h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Would the rotation of our galaxy change the composition of the longitudinal compressional matter wave media with distance from the hub?

In the New Scientist weekly 17july2010,pg19 "Silicon speed limit broken on a lead-coated racetrack", it mentions that atom thick sheets of carbon bring the effective mass of its free electrons down to almost zero, allowing these electrons to zip across the graphene sheet like photons? How are the electron masses reduced?

I don`t think the rotation of our galaxy would sort the matter wave particle sizes since waves pass through each other. On the other hand the very much smaller gravity particles would tend to push against the matter waves where their density is higher, towards the galaxy hub. Sorting out from well mixed sizes beyond the galaxy rim to larger sized matter wave particles towards the hub? Causing a possibility that light speed could vary between rim & hub, our sun being at some distance between the two light speed possibilities?

There is a similarity between our galaxy and a carbon sheet, they are both thin in cross section? Could the gaps between our galaxy`s spiral arms have a faster light speed due to lower densities of larger size matter wave particles?

Refraction of light through the gaps between the spiral arms, might be curving light opposite to the way relativity curves light, due to a higher than "c light speed" vacuum media? To find out could require travel beyond our solar system, just to check and see if other stars really are at their assumed proper locations?

See "arXiv:0910.1181v1, Nonsingular particles in space-time with torsion ". Does this suggest that our universe is inside a singularity within a larger universe?

Nice theory, Space-time with a torsional wave twist? If only my level of maths were up to understanding their equations :-| . Another TOE, that has as far as I can understand it, no explanation for the existence of space-time, and why gravity works faster than the speed at which theoretical gravitational waves should propagate through space-time?

Space-time assumes a vacuum acts in ways similar to a jelly, and yet applied torsion fails to tear it apart? While reading my copy of "The wave watcher`s companion", I came across the temperature inversion effect (ducting) on page 86, where waves travel into an increasingly warmer, higher speed air(medium), and bend back toward the cooler, lower speed air(medium). If the matter wave medium exists and causes a range of maximum light speeds depending on location, could a ducting effect occur around the spiral arms, turning matter waves back towards the arm emitting them? Could these ducts continue outward between galaxies in the same plane, facilitating an exchange of matter waves? A way of finding out, would be to visit the void outside our spiral arm, and check if light speed is actually faster there( also make a map of maximum light speed measurements along the way some how )?

If differences in the value of light speed were to cause matter wave ducting across the surface of our galaxy, could a similar effect occur across carbon sheets(Graphene)? Is there ducting across the plane of our solar systems planets?

See; Joao Magueijo, Variable Speed of Light theory, arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0305457. If "c" varies, with location and time, then a particle at that location & time would have its intrinsic energy altered by an amount depending on change in "c"? What would cause "c" to change in a volume of vacuum; maybe a Matter wave particle media, if it came in a range of particle sizes, and were sifted into different mixtures dependent on impacts with gravity particles?

See Bi-metric model (V.S.L.), by Jean Pierre Petit & Gilles d`Agostine,at "arxiv.org/abs/0803.1362". Maybe the expansion of objects happens because of matter wave refraction?

Sorry I should have typed Maybe the Non-expansion of objects are due to the refraction of local matter waves back towards the objects.

If Spiral Galaxies were to rotate in the same direction, would they need to alternate between right side up and upside down to join up into sheets and rings? Then at least a matter wave particle media could pass between them?

Could differences in light speed (surface refraction) between approaching galaxies slow down or speed up their approach? Could one galaxy flip the other over somehow because of differences in light speed in the space between them? Could linear & angular momentum be passed to the joining galaxy from the ring or sheet of galaxies by way of light speed surface refraction(V.S.L.)? If light speed were to vary about our galaxy could the Planck I.R. satellite observations be recording refracted light from our own galaxy?

Not only would a test objects kinetic energy vary due to relativity in close proximity to an object with lots of mass, but also its intrinsic energy might be reduced, due the suggested possible reduction to light speed, E=m(intrinsic).c(reduced)^2, joules?

If proximity to lots of mass slows the rate that your atoms age, would attempting time travel by passing through a rotating singularity, simply make your atoms younger, so they have longer half lives?

See "www.CNES.fr/web/CNES-en/2849" French satellite "Microscope" experiment to test the equivalence principle in orbit! That`s where two bodies with differing amounts of mass should fall at the same rate. But what if E=m(c+a little bit more)^2 then acceleration changes for each body?

See, "//einstein.stanford.edu/STEP/" proposed satellite to test if different materials fall at different rates, to an accuracy ratio of about 10^18 for the ratio of the passive gravitational mass to the inertial mass. Could experiments of this sort, provide evidence for a varying light speed media?

Could light speed be higher at the voyager satellites present location? It might, although random variation of the solar wind particle density would probably hide the proposed variable light speed effects?

Have any satellites been outside of our solar system and checked that the actual speed of light remains ~3*10^8 m/s? Lifters are supposed to work by an ionized air flow, but maybe it works by locally flooding the vacuum between the ions, with virtual Leptons to counter the production of virtual gravitons near high mass objects?