Aether, Radiation, Mass-Energy Law, Gravity and Inertia

Abstract

Musa D. Abdullahi

The universal space, crisscrossed by electric fields from electric charges in bodies, is proposed to be the aether as a physical medium conceived by Maxwell, Einstein and others. The fields, in accordance with Coulomb’s law, balance out everywhere. Permittivity and permeability are properties of electric fields of the aether, supporting propagation of radiation at the speed of light. A particle of charge Q is supposed to be an impregnable spherical shell of radius a, with intrinsic energy E and mass m, independent of speed. Aberration of electric field is invoked to explain the speed of light being a limit, without recourse to special relativity. Radiation, from an accelerated charged particle, is obtained outside quantum mechanics. A mass-energy equivalence law is obtained as E = ½mc^2, in contrast to the relativistic equation. The paper replaces curvature of space-time continuum, of general relativity, with distortion of electric fields of the aether, by virtue of particles occupying volumes of space, with negative potential energy, one in the shadow of the other, to make for gravitational force of attraction. An accelerated charged particle, affected by its own induction electric field, is used to explain inertia.

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