Light Speed A New Observation
Theory of Reality Version 3.4
Mark Whorlow | Theoretical Physics Theory of Relativity verses Reality| 19/11/18
Mark Whorlow, Ba, APP SCI Fisheries and Aquaculture & Tourism, Colleges and Universities (1996)
This document has been put together based on my observation of the theory of relativity verses my opinions of what is really going on.
My new Theory I am developing is the theory of Reality. This theory was first to dispute Theory of Relativity, however I now realise that it must go hand in hand with it.
Introduction
Ever since Einstein developed his Theories of Relativity including both General Relativity and Special Relativity the way we looked at physics & light was changed forever. Hundreds of experiments and research was performed to back his findings and cement a whole theory based around light and time.
I am a scientist by education, however in the field of Aquaculture and Environmental Science. However, Physics was always of interest to me, but it was the “pure” mathematics I struggled with.
However, using my logical deep thinking and through reading, watching YouTube and pod casts as well as asking a lot of question, a fair number of theoretical physics theories just did not sit well with me, and they got my brain working on the why and how.
This document I hope to lay out some key points and my findings relating to light, light speed and time and how their interactions are not as they seem and how I have observed that physics may be teaching this all wrong, and that Einstein may have been quoted wrong.
Areas that I have thought about and want to show why and how today’s thinking is at and how my thinking differs.
Although a lot of my thing supports many of the notions today, much of my thinking also put into question a lot of facts that are taught in Physics 101 that may be fundamentally wrong.
Some of the areas include:
Special Relativity & General Relativity
- Theoretical light clocks are logically wrong.
- Gravity does not alter time at all – Atomic clocks are not as good as you think.
- Muon Particle – time traveller or just energised.
- Travel at speed of light does matter who is moving and the reasons why & Travelling at light speed can make things invisible
- How paradoxes of high-speed travel may just be an observer’s inability to observe.
My Main Points to my Theory of Reality (Draft Version 1: 05/06/2018)
- Theory of relativity is based on the observations based on the limitations of observation based on light and light speed and are critical to the theory of reality. That is the maths associated with Time, Distance and Length Dilation and contractions.
- Light has a fixed top speed regardless of the observer. (not relative to the observer)
- Newtonian laws underpin the theory of Reality even at high speeds.
- Time dilatation & Distance Dilation are the fundamental differences between the observable and the actual.
- Neither Gravity or Speed affect real time.
Chapter 1: Light Clocks
Before we get into what light clocks lets have a loot at a few fundamental basics of light. These are important to understand why I see light clocks as unreliable examples of photon speed and special relativity.
WHAT IS LIGHT?
Light is made up of little packets of energy called photons. Most of these photons are produced when the atoms in an object heat up. Heat “excites” the electrons inside the atoms and they gain extra energy. This extra energy is then released as a photon. The hotter an object gets, the more photons it gives out.
HOW DOES LIGHT TRAVEL?
Light travels as a wave. But unlike sound waves or water waves, it does not need any matter or material to carry its energy along. This means that light can travel through a vacuum, a completely airless space. Sound, on the other hand, must travel through a solid, a liquid, or a gas.
Nothing travels faster than light energy. It speeds through the vacuum of space at 299,792,458 metres per second. (~ 299,783 km/s or ~ 186,400 miles per second).
Light waves travel out from their source in straight lines called rays, but unlike sound waves they do not bend around corners unless subjected to very strong gravitational forces.
Light clocks and special relativity
Light clocks were a theoretical concept developed by physics to help support special relativity and how time must be altered based on the visual problems develops over the last 100 years.
A quick look at Special Relativity.
Regardless of if it is a boy on a train, a ball on the plane once things get up to light speed all scientist agree that standard math’s just do not seam to work.
Albert Einstein back in 1905 came up with the Theory of Special Relativity. This theory explains how space and time are linked for objects that are moving at a constant speed in a straight line. One of the most famous aspects concerns objects moving at the speed of light
Main Principles
- A moving object measures shorter in its direction of motion as its velocity increases until, at the speed of light, it disappears
- A moving clock runs more slowly as their velocity increases until at the speed of light, they stop running altogether.
- Mass of a moving object manure more as its velocity increases until at light speed it become infinite.
- Events, distance and time is all relative to the observers’ point of view and speed of travel.
- The amount of length and time dilation is given by the Lorentz Factor.
So how does a light clock work?
Light clocks are a theoretical construct where a light emitting diode (LED) or laser directs a light beam upwards towards a mirror and sensor.
