Standing Waves as Structure Without Substance SERIES VIII — WHAT COULD THE MEDIUM BE MADE OF? Candidate Substrates & Harmonic Structure If a continuous medium does not require particles, a natural question follows: What kind of structure can exist in a medium that has no constituents? The answer is familiar, precise, and already central to […]
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Why a Continuous Medium Does Not Require Particles SERIES VIII — WHAT COULD THE MEDIUM BE MADE OF? Candidate Substrates & Harmonic Structure When the idea of a physical vacuum is introduced, a familiar response often follows: Isn’t this just particles again—only hidden? It’s a natural reaction. Much of modern intuition about matter is built
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Do We Need the Vacuum to Be Made of Anything at All? SERIES VIII — WHAT COULD THE MEDIUM BE MADE OF? Candidate Substrates & Harmonic Structure Before asking what the vacuum might be made of, we need to ask a more basic—and more disciplined—question: Do we actually need it to be made of anything
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Time Really Does Move Faster on Mars A Mechanical Accounting of a 488-Microsecond Day Recent headlines reported that time moves faster on Mars — by about 477 microseconds per Earth day. Before explaining why, let’s do something unusual for a blog post: Let’s calculate it first. Using only standard weak-field physics — expressed mechanically —
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Could the Vacuum Have Structure Without Chemistry? SERIES VII — LIVING IN A SOLID VACUUM How Motion, Freedom, and Transparency Are Possible Speculative, Optional Reading Up to this point, nothing in the argument has required the vacuum to be made of anything. We have only required that it behave like a real medium: That alone
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When the Medium Pushes Back: Regime Separation SERIES VII — LIVING IN A SOLID VACUUM How Motion, Freedom, and Transparency Are Possible So far, the mechanical vacuum has seemed almost too accommodating. This raises a fair question: If the medium is real, does it ever actually push back? The answer is yes—but only when certain
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Why Inertia Exists at All SERIES VII — LIVING IN A SOLID VACUUM How Motion, Freedom, and Transparency Are Possible Up to this point, the picture has been reassuringly quiet. But there is one situation where the vacuum does respond: When motion changes. This response is so familiar that we rarely question it. We give
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Why Motion Doesn’t Reveal a Preferred Frame SERIES VII — LIVING IN A SOLID VACUUM How Motion, Freedom, and Transparency Are Possible Once a physical medium is introduced, a familiar objection quickly follows: If space is a medium, shouldn’t there be a true state of rest? Shouldn’t motion through it be detectable? This concern is
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Why You Don’t Feel the Medium (But Light Does) SERIES VII — LIVING IN A SOLID VACUUM How Motion, Freedom, and Transparency Are Possible If the vacuum is a real mechanical medium—stiff enough to carry light—then a sharper question follows naturally: Why don’t we feel it at all? After all, we do feel air when
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If the Vacuum Is a Solid, Why Can We Move Through It? SERIES VII — LIVING IN A SOLID VACUUM How Motion, Freedom, and Transparency Are Possible One of the first objections to any physical vacuum model is immediate and intuitive: If space is a solid medium, shouldn’t moving through it feel like moving through
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