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Einstein is generally credited with eliminating the need for the aether. However, as documented in the book “Einstein and the Ether”, from 1916 until his death he believed in the aether in some...
15 September 2017 5,740 51 View
The interferometer mirrors used to detect gravitational waves are usually described as moving when a gravitational wave passes. This is an easy to understand explanation, but is it correct? Moving...
18 April 2016 4,435 27 View
The commonly held explanation is that the electromagnetic force is transferred by virtual photons. Are the static electric and magnetic fields produced by an electron also the result of virtual...
31 March 2016 4,765 18 View
I am writing a paper for a conference titled: The Nature of Light: What are Photons? It would be very helpful to obtain an idea about how this group of scientists visualize a photon propagating in...
06 July 2015 3,221 96 View
Some physicists believe that gravity is not a real force like the electromagnetic or the strong force because an inertial frame of reference eliminates the effects of gravity. However, it can be...
13 May 2015 7,227 95 View
Neutrino flavor oscillations are often described as involving a mass/energy change. The flavor oscillation is also described as the result of a superposition of mass eigenstates which propagate at...
20 February 2015 5,316 17 View
The “spin” of an electron or other fundamental particle is often described as “intrinsic angular momentum”. This terminology is required because a point particle or Planck length vibrating string...
17 December 2014 4,273 4 View
We frequently speak of an object having gained gravitational potential energy when work is done in lifting a mass from a lower elevation to a higher elevation. However, what exactly has physically...
13 November 2014 743 59 View
The biggest discrepancy in all of physics is the approximately 10120 difference between the energy density of the universe obtained from general relativity (GR) compared to the energy density of...
06 November 2014 3,341 92 View
An electron is usually assumed to be either a point particle or a Planck length vibrating string which is virtually a point particle. While these models work well for some mathematical analysis,...
28 October 2014 1,338 4 View
In cosmology, the rest frame for the cosmic microwave background (CMB) appears to be a preferred frame of reference. For example, galaxies tend to have an average speed of zero relative to their...
14 October 2014 565 67 View
The Strong Equivalence Principle of Gravitation states that the effects of acceleration are indistinguishable from those of gravitation. This is valid only if the geometrical interpretation of...
01 January 1970 9,704 26 View
The constant speed of light is just the most obvious example of the covariance of all the physical laws. The physical laws do not change even when gravity produces different rates of time or...
01 January 1970 4,007 52 View
The fundamental physical constants, ħ, c and G, appear to be the same everywhere in the observable universe. Observers in different gravitational potentials or with different relative velocity,...
01 January 1970 398 99 View
The standard model has 17 named fundamental particles and each of these particles are derived from a corresponding field. Do you visualize these fields as additions to the properties of the vacuum...
01 January 1970 353 27 View
This question is ultimately about an electron’s structure. It is a common belief that an electron is a point particle. This view requires that we ignore the mass/energy in an electron’s electric...
01 January 1970 9,476 6 View
The fallacy of the aether was that its only function was to propagate light waves. This question goes much further and probes whether space (the vacuum) is an elastic medium that propagates waves...
01 January 1970 1,485 96 View