The light travels up towards the mirror and rebounds. The process takes a second.
Image form Pitt EDU web site.
When the clock is stationary it will continue to tick along quite happily and accurately tick every second. It is only once the clock begins to move that physics takes a strange bend to the twilight zone.
Now there are two aspects to this movement based on the observer travelling with the clock and based on the observer watching the clock go past.
The Current Science:
As the clock moves the stationary observer will see the light move upwards but also across as the clock moves and this will continue till the light reaches the top of the clock and hits the mirror and rebounds down again.
The distance the light has to travel is based on Pythagoras and is easily seen that it is longer path or arc than that of the stationary movement.
Since light speed is a fixed speed the stationary observer and the travelling observer cannot see the same thing, so something has had to have given for this obviation. Both clocks cannot reach the top at the same time or one has light travelling faster than the other. So therefore, Time must alter at speed, for this to make sense – Time dilation was thus created.
The Issues with light clocks
Yes, light clocks are a theoretical invention, however they are used to define a very critical point in science and thus should hold up to scrutiny as much as a real clock.
If they fail to hold up to scrutiny, then they should do longer be used as a logical tool for demonstration of Special Relativity. Or on the worst cause bring doubt into the findings of special relativity and that peoples view points in physics could actually be wrong, very wrong.
Physical Limitations
Moving clock and momentum of light.
For light to travel from one point to another we must ask is light effected by momentum of a moving clock. We know light moves at its own speed regardless of the moving object, but this is a significant point on the physical limitations of the light clock.
Well if light is affected by momentum of the clock then the light would travel up and down without any effect of the clock’s movement. And it would only travel up and down thus would not be affected by the movement of the clock.
Just like you can move on a plane because your moment within the plane is as though you were stationary in the plane. Your body has accumulated the movement and momentum of the plane.
Light is not affected by momentum.
Well we have already known that light travels at its speed and it is not light plus the objects speed, so it is more likely that light is not affected by the momentum of the moving clock.
So, if light is not affected by momentum of the moving clock then the light moving up would do so in a straight line and would miss the top sensor as it moves along, and even if it hit the top sensor it would likely miss the bottom sensor all together as the sensor has moved past. This is all dependant on the speed of travel for the clock.
Very small light clock.
Since light travels very quickly and for a one second tick to happen the sensors would have to be around 299337.984 km apart. As I have already stated very easy for this theoretical clock to not work, so they may make a small clock to counter this argument.
If they then make a very small light clock, there would cause several issues, light travels so fast that sensors may struggle to keep up with the vibrations, and If the they close the clock in so the light could not escape, the light would bounce off the walls and degrade in energy levels and thus the clock would be inaccurate anyways.
Observation Limitations
The theoretical light clock was developed as a mental argument of how time is different for each observer because light is a fixed speed. I just looked at the physical short comings of the Theoretical clock, but you say well it’s a theoretical clock just to push a point about light speed and the observer.
Ok, lets then look at the Observation limitations of the light clock.
Light speed based on Observer moving with the moving light clock.
Well as it has already been stated that if you travel with the clock, then you also experience everything the clock does. I do not dispute this point.
If light is the same speed for all observers and you are moving with the moving clock the clock would appear to be ticking normally and would not be seen to be any different as a stationary clock. As you too are moving you too, you are in a stationary phase with the clock. Thus, no changes in the clock at all.
Light speed based on a Real stationary Observer watching the clock.
The principle of a light clock is based on the principle that when the light clock is stationary the observer can see the light bounce up and down. But once the clock is moving the light takes on an arc as it must move up and in the direction of the move.
In a normal sense of physics, it makes sense that A moving light clock light beam would take longer to travel than the stationary clock, but if the clock ticked the same then the light for a moving clock for the observer must be quicker. So, if light does not change speed then both the observer travelling with the clock and the one watching from the side line cannot see the clock go the same rate, so it must be time is slowed down for the one travelling.
This forms part of the proof of time slows at speed. Because the faster the clock moves the different the two observers see things.
Light Clocks and what the Observers are really seeing
I made the thought that if Time was constant, and light is constant what else can be going on here.
Points to ponder
- Light travels in straight lines
- Light travels in waves of energy packets known as photons.
- Light can only be seen or detected if it hits the sensor or our eyes.
- You cannot see light from the side view point
- You can see emitted light and reflected light only if it hits your eyes.
