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• Occams Razor as often misstated
• The simplest explanation is the best
• Full statement of Occams Razor
• The simplest explanation that accounts for all
  the data is the best

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• Simplicity is a pagan aesthetic ideal.
• As Alfred North Whitehead said,
• Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

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• What we may be facing
• There is no adequate defense,except
  stupidity,against the impact of a new idea.
• -- Percy Bridgman

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• Paracelsus vs. Aristotle
• Paracelsus tore up his students work that were
  based on Aristotle, insisting they do actual
  experiments instead of merely regurgitating
  Aristotle.
• Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von
  Hohenheim (1493-1541)

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• Who are the new Aristotles?
• Albert Einstein
• Neils Bohr Wolfgang Pauli
• John von Neumannet al.

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• Have any of these new Aristotles retarded the
  advance of scientific knowledge?
• Albert Einstein
• Neils Bohr Wolfgang Pauli
• John von Neumann

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• Have any of these new Aristotles retarded the
  advance of scientific knowledge?
• Albert Einstein
• Neils Bohr Wolfgang Pauli
• John von Neumann

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• Louis de Broglie set aside his pilot-wave theory
  because Wolfgang Pauli supposedly blew holes in
  it, while von Neumanns proof that quantum
  mechanics cannot accommodate hidden variables was
  revered for decades.

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• Had no one questioned the authority of Pauli and
  von Neumann, we would never know today that their
  objections were unsound, being sustained solely
  by the researchers well-respected credentials.

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• Earths annual orbital motion around sun in
  heliocentric model 30,000 meters/second
• Corresponding acceleration
• 0.006 meters per second per second

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• Earths daily rotation at equator heliocentric
  model 463 meters/second
• Corresponding acceleration
• 0.03365 meters per second per second

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V V2/R
Annual orbitaround Sun 30,000 m/s 0.006 m/s2
Daily rotationon axis 463 m/s 0.03365 m/s2
Ratio of annual to daily value 64.8 0.178
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• The 64,000 question
• What is
• Aether Entrainment?

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• Aether entrainment proposes that the aether is
  not detectable at the Earths surface because it
  is dragged (entrained) with the Earth.

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• Aether theorists (those that believe in most
  forms of aether) who are NOT geocentrists HAVE to
  have an entrainment model to account for the data!

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• Lets look at that chart again and predict where
  aether entrainment has to occur for aether models
  to match the observational data

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V V2/R
Annual orbitaround Sun 30,000 m/s 0.006 m/s2
Daily rotationon axis 463 m/s 0.03365 m/s2
Ratio of annual to daily value 64.8 0.178
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V V2/R
Annual orbitaround Sun 30,000 m/s 0.006 m/s2
Daily rotationon axis 463 m/s 0.03365 m/s2
Ratio of annual to daily value 64.8 0.178
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V V2/R
Annual orbitaround Sun 30,000 m/s 0.006 m/s2
Daily rotationon axis 463 m/s 0.03365 m/s2
Ratio of annual to daily value 64.8 0.178
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• The aether guys,like Lucy,have got an awfullot
  of splainin to do.The disproportions dont
  add up.

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• Classical aether theorists could become the
  closest compatriots of geocentrists. The barrier
  to this union is their commitment to unfounded,
  unobservedaether entrainment.

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There should be a gradient!
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There should be a gradient!
But where is it?
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Without a gradient, aether entrainment ends up
with superluminal entrainment!
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Without a gradient, aether entrainment entails
superluminal entrainment!
Entrainment the 800-lb Gorilla in the living room
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• If aether theorists cannot
• Account for disproportion
• (2) Measure a gradient
• they must either abandonsuch an aether OR
• ADOPT GEOCENTRICITY!

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• Coulson notes that the story of physics is simply
  full of changed models for space. At one period
  space is a plenum, full of vortices or their
  equivalent at a later time it is empty then it
  is the seat of electric and magnetic forces next
  it is an aether under Einsteins influence it
  becomes curved the quantum theoreticians now
  load it full with zero-point vibrations and
  oscillators. sic
• Edgar Horsfield. Aspects of scientific method in
  the natural sciences physics. Am. J. Phys.
  529, 1984 804-814, p. 811.

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• Physics is groping for a defensible model of
  space. As the previous quote shows, space has
  been theoretically imbued with a litany of
  attributes.
• Geocentrists need to get their model of space
  into the marketplace of ideas!

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• Selbrede model of the firmament
• LeSage with a twist

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• LeSages ultramundane corpuscules are treated as
  analogous to particles in an ideal gas.

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Mean free path l is much larger than corpuscles.
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In Selbrede model, mean free path l is less than
the radius of the individual corpuscles.
Density of this firmament is the Planck Density.
Temperature is the Planck Temperature.
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So whats wrong with Wheelers spacetime foam?
On Planck-length scales spacetime fluctuates
mechanically so randomly and violently that it
develops all kinds of microscopic topological
structures, such as wormholes. Spherically
symmetric Minkowski wormholes provide a very
simple model of a mode of topological fluctuation
in Lorentzian spacetime foam, and suggest a mode
unstable against growth to macroscopic size. the
wholehas no stable bound quantum states, and
will eventually grow to large size by quantum
diffusion. -- Ian Redmount Wai-mo Suen. Is
quantum spacetime foam unstable? Physical Review
D 476, 1993 R2163-R2167.
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So whats wrong with Wheelers spacetime foam?
The virtual particle model is unstable against
decay into an enormous menagerie of topological
monstrosities that would long ago have been
detected. REAL particles, NOT virtual particles,
are at the heart of the medium wrongly labeled
spacetime foam. This is the maximon fluid of
M. Markov that functions as a quasi-isotropic
space reported in The Very Early Universe,
edited by Hawking, Gibbon Syklos (1983).
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The advantages of ultradense aethers
They confound the barycentric objection to
geocentricity. Such models enable superluminal
rotation. Such models undergird superluminal
interactions and so-called quantum nonlocality
results (serving as a deterministic physical
basis for the subquantum domain) Such models
have important implications for gravitation and
electrodynamics research. Current state
interpretation of the Planck Density.
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Where geocentrists find themselves.
At the cross-currents of contemporary quantum and
subquantum physics. Solutions to gravitational
anomalies (via LeSage model) Taking seriously
the divine creation of the firmament, versus
paying the doctrine mere lip service. Thinking
Gods thoughts after Him But better than
Kepler did, to whom the quote is attributed.