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Numerous readers have requested that I comment on all the commotion concerning the recent discovery of gravitational waves via the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). I will assume that this is the real thing and not just another false alarm.
Second, let me mention that this is just another “Einsteinism”: “correct prediction, wrong reason.” Although the gravitational-wave press conference totally ignored it, the long-awaited discovery of gravity waves means that THE ATTRACTION HYPOTHESIS IS DEAD—we will have to adopt the push hypothesis instead. A gravitational signal proven to come from a source a billion light years away certainly did not arrive here because of any “attraction” we might have. It is much like a far-away explosion that we hear via the normal changes in air pressure that travel from source to ear. Can we educated folks now refrain from thinking of gravitation as an attraction? Please?
Third, we can now give up the idea that space is empty. The experiment confirms that AETHER MUST EXIST. The press reports stating that the waves travelled through perfectly empty space via compression and decompression are ludicrous. That could never happen. All wave motion requires a medium. That is why Einstein’s corpuscular theory of light is equally ludicrous. Wave motion without a medium is like having water waves without water.
Fourth, the experiment did add one bit of information: the speed of gravitation and the speed of light are identical. That is because they both use the same medium: aether. Presumably, the investigators were able to see the explosion through telescopes and measure the gravitation effect at the same time. This destroys the Le Sage push theory, which requires gravitation to travel at 20 billion times the speed of light. The LIGO signal was delayed by 7 milliseconds due to the distance between the two measurement stations (Hanford, WA and Livingston, LA). It would take light 10 milliseconds to travel the 3,048 km distance overland along the curvature of Earth. The gravitational waves took less time because they took a shortcut through Earth. One of the stations was about 2,000 km further from the explosion than the other.
Fifth, the correct theory of gravitation is the one we proposed in 2012 as the “Neomechanical Gravitation Theory” (NGT). The theory states that aether pressure tends to be highest away from ordinary baryonic matter—just the opposite of atmospheric pressure. Baryonic matter then acts like a vacuum, causing errant material objects to be pushed toward massive objects. Thus, in NGT, gravitation acts locally, in the same way that a helium balloon is pushed upward in the atmosphere due to local pressure differences. Unlike other push theories, NGT does not hypothesize corpuscles or gravitons rushing toward objects from far away at superluminal velocities. The aether particles are already there, surrounding and permeating all baryonic matter. Actually, NGT has much in common with the much-ignored theory proposed by Newton 300 years ago. The key feature of both theories is the presence of aether, which has just been confirmed by the gravitational wave experiment.
The universal presence of aether makes it possible for us to detect waves from distant galaxies, whether they are waves due to light or waves due to explosions that appear as changes in gravitational pressure. The waves detected by LIGO really are not a significant cause of most gravitation, but they are proof that the aether exists.
The discovery gets us closer to finding out what is causing Steve Puetz’s Universal Wave Series cycles that are appearing in our analyses of time series data of historic geological, astronomical, biological, and climatic records. There seem to be no limits to the frequencies of these cycles. They range from days to billions of years.
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