A light clock is not observable
If the clock emits a light packet and travels upwards towards the other side sensor/ mirror it will travel in a straight line. An observer of such a light clock would not see the light at all. So, the so-called arc that the theoretical light clock makers came up with, is not actually observable.
If, however, for argument sake you could see the light move up and down, there must be something else going on.
Reflection or Refraction is needed for observation
You need photons to be sensed in order to see them. So, let’s say there is smoke in the clock so you can see the lights movement. Like a laser beam in a laser gun game, so that you can see how the laser travels around.
But why does the smoke let you see the laser. Reflection or refraction of the light or part of the lights beam towards the observer.
The light from the laser hits the smoke particle and a few of the photons bounce off in random directions and of which some hit your eye and you can see the laser beam.
So now you can see the light clock go up and down. The arc is now clearly visible and what can we observe.
The Smoked Filled Light Clock
In the stationary clock, you will actually see the light go from the bottom of the clock to the top of the clock at light speed as expected.
The moving clock would also now show light move from the bottom to the top, but quicker than light speed.
How can this be?
Light is a collection of photons
Well the intensity of light or brightness of the light is based on the number of photons produced.
So multiple photons must be moving up the light clock from bottom to top. If it was just one, as soon as it hits a smoke particle the clock would not see it, so it needs multiple released in one go in order to have it visible to you the observer as well as the clock.
As the light hits the first dust particle a few photons divert towards you the rest continue. As the light hits the second dust particle a few photons divert to you however they are not above the last ones they are slightly to one side since the clock is moving.
This happens repeatedly till the light hits the top of the clock in 1 second.
But that means the light you see move up the clock by the distant observer has moved faster than light speed.
So, what are you seeing here?
You are seeing moments of light flashes as photons are rejected as the light moves upwards. The photons given off, travel at light speed, the light going within the clock are travelling at light speed nothing is breaking the light speed barrier here.
But the packets of light you see will give the impression that the light is going quicker than light. But, No, absolutely no time dilation is happening.
An extreme example of what I mean here.
If we take a hypothetical dome with 1 light year radius, and I was in the middle pointing a powerful torch at one side of the dome.
First the light will take 1 year to reach the dome wall.
Once there I will move my arm in a giant arc, till I am pointing to the far wall of the dome.
Now I can move my arm quick enough that the light beam would need to travel two light years in less than 5 seconds. Which we know is impossible.
However, what you would actually see is a light arc that lags behind by a year. This is because as the torch emits a light proton it travels in a relative straight line to the dome wall. When I move the torch the light already emitted will carry on and will not be dragged along with the torch.
So, each time I move my hand new protons will be emitted and travel to their new destination at the dome wall. And Each new proton will arrive a year after it is emitted.
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Quicker than light speeds are observably possible?
So, a year after I move the torch you will see the light on the dome flash past in the arc as the protons arrive in the same fashion, I moved the light.
The lights flashes will appear to move across the dome surface during this period (a year after I moved my arm) at a speed many times the speed of light and will just simply zip past. two light years in under 5 seconds fast in fact. or about 12614400 times the speed of light if my maths is right.
But they are in fact just flashes of a proton emitted a year ago and then the proton is gone, absorbed or reflected and the next flash is a different group of photons arriving in the next location on the dome. But it happens so fast that the light will look continuous just duller.
So, in this example you can see that light can play tricks, but never breaks the rules, You are not seeing light go quicker that the speed of light, but the result of seeing the individual protons leaving the location at different times creating the effect of quicker than light speed movement. And in this one it looks quicker and in the Light clock it can be seen to be the same.
But the principle of observable time lag of observable light is the same.
In Conclusion
So, we have looked at both physical and observation limitations and a look at what must truly be going on within the light clock.
Since we cannot actually build a light clock, this is an example of how theoretical solutions do not always reflect reality, and that I hope this will demonstrate to you how light clocks used to show time goes slower at speed are inaccurate explanation tools and should be re thought through before using them further.
What then about the calculations and maths.
Well actually they are very accurate in determining what you are seeing and what is factual. However, they are used the wrong way around. We can use the time lag of light to work out what the real time, the real lengths and real distances are based on what we are recording, not the other way around.
Chapter 2: Atomic Clocks & General & Special Relativity
Atomic clocks are the worlds most accurate time keeping device ever invented over the last 1000 years. Keeping accurate time right down to 1 part in 10^10. So, it makes complete sense to use the atomic clock for any time experiments especially when involving concepts surrounding General Relativity and Special Relativity.
WHAT IS an Atomic Clock?
