Reasons to Reconsider the Aether of Classical Physics - Digital Download

by Paul Rowe

This 7-page paper was published in Issue 139 (2018).

Abstract: Section 1 includes evidence from the scientific literature that shows surprisingly large quantities of hydrogen gas have been produced from vacuum and suggests that the knowable universe may be permeated with a matrix of protons and unpaired electrons. If this is the case, vacuum may not be void, as Einstein believed and convinced the physics community, but rather a matrix of protons and unpaired electrons. The matrix might be Bose-Einstein condensed hydrogen or some other combination of protons and unpaired electrons. Unpaired electrons are required to explain the dielectric and magnetic properties of vacuum employed by Maxwell in developing his wave equations. The presence of such a matrix, in vacuum, permits simple explanations for many observed physical phenomena. Section 2 includes this author's preliminary efforts to explain many other observed physical phenomena based on the existence of such a matrix. The following phenomena are included: magnetic properties of vacuum; dielectric properties of vacuum; electromagnetic radiation; gravity; the nature of the chemical bond; super collider experiments; dark matter; stellar aberration; Einstein's Twin Paradox, and star formation.