Do Virtual Photons Exist?

"Great spirits have always encountered violent oppositions from mediocre
minds." - A. Einstein

The Aether was original conceived as a means of explaining "forces
acting at a distance" (i.e.- electric, magnetic, gravitation, et al). When
the idea of the classical Aether was abandoned early in the century, there
was a need to find another means of explaining these forces because, if it
were not possible to explain them by some other means then it would be
necessary to retain the Aether and the absolute reference frame it
represented. The elimination of that reference frame was an absolute
imperative of the political agenda of the academic community. Fortunately,
the advent of quantum theory allowed Dr. Feynmann to generate the idea that
these forces were produced by the exchange of "virtual particles". These
particles were so named because they popped into and out of existence for
periods of time that were so short that the rules of quantum physics insured
that their temporary existence did not violate the Law of Conservation of
Energy.

It is easy to understand how these particles could provide a force over
a distance. A "virtual particle" emitted from one point would absorb
momentum and travel ballistically to another where it would release that
momentum. The net result would be force acting between the points. The
situation is analogous to the effect observed when two athletes throw a
medicine ball back and forth to each other. Difficulty with the analogy is
that the throwing of the medicine ball can only produce a repulsive force;
it cannot produce an attractive force! The mathematics associated with the
force production by "virtual particles" particles, however, does allow for
the production of attractive forces, but, since no explanation as to how
this is possible is provided, one is left with the suspicion that this is
another example of a solution where an effect that is allowed by the
mathematics involved is being used outside of the constraints imposed by the
physical realities of the problem. These realities require a rather unusual
exchange of momentum to be involved. In order to produce the attractive
force, the "virtual photon" would have to be launched with a momentum
represented by a propagation direction away from its target, reverse its
momentum (direction of travel), go past its target and repeat the process so
as to acquire a momentum in the required direction as it struck the target
from behind. (If anyone can provide a different explanation I would like to
hear it.) Of course, if the "virtual photon" were propagating through a
medium, such as the Aether, there would be no conceptual problem, the
"virtual particle could make the necessary exchange of momentum with the
medium. (A boomerang returns to the thrower because it exchanges momentum
with a medium, air. But then, if the Aether were present we would have no
need to consider the existence of "virtual photons".

There is no need to resort to theoretical arguments, however. If
virtual photons produce electric and magnetic forces, they should be
observable. Consider a large electromagnet, such as is used in an MIR
machine. A recent news report described an unfortunate incident where a
steel oxygen bottle was not properly mounted to its wall bracket. The
magnetic field of the MIR pulled the bottle to the machine and killed a boy
who was being scanned. It is obvious that the room was filled with a large
and extremely powerful magnetic field. If "virtual photons" were present in
that room, they would have produced a level of electromagnetic interference
that would scream their presence. If electric and magnetic forces were
produced by "virtual photons", they would have to also effect any
electromagnetic detectors in their vicinity and one would expect that both
natural and man-made electric and magnetic fields would render
electromagnetic communication impossible.

An experiment is described in Chapter 4 of "The Einstein Hoax" in which
a strong electric field is produced inside of an evacuated chamber and an
antenna is located between the electrodes. Using a radiation detector that
covers the entire spectrum would allow the detection of any spurious photons
that acted to produce the attractive force. Its a simple experiment and is
one which should be performed it science is to accept "virtual photons" as
meaningful.

The source material for this posting may be found in "Gravity" (1987),
"The Einstein Hoax" (1997), and "Corrections to Residual Errors in Special
Relativity (1999) located at
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Elif wrote:
Do Virtual Photons Exist?


Some Frequently Asked Questions About Virtual Particles
http://hermes.physics.adelaide.edu.a...particles.html

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Do Virtual Photons Exist?
[snip 100 lines of ignorant crap]

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The source material for this posting may be found in "Gravity" (1987),
"The Einstein Hoax" (1997), and "Corrections to Residual Errors in Special
Relativity (1999)
[snip]

Hey, stooopid spammer Ernest Wittke - Do you want EVIDENCE? Each of
the 24 GPS satellites carries either four cesium atomic clocks or
three rubidum atomic clocks in orbit, with full relativistic
corrections being applied. NAVSTAR Block II GPS satellites (currently
being launched as replacements) have two rubidium and two cesium
atomic clocks.