Information gained from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_clock
An atomic clock is a clock device that uses an electron transition frequency in the microwave, optical, or ultraviolet region of the electromagnetic spectrum of atoms as a frequency standard for its timekeeping element. Atomic clocks are the most accurate time and frequency standards known, and are used as primary standards for international time distribution services, to control the wave frequency of television broadcasts, and in global navigation satellite systems such as GPS.
The accuracy of an atomic clock depends on two factors. The first factor is temperature of the sample atoms—colder atoms move much more slowly, allowing longer probe times. The second factor is the frequency and intrinsic width of the electronic transition. Higher frequencies and narrow lines increase the precision.
Since 1967, the International System of Units (SI) has defined the second as the duration of 9192631770 cycles of radiation corresponding to the transition between two energy levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom.
In 1997, the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM) added that the preceding definition refers to a caesium atom at rest at a temperature of absolute zero.
This definition makes the caesium oscillator the primary standard for time and frequency measurements, called the caesium standard. The definitions of other physical units, e.g., the volt and the metre, rely on the definition of the second.
The actual time-reference of an atomic clock consists of an electronic oscillator operating at microwave frequency. The oscillator is arranged so that its frequency-determining components include an element that can be controlled by a feedback signal. The feedback signal keeps the oscillator tuned in resonance with the frequency of the electronic transition of caesium or rubidium.
The actual time-reference of an atomic clock consists of an electronic oscillator operating at microwave frequency. The oscillator is arranged so that its frequency-determining components include an element that can be controlled by a feedback signal. The feedback signal keeps the oscillator tuned in resonance with the frequency of the electronic transition of caesium or rubidium.
Most of the complexity of the clock lies in this adjustment process. The adjustment tries to correct for unwanted side-effects, such as frequencies from other electron transitions, temperature changes, and the spreading in frequencies caused by ensemble effects.
A quick look at General Relativity.
Albert Einstein as we have already mentioned in the previous chapter developed theories around speed off light, acceleration and then he focused on effects of Gravity.
Main Principles
- Passage of Time in the prescience of gravity – Time dilation
- The Geometry of Space and Space time
- Gravitational red-shift of light.
- Events, distance and time is all relative to the observers’ point of view and speed Back holes is a place where light, time and gravity is distorted.
The Current Science:
A part of General relativity looks at time as influenced by gravitational forces. A form of Time dilation and the differences between two events as measured by observers situated at varying distances from a gravitating mass.
These time differences have been demonstrated by noting that atomic clocks at different altitudes (different gravity strength) will eventually show different times.
They found that clocks that are far from massive bodies or away from gravity potential run more quickly. Clocks closer to the body of a gravitating mass will run slower.
According to general relativity, inertial mass and gravitational mass are the same, and all accelerated reference frames (such as a uniformly rotating reference frame with its proper time dilation) are physically equivalent to a gravitational field of the same strength
Time is slowed by gravity and different observers located in different gravitational time dilation effected areas will all see light as the speed of C.
The Issues with Atomic clocks
Unlike the theoretical light clocks, atomic clocks are very real. However, the concept of time being slowed by gravity is totally pinned on experiments performed using atomic clocks.
There has even been test that include flying atomic clocks around the planet and comparing them to stationary ones on the planet.
These test and experiments predict the speeding up of the clocks due to lower gravity and even on space stations allowances has had to be made for atomic clocks in both Movement and Gravity effects on the time.
So, if the math’s are correct and the predictions are correct, and gravity and movement are all measured how can they be wrong?
Physical Limitations Question of reliability.
First gravity is a force that exhibits a pull towards the centre of its mass. All objects with a mass have this property, however most are too small to notice the pull.
Vibrations, and moving mechanisms are slowed by this pull making them work harder against the force to achieve results.
If an atomic clock is based on the vibrations of the caesium atom as well as other mechanics properties of the clock they will all be subject to the strength of gravity. Less gravity all the components will be free to move.
Now atomic clocks are designed to control their frequencies and inner workings and to maintain correct time. If a change in gravity had no effect, then the time of the atomic clock would maintain the same time. However, the question arises is this change in time due to time dilation effects or simply the clock running slow.
Have you noticed that the test involving time dilation and gravity appear to be done only with atomic clocks? They then say it is fact and would happen to all other clock types including biological clocks as a factual thing without any additional scientific proof.
Following are a couple of examples of things about why time does not change with gravity.
