Darn Retarded Potentials and the Beginning of Times…:)
In the past few postings I reached a conclusion which I cannot refute within the logical framework of my theory. The conclusion I reached is that the actual speed of light is Sqrt(2) times the measured speed of light.:)
Up to now my mind has been living with a conundrum… a paradox. The equations of motion, the Unification Equation is derived from a simple principle that dilators never do any work as they move. There are two kinds of motion. Radial and lateral, where lateral means within our 3D Universe (a lightspeed expanding Hypersphere).
The lateral motion included a mapping of inertial to the footprint (on specific phases of the spinning motion) of the dilator on our 3D Hypersurface.
There was no equivalent inertia mapping for radial motion. That never caused a problem because we never had time to fully develop the initial Cosmogenesis.
When I worked on calculating the age of the Universe from the Pioneer Anomaly, I had to struggle with something obvious that I had overlooked for a few years. The problem is the following: If I am surfing, can I make a wave on the surface of the wave and see it propagate? The solution to the old problem of waves in a wave eluded me for many years.
For a dilator to move always without doing any work, the fastest it can ever travel is surfing the dilaton wave generated by other dilators. The larger the dilaton field the highest the acceleration but the highest speed is always c (the observed speed of light).
The paradox is that lateral motion requires inertia while the initial setting in motion of the whole Universe never seemed to require inertia…J I considered the motion of the dilator (which is a coherence thus not unlike a wave) to be traveling at its natural speed. That was satisfactory until I faced the Pioneer Anomaly problem…;)
The dependence of the observed velocity as a function of observed Epoch (beta angle) was necessary to keep the dilator frequency unchanged. The Hubble related red-shifting had to do only with the geometric projection of the waves into the lightspeed expanding Hypersphere (our Universe).
For that to happen the actual speed of light had to be higher than the observed speed of light by a factor of sqrt(2).
This means that dilators always have the same amount of Inertia for both lateral and radial motion.
Retarded Potential
I remember when I read Landau and Lifshits for the first time about Retarded Potentials. We all know that the Sun is eight minutes light from us, that is, we are always seeing what was happening to the Sun eight minutes ago. The field propagation travels at the speed of light for both Gravity and Electromagnetism. This is convenient since both are described as dilaton field modulations in my theory.
First let’s consider that the 3D Universe is already in motion. Here we have the Universe already in motion and all interaction between particles in different positions (relatively close) travel at 45 degrees and thus at c.
Figure 1 displays the geometry for peering into the near past. From the past blog, we established that the actual speed of light is sqr(2) times the observed speed of light.
I cannot create a perfect explanation. It would take time. On the other hand, it should be self-evident that this is the only solution to the beginning of times..:) just by looking at the following figure:
Figure 2. Looking deep into the past.
It turns out that the same picture that describes how do we currently look into the past can provide insight on the first moment of this Universe.
Let’s consider that in the first instant of this Universe there was two layers of Universe (Biverse)…J strongly interacting (Gravitation, radiation) etc.
The symmetry of the problem forces that the radial acceleration to be equal to the tangential acceleration (think about this as basically a point in the 4D spatial manifold).
If you consider that the Hypersphere to be a point, tangential motion is the same as radial motion. The only angle which allows dilators to travel at the same tangential speed as the radial speed is 45 degrees interaction.
This means that if one consider that radial and tangential accelerations or speed should be the same if one starts from a point, them the interaction has to take place at 45 degrees and the equilibrium condition is all dilators traveling at the speed of light tangentially and radially at the beginning of times.
That acceleration took no time as motion is just the surfing upon the dilaton field. Given a strong enough dilaton field and everything will travel at the speed of light…J
Is there a need for an initial Biverse? No it was just drawn to show the interaction symmetry. When the Universe is a point, interation that produces tangential motion also produces radial motion. From a point tangential motion is the same as radial motion.
If you consider that the Four Dimensional Big Bang (created by the dilaton field) creates equally distributed radial and tangential motions, then the speed of the shock wave Hypersphere has to be equal to the dilaton field speed divided by sqrt(2).
From that point on, all potentials were called Retarded Potentials…J
Cheers,
MP