[Physics] Physics Digest, Vol 19, Issue 5

[carmam at tiscali.co.uk]

Hi Doug, yes I am Tom. Another theory I have a problem with is quantum theory. It is as nonsensical as relativity theory. When Schrodinger devised his "cat in a box" thought experiment, I thought it was a splendid way for him to show the world what a contradictory theory it was, and therefore could not be true in any real sense of the word. How can a cat be both dead and alive, and only be in one state or the other when observed? Truly bizarre. It was seized upon by the quantum physicists as a great example of how QT (or QM) works. Really bizarre.
I have read (perhaps that should be still reading) and have saved in my favourites, your web page, "A Conspiracy of Light". LET is the one for me. The speed of light IS variable, it varies with the speed of the source or the medium it is passing through - ie  v + c . This explains the De Sitter effect. See : -  http://alternativephysics.org/book/DeSitterEffect.htm .
I don't go along with Schrodinger and deBroglie about matter being composed of waves. Waves come from (charged) particles, not the other way round. The speed of light and all other EM waves are WRT the source , so no matter what the speed of the source, the speed of the waves are c when measured from that source so those waves cannot disrupt the source, and there is a great deal of uncertainty as to what the actual speed is, due to the lack of fixed objects in space to measure speed against.
Tom.




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Date: 23/11/2018 16:18 

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Hi Tom (that's you right?),
    Yes, interesting, and perhaps your example is a little different, as it is not a literal contradiction exactly. I always look at relativity theory as being a sort of anagram of ether theory. If particles are composed of waves in the manner conceived of by Schrodinger and deBroglie, and the speed of light is the speed of these waves in some form of absolute space, then matter can't exceed the speed of the waves that compose it without falling apart. Einstein rearranged absolute space and time with the time-space continuum, but in my opinion he arrives at the correct answer without being able to provide proper physical explanations, since the speed of light then becomes an absolute constant without any physical reason. So yes, I also keep on asking "why?" 



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