February 2001

This short note extends and clarifies the ideas expressed in Figure 5 and Figure 6 in my Neoetherics essay. What follows has always been clear in my mind, but I failed to make it explicit in the original essay.

Figure 5 (in Neoetherics) shows how a sink translates relative to the surrounding ether medium. This involves rearranging the flow lines into the sink so that the leading and trailing edges are "in balance" relative to the background. Now we will expand on this idea. See Figure 1 and Figure 2, below. This is just a restatement of the basic idea.

Now we carry the process further. Refer to Figures 3 and 4.

Notice what has happened here. As the rate of downward flow of the background ether medium increases, it reaches a point where it exceeds the total inflow rate of the sink. When this happens, the leading edge still must "balance" and the total inflow into the sink must not change – that is, the mass does not change. The way this happens is that the inflow into the top of the sink increases to balance the background flow rate, and ether now flows out of the bottom edge. The net inflow rate has not changed – still sixteen in this example.

As the background flow rate increases, the situation develops as shown in Figures 5 and 6.

Now we are able to see the full implications of this line of reasoning. For a small object near the surface of a much larger object – the usual situation for things here on earth – the primary flow of ether is down and through the object. A tiny fraction of the ether is lost due to the sink action of the object itself, but this is negligibly small. Notice what this means. A stationary object near the earth is a stable perturbation in the downward flow – a "pucker" in the ether. The same ether that flows down through this object flows on into (and becomes) the next object below it. All physical objects on the earth are enduring flow structures in the down-rushing ether.

Viewing this as it really is, we see the ether arriving from deep space. Nearing the planet it first forms the atoms and molecules of the atmosphere. Then it flows into the structures that make up the upper leaves of a tree, then the material of the branches, then the fruit, the air below the branch, the blades of grass, earth, stone and finally the molten core.

If a man had been sitting below the tree, and the circumstances were just right, the fruit could well be torn loose, momentarily free to accelerate due to the downward flow, and drop onto the head of the man below. But of course, no portion of this scene is truly separate from any other portion. Air, leaves, tree, apple and man are all manifestations of the modes of motion of the one single underlying reality. It is all one thing.

Jerry Shifman

February 23, 2001