Internal inconsistencies in SR (meaning inconsistencies of a purely
mathematical logical nature) automatically lead to contradictions in
number theory, itself, and arithmetic, since the mathematics of
Minkowski geometry is equiconsistent with the theory of real numbers
and with arithmetic.

http://optoelectronics.perkinelmer.com/content/Datasheets/rfs2f.pdf

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/RelWWW/tests.html
Mathematics of gravitation
http://wugrav.wustl.edu/people/CMW/update98.pdf
http://www.astro.northwestern.edu/AspenW04/Papers/lorimer1.pdf
Equivalence Principle testing
http://arXiv.org/abs/hep-th/0111236
Geometric structure of reality
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0103044
http://arXiv.org/abs/hep-th/0307140
GR structure, especially Part 4/p. 7
http://relativity.livingreviews.org/Articles/lrr-2001-4/index.html
http://arXiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0311039
http://www.weburbia.demon.co.uk/physics/experiments.html
Experimental constraints on General Relativity
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ptti/ptti2002/paper20.pdf
Nature 425 374 (2003)
http://www.eftaylor.com/pub/projecta.pdf
http://www.public.asu.edu/~rjjacob/Lecture16.pdf
http://relativity.livingreviews.org/Articles/lrr-2003-1/index.html
Relativity in the GPS system
http://arXiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9909014
Amer. J. Phys. 71 770 (2003)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 121101 (2004)
falling light
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/relativ/airtim.html
http://metrologyforum.tm.agilent.com/pdf/flying_clock_math.pdf
http://metrologyforum.tm.agilent.com/cesium.shtml
http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0008012
Hafele-Keating Experiment
http://www.hawaii.edu/suremath/SRtwinParadox.html
http://physics.syr.edu/courses/modules/LIGHTCONE/twins.html
Twin Paradox
Science 303(5661) 1143;1153 (2004)
http://arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0401086
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0312071
http://relativity.livingreviews.org/Articles/lrr-2003-5/index.html
http://skyandtelescope.com/news/article_1473_1.asp
Deeply relativistic neutron star binaries
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0405160
Black hole evaporation
Physics Today 57(7) 40 (2004)
http://physicstoday.org/vol-57/iss-7/p40.shtml
No aether
http://fsweb.berry.edu/academic/mans/clane/
http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/17/3/7
No Lorentz violation
http://arXiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0409089
Spin-2 gravitons have problems
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/sci.physics.strings/msg/ba31a00f5f26277a
(so does the proposal)
http://arXiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0411113
http://www.npl.washington.edu/eotwash/pdf/prl83-3585.pdf
http://arXiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0301024
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 261101 (2004)
Nordtvedt Effect
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0403292
http://arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310723
WMAP + Sloane Digital Sky Survey
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0404175
Dark matter candidates
http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/March01/Carroll/frames.html
Carroll on what it all means.

Special Relativity is physics on a topologically trivial Lorentzian
manifold with a metric whose curvature tensor is zero. This is a
perfectly diffeomorphism-invariant condition and does not require
any particular coordinate choice. It is invariant under
the full group of diffeomorphisms. The Poincare group is
the group of *isometries* of the metric in special relativity.

The Special Relativity metric is *non-dynamical* (unlike GR). It
defines the coupling *constants* of your theory. If you change the
metric in any nontrivial way you are changing your theory. An
operation can only be called a "symmetry" of a special-relativistic
(non-gravitational) theory if it preserves the metric, and therefore
the symmetry of special-relativistic theories is the Poincare group
only. General Relativity (gravitation) has a dynamic metric.

NIM A 355 537 (1995)
Physics Letters B 328 103 (1994)
Physical Review Letters 64 1697 (1990)
Physical Review Letters 39 1051 (1977)
Physical Review 135 B1071 (1964)
Physics Letters 12 260 (1964)
Europhysics Letters 56(2) 170-174 (2001)
General Relativity and Gravitation 34(9) 1371 (2002)

http://fourmilab.to/etexts/einstein/specrel/specrel.pdf
http://www.geocities.com/physics_world/sr/ae_1905_error.htm
http://www.physics.gatech.edu/people/faculty/finkelstein/relativity.pdf
Longitudinal and transverse mass
Physics Today 58(3) 34 (2005)
Time passage, equator vs. poles

http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0306076.pdf
http://www.metaresearch.org/solar%20system/gps/absolute-gps-1meter-3.ASP
http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/pubs/gps/gpsuser/gpsuser.pdf
http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/pubs/gps/sigspec/default.htm
http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/pubs/gps/icd200/default.htm
http://www.trimble.com/gps/index.html
http://sirius.chinalake.navy.mil/satpred/
http://www.phys.lsu.edu/mog/mog9/node9.html
http://egtphysics.net/GPS/RelGPS.htm
http://www.schriever.af.mil/gps/Current/current.oa1
http://edu-observatory.org/gps/gps_books.html
http://www-astronomy.mps.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit5/gps.html

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