Did Einstein Get it Wrong?

Introduction As a teacher of physics at secondary level, for many years, I became aware that certain phenomena in the subject such as mass, the wave particle duality of light and the wave particle duality of matter were not really understood in the world of physics. One day, whilst bored with a TV film, I glanced at the wire supporting the lights from the ceiling and thought to myself… “The a.c. voltage oscillating at 50 cycles per second across the wire is producing,from the wire, electromagnetic waves whose frequency is equal to the mains frequency”. I wondered to myself… “Just what is happening at a really fundamental level in the production of an electromagnetic wave?” I knew what the textbooks said, and I’d also studied it at university- my degree is in electronics - but something was missing in the explanation I’d been given. I began to think about just what happened in the Big Bang at the beginning of the universe. Scientists know that during the Big Bang equal amounts of matter and antimatter were generated but don’t know where all the antimatter has gone. Cosmologists are currently searching the cosmos for an exotic dark matter, made of antimatter, which they believe has to exist in order that their sums of the universe add up. So my thinking went along the following lines: Before the Big Bang there was an external void of space with absolutely nothing in it. I drew a circle and divided it in half. One half I made positive for matter and the other half negative for antimatter, the mirror image of matter. I realized that as positive and negative attract each other, matter and antimatter also attracted each other, adding up to make zero. The antimatter is self expansive and like a compressed sponge being released it generated energy– the energy behind the Big Bang and so the source of all the energy in the universe was the simultaneous coming into being, out of nothing, of matter and its mirror image, antimatter. This can be likened to a hand moving out of a mirror. As the hand (matter) is generated, its mirror image (antimatter) is also generated. There is a common notion that antimatter and matter cannot co-exist, that they annihilate each other on contact. This comes from the experiment on election positron pair production. In this experiment a gamma photon is fired into matter an electron (matter) and a positron (antimatter) are generated. When they recombine they annihilate each other and the gamma photon reappears. However it must be borne in mind that this annihilation of each other cannot occur unless the electron and positron have sufficient energy. The Royal Institution Christmas Faraday Lecture 1993 was entitled “The Cosmic Onion; Antimatter Matters”. It was given by Professor Frank Close of CERN (The European Centre for Nuclear Research based in Geneva). He gave a detailed account of what happens in the particle accelerator, in which particles of matter, and antimatter are made to collide, simulating, on a minute scale, one or more of the processes that occurred in the Big Bang. At the end of the lecture, Professor Close said that the antimatter that didn’t recombine with matter simply disappears and that they had no idea of where it goes. I began to realise that during the Big Bang, the antimatter which did not recombine with matter, because it had insufficient energy, simply expanded, filling the void of space, taking the matter with it, which later cooled down to form the galaxies. This is analogous to the holes in a sponge moving out as the sponge expands. In a similar manner, so the galaxies moved out, as the antimatter expanded. Also, that when a positron (a drop of antimatter) disappears it is simply disappearing into the antimatter, which pervades the universe, in the same way as a drop of water disappears in the ocean. The Big Bang would have initially started concentrically, a tiny amount of matter surrounded by an expanding bubble of antimatter. Vibrations, gamma rays in the expanding bubble of antimatter striking the matter to produce more matter and antimatter – an avalanche effect culminating in the Big Bang. The fact that galaxies are continuing to move apart is proved by the Doppler red shift in the light emitted from them, in the same way that we can tell the difference by the change in frequency of the sound of a vehicle moving away from us. From these ideas I had two basic assumptions or axioms to work with:- Matter attracts antimatter and antimatter is self repulsive wanting to expand indefinitely Using these two axioms, I went on to produce diagrams showing what is happening at a fundamental level in the production of an electromagnetic wave, the final diagram explaining visually the wave particle duality of light. The attraction between matter and antimatter went on to give a new explanation for gravitation, an explanation much easier to understand than Einstein’s curved space time The same two axioms went on to explain the phenomenon of mass and the wave particle duality of matter. A new unified theory was born and taking shape, which was beautifully elegant in its simplicity and devoid of any mathematical complexities – a theory that the average person without a detailed knowledge of physics could understand. Since the antimatter surrounding matter doesn’t have the energy to annihilate the matter, there is no reason whey they should not co-exist together. It was then that I realised that the antimatter that pervades all of space was the aether which many physicists, just prior to Einstein, believed had to exist in order to act as a medium for the propagation of light waves. An experiment was performed by two physicists called Michelson and Morley who set out to detect the aether and so prove its existence. The experiment failed to detect the aether and so Einstein concluded that their probably wasn’t any aether at all. I give a rational explanation for the failure of the Michelson & Morley experiment to detect the aether and I use the aether to explain many of the fundamentals of physics, including phenomena such as mass, which until now have been unexplained. This whole new perspective and explanation has been arrived at by taking into account the presence of the aether, demonstrating that Einstein got it wrong when he abandoned the aether idea, and I will show that as a consequence of this, his fundamental postulate ‘that the speed of light is constant’, is wrong, and that this in turn, has huge repercussions for his special theory of relativity. Furthermore I suggest an experiment on the moon, which would prove conclusively the existence of the aether, and I use the aether to explain the reversal of the earth’s magnetic field, providing compelling historic evidence that such an event has occurred on the earth in the manner I describe. Such a magnetic reversal is expected, possibly within the next twenty five years, and will have catastrophic consequences for our civilization.