Used in the experiment light sources. Ultraviolet or the most common lamp 18 watts. Option – a miniature halogen light bulb.
As the saying goes, “Ein Versuch ist kein Versuch” (search-so search), and therefore I put the second experience with a neon lamp, fundamentally changing its conditions. The main element is now a glass prism, differently deflecting the rays of light with different wavelengths. If the speed of light is greater than C, the spectrum shifts to the violet side. If it is less than C, a “red shift” occurs, as when observing a receding radiation source. But, this is not the Hubble effect. I place the neon lamp so that the plane of the electrodes is perpendicular to the pinhole screen. When you turn on the lamp, a light spot appears on the screen. After the polarity is reversed, the beam shifts by 24 angular minutes. Deviation error 4 minutes. Using the known formulas, we calculate that in this case the change in the speed of light is 520 km / s., With an error of 85 km / s.
The scientists from the OPERA group in the Italian Gran Sasso, unlike the author of this article, have the opportunity to conduct truly direct measurements of the velocity of microparticles. Neutrino either does not have a rest mass, like a quantum of light, or it does. Definitely, like a photon, it rushes constantly with speed C. The speed of the source itself does not matter. At least, so considered. Using synchronized detectors, Italian physicists discover the existence of “small neutrons” moving at a speed exceeding C at 7.5 km. with. The possible error is less than such a deviation by three orders of magnitude. The publication will take place in 2011, and causes a flurry of criticism. Experimenters have an awkward excuse. (I suppose the figure is clear and without translation)
In Russia, a direct measurement based on the scheme proposed by the author was made by the masters of academic science. Of course, without reference to articles in the journal “Technology-Youth.” This is evidenced by the publication of Academician RAS E. Aleksandrov in the journal Science and Life, No. 8, 2011. The modest discharge lamp of an amateur is replaced here by a magnificent synchrotron, a cardboard screen and a camera obscura – photo sensors with high-speed oscillographs. So: “… As a pulsed light source, we used a synchrotron radiation source (SR) – the Siberia-1 electron storage ring. The SI of electrons accelerated to relativistic speeds (close to the speed of light) has a wide spectrum from the infrared and visible to the X-ray range. The radiation propagates in a narrow cone tangentially to the trajectory of electrons along the lead channel and is output through the sapphire window into the atmosphere. There the light is collected by a lens on a photocathode of a fast photo detector. A beam of light on the way in vacuum could overlap with a glass plate inserted with a magnetic drive. At the same time, according to the logic of the ballistic hypothesis, the light that had supposedly had doubled speed of 2C, after the window should have acquired the usual speed C”. … Of course, experience shows the speed of light, within the error of 0.5%, equal to the constant C. What is interesting, in the experiment of Russian academics, the question is not even raised to remove light from elementary particles moving in the opposite direction. Corpuscles rotate in the accelerator exclusively counterclockwise, at different speeds. There are no reports that the experiment was carried out with light from particles accelerated by, say, half, three-quarters of the standard speed in the synchrotron. A simple comparison of the results on the screen of a speed oscilloscope would dot all I. Probably, such an adjustment is simply impossible. The only element of the experience here is the glass plate. However, by whom and where does it say that such a deadly screen can align the speed of photons to the standard C?
This is the screen of a two-beam high-speed oscilloscope. Top – U – reference sine wave of particle revolutions inside the synchrotron (voltage, which is one and the same), SI – curve from the Cherenkov radiation sensors. The pulses are triangular in shape. This is the data obtained from the set, the package of particles. Standard values are displayed by burst poppies. Below – the screen after the glass plate gets in the way of radiation. It seems that scientists consciously move away from the question of measuring the speed of light in a direct way. Perhaps glass is an analogue of condensed ether, according to some hypotheses, enveloping the globe and so leveling the speed of light to a known constant. This is all well and interesting, but it has nothing to do with the confirmation of the well-known postulate of SR. If we talk about the disc as a substitute for ether, then, according to the opinion of S. Semikov, the Ritz ballistic theory enthusiast, the scientists of the Siberian academic campus should have used more and more dense screens. Details you can find on his (very informative) site.
If we suddenly find out that the speed of light is added to the speed of the source, saying simply: “What will we have from this?”. The first – the system of high-speed space communications. To Mars, the light (radio signal) is 12 minutes. The same back. Almost half an hour is too much to effectively control the rover or aircraft from Earth. Plasma antennas, emitting radio waves accelerated in the right direction by the particles, reduce the message time almost by half. In addition, studies that are no longer limited by the principle of SRT will surely reveal new, surprising, and demanded qualities of light.
The world in a new light
Let us analyze once again one of the fundamental experiments of modern physics. Is there an ether, a kind of ocean in which light waves roll? The classical scheme of the Michelson-Morley interferometer. The light beam is divided in half by a semi-transparent tilted mirror. One ray goes to meet the flow of ether, then back. Its speed varies. The second beam is perpendicular to the flow and therefore, as experimenters