Many of the inclusions of general
relativity took observed effects and interpretted them
a certain way. My problem is with the explanation of why. He
was able to forsee this effect from observational data and I have to
give credit that it seems there is one small disjointed portion
of his theories that he sort of got right. I think he may
have interpretted this from the formulas he got from
Paul Gerber
. If not plagiarized, it is a great observation and
prediction. However, it proved absolutely nothing in regard to
time dilation or the constancy of the speed of light.
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In just 22.6 meters, the fractional
gravitational red
shift given by
 is
just 4.92 x 10^-15 , but the Mossbauer
effect with the 14.4 keV gamma
ray from iron-57 has a high
enough resolution to detect that difference. In the early 60's
physicists Pound, Rebka,and Snyder at the Jefferson Physical
Laboratory at Harvard measured the shift to within 1% of the
predicted shift. |
By just using the expression for gravitational potential energy near the
Earth, and using the m in the relativistic energy expression,
the gain in energy for a photon which falls distance h is
Comparing the energy shifts on
the upward and downward paths gives a predicted
difference
The measured difference
was
The success of this experiment
owed much to the care of Pound and Rebka in preparing the source.
They electroplated cobalt-57 onto the surface of a thin sheet of
iron and then heated the combination at 1220 K for an hour. The heat
treatment caused the cobalt to diffuse into the iron to a depth of
about 300 nm or 1000 atomic spacings. The source was then mounted on
the cone of a loudspeaker driven at 10Hz to sweep the source
velocity in a sinusoidal variation. The detector was a thin sheet of
iron about 14 micrometers thick which was also annealed. The heat
treatments were found to be crucial in obtaining high
resolution
.
Relativists believe there is no other possible
explanation, but I beg to differ. While gravitational time differences are more
easily explained via Aether density. This experiment is slightly
more difficult to explain but far less magical than the current interpretation.
What it seems we basically have is a Doppler effect brought
on by gravity. This effect can be explained in a number of ways none
of which require SR. One theory is somewhat similar to quantum
mechanics and the Higgs Field with each particle of Aether
being analogous to a Boson. If all matter is always absorbing
particles of Aether at a consistent rate, the earthward Aether
flow would cause the downward wave to pass by
the detector faster causing a higher frequency and the opposite
for the upward one. This is part of my own theory of gravity in
which there is a constant pressure of the medium and gravity is
simply a localized depressurization area causing something akin to
buoyancy ala Archimedes. In this case the change of speed caused by
different medium densities would have to be less than the speed of
Aether flow.
Another explanation that might fit is that density of the medium
higher up increases both the workings of the emitter and the
speed of wave transmission but not in exact equivelence. In this
case the emitter creates a higher fequency at the source that is not
equally deminished by the slower speed of travel nearer the
bottom.
Additionally there is the consideration that regardless if
you believe in gravitational time dilation or differing Aether
densities you have to believe that all the equipment itself -
emitters, receivers, etc - would be affected in numerous ways while
conducting the experment. I have seen no mention of this
consideration in any documentation about the experiment. If the
clocks that measures the time between wavefronts and the electricity
that runs through the wires that sends a signal to beat or that it
received a beat are all effected, then some serious implications
arise.
