1987k

The following is a paper by H. Aspden published in Electronics and Wireless World, p. 230 (1987).

EARTHQUAKE

Abstract: Laboratories monitoring earthquake tremors, as well as radio enthusiasts within a few hundred miles of regions prone to earthquakes, may find a radio technique backs up ether theory.

Commentary: This is an account of something observed by a radio enthusiast in Switzerland during a period before a quite disturbing earth tremor arrived owing to an earthquake not too far away in Italy.

M. Markert was working a little way from his house where his radio equipment was receiving an amplitude-modulated long wave transmission from a BBC station in England. So that he could follow this BBC programme while outside, Markert had his own local frequency-modulated retransmission facility and was receiving the station with a small portable receiver with clarity even though it was coming into his house as AM and being retransmitted as FM. Then the reception became distorted and Markert rushed back to his house to check the incoming AM signal. That was still coming in with clarity. Onward checking indicated that only the FM signal was distorted even though the AM signal was clear. Then the earthquake tremor struck and soon thereafter everything returned to normal. There was no fault with his equipment. His conclusion had to be that the effects of the earthquake were felt by the FM signal but not the AM signal!

My contribution in writing the subject paper was to point to this as evidence of the aether. A earthquake tremor involves bulk deployment of matter and I believe that the aether can be drastically disturbed by the sudden movement of matter. Now a very small movement of the lattice structure of the aether I describe in these Web pages can have a significant effect by distorting an FM radio signal but a judder of the electromagnetic reference frame would have little or no effect on the energy and so upon the signal carried by a long wave AM transmission. Accordingly, I see this phenomernon as observed by Markert as one more indication that there is a real aether.

This 1987 article in Electronics and Wireless World drew this to readers attention. I may add also that an insert in the body of the article was headed:

It reads:

Readers may recall Dr. Aspden’s earlier article “The ether – an assessment” in Wireless World. October [1982], if not his book Modern Aether Science. Though adherence to ether belief may seem futile, Dr. Aspden says he can now point to its predictive power.

There is currently no accepted explanation for the proton-electron mass ratio, but amongst Aspden’s many scientific papers is “Calculation of the proton mass in a lattice model of the ether”. By a major technological advance, the proton-electron mass ratio was recently measured to within a precision of 41 parts per billion, a severe test for the value given by ether theory. The authors of the experiment have acknowledged in their report that the value given by Dr. Aspden’s theory was “remarkably close to the experimentally measured value (i.e. within two standard deviations)”. They also said that this was “even more curious” taking into account that the theory was published several years before direct precision measurement of this ratio had begun.

1987j

The following is a paper by H. Aspden published in The Toth-Maatian Review, v. 6, pp. 3165-3171 (1987).

GHOST MASS AND THE UNSEEN ENERGY WORLD AS REVEALED BY THE ANOMALIES OF THE GYROSCOPE

Abstract: There is an increasing body of opinion that recognizes the existence of tremendous amounts of energy in the vacuum, energy which offers us hope that one day we can capture
this resource in our man-made machines and achieve what amounts to the dream of perpetual motion. This paper addresses this question in the light of the supporting experimental evidence, to conclude that what is a dream today is, without a doubt, the certainty of tomorrow. Indeed, the breakthrough has already been made. It is just that we
have failed to see, in its proper context, what is so clearly laid before us.

Commentary: Much of this article was about the properties of force-precessed offset gyroscopes which lose weight. However, to justify the comment about energy in the abstract the following paragraph is quoted from the article:

“Together, these experimental facts confirm that there is a ghost world full of energy pervading the vacuum of space. Already the findings from research in this field are leading to the grant of patents, patents which a relativist would deem unworkable and invalid, but patents which will be the basis of investment in a new technological revolution capable of sweeping aside the mathematicians and physicists who know no other language but that of relativity. These patents include electric motors which purport to derive their energy from ferromagnetic cores which are constantly powered by whatever it is that maintains their magnetic polarization.”

1987i

The following is a paper by H. Aspden published in The Toth-Maatian Review, v. 6, pp. 2985-2987 (1987).

DERIVATION OF THE ELECTRODYNAMIC FORCE LAW

Commentary: This article was the author’s response to a challenge which Dr. T. E. Phipps, Jr. raised against the author’s law of electrodynamics. The general problem is that critics insist on keeping faith with the law that action balances reaction and strive to avoid a law of electrodynamics which develops a net
out-of-balance force. In this they overlook the basic fact that the general law only purports to explain how one charge acts on another in the presence of other charge in motion. There can be energy exchanges between those other charges and the two-charge system to which the law relates. Action and reaction, as understood from Newtonian mechanics, concerns mechanical interaction and not action-at-a-distance as one has with electric and magnetic effects.

At all times the author can take strength in support of his law of
electrodynamics from the fact that it is the only form of law that can embrace the gravitational force and provide the answer to the field unification problem. Also, it is appropriate to keep in mind that the author has a research background deep rooted in electromagnetic induction phenomena and a law of electrodynamics which cannot participate in inductive energy transfer to and from the
vacuum field is not of any value. For any electric charge in motion to transfer energy to the vacuum field there has to be a force exerted on the vacuum medium or aether in a direction that is not just at right angles to the direction of charge motion. If the law of electrodynamics requires no such force then it can only serve to explain physical phenomena which involve no energy transfer. It can explain why electrons describe circular orbits in a magnetic field and why linear conductors carrying current move laterally across that field to balance mechanical work against the work done by an EMF that sustains the current, but there is much more to electrodynamics than that!