Examples of what I mean here
If gravity made time slow then everything will see a slow down or speed up with a change in gravity. What I believe we have here is that gravity slows the internal vibrations and mechanisms of the clock, which has been proven to be predictable but still a physical limitation.
Here a couple of bland examples to see what I mean:
- The Bouncing ball –
- If I throw a ball down at the ground and it bounces up to a certain height on Earth it will become predictable as long as the methods and energy remains the same.
- If I take the same ball to the moon and apply all the same methods and energy levels the ball will bounce higher.
- It bounces higher because gravity is less on the moon. Giving the ball more freedom to move.
- If gravity changed time, an observer off the moon would be able to time the event. The apparent speed of the ball moving down and up would occur faster than predicted event though the height would remain the same.
- If the observation of the clock going slower is what they use to show time dialation you could apply a magnetic or other similar field near the clock and also slow it down. If this was the case, then by me pushing my finger on the clock to slow things down would also then slow time.
- No experiment has been done with for example chemical reactions that take a predictable time to happen.
- You could have a special timer linked to two computers one near the experiment and one on the ground.
- You do the chemical tests and hit the timer
- Since both computers would start at the same time when the chemical reaction was complete you stop.
- The average time on the ground and the average time at height compared.
- Since you are recording the experiment in two locations as well
- You have two timers that may differ and different average times of reactions to occur
- If this showed two differences, then gravity would have sped up both the highest computer as well as sped up the chemical reaction.
- Any variants to both these happening may disprove gravity as the cause of time change.
Other Limitations Question of reliability
Atomic clocks when they are in motion suffer acceleration forces such as G-Force pulling on the vibrating atoms, on space stations they have Earth Gravity, Circular Acceleration G-Force as well as other forces and temperature changes all acting on the clock.
All these external forces will slow or speed up the clock, however the only means the clock is inaccurate under these conditions. It is the issue of the clocks reliability not time that is in question.
The maths may be able to predict these inaccuracies, but that does not prove that time itself has changed. They can use the maths in reverse to work out what the real time should be based on observations of the clocks time under certain conditions.
The Earth is not younger above the surface than on the surface. And your feet are not older than you head.
In Conclusion
The effect of gravity on an atomic clock has been proven and not in dispute. What is in dispute is that time changes due to gravity.
Just by looking at the effect gravity has on the mechanical and physical properties of an atomic clock only proves to me the limitations of atomic clocks as a reliable time keeping device when under differing conditions.
No time dilation due to gravity would change how scientist look at black holes, and space time as well as the principles of general relativity. So, would the maths be wasted. No. The maths are valuable in predicting what effect on equipment, and timing equipment that gravity may cause. It allows them to adjust GPS satellites accordingly. But time is time.
Chapter 3: Muon Particles
Well so far, we have looked at the short comings of Theoretical Light clocks, and the slowing mechanisms of Atomic clocks under gravity. Both are used constantly in the explanation of Theory of relativity.
If I am correct in my assumptions, we have some tricky things to rethink. However then along comes such things as the Muon Particles. They use the half life of the Muon particle to also explain time dilation and length contraction. Are these assumptions wrong too?
What are Muon Particles.
Muons particles are elementary particles similar to an electron. It has greater mass than an electron and is classified as a lepton. Like other leptons, Muons are believed not to contain any smaller particles in their sub-structure.
Muons have a mass of 105.7 MeV/c2, which is about 207 times that of the electron. Due to their greater mass, muons are not as sharply accelerated when they encounter electromagnetic fields, and do not emit as much bremsstrahlung (deceleration radiation).
This allows muons of a given energy to penetrate far more deeply into matter than electrons since the deceleration of electrons and muons is primarily due to energy loss by the bremsstrahlung mechanism. As an example, so-called “secondary muons”, generated by cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere, can penetrate to the Earth’s surface, and even into deep mines.
About 10,000 muons reach every square meter of the earth’s surface a minute; these charged particles form as by-products of cosmic rays colliding with molecules in the upper atmosphere. Travelling at relativistic speeds, muons can penetrate tens of meters into rocks and other matter before attenuating as a result of absorption or deflection by other atoms.
Current Science
Scientists found that the Muon particle were in far greater numbers on the earth’s surface than would be expected but the relative short half-life of a muon at rest.
Bases on the 1.65 to 2.1 nanoseconds half-life very few or if any muons should reach the Earth’s surface let alone penetrate the surface.
They also found that in an accelerator the faster the muons went the longer they stayed alive.
