Special Relativity Rebooted— Part 3
By: Kieran D. Kelly
Tags: Special Relativity, Relativity, Physics, Neoclassical Relativity, Neoclassical Physics

The Return of the Aether

Einstein’s Relativity was undoubtedly a major intellectual breakthrough, but it has been too long burdened with paradoxical nonsense, which only serves to obscure both, the true message of Relativity, and the true nature of the underlying physics of “Time”…

In this three-part revision of Special Relativity, I have attempted to strip away the excess baggage of SR, but to do so has required a return to the concept of background dependence, a return to the concept of some form of “Aether”.

A fundamental property of Einstein’s Relativity is that of being “Background Independent”. In Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, the concept of “The Aether” is redundant. In his work, Einstein had no use for The Aether because

He makes no attempt to explain how light moves through space, he just says that it does. He has no need to explain a fixed speed for light, he simply declares it as a law of physics.

A fundamental property of NeoClassical Relativity is that of being “Background Dependent”. In NCR, the concept of some form of “Aether” is most definitely NOT redundant because

NCR wants to explain how light moves through space. NCR needs to explain why the speed for light “appears” to be fixed.

In NCR, the concept of The Aether equates to the concept of a fixed background reference frame. But in NCR the Aether is not some invisible fluid permeating all of space; it is Three-Dimensional Space itself.

In NeoClassical Relativity, as in General Relativity, space is endowed with a physical quality, the quality of being “Malleable”.

Space can bend, and curve, and twist, and generally change its shape from its 3D Equilibrium.

In NCR, three-dimensional space is a fixed reference geometry that acts as a “Background Spatial Aether”; and “Time” is the result of two-dimensional oscillations of this “3D geometry”.

{Note: How exactly “the Spatial Aether is oscillating” is the subject of NeoClassical Quantum Mechanics — which I will come to address very shortly…}

And so in conclusion, we will briefly examine the implications of a Malleable Spatial Aether.

1. The Spatial Aether in Special Relativity

Our normal understanding of waves is that they are the motion of some material thing, thus the Aether was considered to be some invisible material fluid that permeated all of space.

But, Maxwell’s Wave Equation doesn’t describe the oscillations of a material thing, but the oscillations of “Space” itself.

In NCR, space oscillates, and when it does “A Quantity of Time is Generated”. In NCR, “Time” is not something external

“Time” is an intrinsic property of a thing (just like “Mass” and “Charge”)…

This is the defining feature of NCR; it is the fundamental physics revealed by this revision of Einstein’s Special Relativity.

NeoClassical Relativity reveals that there is no such thing as “Universal Time”, or for that matter a “4D Spacetime Continuum”.

In NCR, “Time” is “Generated”; and all quantities of “Time” are simply the result of the speed of a localized cycle of oscillating space. Thus,

In Classical Relativity, Speed is Relative to the observer’s Motion. But in NeoClassical Relativity, Speed is Relative to both the observer’s Motion AND the observer’s Time.

2. The Measured Value of “c”

We saw previously that, if fast things are oscillating relatively slowly, then relatively slow things must be oscillating very very fast.

And, taking this idea to its natural limit suggests the existence of a maximum speed of oscillation (u-max) occurs when the speed of travel (v) is zero. When this happens equation (1) becomes

Equation (24) _____________ c = u-max

This equation tells us why the fixed 3D speed is a “maximum quantity” in physics.

The so-called “Speed of Light” is in reality, the maximum speed of oscillation in a stationary frame of reference.

Moreover, this also means that there must be a speed associated with the maximum speed of oscillation in the Background Spatial Aether.

Using equation (24) above, we can write this speed as

Equation (56) ____________ cₐ = uₐ-max

Thus any other measure of (c) will always reflect the motion of the frame of reference (that c is being measured in) relative to the Background Spatial Aether.

And so the measured value of (c) in a moving frame of reference is given by

Equation (57) ____________ c’ = (c/uᵣ) cₐ

And this equation brings us full circle back to the original argument about the “fixed” 3D speed of (c)…

3. The “How” to do Velocity Addition

It is often said that the failure to detect the so-called “Luminiferous Aether” was the first step on the road to Special Relativity. But, as I argued in Special Relativity Rebooted — Part 1, in a universe where Maxwell’s “speed of electromagnetic waves” represents a fixed three-dimensional speed, all efforts to detect the relative motion of the earth (relative to the “Space” itself) were doomed to failure due to the “Flawed expectations of Classical Velocity Addition”.

In an effort to correct this, Einstein derived a new Velocity Addition Equation. Unfortunately, he did not derive this equation from “first principles” but from the Lorentz Transformation Equations, which were themselves originally derived around the strange notion of “Length Contraction”.

In contrast, the Velocity Addition Equation for NeoClassical Relativity IS actually derived from first principles. Velocities are measures of both distance and time, but in NCR “Time” is an intrinsic property of any frame of reference.

And so, as we showed in Part1, when adding relative motion you do NOT add the velocities, you ADD THE WAVE-LENGTHS…