by Dean L. Sinclair

Created on: May 07, 2009   Last Updated: May 19, 2009

To begin a search for a Theory of Everything there must be a starting point. Just, maybe, this little essay could furnish a starting point.

OLD DATA/NEW MODEL Reversing the century old interpretation of the Michelson-Morley Experiment and renaming Planck's Constant from a "Constant of Action" to the equivalent, "Constant of Angular Momentum, " leads to a new model of existence, a simple model which may be comprehensive. The Michelson-Morley Experiment of 1890 showed that the Speed of Light. "c." was a Constant of Nature (as nearly as could be determined) . The interpretation that was given to this-Albert Einstein seems to have been a major proponent of the view-was that this fact proved that the "Aether." the all-pervasive something thought to be everywhere, does not exist. Light waves simply pass through empty space at the fastest possible speed at which anything can move.

This view seems to be accepted by the scientific community to this day. An alternative, almost totally reversed, interpretation goes something like this: The Michelson-Morley Experiment defined the maximum speed at which information is carried in the "Aether," whatever it may be. It, also, showed that the "Aether" can act as if it were a solid, carrying the transverse wave disturbances which we understand as "light." The maximum speed of information transfer from a point can be shown to be the average speed in any direction of the motion of the information carriers, whether these carriers be Pony Express Riders or Electromagnetic Waves. Considering this, "c," the Speed of Light, would be the average velocity, measured in any direction, of the motions pertinent to the carrying of information. At about the same time as the Michelson-Morley Experiment, Max Planck was working out his famous relationship between the frequency of light waves and "Energy."

The result is well known. It is the equation, "Energy equals Planck's Constant times the frequency. That is "E=hu." E can be expressed in "Ergs" with, "h," the constant, in Erg-seconds, and "u, Nu." in cycles per second. Erg-seconds is called "Action" and Planck called his constant the "Constant of Action." Although action has the same dimensions as "Angular Momentum," this fact was ignored. Had Planck called his constant the "Angular Momentum Constant-" which would have emphasized a rotatory aspect to Energy and Wave Motion-scientific theory might well have developed in a totally different direction. If we take Planck's Constant

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