Friends, what I am sometimes good at is that I try not to rewrite someone's articles, trying to get my own "original" material, but nevertheless, I think, I dare and act. Working with "hardware" is very much appreciated in popular science publishing houses. At least it was like that once ...
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But now I have to publish on Zen. You are waiting for pictures of kittens, cute kittens, how to make a Mexican omelette, save a couple of coins, but since you have opened the page, please take a break from all this ...
So, let's bomb Einstein's theory. And what is its main postulate for us? That the speed of light is constant. Space is curved, the wave packet is compressed, but the speed of the photon with the speed of the source does not add up.
Okay, very interesting. But - who, forgive me, really checked it? We look at textbooks, leaf through the pages of "Success in Physical Sciences" taken from the dusty shelves of the "Lenin Library", check all sorts of different "Annals of Physics" - there is no such thing there! And that's when we start our own experiment.
The speed of light can be measured in a fairly simple way. There is a flickering lamp, a photocell that records the moment of the flash, and a finishing photocell that fixes the end of the photon run. We display these values on the screen of a two-beam oscilloscope and analyze. Even an inexpensive digital usbi oscilloscope has a lower division of one nanosecond, which is good enough. An electronically ignited mercury lamp flickers at 25 kilohertz, which also meets our requirements. The only snag is the low stability of the household power supply. But, this can be dealt with. After all, we are primarily interested not in the exact calculation of the classical speed of light, C, about 300 thousand kilometers per second, but in the addition to it. An addition to it, and a very solid one, is provided by elementary photon emitters - ions carried in the extremely rarefied atmosphere of the lamp at speeds of tenths of C. By switching the direction of the current in the lamp, we can note a noticeable relative shift in the oscillograms. In this case, it will be firmly proven that the speed of light is not constant.
... I had to tinker with switching the direction of the alternating current with a conventional diode. Electronic throttle is a very intricate thing. In the end, we managed to cope with it. So now we have a ripple current, an 18W flickering lamp, two photocells on either side. We register the position of the pulse crests by scanning the computer screen, then switch the diode and repeat the procedure. In principle, only one photocell can be used, considering the frequency of the flashes to be sufficiently stable.
The most difficult thing was the fight against electrical interference. The wires through which the current pulsates in thousands of Hertz frequencies are rather strong. To tell the truth, it was not possible to completely isolate itself from interference.
What are the results, author? - hurry up to ask you. Encouraging. No more. Yes, indeed, when switching the direction of the current, the pulses "there" and "back" are shifted. But all this can be explained by the effect of electromagnetic interference. Despite the declared characteristics, photocells (photodiodes) have significant inertia (more than 15 nanoseconds) and simply do not have time to fully respond. Nevertheless, I give one of the photos:
Here, tests were carried out with one photocell. The lower oscillogram is the direction of the current in the lamp, and therefore the flow of ions, goes to the photocell (as if to the right). At the top, the opposite is true. Even according to the shape of the impulses, on the one hand they are more gentle, on the other sloping ones, we can talk about the difference in the speed of light.
There are interesting results.
Nevertheless, research requires more professional equipment and research, or rather even craft skills of working with equipment. I would like to conduct similar experiments with radio waves, which, as other studies show, in particular, are more responsive to the direction of the ether flow than light quanta.
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