Far Space is simply not attainable for scientists with a conservative mindset.
Photons moving relative to us with near-zero speeds (or even staying at rest) are possibly capable of creating clouds of information structures that hide the secrets of the past and present.
We measure the speed of light. At home
Based on the materials of the authors articles in the TM magazine, No. 10, 2001, p. 53. and No. 3, 2002, p. 24.
In a household fluorescent lamp, the plasma temperature is on the order of tens of thousands of degrees. This corresponds to the motion of charged particles with a speed of about 100 km / s. Photons emitted by ions flying with a speed V must have a speed C + V directed along the axis of the lamp parallel to the photographic film, in accordance with the classical ballistic principle of the addition of velocities (and not with the SRT formulas). If this is the case, then the spot will move in the direction of movement of the ions emitting light. But if the second SRT postulate is true, then the light spot will not shift. The speed of the light source V will not add to the value C. The course of the experiment. I use a miniature neon lamp with a glass sheath that is transparent to UV radiation. At a pressure of about 0.1 mm Hg, a distance between the electrodes of 1.7 mm and an operating voltage of 220 V, inert gas ions are capable of acquiring a speed comparable to the speed of light C. Light from such a radiator passes through a narrow diaphragm (or camera obscura) and hits the screen, located parallel to the plane of the emitter electrodes at a distance of 0.8 m. The direction of the current in the lamp can be changed using a diode. After switching on, a lamp image appears on the projection screen. Both electrodes and the gas discharge column between them are clearly visible. When the direction of the current is changed, the image is displaced in the direction of the movement of positive ions by 11 mm with an absolute error of 0.2 mm. This means that the speed of light C is added with the speed of motion of its source V according to the classical, ballistic principle, and not in accordance with the SRT formulas. The only thing is that it is possible to calculate the speed of a radiation source from a ray of light, outside of spectral analysis, which is no longer in the spirit of the Theory of Relativity. The exact value of the speed of movement of ions in a neon lamp is difficult to determine. According to indirect estimates, it is on the order of 2000 km / s. This is in good agreement with the results of the performed experiment. It follows from this that either the second postulate of SRT is incorrect, or its physical meaning needs some special clarification.
Experiment scheme. Screen, collimator (obstacle with a hole), neon lamp, electric circuit with a diode switch for the direction of movement of light-carrying particles
Light sources used in the experiment. Ultraviolet or the most common 18W lamp. Option a miniature halogen bulb.
Scheme of the second experiment with a light accelerator lamp. Screen, prism, collecting lens, collimator, neon lamp, electrical circuit with switch diode
Diagram of the experiment of Italian physicists. A neutrino generated by a hot nuclear reactor travels faster than the speed of light.
Scheme of the experience of Siberian scientists. Accelerator. A tube for the removal of light from accelerated particles. Glass plate, analogue of the world ether, high-speed detector.
Bursts of radiation on the screen of a high-speed oscilloscope
A hypothetical plasma antenna is a method of accelerated space communication with objects in the Far Space. Perhaps this method of communication will have other interesting properties.
As the saying goes, Ein Versuch ist kein Versuch (search-search), and therefore I put on a second experiment with a neon lamp, fundamentally changing its conditions. The main element is now a glass prism, which deflects light rays of different wavelengths in different ways. If the speed of light is greater than C, the spectrum shifts towards the violet side. If less than C, a redshift occurs, as when observing a receding radiation source. But, this is not the Hubble effect. I place the neon lamp so that the plane of the electrodes is perpendicular to the pinhole screen. When the lamp is turned on, a spot of light appears on the screen. After polarity reversal, the beam is shifted by 24 arc minutes. Rejection error 4 minutes. Using well-known formulas, we calculate that in this case the change in the speed of light is 520 km / s, with an error of 85 km / s.
Scientists from the OPERA group in Gran Sasso, Italy, unlike the author of this article, have the opportunity to make truly direct measurements of the velocity of microparticles. Neutrino either does not have rest mass, like a quantum of light, or it does. Certainly, like a photon, it rushes constantly at the speed of C. The speed of the source itself does not matter. At least thats what is commonly believed. Using synchronized detectors, Italian physicists discover the existence of small neutrons moving at a speed 7.5 km in excess of C. from. The possible error is three orders of magnitude lower than this deviation. The publication will take place in 2011, and it attracts a flurry of criticism. Experimenters have to make excuses awkwardly.
In Russia, a direct measurement based on the scheme proposed by the author was carried out by the masters of academic science. And, of course, without references to the articles of a modest amateur experimenter in Tekhnika-Molodezh. This is evidenced by the publication of Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences E. Aleksandrov in the journal Science and Life, No. 8, 2011. A modest gas-discharge lamp is replaced here by a majestic synchrotron, a cardboard screen and a pinhole camera photosensors with high-speed oscilloscopes. So: As a pulsed light source, a synchrotron radiation source (SR) an electron storage ring Siberia-1 was used. SR of electrons accelerated to relativistic speeds (close to the speed of light) has a wide spectrum from infrared and visible to X-ray range. Radiation propagates in a narrow cone tangentially to the trajectory of electrons along the abstraction channel and is removed through a sapphire window into the atmosphere. There, the light is collected by a lens onto the photocathode of a fast photodetector. A beam of light on its way in a vacuum could be covered by a glass plate introduced by means of a magnetic drive. At the same time, according to the logic of the ballistic hypothesis, the light, which had previously supposedly had a double speed of 2C, after the window had to acquire the usual speed C. Of course, experience shows the speed of light, within an error of 0.5%, equal to the constant C. Interestingly, the experiment of Russian academicians does not even raise the question of how to divert light from elementary particles moving in the opposite direction. The corpuscles rotate in the accelerator exclusively counterclockwise, at different speeds. There are no reports that the experiment was performed with light from particles accelerated by, say, half, three-quarters of the standard speed in the synchrotron. A simple comparison of the results on the screen of a high-speed oscilloscope would place all the dots above the I. This adjustment is probably simply not possible. The only element of the actual experience here is the glass plate. However, who and where said that such a modest screen is able to equalize the speed of photons to standard C?