endure the extra work, experienced ventricular fibrillation, which is lethal. That is an ordinary heart attack. In the brief struggle, the sympathetic stimulation would have been due to mental excitement more than the metabolite changes. His heart probably didn’t stop due to pressure on the neck artery (carotid body), since that would render him unconscious quickly and would be quickly reversible. In any case, his death was accidental not intentional.
* Therefore, the officers involved in these two deaths did not commit crimes and should not be punished or hated.
Monday, May 20, 2019
Physics teacher for recreationally curious
For several years, I've been curious about physics, studying YouTube lectures by physics professors at top universities, subscribing to physics discussion groups, sometimes recording my conjectures so as to organize them and avoid forgetting them. There are some kooks out there who might have valuable ideas but can't present them. The YouTube teacher who excites me most is Robert Distinti. His models of forces and waves might be closer to truth than those from Noble Laureates and advanced university physics courses. For what it's worth here are links to Distinti's YouTube legacy. Also a couple of related links.
Some of my own conjectures:
https://ethicsblackhole.blogspot.com/2016/03/wondering-about-nature.html
https://ethicsblackhole.blogspot.com/2016/09/quantum-models.html
https://ethicsblackhole.blogspot.com/2016/10/electromagnetic-radiation_7.html
https://ethicsblackhole.blogspot.com/2016/11/radio-signals.html
https://ethicsblackhole.blogspot.com/2017/02/photons.html
https://ethicsblackhole.blogspot.com/2017/08/photon.html
https://ethicsblackhole.blogspot.com/2017/09/transmitter-antenna.html
https://ethicsblackhole.blogspot.com/2017/09/ellipsoid-wall-thickness.html
https://ethicsblackhole.blogspot.com/2017/10/too-many-cosmic-forces.html
https://ethicsblackhole.blogspot.com/2018/01/high-school-science-experiment.html
https://ethicsblackhole.blogspot.com/2018/02/challenge-for-steve-mould.html
https://ethicsblackhole.blogspot.com/2018/04/lessons-from-radio-waves.html
(1113)D003:NeewMagnet https:/
(1108)EM01 01 https://www.youtube.com/
(1108) EMF004 https://www.youtube.com/
emv002C:add https://www.
emV027:DU4 https://www.
my space model
emV041 https://www.youtube.
(1108)NEMA008 https://www.youtube.com/
(1101)Paradox1 https://www.
emf001T1:QuadLoop https://
T2:PoppingScience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1x7nVj4n8k
T3A: UN 90% Purge https://www.youtube.com/
U VA01 04 MatrixMath https://www.
SteinmetzEM https://www.
Some of my own conjectures:
https://ethicsblackhole.blogspot.com/2016/03/wondering-about-nature.html
https://ethicsblackhole.blogspot.com/2016/09/quantum-models.html
https://ethicsblackhole.blogspot.com/2016/10/electromagnetic-radiation_7.html
https://ethicsblackhole.blogspot.com/2016/11/radio-signals.html
https://ethicsblackhole.blogspot.com/2017/02/photons.html
https://ethicsblackhole.blogspot.com/2017/08/photon.html
https://ethicsblackhole.blogspot.com/2017/09/transmitter-antenna.html
https://ethicsblackhole.blogspot.com/2017/09/ellipsoid-wall-thickness.html
https://ethicsblackhole.blogspot.com/2017/10/too-many-cosmic-forces.html
https://ethicsblackhole.blogspot.com/2018/01/high-school-science-experiment.html
https://ethicsblackhole.blogspot.com/2018/02/challenge-for-steve-mould.html
https://ethicsblackhole.blogspot.com/2018/04/lessons-from-radio-waves.html
Monday, October 29, 2018
Flexible Mortgage Contracts
The most regrettable feature of the 2008 recession was the contagion of foreclosures that swept through vulnerable neighborhoods, impoverishing a whole generation of beginning homeowners, many of them descendants of oppressed ancestors. I anticipated this well in advance, having witnessed risky lending practises during the previous decade, responsive to many years of uninterrupted home-price inflation and the promise of economic stabilization by the Fed. This dynamic affected blacks disproportionally, owing to 1990s legislation forcing home lending in redlined neighborhoods.
During the years leading to the 2008 recession, mortgage brokers maximized their commissions by encouraging buyers to take loans for the full appraised value and more. Thus, buyers were almost ‘under water’ on day one, or following the slightest unfavorable event. Second mortgages up to 115% of value were encouraged, tempting borrowers to treat them income streams – all on the assumption that the upward home-price trajectory would continue. Brokers pushed adjustable-rate mortgages on the most vulnerable, least sophisticated buyers.
