Hypothesis: No Room for SR or GR in a Foundational Medium Model
In the Hypothesis of the Foundational Medium, there is no room for Special Relativity or General Relativity. Their math may be perfect, so its not that, but if there is an aether like the foundational medium of my hypothesis, then ...
1) Waves carry pressure in the medium and the pressure of the medium determines the velocity of waves traversing it,
2) Matter, light, and gravity are all effects of waves traversing the medium, and so all are affected by the pressure of the medium. Matter is composed of wave energy in standing waves, light wave-particles are all waves with particle and wave characteristics, and gravity is a directional imbalance in standing wave energy components.
3) As the pressure increases, light slows down relative to the medium, particles function slower, and the wave energy density increases as you approach mass, which accelerates the motion of objects toward mass.
4) The measurement of time with clocks of any kind, since they are composed of wave energy, experiences the same variability as light experiences in changing pressure environments; clocks slow down at the same rate as light slows down so the speed of light is always measured as invariant in a given energy density environment.
5) The acceleration of objects due to gravity is due to the increase in the pressure of gravity waves closer to massive objects. Objects move in the direction of the net highest wave energy density (pressure in the medium) and accelerate in that net direction as they approach due to the increasing pressure nearer the source.
Pressure is the effect of waves traversing the medium, i.e. waves compress the medium and so more substantial objects contain more substantial wave energy and exert more pressure. Particles have very high pressure contained in standing wave patterns relative to the surrounding medium, and as the pressure of the surrounding medium changes, the pressure of the standing wave patterns change correspondingly.
Though in my hypothesis of the Foundational Medium no perfect vacuum exists, my theory says that a perfect vacuum would be the absence of the medium. So using the special definition of a perfect vacuum invoked by this hypothesis, the correct statement would be that light will not traverse a perfect vacuum; nor would gravity.
For example, Newton's water filled bucket spinning in deep space which was intended to spin in the practical absence any gravitational effect, if also it were to be out there in the absence of the medium itself, would disappear into space. There would be no medium to carry the waves that establish the presence of the particles that make up the bucket or the water.
The fundamental particles of the Standard Particle Model, which are "fundamental" because they are defined to have no internal composition, do have internal composition in my model. The foundational medium and wave energy traversing it exists at a level of order below the "fundamental" level of the Standard Particle Model. Those particles are replaced by the Standing Wave Particle Hypothesis, where the "fundamental" particles of the standard model have an internal standing wave composition governed by quantum action that operates in the realm of the tiny, i.e. in that tiny realm between the fundamental level of the quantum physics model and the "foundational" level in my model.
Standing wave patterns have inflowing and out flowing wave energy components. The inflowing component is from across a distance and is directional from some source of out flowing wave energy, like other particles or objects separated by the medium in the space between them.
Particles composed of standing wave patterns in this model are continually refreshed by inflowing wave energy, and the process of quantum action that establishes and maintains the patterns also produces a spherical out flowing wave component.
Standing wave patterns are quantized and have high density spots at the internal intersections of the quantum waves that make them up. The number of high density spots in the standing wave pattern at any point in time represents the number of energy quanta in the particle.
Gravity is the directional imbalance between the directionally inflowing wave energy component of standing waves and the spherically out flowing component of quantum action.
There are natural limits that govern the amount of wave pressure that can be brought to bear on any point in the medium, and those limits establish the range within which particles form, function properly, and/or are negated and cease to function as individual particles.
Foundational Medium Replaces Spacetime
Space could be thought of as empty, but in my model it is filled with the foundational medium. Space is not the medium, it is based on the Space Hypothesis, and is where the medium exists. The reason for making that distinction is that as described in the Space Hypothesis, space has no characteristics except volume and it is potentially infinite in volume in three dimensions. However, the medium that fills it has to have certain characteristics to allow wave energy to traverse it, particles to be composed of standing waves, and gravity to occur, and that is where the Foundational Medium Hypothesis to be posted below describes the characteristics of what fills the space.
I'm distinguishing between the space and the contents, saying the space contains the medium. The reason for making a distinction between space and the medium is because space has dimensions that can be defined as fixed and a medium within those dimensions can be compressed or decompressed. The amount of pressure in a given space is variable. The amount of the compression corresponds to the wave energy occupying that space which is a notable characteristic in my model. A change in wave energy can be described by distinguishing between the volume of space and the changing pressure of the medium in that space, and that concept is useful in many ways when the only thing there is to work with in my model comes right down to a matter of pressure as represented by the wave energy in a given volume of space.
My Model and Spacetime
Spacetime superseded the light carrying luminiferous aether theory when experiments debunked the presence of a fixed medium through which light and objects passed. The ISU is about quantum wave action in an hypothetical foundational medium; an ethereal medium governed by the concepts of the hypothetical wave pressure mechanics described by the model, establishing the very intense presence of particles and gravity in a foundational medium to replace spacetime.
Though I don't invoke spacetime, I do replace the effects attributed to the curvature effect that the presence of matter and energy has in spacetime, with wave pressure and pressure differentials in the foundational medium; the standing wave components, the directional inflow imbalance vs. the spherical out flowing wave energy from particles, and the variable velocity of wave energy based on the surrounding net pressures of the energy environment. The premise is that changing wave pressure is the operative feature of the discrete quantum level, and quantum action operating in the foundational medium is the source of quantization where discrete incremental changes take place. That process of quantum action governs the massive containment of energy in standing wave patterns where energy is added and subtracted in quantum increments instead of in a continuous flow. It is the quantized containment of wave pressure and the inflow and out flow of wave energy that represents the energy of the particle, and the extremes of wave pressure contained within the particle.
The Foundational Medium Model makes no use of spacetime or the curving and warping of space by the presence of matter or energy, but does use spherically out flowing wave energy from standing wave patterns, i.e. particles, to "tell" the surrounding particles which way to move.