Scientists then performed a series of equations to bring what was happening into relation with distance and time dilation. The maths fitted what they were observing. So therefore, the Muon experiments proved and supported time and distance dilation of relativity.
Limitations – Question of m=e/c^2
I cannot and will not dispute the maths, as this is not my forte, however I was looking a E=mc^2 or even the original m=E/C^2
If mass increases with speed, in the form of stored energy, and the half-life of a Mun is based on the decay and losing energy of the muon it is it not fair to say that the increased energy of accelerating or moving the muon particle to near light speed actually enabled the particle a much longer half-life than a muon at rest.
To me this seems logical.
I would like to see the maths based on energy and mass gained through the acceleration and see if the numbers till add up.
In Conclusion
Muon particles may be the closest thing to time and distance dilation I have seen, but if the energy gained via acceleration proves also prudent then again time and distance dilation’s falls into dispute.
Chapter 4: Travel at speed of light does matter who is moving and the reasons why
Up to and including Light speed travel what do we see
- If I move away from clock, I will see clock slow till light speed then clock stop
- Clock away from me, I will see clock slow till light speed then light cannot catch up to it and no longer reflect so it would appear to vanish
- If we both move away from each other. Then the net speed between us may be up to 199% times the speed of light, however as long as neither is going light speed light will catch back up.. The reasoning.
- Two ships both travelling opposite direction at 50% speed of light, meaning the speed difference between us is the speed of light.
- However, since my ship is only going 50% speed of light, light has the chance to catch me and reflect off my ship.
- This light then travels at full light speed towards the other ship
- The other ship is only going 50% the speed of light so will eventually catch up.
- However, as soon as one of the ships goes light speed it will vanish from the others viewpoint, as will the other ship as well.
- Even though 1 ship is going 50% speed of light and the other 100%. The one going 100% is moving with light so only will be able to see a stationary object as stopped, all other moving away objects will vanish as their light can’t catch up. Unless my ship going 100% of C emits light as these packets will travel to the other ship.
- A ship coming towards us at light speed. A very fast ship will reflect light and the light will reach us.
- However, the time between when we see the light first reflected off the ship and the arrival of the ship will vary depending on speed of the ship
- But we would see light hit us and the clock would look quicker as we see light events faster than normal.
- So a ship 25 light years away travelling at light speed will travel with the light from the entire journey and on arriving we would see the whole journey in very quick succession.
- The ship will for an instant look as though it was at the start of the journey and here at the destination all at once. So, will look very long for a split second.
- A ship passing in front of us. First light would be able to bounce off the ship. The side-ward movement is slower than light speed, so light will be able to hit it.
- This light would then come to us. But the ship has long since moved forward so we would see a long blur as it flew past.
- The faster the ship the less light will have time to reflect off the side and thus it will be less photons that reflect and so the plane would become less bright and would become a blur of colour or shadow moving past.
- The shadow would stretch for the length of our vision but fade very rapidly. This depends on how far away from you the ship is.
- It will literally look like the flash streaks from the TV Show.
- A ship at an angle
- It would all depend on its angle and speed away and across you
- It will all depend if light has the chance to reflect off the plane at the right angle to reach you.
- More thought needed.
Chapter 5: How paradoxes of high-speed travel may just be an observer’s inability to observe.
Twin Paradox.
The twin’s paradox is actually all wrong, yet right at the same time.
You see people have slowly getting things wrong and changing facts slowly over time and what was once a visual exercise become a fact.
I will explain.
When you look at a clock you see the light from that clock reflecting back towards you. That’s how you see or observe things.
If that clock was moving away from you at a normal pace. For as long as you can see the clock you will see the hands move and time tick by.
Now if you start to really accelerate the clock the time you see is based on what light is reflected off the clock and arrive back to you.
So if the clock is moving at 50% the speed of light it will take 50% longer for the light from that clock to reach you. So in observation the clock looks slower and the time appears to be going slower.
Now lets go up to 99% the speed of light. Assuming you can still see this clock that is now a very long way away. The light reflected off that clock will take 99% longer to get to you. Which means that the clock will almost look stopped.
The fact is the clock is ticking just normally.
The same is true for the twin. Since the clock looks slower, your twin will appear to be moving slower, ageing slower etc. Where in fact they are ageing at the normal rate.
Now on the return trip. The ship is coming towards you at 99% of the speed of light. so you will not actually see the ship till it is very close to you where the light from the ship reaches you. You will then see the entire return journey happen in a very quick succession. And in fact the clock will look very fast, and your twin would be running around everywhere and ageing very rapidly.
