On May 27, 12:02Â am, Ilja Schmelzer
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wrote:> On 27 Mai, 04:44, oldcoot
sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>> Any viable theory of gravity has to address the
>> most dramatic displays of gravity in action, for example a supernova.
>> So what is the _acting mechanism of causation_ whereby a massive star
>> is crushed down to a black hole? That is to say, what property of the
>> "aether" literally POWERS the gravity that powers the stellar collapse
>> that that drives the fusion that rebounds as a SN blast, leaving
>> behind the collapsed mass?
>
> For this purpose it is sufficient to obtain the Einstein equations in
> some limit of the theory and then to show that the main part of the SN
> explosion is covered by this limit.
>
The equations are *descriptions of effects* in the same sense that a
schematic diagram is a description of a radio. They do not _explain
the mechanism_ causing the effects being described. Just as you cannot
get the ball game and hear Limbaugh off the schematic, the equations
of SR/GR do not _explain the mechanism_ behind the effects they
describe.
>
> This is done in my theory of gravity, see ilja-schmelzer.de/glet.
>
OK, so what _acting mechanism_ powers the stellar collapse resulting
in a BH, often popping off a supernova in the process?
>> And why, pray tell, do "aetherists" still cling to the archaic and
>> stigma-ridden term (aether / ether)? It provokes the Pavlovian
>> response in the hearer to simply laugh at it and ridiclue it. If you
>> want to be taken serious and intend to present a working model that
>> answers the above 'litmus test', get rid of that scarlet-letter word
>> fercrissakes. Strike it from the lexicon. Start out with an untainted,
>> neutral term.. like the spatial medium.
>
> For a medium in three-dimensional space, which has c as its speed of
> sound, and which, for small distances, violates relativistic symmetry,
> it would be a kind of deception to use another name.
>
> If somebody rejects a theory simply because it contains the term
> "ether", there is no hope he will study a theory in 3D space with some
> sort of condensed matter in it. Â Thus, it doesn't matter anyway.
>
Well it's your call.
