Re: FTL, ether and wind

: Crown-Horned Snorkack <chornedsnorkack@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
: Let us imagine that we establish back and forth FTL signalling between
: Earth and Alpha Centauri.
: 
: These two are not exactly in the same inertial frame. However, the
: relative speed is not relativistic.
: 
: It is relatively easy to establish that a signal exchanged at the
: speed of light travels for 8,6 years return trip.
: 
: Once we establish FTL signalling, we can establish that round trip
: time is exactly zero, and never negative.
: 
: Now assume we then examine signals sent FTL one way and at speed of
: light the other way.
: 
: Suppose we establish that signals sent Earth to Alpha Centauri FTL and
: back at the speed of light take 3,3 years, while the opposite takes
: 5,3 years.
: 
: Have we then observed ether wind?

You've observed that your FTL seems to be occuring wrt a particular frame,
in which both earth and AC are in pretty brisk motion, something like
20 percent lightspeed (iicc).  This doesn't establish that that frame is
the only frame in which FTL can occur, nor that this is an "ether wind",
but it is certainly suggestive.


Wayne Throop   throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
   http://sheol.org/throopw