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dash wrote: I’m trying to figure out how special relativity can fall out of this approach. I don’t believe in general relativity, actually. I don’t believe space is warped. Rather, I like a uniform aether that actually does have a fixed reference frame. The question is how to have such a universe yet explain the observed effects.

Turns out this is a recurring theme in Theories of Everything.

http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Grand_Unified_Theories

If “particles” are made of something that is always travelling at lightspeed, then when the “particles” are in motion the internal speed must decrease, and so time dilation and the ‘c’ speed limit and all of Special Relativity just fall out.

I especially like the one by Natarajan T.S. http://www.tardyon.de/mirror/natar/1701.html

“POSTULATE I: Every micro particle is endowed with two types of motion, an Internal Motion and an External Motion. … POSTULATE II: The internal motion is a circular motion in a plane with a radius characteristic of the mass of the particle. … POSTULATE III: When a particle has external motion, the internal (circular ) motion is always in a plane normal to the external motion. … POSTULATE IV: The magnitude of the instantaneous velocity of the particle, which is the resultant of its internal and external velocities, is always equal to ‘c’ … POSTULATE V: The angular momentum and the radius of the internal motion are unaffected by the external motion and are therefore the same for all observers. POSTULATE VI: Physical laws are the same in all inertial frames (postulate I of STR).”

Interesting point is all the referenced sites seem to fit a pattern. They pick some set of experimental evidence and ignore the rest, and come up with an intuitive model to describe what’s going on at the bottom level. Then there are varying degrees of equations and math to back it up. Then they make very few predictions. No claims of cheap & easy energy sources, for example.

So — these people are more devoted to the pursuit than I am, and they are much further along. No point in my investing more time in trying to come up with an original approach when it probably isn’t original at all.

-Dave