Luminiferous Ether
by Joel Webb
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Joel Webb, P.O. Box 964, Kaunakakai, Hawaii, 96748  Phone (808) 553-3456
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    Utilizing a Michelson type interferometer similar to the one illustrated below, I was able to detect luminiferous ether over a one month period of observation.

    The fringes which I observed appeared as shown right. 
    On the evening of March 15th I observed these fringes to be moving to the left for about ten minutes, and then slowly change direction, as though being some kind of fluid, and then begin to drift to right for another ten minutes.
    Temperature variations were taken into account, the severest coefficient for expansion occurring across the grain, and comes to 61.4 x 10-6 change in length per degree Centigrade at room temperature.  Given that that the total round trip lap for either interferometer beam comes to 24" (each leg being 12"), one could expect a change of length of:

Change in beam length = 61.4 x 10-6 x 24 = 1.47 x 10-3 inches.
    In relationship to the light waves traveling through the interferometer, which are from a green laser pointer of wavelength 532 Nm, or, 0.00000532 meters, only about seven fringes would fit inside a linear change in wood grain of 1.47 x 10-3 inches, and would be unable to produce appreciable fringe movement, particularly if the wood associated with each beam should change the same, which they most likely would do.
    Valid measurements are plotted as follows;  the earth center showing the morning and evening terminators being representative of solar time in Hawaii.   61 Cygni and our galactic center (Milky Way galaxy) are shown average sidereal time for this observation period of thirty days.  This is a view from the north, the earth spinning counterclockwise.

    The battery of red vectors directed towards our galactic center, indicates that the field of luminiferous ether is being drawn into the galactic center, or at least in its direction at the location of the interferometer.
    The blue vectors show our tangential motion towards 61 Cygni due to galactic rotation.
    Extreme measurements, such as the the 1,100 mps vector directed at 10:30 are not discounted, but rather considered as possible high speed currents in the ether field appearing at that time as the apparatus passes through them on its way towards 61 Cygni.

    FRINGE SHIFT DATA
       SITE LOCATION:  210 05.116 N  1560 59.806       ELEV.  194 FT        HAWAIIAN STANDARD TIME

DATE        IN          OUT      DUR  CNT RATE DIR  TEMP  MOON                         COMMENTS

 3/17  11:40 AM  11:44 AM     4      3     0.75    Y                                               DAYTIME  LEFT  (Y)
 3/17    1:25 PM    1:45 PM    20    15    1.33    Y                                               DAYTIME  LEFT  (Y)
 3/17    5:11 PM    5:17 PM      6      1    0.16    X      The Y-beam is aimed away from Cygni.
 3/18    4:50 AM    5:00 AM    10      1    0.10    X
 3/20    3:00 AM    3:10 AM    10      1    0.10    X     The Y-beam is aimed at Cygni.
 3/20    1:12 PM    1:15 PM      3      3    1.0      Y                                                DAYTIME
 3/20    2:22 PM    2:28 PM      6      4    0.66    Y     The Y-beam is aimed away from Cygni.
 3/21    7:07 AM    7:20 AM     13     8    0.61     X
 3/21    9:14 AM    9:25 AM     11     7    0.63     Y                                               DAYTIME
 3/21  12:06 PM  12:17 PM     11     8    0.73     Y                                               DAYTIME
 3/21    3:12 PM    3:21 PM       9    10   1.11     X     The Y-beam is aimed away from Cygni.
 3/21    5:50 PM    6:02 PM     12     3    0.02     X        78      1/4   The Y-beam is aimed away from Cygni.
  3/22    7:21 AM    7:25 AM       4     6    1.5       X
 3/22  12:53 PM    1:01 PM       8    17  2.12      Y        81                                  DAYTIME
 3/22    6:57 PM    6:59 PM       2      2   1.0        X       78
 3/23  12:27 AM  12:31 AM       4      4   1.0        Y       72  The Y-beam is aimed at Cygni.
 3/24   12:17PM  12:24 PM       7     15  2.1        Y       81  The Y-beam is aimed away from Cygni.
3/26    3:19 PM    3:26 PM       7      3   0.42      Y                  1/2    The Y-beam is aimed away from Cygni.
4/3     12:35 PM  12:44 PM       9      11  1.2       Y
4/3      7:02  PM    7:20 PM      18     0      0        MOVED 2 TOWARDS Y AND THEN 2 BACK TOWARDS X

DATE  TIME  TIME      DAY         DUR  CNT RATE DIR  TEMP  MOON                         NOTES
             IN      OUT    NIGHT

4/4      6:55    7:06   SUNRISE       11     22     2.0     R       -           -
4/4      9:50    9:55   MORNING       5      37     7.4     L                    1/2          EXTREME RATE! exceptionally
4/4    12:47   12:51  NOON              2       5      2.5     R                                  DIFFICULT READINGS - WINDY
4/4      7:00     7:18  EVENING       18      6       0.3     L                    1/2 in morning
4/5     6:56     7:08   MORNING       12        10     .83           R
4/5    12:06   12:11  NOON             5         17    3.4            L
4/5     6:54      7:00   SUNSET        6         7      1.16   R
4/6    6:59       7:04  SUNRISE        5         4      0.8     L
4/11  6:59    7:02      SUNSET       3        4       1.33    L
4/11   1:12    1:19     MIDNIGHT    7       10      1.42    R
4/12    6:44   6:49     SUNRISE      5       9        1.8      R
4/13    5:03    5:09    PM                6        6        1.0    L
4/13    11:26    11:37    MIDNIGHT    11    13 R    1.18
4/14    5:28    5:44        AM                16    12 L (Y)    0.75
4/14    11:10    11:18    NOON             8   5 L (Y)        0.625

