1982g

The following is a paper by H. Aspden published in Journal of Electrostatics, v. 13, pp. 71-80 (1982).

CHARGE INDUCTION BY THERMAL RADIATION

Abstract: It is argued that precision measurements which rely on the use of conductive housings for electrical screening may well be subject to spurious error owing to charge induction within the housing. If the momentum transfer processes associated with the
absorption of thermal radiation act selectively upon electrons, a residual charge may be induced on surfaces internal to the housing and held in place by radiation pressure. The effects of such action upon the measurement of G is discussed in relation to anomalies
reported in such experiments. The phenomenon is supported by the existence of the charge on the Earth’s surface. A method of testing for the presence of induced charge and eliminating its effects is indicated.

Commentary: The author’s interest in this theme has developed as a peripheral question when the author wrote his 1972 book ‘Modern Aether Science’. It was later, when the author was at a conference on precision measurements in Gaithersburg in U.S.A., organized by the National Bureau of Standards, that he became aware of anomalies in the certain measurements of the constant of
gravitation G. These involved tests performed in Faraday cages at different levels in a deep mine, the test mass inside the cage being assumed to be grounded electrically. The author’s theory of gravitation was not able to explain the variations of G that were reported and so the test itself warranted scrutiny. Later, when the author was at the University of Southampton he performed experiments which verified the charge induction explanation of the subject paper. These experimental findings were presented at a conference organized by the U.K. Institute of Physics and held in Oxford, but because the results challenged orthodox belief as to the effectiveness of the Faraday cage, the paper was not included in the reported proceedings.

Special Note: The following author’s note was prepared shortly after the paper had issued and was communicated by the author to recipients of the offprints of the paper.

“My attention has been drawn to the early measurements of the effect of temperature upon G, for example by L. Southerns, [Proc. R. Soc. Lond., A78, pp. 392-403 (1906)] and P. E. Shaw & N. Davy [Proc. R. Soc. Lond., 102, pp. 46-47 (1922)]. The measured effects are far less than might seem to be indicated by my paper.

The reason for this is that these experiments involve heating the apparatus by processes other than those involving incident radiation and then making the measurements with the gravitating body radiating energy at a higher temperature but absorbing incident radiation from an environment still at room temperature.

It is only the radiation absorbed by the layer of atoms at the surface that results in the charge induction below the surface and, though displacing charge and perhaps being reflected from there, it does not account for any residual surface charge effect. If the
body is heated there is transfer of heat to the surface atoms by conduction and any radiation from the layer of atoms at the surface is directed equally inwards and outwards and produces a balanced radiation reaction force on this surface layer and so induces no surface charge. Half the radiation goes inwards and asserts a radiation pressure on the atoms below the surface and so causes charge displacement but no residual surface charge induction.

Experiments of the kind suggested on page 78 of the author’s paper aimed at verifying this phenomenon seem, therefore, warranted notwithstanding the early studies of temperature effects on G.”

1982f

The following is a paper by H. Aspden published in Proceedings of ICSTA (International Conference on Space-Time Absoluteness) (International Publishers – East-West), pp. 27-31 (1982).

THE CASE AGAINST RELATIVITY – AN EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH

Commentary: The author here put the case that Relativity would stand disproved by the measurement of the West-East motion of 350 m/s at 40^o latitude and discussed the evidence in support and in relation to aether theory.

1982e

The following is a paper by H. Aspden published in Speculations in Science and Technology, v. 5, pp. 421-431 (1982).

MIRROR REFLECTION EFFECTS IN LIGHT SPEED ANISOTROPY TESTS

Abstract: Light speed anisotropy experiments give unreliable results if account is not taken of the effects of anisotropy upon mirror reflections in lasers used in the tests. The deviation of ray paths when reflected by mirrors moving relative to the optical reference frame cannot be ignored. In particular, anomalous results are to be expected if curved mirrors are used and full account is not taken of all reflections at mirror surfaces. This is discussed by detailed reference to a recent important experiment reported by Brillet and Hall. Though finding a null anisotropy in light speed in the cosmic reference frame, they nevertheless noted a significant and persistent spurious signal indicative of anisotropy in the laboratory frame. This signal may be a measure of the laboratory’s West-East motion owing to Earth rotation relative to a light reference frame coincidental with the Earth’s inertial frame. This conclusion has a speculative aspect because it may impose some qualification upon the universal validity of the Principle of Relativity. Although the effect has been apparent in other laser experiments, specific experiments aimed at measuring the Earth’s West-East motion, as opposed to angular speed of rotation, have yet to be performed. It is submitted that such tests are of fundamental importance.

1982d

The following is a paper by H. Aspden published in Lettere al Nuovo Cimento, v. 33, pp. 237-239 (1982).

A THEORY OF PION LIFETIME

Commentary: This paper extends the principles of the earlier paper on neutron lifetime [1981b] to deal with the stability of the pion. The theory gives a theoretical value of the pion lifetime in perfect accord with that measured.

1982c

The following is a paper by H. Aspden published in Lettere al Nuovo Cimento, v. 33, pp. 481-484 (1982).

THE CORRELATION OF THE ANOMALOUS g-FACTORS OF THE ELECTRON AND MUON

Abstract: The resonant-cavity model by which the author has recently explained the anomalous electron g-factor has an alternative resonant mode suited to a less stable particle. When this is analysed it is found to give a result in full accord with the g-factor of the muon.

