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Originally Posted by Nereid
I don't follow this - what is "ave velocity"?
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Sorry this is bad typing on my part, it should read:
There is only one parameter which is the rate at which the aether increases its velocity as tension (stretching) increases.
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Is this parameter a scalar quantity? vector? tensor?? What are its units?
What is its expected value?
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The constant is dimensionless, being the proportionate increase in c with an increase in stretch. Of the form dc/c = k*dx/x
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This does not seem to answer the question asked ("What experiment(s) could be used to determine the values of the minimal set of parameters to fully characterise the aether?").
Would you please answer the question?
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Well any experiment that measures GR effects can be compared to such a model. Of course this includes (so-called) gravitational redshift and other effects. I say so-called, because there is actually no change in frequency of a traveling wave in the gravitational case, the frequency starts out different.
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In principle, could an experiment based on one or more of the Bell inequalities falsify the ATM ideas presented in this thread?
If not, why not?
If so, what sort of experiment?
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I don't think that the Bell inequality experiment has anything to tell us other than that people cannot do statistics. If an experiment could send information at many times the speed of light (as the experts agree is not possible with the EPR experiments) then I would be proved wrong. But if you cannot send information faster than light, then clearly nothing is going on at that speed. The whole thing is developing as a system according to normal physics.
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What about variation in c due to the strength of the strong force (or its gradient)?
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Potentially the model will apply in such cases, but until computer simulations are done to establish how it maps on to the standard model then we will not know.
At this time, the model is useful in these ways for nuclear particles:
1. Predicts the radius or wavelength of nucleons as 1.3 fm.
2. Predicts the strength of gravity relative to strong force based on observed red shift.
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What are the equations that must be solved - by computer simulations - to predict the variation in c due to "the change in mass of particles over time"?
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Consider a tensile material. It will operate according to the standard
wave equation as described fully in wikipedia and elsewhere.
The only additional element to be considered is that c is locally varying. Its value depends on the local stretching of space.