I posted the following on the Beta-atm group to Frank; but, thought I
would get Vorts' thoughts.
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(to Grimer) In your Principa in the files Stuff folder, you state:
"Unlike many other ductile metals which neck down to a point, mild
steel exhibits a curious phenomena as ultimate failure in tension
becomes immanent. A lens shaped cavity opens up within the material
whilst the external surface is still intact. The existence of this
cavity has been demonstrated by x-raying specimens brought almost to
the point of failure.
Clayton and I spent some time experimenting to see if we could show
that the pressure in this cavity was well below atmospheric but our
results were inconclusive. Nevertheless we strongly suspect that a
more thorough investigation might well show up the presence of a
b-atmosphere vacuum. With such a demonstration the claim that
materials were held together from the outside and not from the inside
would be hard to deny, however unwelcome its implications might be for
relativists."
If your Beta-atmosphere is really the luciferous ether, then the
propagation of x-ray photon should be superluminal through the
lens-shaped cavity. This should not be difficult to test. It *would*
get you that trip to Stockholm. :-)
Terry