NOTE CHANGE IN ORDER BETWEEN CNT AND DUR
DATE   IN      OUT      CNT   DUR    RATE  NOTES
4/15    2:10    2:12    4 L (Y)    12        0.3    NIGHT    FRINGES STALLED NEAR END OF PERIOD
4/16    5:03    5:14    6L (Y)      11      0.54    NIGHT

Interferometer Construction, Set-up and Operation

    This experiment is being performed at the time, date and location shown utilizing an interferometer with two equal length beams of 12", placed at right angles to each other.
 The north-south beam is a reference beam denoted as X, the other, denoted as Y, is aimed east to the horizon.  The apparatus is locked down and does not rotate;  utilizing the earth's rotation instead.  Due east is always the aiming direction.
    During March, the orbital progress of the earth and moon around the sun is in line with the Cygnus-Orion axis.
    On this axis, the apparatus will measure motion based upon two motions:  that of the sun's motion of 150 miles/sec (m/s) towards Cygnus (away from Orion) and the earth's orbit around the sun at 18.5 m/s.  During other months, this condition is not true.
    Both beams of light are projected slightly offset (normal in achieving interference fringes) with the X beam stationed to the right of the Y beam, which is rechecked at the conclusion of each run.
    A fringe count rate is determined by dividing the number of fringes observed passing a screen marker by the duration of the run.
    The moving fringes represent the change of phase between the two beams of light derived from a single green laser, not the motion of the apparatus through the field, though such phase variation is directly attributable to this motion.
    The movement of the fringes may be either in the direction of the X beam spot, or the Y beam spot, as observed, though it has not been determined as to why.
    Perhaps one of you has an explanation for this.
    As another optical curio, on a rather muggy and drizzly evening, secondary fringes were seen moving in the opposite direction to the primary fringes I normally take account, and at a much higher rate of passage.  I think that it was some sort of optical reflection, nicely magnifying the sensitivity of the apparatus.
    Keep in mind that the earth's orbit component is also maximum at noonday and at midnight, at this time of year, near the vernal equinox, and though quite small at 18.5 m/s compared to the galactic rotation component, somewhere around 150 m/s, they remain additive.
    As convention in this study, galactic spin as viewed from the galactic north pole (considered to be south by astronomers) is clockwise, and considered to be positive motion, in contrast to the earth's counterclockwise orbital and rotational spins, both considered as negative in this accord.  All poles, be they galactic, solar or earth are aligned the same, though somewhat tilted to each other.
    The earth's rotation at this site's latitude is -0.138 m/s;  contributing very little to these results.  However, earth orbital data should be included in these calculations:  (150+18.5) m/s for daytime observations and (150-18.5) m/s for nocturnal observations.  March only.

Conclusion

    The theory of relativity developed by Albert Einstein would therefor be incorrect in its premise.
    In light of this revelation, modern scientists should go back and review older experiments predicating current theories incorporated into the Standard Model, such as Hubble red-shift, Thomas Van Flandern's lunar occultation observations and the water drop gedanken of Democritus.
    In the case of the red-shift, there are two ways to view this, one of which, seldom mentioned by scientists, would be the reverse perception, that material things, ourselves, our earth and our instruments are becoming smaller in time, giving the impression that other celestial objects are moving away from us.
    If this were to be the case, the problem of old-matter associated with Sir Fred Hoyle's steady-state cosmological model might be eliminated altogether entirely.
    In this support, one interpretation of Thomas Van Flandern's lunar occultation observations does support the notion that both the earth and moon, all material objects for that matter, might be getting smaller, giving the impression that the earth-moon orbit is enlarging, as Van Flandern attempts to otherwise explain in terms of a weakening gravitational constant.
    Today's expenditures on high-energy particle colliders finds its premise on the older notions of atomism, going back to Democritus, who supposed, once identifying the smallest extant form of water possible, the atomoi, that many such atomois making up a greater body of water would need to be separated by some distance apart.  When asked by his colleagues what this interstitial medium was, he explained that it was non-existence, equivalent to empty space or nothing.
    Under strict rules of logic, the absence of separation, directly implies touching, which one might think should commend the concept of atomism as being logically inconsistent, something again, modern science ought review.

What is luminiferous ether?

    In the broadest sense, luminiferous ether comprises four fundamental forms, the principle form being unbounded space as substance, called an infinite volume.  Though it is inert, it is essential for the other three forms to exist.
    Of these three forms, surfaces are the most active in terms of interaction.
    For example, many surfaces will invariably bump or collide into each other because they cannot be stationary, in that there is no rule or governing process preventing them from moving.
    This collision is commonly in association with a wave.  (See animation of a field wave.)
    This wave is generally in association with electromagnetic quanta, such as photons and neutrinos.
    Wave velocity is directly confined to the normal of surfaces undergoing collision at their initial place of contact.
    The scalar speed associated with this velocity is relative to each surface where they touch.
    In accordance to these rules of natural behavior, rather than a hypothesized and arbitrary mathematical model such as relativity, waves (photons) moving through the interferometer maintain velocity (both directed vector and scalar speed) relative to only those surfaces of the luminiferous ether they are touching at that moment.
    Waves moving in opposite directions in simultaneous contact with any given surface along any leg of the apparatus, such as the X-leg or Y-leg, demonstrate differential in their normal propagation speed (c) relative to the apparatus speed through the luminiferous ether (blue vectors) or the ether's speed through the apparatus (as in the case of the red vectors) in the direction of the galactic center.

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