Hypotheses

 

The hypotheses (rules) that are applied to the behavior of light follow from the previous considerations and an analysis of the examples discussed later. All of the hypotheses except possibly #2 have previously been declared incorrect and discarded when considered alone. Since they are interactive, they must all be considered as part of a single package in order to evaluate their relationship to the physical behavior of light. The hypotheses are listed below.

 

1. The speed of light is determined by the clock rate in the area through which it is traveling.
2. The speed of light emitted within a system (reference frame) and measured using conditions under which the system essentially acts as an inertial one, will have the value of the constant C. The constant C is essentially the same as the value c that we have measured, which is about 300,000 km/sec.
3. Light will be given the velocity of the emitting source, but its forward speed is subject to regulation by the clock rate in the area through which it is traveling.
4. Distance is invariant in all systems or reference frames that represent actual physical systems.

           

Hypotheses #1 and #2 are suggested by Maxwell’s equations of electro­magnetism. Hypothesis #3 is suggested by and is consistent with the general behavior of light in a moving system. Hypothesis #4 is relevant to the calculations about the behavior of light rather than the behavior of light itself ; it applies to space and not specific objects, which may possibly vary their size as a function of their time/gravity environment.

 

If the behavior of light is analyzed with strict adherence to the above assumptions, its theoretical behavior should be consistent with its observed behavior in all circumstances.