So in the long and short, the twin will arrive back and hop out the exact age as you.
Light and what we can observe creates an optical illusion.
Chapter 6: Reality verses Relativity
After lot of thought and reading and asking questions I have concluded that when travelling at high speeds we have two simultaneous events happening – Reality and Relativity.
This means there is a distinct difference between what is happening and what we can observe happening. Science today look at the theory of relativity and have concluded that this is factual and what they are observing and what they are calculating all appear as correct. Indisputable evidence continues to support the theories of relativity, both general and special relativity.
However, as you can see in this documents that I have gone through a mental challenge of resolving what I am being told and what my brain is saying is correct. As one article I read which said “that at high speeds our common sense goes out of the window, but they appear to be how the universe works at those speeds”
So what are the words that have stuck out to me to make me question what is happening.
- Observe & the observations of an observer.
- Time Dilation, Distance Dilation, Length dilation.
- Speed of light the same for each observer.
So why did these terms cause me pain. Well time to me is a constant and appears to me that it is convenient to say time must have changed to support a theory where nothing else works to explain what is going in.
Every observer sees it different. Therefore, the sum of all experiences must be the truth of the event. But each observer is correct, so time cannot change for everyone so something else must be going on.
Speed of light in a vacuum is the same for every observer.
SO, What is going on?
I believe that two truths are happening at the exactly the same time.
- Relativity is based completely on what is observable
- Reality if what is really happening.
Let me explain
The term observation is based on what we can observe. It relies on our senses and our equipment of sensors. Sound, taste, touch, sight are all part of these senses.
Let’s just look at light. The production of photons is required as a fact for our eyes to see. If there are no photons, we can only see darkness, or lack of light.
Light is made out of these packets of photons in their millions streaming out form the light source. These packets are picked up by our eyes and we can see the light.
If it is directly the light source, we see a bright light at the point of origin of the light. The sun looks so bright to our eyes due to the shear number of concentrated photons it produces, bombarding our eyes to a point our eyes cannot cope with the input.
However, these photons packets must reflect off surfaces towards our eyes for us to be able to see objects. Some of the wavelengths may be absorbed along the way, but what results in colours and contrasts of light intensity that reaches our eyes so that we can see the objects.
So, theory of relativity is based on what our eyes and sensor can detect. If light cannot reflect off an object, we cannot see the object. Thus, if anything goes faster than light, light cannot be reflected and thus we cannot see it.
So, if we look at an example of two planes travelling towards each other at 60% the speed of light. Which means they are travelling towards each other at a speed greater than light speed.
Since we cannot observe this as we cannot see light at 120% the speed of light, we need to reduce this to a speed that is Relative to light.
So, light will reflect off one plane and travel towards the other so what a pilot in one of the planes can see is this reflected light.
So, all the maths created depict what is happening here.
However, in reality I believe the planes are travelling towards each other at 120% the speed of light.
So, I believe that what we can observe is not what is happening.
Things that look shorter at high speed are not physically shorter, the just look shorter. Distances that appear shorter are not shorter physically they just appear that way and time that looks altered if just what we can observe based on light reaching us.
So I believe that science needs to start looking at what is observable and work backwards to work out what is reality or once we do start going speed of light a lot of collisions will happen.
Continuing with my points to the speed of light. People say that light has a maximum speed, or that there is a universal top speed and that light just happens to be limited to that speed.
So the terms light is the same speed to all observers. Now, scientist cannot stat as fact what happens a light speed because we have only invented in space go from around 61,000 km/hr where light is 1080000000 so it is only a fraction of light speed.
So all theories about what happens at light speed are only assumptions and theories.
I believe that the wording around the fact light is the same speed for every observer has caused a false science and the only way to get around it is by changing time concepts.
Since light is not affected by the momentum of an observer light will always be the same speed. This does not mean that if you are travelling the speed of light that you can see light move away from you at the speed of light otherwise this would be twice the speed of light. Shrinking you time frame is just a made-up concept to get out of this thought and unproven theory.
I believe that light is a fixed speed and we move in, within and around it. And if we are going light speed then we are moving the same speed as light. To us measuring light would measure it still to be the same speed. But light is not light speed quicker.
A plane travelling at 99% speed of light heading towards another plane travelling 99% the speed of light will hit each other at 198% speed of light. However, what they observe during the flight towards each other is only 99.9999% speed of light (guesstimate) based on relativity.
Another Example & Thoughts:
Current thinking of science in space.