1987h

The following is a paper by H. Aspden published in The Toth-Maatian Review, v. 6, pp. 2981-2984 (1987).

AMPERE’S LAW: COMMENTS ON A DISCUSSION BY MILNES IN TOTH-MAATIAN REVIEW, v. 6, pp. 2981-2984 (1987).

Commentary: In volume 5 of the October 1986 issue Dr. Milnes initiated a critical review, some 18 years after its publication, of the author’s ‘The Law of Electrodynamics’ published in the Journal of the Franklin Institute [1969a]. This article was the author’s response to that criticism.

1987g

The following is a paper by H. Aspden published in The Toth-Maatian Review, v. 6, pp. 2947-2953 (1987).

A COUNTER-ARGUMENT TO THE NINE OBJECTIONS TO THE AETHER POSED BY MILNES

Commentary: Dr. Harold Milnes, the Editor and publisher of the Toth-Maatian Review, had earlier in an April 1986 issue of this periodical presented nine reasons puporting to show that the aether does not exist. Dr. Milnes had invited readers to challenge his views. By this article this author responded to that challenge.

1987f

The following is a paper by H. Aspden published in The Toth-Maatian Review, v. 5, pp. 2827-2833 (1987).

THE CASE FOR THE SUB-ELECTRON

Abstract: One of the most basic questions in physics is whether there is a degenerate form of the electron, a charge of smaller mass than that of electron. If there is then it is likely to be a primary constituent of the background field medium we recognize as sustaining electric displacement, namely the aether. This paper discusses the evidence indicative of the existence of such a particle, a sub-electron, having an effective mass of 1/24.52 that of the electron.

Commentary: In this general article the author introduces his aether theory and shows how the recognition of a sub-electron, in the form of the virtual particle which occupies the aether lattice sites in the vacuum medium to endow it with quasi-liquid crystal properties, plays a direct role in relation to three physical phenomena. These are in the determination of the temperature of the Sun, the solution of an unexplained mysterious fact of astrophysics, which has been named the Wesson constant, and the mystery of the mass of the neutral pion. This is besides the explanation 2.7 K cosmic radiation background temperature, as presented on p. 177 of the author’s 1980 book ‘Physics Unified’.

1987e

The following is a paper by H. Aspden published in Speculations in Science and Technology, v. 10, pp. 9-11 (1987).

A NOTE ON THE SILVERTOOTH EXPERIMENT

Commentary: The author here presented a commentary following a paper by Silvertooth which described an optical experiment claimed to have sensed the Earth’s motion at 378
km/s through space. The author’s paper discussed the implications and drew attention to the related issue posed by null indication of the 1903 Trouton-Noble experiment.

1987d

The following is a paper by H. Aspden published in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, v. 28, pp. 535-536 (1987).

EARTHQUAKE-RELATED EM DISTURBANCES

Commentary: The author here drew attention to the article [1978d] in which he had discussed the experimental evidence which showed that earthquake conditions could disturb the aether. The essential point here was that atmospheric conditions which could distort frequency-modulated radio waves but not amplitude-modulated radio waves meant that the carrier medium, the aether, was subjected to shock vibrations.

The energy in transit was not affected but the speed of transit was affected. This had been noticed in radio reception in Switzerland as affecting radio transmission from England during an earthquake in Italy. It was also seen as relevant that earthquakes deep
underground develop E.M. radio disturbance on the surface but E.M. radio waves propagating under normal conditions at the surface do not penetrate more than a few metres of the Earth’s crust.

This is an example where doctrinaire belief in Einstein’s theory has led to a cosmology that denies the existence of the aether and that precludes belief of what the author is saying here about the possibility of sensing earthquakes by radio waves before the
ground-propagated shock wave arrives.

1987c

The following is a paper by H. Aspden published in Physics Letters, v. 120A, pp. 80-82 (1987).

THE EXPLODING WIRE PHENOMENON AS AN INDUCTIVE EFFECT

Abstract: This paper responds to criticism in the controversy concerning the exploding wire phenomenon. It is maintained that this occurs owing to high current transients interacting with the self-inductive field within the wire, which preclude the electron charge carriers from balancing the tensile stress set up by the effect of the applied EMF on the positive ions of the wire structure.

Commentary: The author had become quite concerned about the way in which the Lorentz force law was being challenged in an effort to substitute Ampere’s law. The point which was being missed by those researching this field was that the law of electrodynamics
concerns forces set up with steady-state currents. Sudden high-current discharges involve powerful inductive reaction forces, whereas the classical Ampere force law denies any out-of-balance force action and can only be used to argue wire rupturing if the current discharge is deemed to be segregated in spaced current elements, rather than being the continuous current normally assumed. This was important to the author because the whole of his theory of
gravitation depends upon the law of electrodynamics having the non-Lorentzian, non-Amperian form which he advocates in reference [1969a].

1987b

The following is a paper by H. Aspden published in Hadronic Journal, v. 10, pp. 185-192 (1987).

SYNCHRONOUS LATTICE DYNAMICS AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO TIME DILATION

Abstract: In view of the very strong indications that the time rate of atomic clocks dilates in dependence upon motion relative to a preferred frame, an alternative to relativistic time dilation is needed. It is shown that atomic clock rates are affected by motion relative to the preferred frame, according to the synchronous lattice dynamics as used by the author to explain the nature of the photon and the elementary particle spectrum in recent Hadronic Journal papers.

The full text of this paper may also be seen in PDF format as Paper No. 5 [1987b] in the Appendix to the author’s 1996 book: Aether Science Papers.