From:
c.h.thompson <c.h.thompson@newscientist.net>
To: Tom Van
Flandern <tomvf@metaresearch.org>
Cc: GravitationalAnomalies@yahoogroups.com;
forcefieldpropulsionphysics@egroups.com
and others
Subject:
Re: Cosmological drag?
Date:
Sunday, May 20, 2001 10:04 AM
Dear Tom
Eureka! You are partly right: after a good night's
sleep I can see what you
mean: there
IS a sense in which aberration of a "pull" force ought to cause
REDUCED
RETARDATION, but this is just as well, since we have a problem!
Aberration
ought to cause universal cosmological drag, but this is reduced
near other
bodies due to a shadowing effect. I
have always thought of this
drag as due
to a blue shift of the radiation from ahead.
Probably the same
thing?
So the
important problem is why the universe doesn't grind to a halt, and,
in
particular, why the planets don't slow down and crash into the Sun. Part
of the
answer is that in addition to the aberration you are talking about,
there is
this real ordinary change in direction of the "force" (the shadow)
caused by
the real motion of the Sun. For our own
system this may not be
important,
but we have to think out explanations for all cases in which
there seems
to be perpetual motion despite retarding forces.
The real
motion of the gravitational sources is probably critical for
binaries,
and maybe also for our Moon. For Earth,
I think we have to think
seriously
about the interaction between incoming radiation and the
magnetosphere. As you so rightly say, conventional theory
would say that if
there is
interaction there it will later be transfered to ourselves. This
is where my
phi-wave ideas may be needed! You
assume that radiation
pressure is
a definite thing, always positive. Look
at how lasers and atoms
interact,
though. When laser and atom are in
resonance it is possible for
the atom to
stay still, or be caused to rotate.
Look at the Moessbauer
Effect, in
which the atom does not appear to rebound.
I think it possible
that there
are situations in which radiation gets converted to electricity
and all the
forward momentum is converted to helical motion of the current.
In other
words, sorry folks but I'm challenging the universal applicability
of the law
of conservation of linear momentum! I'm
not just trying to be
awkward,
ignoring experimental evidence. This is
not just an exteme
reaction to
my aversion to the idea of gravity going much faster than light.
It's where
my other ideas about how the universe actually works are leading
me.
Caroline