[Hayseed (OP)]

It depends on what you believe to be a "new" tool.  When we get faster switches, and can DSP light, we will realize that EM emission is intermittent.   It doesn't "wave", it strobes.  50% duty cycle with no relative velocity.  That will lead us to realize that emission is instant, it propagates a duration, but that emitted duration, happens in an instant.  AND that the absorption/detection of that duration.......takes 2 times that duration.

And this dynamic disproves local time.  And shows the apparent constant "c", is not constant after all.   But the greatest "NEW TOOL" will be the ability to measure the relative V of any emitter........and the relative V of any absorber.   Astronomers and Combat Fire Control will love this.

If we had an absorber/detector that did not react, bounce or reset from stimuli, we would have seen this long ago.  Or an absorber/detector that would reset in an instant.

Maybe with some luck, we might discover this with direct antenna modulation studies on the lower frequencies.   DSPing light will probably take a while.  Light is more than just high frequency, it's a flux of many emitters and intermittences, like current......flux is an average result measurement.  But a single sequence of photons, have relative velocity/positional information on them.

[Bored chemist]

It depends on what you believe to be a "new" tool.  When we get faster switches, and can DSP light, we will realize that EM emission is intermittent.   It doesn't "wave", it strobes.  50% duty cycle with no relative velocity.  That will lead us to realize that emission is instant, it propagates a duration, but that emitted duration, happens in an instant.  AND that the absorption/detection of that duration.......takes 2 times that duration.

And this dynamic disproves local time.  And shows the apparent constant "c", is not constant after all.   But the greatest "NEW TOOL" will be the ability to measure the relative V of any emitter........and the relative V of any absorber.   Astronomers and Combat Fire Control will love this.

If we had an absorber/detector that did not react, bounce or reset from stimuli, we would have seen this long ago.  Or an absorber/detector that would reset in an instant.

Maybe with some luck, we might discover this with direct antenna modulation studies on the lower frequencies.   DSPing light will probably take a while.  Light is more than just high frequency, it's a flux of many emitters and intermittences, like current......flux is an average result measurement.  But a single sequence of photons, have relative velocity/positional information on them.

Would someone like to explain how that isn't hogwash?

[Hayseed (OP)]

Instead of thinking of a light ray as a stream of alternating waves, think of it as an arrow.  A discreet entity.  Like Einstein did.  Only not a particle, it's a length, a chunk, a duration, of EM field.

Now, instead of a bow accelerating the arrow, we have a spinning hub, with many arrows being spun, at the launch velocity of the arrow.  We cut all the arrows at the same time.....and all the arrows change direction....out.  These arrows are emitted at an instant....at velocity.  It's only an instant turn in direction.   And an EM field, unlike an arrow has no inertia.   A swinging ball or arrow will take some time to change direction......but not the EM field.

When that chunk of field hits the absorber, it turns or torques the absorber for that duration, and the absorber reacts/resets, by a counter torque of the same duration.

Does that make any sense?  This explains the asymmetry of phase and frequency between emitter and absorber velocities.

One needs to look at things differently for new tools to come.  Some tools aren't real at all, but still work.

[Halo_Nova]

It depends on what you believe to be a "new" tool.  When we get faster switches, and can DSP light, we will realize that EM emission is intermittent.   It doesn't "wave", it strobes.  50% duty cycle with no relative velocity.  That will lead us to realize that emission is instant, it propagates a duration, but that emitted duration, happens in an instant.  AND that the absorption/detection of that duration.......takes 2 times that duration.

And this dynamic disproves local time.  And shows the apparent constant "c", is not constant after all.   But the greatest "NEW TOOL" will be the ability to measure the relative V of any emitter........and the relative V of any absorber.   Astronomers and Combat Fire Control will love this.

If we had an absorber/detector that did not react, bounce or reset from stimuli, we would have seen this long ago.  Or an absorber/detector that would reset in an instant.

Maybe with some luck, we might discover this with direct antenna modulation studies on the lower frequencies.   DSPing light will probably take a while.  Light is more than just high frequency, it's a flux of many emitters and intermittences, like current......flux is an average result measurement.  But a single sequence of photons, have relative velocity/positional information on them.

We already have the tools. We just need to refine the ways in which we use them. The mind being one of them.