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The curvature of light

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to share this perspective with you. Actually, since I begun focusing on the medium rather than medium manifestations (waves), it appears to be more simple and more easy to mentally visualize fundamental physics.

First of all, we have to forget light and consider only a wave in a mechanical medium because :

• it’s easier to visualize,

• the amount of possibilities is reduced,

• and also because it’s the effective research methodology that helped Lorentz and Maxwell formalise their theories.

INTRODUCTION

Let’s first put some postulates (from WSM Principle I – The scalar wave equation in Space):

1. A wave is only a disturbance that propagates through a medium. Electromagnetic waves, sound, both behave like any mechanical waves in a mechanical medium.
   

2. Matter is only a set of mechanical disturbances through a medium (in-waves and out-waves).

1. What makes light change it’s trajectory when it past near the sun?

Imagine a wave propagating trough a 3 dimensions mechanical medium. What are all the possibilities you have to modify its trajectory?

One of the most simple possibilities in a mechanical medium is to bend physically the medium it self. And in a mechanical medium, this behaviour is trivial (I can deepen it if needed). We will consider it as a possibility and see if it fits to all other light bending manifestation.

This characteristic is explained differently in WSM; the second Principle II is used to calculate the density of the quantum wave medium – the space all around us. Einstein’s Last Question Milo Wolff

Possibility A : If a wave changes direction it means that the medium is distorted.

Then the sun does not curve light, it curves the medium where the light pass. More generally, matter curves waves medium

The energy density (or tensions) on the left side of any point (blue line for example) in the bent medium is higher than on the right side. the inside wave structure it self is bent (red line)

this distortion characteristic of mechanical mediums is formalized mathematically using tensors, and its demonstrated using numerical simulation: from tension source to infinity, tension drop follows the inverse square law.

2. How a medium can be distorted?

From a mechanical medium point of view and because the possibilities are highly reduced; there is only one thing which can be the source of distortion (or any other phenomenon): waves

Lets consider Einstein explanation, he has described geometrically the solution: light bend is due to gravity, which is the curvature of space-time.

But is there a relationship between space-time and light medium?

1. Postulates of Lorentz's ether model: (2) (page 402)
   • the existence of a light medium
   • a real length contraction along axis"the motion through the aether" (length contraction vs time dilation)
2. If we accept the possibility of an Aether as a medium of electromagnetic waves, then we have to accept that it can stretch and bend. otherwise it would not vibrate. Distortion is a fundamental characteristic of any 3 dimensions vibrating mechanical medium (It seems to me that it's obvious but I can deepen if needed)
   
3. I have found nearly nothing in literature except a possible answer given by a set of publications synthesised in an arxiv paper by Alexander Unzicker. It has linked relativity and the behaviour of a crystal dislocation (the medium). such as, the speed of a crystal dislocation suffers a longitudinal contraction. (1)

   

Consequences of the proposed solution :

Possibility B : space-time is the geometrical description of a crystal type wave medium (the Aether). Thus curvature of space time and curvature of light medium are describing the same emerging phenomenon: gravity

3. Considering the curvature of the in-wave and out-wave, why they are spherical and why they don’t propagate like other waves?

The answer of this question is described by WSM according to match principle:

note: I totally understand this relation between the electron and its environment and the way they exchange energy trough waves. but when we get back to our 3d mechanical medium, an additional characteristic is needed to keep electron wave stable, and not propagate linearly through the medium like any "normal" wave. What is presented next is based on refraction issue, it does not contradict with WSM concept; but it's the most simple possible explanation:

Because by postulate all the waves are only disturbances, always in the same mechanical medium, what makes light bend should also be what makes in-wave and out-wave bend and compose spherical standing waves. We will see that it perfectly explains light refraction

Let’s make this theoretical concept visual:

The officially accepted definition of refraction:

Refraction is the change in direction of a wave due to a change in its speed. This is most commonly seen when a wave passes from one medium to another (Wikipedia)(hyperphysics)...

Actually in this case, the official definition contradicts with our postulates and possibilities:

• light does not pass from a medium to another because there is only one medium of light. What is really happening (according to our postulates and possibilities) is that water structure (matter) distort light medium as settled in “Consequence C”. It passes from a medium distorted structure D1 to another distorted structure D2
• If there is only one medium of light, it can not be a light speed change because light velocity is nearly(3) fixed in such medium whether there is matter (distortion) in it or not. Then it’s a medium structure alteration or distortion that make light trajectory change and turn around each matter (baryonic particles) which slows the global velocity but not the local velocity of light. Here is a visual explanation:

n=c/v is the refractive index

(I can deepen this possibility according to slow light latest experiments if needed). This phenomenon is seen in different science disciplines: one of them is in thermodynamics where the local velocity of gas particles is much more higher then the global velocity of the gas because of particles trajectory change.

Possibilities A an B gives Consequence C : Both out-waves and in-waves curve the medium, and the curved medium change their trajectories to nearly spherical.

http://www.spaceandmotion.com/science-physics-wsm-wave-diagrams.htm

In the possible Consequence C, we have here a perfect causality dilemma (the chicken or the egg?): does waves curve the medium or the medium curves the waves? The answer can only be: Both at the same time of course. Each entity is defined by the other and vice versa

CONCLUSION

We view physics from the medium perspective. It’s an induction process. Then we are in the world of possibilities and alternatives and not (yet) in the word of certitudes until they are mathematically or numerically formalized.

Since possibilities A, B and C are linked and give solutions to more then one fundamental issue: light propagation (the existence of Aether) , light bend (aether distortion), gravity (aether distortion), how a "particle" moves in the Aether; then these 3 possibilities worth to be studied deeper.

There is only two ways to formalize them:

• Mathematical formalism: very conventional and strong for demonstration but It needs a lot of development effort and the amount of people that could understand it, is highly reduced.

• Numerical simulation: less strong for demonstration but scientifically accepted, more quick to implement and more easy to share with non mathematicians.

Induction process fits perfectly to numerical simulations. The Idea is not to implement out-wave and in-wave formulas or waves principles in a software, but to create an ideal virtual medium and measure the emerging phenomenon happening in it, with the minimum external intervention possible. Therefore, depending on the results we will only have to change some properties of the medium to model reality and find solution to some physics issues (exMilgrom Modified Newton Dynamics vs Dark matter).

Thank you for reading

Saâd RIFFI