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Keith's avatar

Have any attempts been made to measure the earth's motion from the troposphere? Interested layman asking - hope that's not a ridiculous question.

Thanks for your essays. I'm trying to understand as fast as I can, but it's sure not light speed!

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Dr Ferdinand Santos III's avatar

Great question. I have the same. The only ones I know of are:

1-VLBI - very long baseline interferometry - trackiing 'quasars' which might help in trying to prove translation movement of the planet (lots of issues with atm. noise, signal contamination etc), also not as rigid as the Miller-Michelson attempts

2-LIDAR - lasers measuring atmospheric effects - less useful in proving translation, could use wind patterns etc to assess rotational velocity or movement

Lots of issues with both, will be producing a future post on this, so great question.

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TheForestForTheTrees's avatar

Light is not a speed limit it’s just a measurement of relative super-fluid mass dynamics.

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Dr Ferdinand Santos III's avatar

Agree. The standard model tends to view 'space' as a 'vacuum' (this is wrong) and the speed of light as a constant velocity (also wrong of course). The super-fluid idea is interesting. SVT is probably far more accurate in that it proposes a medium (aether), akin to what Descartes proposed. This could help explain the flow and density variations in 'space' and the influence on galaxy rotation and eliminate dark matter which does not exist (it is just another name for the aether).

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