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    Ethereal Mea Culpa

    By Edward E. Rochon

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    Preface explains purpose of the essay. Briefly lay out support of wave theory of light. Take some swipes at Einstein and Newton. Chapter 1 briefly goes over the history of the problem from Ancient Greece to modern times. We attack Democritus, Aristotle and Newton. We take issue with Einstein's photoelectric theory of quanta and propose going back to Fitzgerald supposition for explanation of Michelson-Morley. Chapter 2 discusses the microcosm of the ether and elements. We note that sufficiently small, light, hard and densely packed ether particles will allow light to pass rapidly and planets to pass along their orbits without recourse to a rigid ether. We suggest twisting concepts of subatomic world to find answers to black body anomalies. Chapter 3 goes over my ideas on gravitation, the liquid nature of electrons and liquid nature of current. Chapter 4 states that both the torque created by the Fitzgerald effect and the motion of the planets through the ether can be immediately returned to angular momentum within the impacted, twisted items, allowing the same energy to remain within the arms of an interferometer on the one hand, and to cycle through to push planets through the ether. This is all done briefly without detailed mathematical explanations. I express regret at spending time on photon suppositions of any kind and apologize for past essays that attempted to posit the photon.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEdward E. Rochon
    Release dateFeb 18, 2017
    ISBN9781370844890
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    Ethereal Mea Culpa
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    Edward E. Rochon

    I write for my health and the health of the world. Often the cure rivals the disease in grief and aches. My writing career started at twelve when I attempted to write a sequel to Huckleberry Finn but never finished it. My writings have included poetry, plays, a novel, non-fiction and writing newsletters for here and there. Recently, I am dabbling into short stories. Apart from newsletters, nothing has been published in print. I bought an audio recording of one of my poems but threw it away in disgust due to an inappropriate reading by the narrator. 'Contra Pantheism...' was my first eBook. About a hundred eBooks have been published since including some books of verse, and my essays collected into five volumes, and one volume of collected poems. A few other types of literature are on my list of published works. My essays deal with fundamental questions of philosophy as well as natural philosophy (science.) On the whole, my works are as far above the writings of Plato and Aristotle as the material power of the United States is over that of Ancient Greece. I once asked myself if I had ever written anything memorable, but couldn't remember exactly what I had written. I started to check my manuscripts but stopped as it seemed the answer to the question was obvious. Gore Vidal mentioned in one of his memoirs that writers tend to forget what they write and are a bad source to ask about their works. Gore knew a lot of writers. I have not and may have been a bit hard on myself. Apart from self-improvement and maybe making a few bucks, my main goal is to bring about a golden age for mankind. Being a man, this sounds appealing. It is pointless to desist and all small measures are worth the effort. Albert Camus thought suicide the only serious philosophical question. He was a fool and died young. Suicide is a waste of time. The most important functional question is: How do I get what I want? The one question that trumps this is the ultimate question of intent: What should I want? As Goethe pointed out: Be careful what you wish for in your youth, you might get it in middle age.

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