Re: Does anyone really know the physical cause for time dilation and length contraction?

From	c r <info.ronse@skynet.be>
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Subject	Re: Does anyone really know the physical cause for time dilation and length contraction?
Date	2016-05-16 13:20 +0200
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On 05/13/16 21:17, xxein1@att.net wrote:
> Can we have a discussion about the root physical cause of TD and LC? We all know the math, so skip that. What is it about velocity that becomes a cause? What about gravity as a cause? How are they a cause? Stick to principles of cause and effect or start your own thread for all else.
>
> Btw. Just because 'we measure' doesn't answer the question of how it affects.
>

You ask about an interpretation or understanding, no mathematics?

Mine is a sain and simple high school level thinking: haven't
we all learned then that breaching of light rays has everything to do
with the refractive index, which itself depends upon the speed of light?
Light speed is not constant. Heavy bodies (eg the sun) slow it down.
Very similar to sound waves: sound speed depends upon the
elasticity/specific mass ratio. Hooke's law is not strictly linear,
but elasticity decreases as the load increases ... even up to a point
where a test slab breaks down. So sound speed will depend upon
the load (which can be the sound wave itself).
Extremely loud sound will travel slower because of the lower
elasticity at the high load imposed by the sound.
Why should electromagnetism be different?
Gravity is nothing else but the slowing down of light speed on high
load = mass. We all know that mass equals energy. It is nothing else
than standing wave light. Or eigenfunctions if you like the language
of QM. And light/masswaves is bent towards higher refractive
indices = gravity.

To continue, in this view aether does exist.
Light is an aether wave. Matter is aether wave.
Everything is.
And for sure, there must be non-linear effects.
In a linear world, if you want to calculate the behaviour of
two waves wave A + B, then you might just as well calculate the
behaviour of wave A without the presence of wave B. Then calculate
the behaviour of wave B with A present and add up both results.
In other words, wave A does not feel the presence of B.
Wave A cannot maesure B. Unless something is not linear.
So one should not be surprised that in QM the probality is the square
of the magnitude wave function. A wave can only be measured/seen by the
presence of it's "foam head" if you would like to make the comparison
to sea waves.

And aether wind might be real. But MMX does not measure it.
MMX uses a split light beam that travels in two perpendicular directions
and is made to interfere when it returns = standing wave.
Why should this standing light wave behave any different than the
mass/matter standing wave of the supporting arms some cm away?
It does not. As experiment clearly shows.

What is more: the above is not in conflict with mainstream physics.
It only seems so. It is merely an interpretation and does not add
much either. But for yet another view angle and way of thinking...

Charles

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