- An object in space if no other objects can be seen must be inherently stationary because there are no reference frames to compare it with.
- Light speed is the same relative to an observer.
With these concepts and special relativity in mind I have looked at my theory.
- Objects are all subject to Newtonian law in regards to motions even at high speeds.
- What is observable is relative to light reflection and our ability to observe
- What we observe is not what is actual.
So how does this effect the out come of two planes travelling towards each other at 50% of light speed each.
Reality – The two ships are going at 50% speed of light towards each other so the net speed is speed of light towards each other.
Relativity Observation – Each plane cannot observer each other moving towards each other based on and around the fact that no other detection device can penetrate the distance faster then light, so all observations must be in relative speeds based on light.
So the maths of velocity addition formula v=(v1+v2)/(1+v1*v2/c^2) to get 4/5c. So person A sees person B travelling at 4/5c and vice versa are correct in an observational point of view.
You need light to reflect off or produced by 1 ship and travel to the other ship for detection. When you then look at the relative speeds in relation to the limitations of lights detection capability they appear to be travelling at 4/5 C towards each other.
Conclusion – if they base their piloting skills based on sensors along the planes will crash into each other before the sensors say they are there.
I am yet to find any science studies that disprove my theory of Reality. However both theories can coexist, and if my Theory is correct we need the maths from Relativity to predict reality.
Just a quick example. A large comet is heading towards Earth many light years away. and travelling at 50% light speed towards us. Light reflects off or produced by the Comet and starts moving towards us.
When the light reaches us it tells us where the comet was at the time the light was reflected / produced rather than where it actually is.
This is true with the two planes travelling towards each other the reflected light tells the other plane where it was at that point and not where it currently is.
Therefore you need to use what you can observe to back calculate where thing truly are.
Time dilation is the gap between observable and reality.
– point to consider.
So if you were travelling towards a planet and the relative speed is less than light speed because of time dilation based on light speed you would arrive quicker by the same factor.
So the error caused by light speed slowing relative speeds will at the same time reduce the distance by the same factor.
In Summary – My Reality Theory
- Light is a fixed speed 299,792 km/s capped at the speed as calculated by science.
- Universal speed capped still to be determined and what happens at this point is unknown.
- Light is not affected by external momentum forces and is totally independent.
- So regardless of the speed of the observer light appears the same speed but not relative to their movement, just a maximum speed. See note A below
- Light paradoxes, Gravity paradoxes, Speed Paradoxes are visual observable illusions based on the time light takes to get to the observer and do not reflect reality.
- What we observe is based on light speed and Relativity equations must be used.
- What is reality is based on standard physics. Speed Total is Speed 1 + Speed 2
- Time is a constant and not effected by speed or gravity.
- Lengths, Distances and time may feel dilated, but these dilation’s are based on speed of light and observations based on our limitations to view things that are not observable by light. Thus, they may appear different from reality.
- The relativity mathematics and physics are based on observations relating to an objects relativity to light and what is observable. This maths needs to be turned around so that we take what we can observe to work out what the actual and reality is.
- All space behaves to the same physics and high speeds do not change this. However what changes is our ability to observe reality.
- The direction of a moving observer away from what is being observed is important.
- An object moving away from the observer will “appear “to slow in time and at light speed will vanish. This is due to the time taken for light to be reflected off the object and to reach the observer, and once the object reaches light speed light can no longer reflect light back towards the observer. This would be different if the object generated light. This generated light would still reach the observer and appear to be very slow or stopped in time.
- An observer moving away from an object will “appear” to slow in time up to the speed of light at which point it will appear to stop in time. This is because the observer is moving with the reflected light.
- Time does not stop even though it may be observable to be.
- Light clocks are inaccurate and do not depict time dilation.
- Atomic clocks are affected by movement and gravity, but this only slows or speeds up the clock mechanism and not time itself.
- Time does not stop at the speed of light.
- Time does not stop due to gravity
- Black holes do not experience any time dilation due to gravity or speed.
- The difference between actual speed and relative speed will reflect in the shortening of relative distance by the same factor.
Note A – I am still in debate with my thinking about if light is speed of C regardless of the observers speed or relative to the observers speed. The outcomes for both are significantly different yet worded similar.
Speed of light based on regardless – Light has max speed and can always be measured at that speed, but your speed will be a proportion of that speed. Meaning you can catch up to light speed.
Speed of light relative to the observer – Both the traveller and observer will disagree on what they see. Because they both see speed of light the same and they will never be able to catch up to light speed.
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