‘Liquid spacetime: A very slippery superfluid, that’s what spacetime could be like’
“What if spacetime were a kind of fluid?”
If spacetime were a kind of fluid then particles would move through it and displace it.
If spacetime were a kind of fluid then it would be what waves in a double slit experiment.
If only we had some evidence that mass fills ‘empty’ space. Then it should be obvious to everyone that it is the mass which fills ‘empty’ space which waves in a double slit experiment.
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Aether has mass and is physically displaced by the particles of matter which exist in it and move through it.
Displaced aether pushing back and exerting inward pressure toward matter is gravity.
What is referred to geometrically as curved spacetime physically exists in nature as the state of displacement of the aether.
The state of displacement of the aether is gravity.
A moving particle has an associated aether displacement wave. In a double slit experiment the particle travels through a single slit and the associated wave in the aether passes through both.
What ripples when galaxy clusters collide is what waves in a double slit experiment; the aether.
Einstein’s gravitational wave is de Broglie’s wave of wave-particle duality; both are aether displacement waves.
Aether displaced by matter relates general relativity and quantum mechanics.
“The word ‘ether’ has extremely negative connotations in theoretical physics because of its past association with opposition to relativity. This is unfortunate because, stripped of these connotations, it rather nicely captures the way most physicists actually think about the vacuum. . . . Relativity actually says nothing about the existence or nonexistence of matter pervading the universe, only that any such matter must have relativistic symmetry. […] It turns out that such matter exists. About the time relativity was becoming accepted, studies of radioactivity began showing that the empty vacuum of space had spectroscopic structure similar to that of ordinary quantum solids and fluids. Subsequent studies with large particle accelerators have now led us to understand that space is more like a piece of window glass than ideal Newtonian emptiness. It is filled with ‘stuff’ that is normally transparent but can be made visible by hitting it sufficiently hard to knock out a part. The modern concept of the vacuum of space, confirmed every day by experiment, is a relativistic ether. But we do not call it this because it is taboo.” - Robert B. Laughlin, Nobel Laureate in Physics, endowed chair in physics, Stanford University
Matter, fluids, solids, a piece of window glass and ‘stuff’ have mass and so does the aether.
‘Liquid spacetime: A very slippery superfluid, that’s what spacetime could be like’
“What if spacetime were a kind of fluid?”
If spacetime were a kind of fluid then particles would move through it and displace it.
If spacetime were a kind of fluid then it would be what waves in a double slit experiment.
If only we had some evidence that mass fills ‘empty’ space. Then it should be obvious to everyone that it is the mass which fills ‘empty’ space which waves in a double slit experiment.
I’m not going to click on your links and try to eek out your meaning.
Try to explain, as succinctly as possible, what it is you’re on about in your own words. Let others weigh in, and then start providing cites on particular and relevant points.
Aether has mass and is physically displaced by the particles of matter which exist in it and move through it.
Displaced aether pushing back and exerting inward pressure toward matter is gravity.
What is referred to geometrically as curved spacetime physically exists in nature as the state of displacement of the aether.
The state of displacement of the aether is gravity.
A moving particle has an associated aether displacement wave. In a double slit experiment the particle travels through a single slit and the associated wave in the aether passes through both.
What ripples when galaxy clusters collide is what waves in a double slit experiment; the aether.
Einstein’s gravitational wave is de Broglie’s wave of wave-particle duality; both are aether displacement waves.
Aether displaced by matter relates general relativity and quantum mechanics.
“Think of waves on the surface of water. Here we can describe two entirely different things. Either we may observe how the undulatory surface forming the boundary between water and air alters in the course of time; or else-with the help of small floats, for instance - we can observe how the position of the separate particles of water alters in the course of time. If the existence of such floats for tracking the motion of the particles of a fluid were a fundamental impossibility in physics - if, in fact nothing else whatever were observable than the shape of the space occupied by the water as it varies in time, we should have no ground for the assumption that water consists of movable particles. But all the same we could characterise it as a medium.”
if, in fact nothing else whatever were observable than the shape of the space occupied by the aether as it varies in time, we should have no ground for the assumption that aether consists of movable particles. But all the same we could characterise it as a medium having mass which is displaced by the particles of matter which exist in it and move through it.
But it does not turn out – does it? – that such matter is a necessary medium for the propagation of light, as the luminiferous æther was presumed to be. The results of the Michelson-Morley experiment remain unchanged.
The Michelson-Morley experiment looked for an absolutely stationary space the Earth moves through. The aether is not an absolutely stationary space. Aether is displaced by the particles of matter which exist in it and move through it.
Watch the following video starting at 0:45 to see a visual representation of the state of the aether. What is referred to as a twist in spacetime is the state of displacement of the aether.
“Imagine the Earth as if it were immersed in honey,” says Francis Everitt of Stanford University in California, the mission’s chief scientist. “As the planet rotates, the honey around it would swirl, and it’s the same with space and time.”
Honey has mass and so does the aether. The ‘swirl’ is more correctly described as the state of displacement of the aether.