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Originally Posted by Jerry Jensen
I think the Pioneer anomalies are an exception to the rule here: This is a well studied phenomenon where most of the suggestions as to cause on this thread have been ruled out by a team a very competent researchers. This is one of several observations that should be considered a gut-check for the mainstream, because it is mainstream: Two well-controlled experiments, the results of which have no known causality.
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In my opinion, the Pioneer anomaly is a demonstration of the Scharnhorst effect. Klaus Scharnhorst predicted that light propagating through a rarified quantum vacuum field (i.e. a vacuum in which a range of frequencies of virtual pairs is suppressed, as in a Casimir gap) should move faster than light that is propagating through an equivalent vacuum. Light can travel faster through propagating media that are less dense, and the shortened return times lead us to believe the probes are closer than they really are, and if we believe that the speed of light in a vacuum must be constant, we interpret this to mean that the probes are slowing. They are not.
I would like to explain further, but the explanation would be regarded as ATM. The summary of the vacuum polarization model is located here.
What if a nonscientist....my model of quantum gravity
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The ether of general relativity therefore differs from that of classical mechanics or the special theory of relativity respectively, in so far as it is not 'absolute', but is determined in its locally variable properties by ponderable matter.
Albert Einstein, "On the Ether", 1924
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