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Reintroducing the aether, does a possibility exist?
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Reintroducing the aether, does a possibility exist?
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One issue that I certainly take exception to is the present trend to dismiss the concept of an aether by saying, that Michelson & Morley proved definitively that the aether does not exist and that there was no point in discussing it any further. Michelson & Morley did not prove that the aether did not exist, they merely proved that it could not be detected! It should be noted that the aether as discussed in this post has nothing to do with the concept of a luminiferous aether and more to do with the original concept of the aether as a medium for the propagation of light. In fact, even Einstein, who could be considered the leading edge in the argument against the aether, did not deny the existence of the aether, he merely stated that there was no further use for the aether concept since a viable substitute had been found in the concept of electric and magnetic fields. But what if the whole concept of fields is wrong? Before anyone gets into a twist about this statement, kindly remember that this is a science discussion forum and as such preconceived ideas, even if considered to be proven, should never be the criteria in any argument.
For instance consider Dark Matter, it occupies 85% - 90% of all the mass in the Universe according to the latest findings. Proof that that this mass is present is indisputable. Astrophysicists have been fairly successful in determining the factor of increase in gravity that would be necessary for the rotation curve of Galaxies to match observations. Extensive information on the methods used by astronomers in studies such as this can be found in Strobel?s Astronomy Notes Page:
https://www.astronomynotes.com/ismnotes/s7.htm
. The study estimates that 90% -95% of the mass in the Universe to be in the form of undetectable Dark Matter. This study seems to indicate that 95% of the mass in the Universe is missing or undetectable. There was also a study done by Kafle, P.R., Sharma, S., Lewis, G.F., & Bland-Hawthorn, J. in 2014 entitled ? On the Shoulders of Giants: Properties of the Stellar Halo and the Milky Way Mass Distribution.? Published in The Astrophysical Journal, 794(1), 17.
Ignoring for the moment the attempt that will almost certainly made by critics in this forum that the only property that Dark matter exhibits is its property to induce gravity OR that the study quoted ignored Dark Energy, I am merely quoting up to date theories supported by citations. Consider the fact that IF as is stated Dark Matter occupies 85% - 95% of all matter in the Universe, there is a definite possibility (the odds are very much in favour of such a possibility) that our small part of the Universe consisting of the solar system, must fall within the 85% - 95% of the Universe occupied by Dark Matter. This in turn raises the distinct possibility that what we thought of as being the aether was in fact Dark Matter!
When one studies the properties of Dark Matter it is found that they bear a striking resemblance to the properties that the aether was once thought to possess. Dark Matter is for instance, completely permeable to all forms of matter. Matter can pass through Dark Matter without experiencing the slightest interaction and vice-versa. This was a property that was attributed to the aether and was one of the reasons that the aether could not be detected. Even with all the fantastic advances that have been made in technology, it is still not possible to detect Dark Matter. A truly amazing property of Dark Matter ( and one that the aether also demonstrated) is its ability to allow the free passage of all types of electromagnetic radiation, without offering the slightest interference or opposition. For a substance that theoretically is calculated to occupy anything from 85% to 95% of the Universe, it is something truly amazing that it allows the passage of all types of electromagnetic radiation, without offering any opposition.
One reason that Dark Matter might allow for the free passage of all types of electromagnetic radiation is if itself was made up of electromagnetic radiation. Consider if Dark Matter was made up of very low energy electric dipoles of about 10^-40 J energy. Such a substance would be absolutely permeable to all matter, since atoms are notoriously choosy or picky about the energy of the photons they interact with. No known atom could ever conceivably under any circumstances whatsoever, interact with photons of an energy of 10^-40 J. Further and possibly just as important, Dark Matter made up of such low energy electric dipoles would allow the free passage of all types of electromagnetic radiation. including x-rays and gamma rays.
This raises the incredible possibility that just like molecules convey the energy of waves in water, the low energy photons constituting Dark Matter, might convey light, or photons.
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Doesn't sound like a good fit to me. Dark matter isn't distributed evenly throughout the Universe whereas an aether presumably would be (or at least a lot more so than dark matter).
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