1982b

The following is a paper by H. Aspden published in Lettere al Nuovo Cimento, v. 33, pp. 213-216 (1982).

ELECTRON FORM AND ANOMALOUS ENERGY RADIATION

Abstract: This paper correlates data from g-factor measurements and energy radiation theory, both indicating that the electron has a characteristic radius from which radiation is
reflected of 1.1547 times the classical radius e²/mc². More important, the paper resolves an
existing anomaly by reconciling the energy radiation property of the accelerated electron and the non-radiation hypothesis required to account for inertia according to the law E = Mc².

1982a

The following is a paper by H. Aspden published in Wireless World, v. 88, pp. 37-39 (1982).

THE ETHER – AN ASSESSMENT

Commentary: This article is a very important component in the author’s efforts to convince physicists that they need to accept the existence of the aether. The article deals with the major problem confronting aether theory, namely the issue of its non-dispersion property. It is vital to keep in mind that any dynamic system has to have inertial balance. One simply cannot have waves as electric charge suffering lateral displacement as oscillations propagate through space and not have something that oscillates in counterbalance. Maxwell’s theory prescribes electric wave displacement but offers no inertial balance.

In this article, the author reminds those who understand the physics of propagating signals along a long distance telegraph cable and Heaviside distortionless line solution. The counterpart in the aether is the response of the muon energy sea in providing the dynamic counterbalance. It is the same response that accounts for its adaptation to the Earth’s motion in a way that precludes sensing of linear motion by optical techniques.

If the aether could distort electromagnetic waves that are being propagated through it then it must absorb energy and so retard the wave. On the other hand, there is a way in which what we see as empty space can obstruct an electromagnetic wave. This is by
attempting to create matter in the form of protons. Matter, even if of transient existence, can affect the passage of a wave. Here, however, our dual wave response, which involves the aether lattice oscillations being kept in dynamic balance by a muon field, is affected because one wave is attenuated in amplitude more than the other. This means that there is a frequency distortion that corresponds with the loss of frequency with distance that is
formulated as the Hubble constant. See [1984e]. The subject article was founded on this interpretation of the aether and it is therefore quite important in promulgating knowledge concerning the author’s theory.

1981e

The following is a paper by H. Aspden published in Physics Letters, v. 85A, pp. 411-414 (1981).

LASER INTERFEROMETRY EXPERIMENTS ON LIGHT-SPEED ANISOTROPY

Abstract: Although gas lasers provide highly coherent light sources useful in interferometry experiments, their application to the measurement of light-speed anisotropy can produce inconclusive results unless reflection effects at mirror surfaces are taken fully into account. A recent experiment by Brillet and Hall is discussed and shown to indicate a local anisotropy due solely to Earth rotation.

Commentary: The author was here directing attention to the sensing the Earth’s west-east speed, as opposed to rotation, that was evident in the Brillet and Hall experiment. Though quoted as a test for Einstein’s theory, owing to the failure to sense motion through
space at a cosmic speed, the sensing of actual speed, owing to linear motion relative to the inertial frame, invalidates the theory of relativity. The author later underlined the point made in this paper by the more extensive analysis presented in reference [1982e].

1981d

The following is a paper by H. Aspden published in The Journal of Meteorology UK, v. 6, pp. 258-260 (1981).

THE ENIGMA OF BALL LIGHTNING

Commentary: This short paper discusses the phenomenon of ball lightning within aircraft and the reported sightings of luminous balls leaving the body of the aircraft and hovering on the wings. The author stresses that such evidence shows that the balls are not quasi-stable objects comprising nothing other than ionized air. There has to be an underlying energy medium in spin that develops an electric or magnetic attraction holding the bounding sphere to the wing.

1981c

The following is a paper by H. Aspden published in Lettere al Nuovo Cimento, v. 32, pp. 114-116 (1981).

THE ANOMALOUS MAGNETIC MOMENT OF THE ELECTRON

Commentary: This is one of many papers by which the author pursued the task of urging for acceptance of the author’s theory of the electron g-factor. When one mentions the anomalous electron g-factor to physicists they immediately think of QED and its remarkably
precise confirmation of the physics of such great scientists as Dirac and Feynman. Yet their emphasis is on the divergence of that factor from the value 2.

The underlying issue that matters to this author is the explanation of why ferromagnetic reaction measurements of the ratio of magnetic moment to angular momentum correspond to e/mc and not e/2mc of the electron. The scientific world at large is less concerned with this factor of 2, which is seen as a ‘spin’ property that is really quite
vague, and relies heavily on the minor correction which alters 2 by a little more than one part in one thousand.

The author, however, has had to take his factor-of-two reasoning [1978c], concerning the form and reacting properties of the electron, into that province dominated by QED and compete with the precision derivations of QED in the hope that physicists might listen to the case for believing in a half-field reacting aether environment that inherently gives basis for the g-factor of 2. This is essential if we are to understand how the aether can feed energy to us via its action is sustaining the quantized motion of atomic electrons in a polarized ferromagnet. The subject paper discusses how the author’s theory is a contender with QED at the level of 40 parts in 10¹² for the anomalous component of the electron g-factor.