During the recession, home deflation became epidemic. That is, one defaulted/abandoned home in a neighborhood caused devaluation of neighboring homes, which were consequently abandoned hence intensifying and spreading failure like a forest fire.
Interested parties just watched as this epidemic destroyed wealth of aspiring homeowners. A broker has no interest in a completed loan once it's sold off to a bank or investor group. Our government bailed the institutions out. There was a government home-refinancing program that helped stronger homeowners, provided they held on through the recession.
Back in 2006 and 2007, I contemplated a flexible mortgage contract, one where the lenders and buyers would share the burden of changing externalities, so the buyer could weather a recession without losing his/her home. Accordingly, interest and principle would be adjusted temporarily to relieve homeowners of most of the shock but eventually altered to make lenders whole after a recession subsides. Preventing the abandonment epidemic would mollify, possibly prevent a recession.
Flexible loan contracts should have been implemented in response to the 2008 recession but weren’t. Instead, the Dodd-Frank legislation required banks to hold more capital. There was no legislation to protect borrowers early in a downturn. Lawmakers, lawyers, politicians, economists and bankers, are binary thinkers, ill prepared to design loans for an economic downturn. That work might need some engineers, the kind who guided Voyager and New Horizons near our most distant planets.
Thursday, October 25, 2018
Liberal vs Conservative Legacy
In a letter to the Tennessean Oct 24, Donald and Nan Chunn say that the Democratic Party embraces godless Marxism and that electing democrats offends our veterans who sacrificed fighting communism. This is not supported by facts.
Both of our wars to contain communism (Korea, Vietnam) were started by Democratic presidents and stopped by Republican presidents without wins.
Communism doesn’t evolve from socialism. It springs from autocracy when too many people are suffering, hopeless and confused. Socialism alleviates suffering and hopelessness, thereby averting communist revolution.
All political and economic systems are godless, regardless of sanctimonious claims.
Efforts by liberals to alleviate suffering and injustice have left us with valuable legacies, eg social security, civil rights, universal suffrage, medicare, medicaid, child-labor laws, 40-hour work week, affordable health care, environmental preservation, recovered economy twice. The main conservative legacy (Reagan, Bush 2, Trump) is ballooning National Debt. Our descendants will benefit from the liberal legacy but will be burdened by the conservative legacy.
Published in The Tennessean, Nov 1, 2018
Published in The Tennessean, Nov 1, 2018
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Foot-pad cracked-skin scraper
For several years I have suffered from thickened, cracking, inflamed skin at the edges of my footpads. The cracking is due to non-compliance of the thickend layer, which is shed skin lingering due to an adhesive that is weakened by hot-water soaking. Pumice-stone rubbing after footsoak or shower didn’t suffice. Similarly, Dr Scholl's foot file wasn't aggressive enough.
Sometimes my fingernails after a shower-bath were surprisingly effective, so I imagined a device that would act like a crowded bunch of fingernails. The device described and pictured below worked better than expected, separating dead, adherant skin quickly and thoroughly without harming the live skin beneath.
Here’s how it’s made: Buy a multi-diameter hole-saw attachment for a power-drill. Remove the shaft. Leave the blades all in their slots, secured by glue if necessary. Using the flat side of a grinding wheel, grind down the saw teeth uniformly almost but not quite completely.
After a bath/shower, rub the thick dead skin gently back and forth with the abrasive face of the scraper. The dead skin will roll up and/or flake off exposing the good skin satisfyingly. Don’t try to do it all in one sitting. Repeat the process after subsequent baths/showers until the offending dead-skin accumulation is finally gone – and soft, noncracking, living skin prevails.
Sometimes my fingernails after a shower-bath were surprisingly effective, so I imagined a device that would act like a crowded bunch of fingernails. The device described and pictured below worked better than expected, separating dead, adherant skin quickly and thoroughly without harming the live skin beneath.
Here’s how it’s made: Buy a multi-diameter hole-saw attachment for a power-drill. Remove the shaft. Leave the blades all in their slots, secured by glue if necessary. Using the flat side of a grinding wheel, grind down the saw teeth uniformly almost but not quite completely.
After a bath/shower, rub the thick dead skin gently back and forth with the abrasive face of the scraper. The dead skin will roll up and/or flake off exposing the good skin satisfyingly. Don’t try to do it all in one sitting. Repeat the process after subsequent baths/showers until the offending dead-skin accumulation is finally gone – and soft, noncracking, living skin prevails.
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