Classical Physics

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[3] viXra:2608.0063 [pdf] submitted on 2026-08-17 22:26:54

A Hypothesis for Doing Without Dark Matter

Authors: Christian Ricordeau
Comments: 54 Pages. (Note by viXra Admin: Please cite and list scientific references) In English & French - License: Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND

Living beings are made of atoms, and we know that atoms were created at a stage in the evolution of the universe when living beings did not yet exist. Atoms are therefore still present inside living beings, but what's more, they continue to live their life as atoms, with their own way of functioning and with their own properties. In the same way, the stage of the universe that preceded the birth of atoms would still exist, and it would still function inside atoms in the same way it did before atoms existed, just as atoms function within us in the same way they did before living beings appeared.According to this hypothesis, the pre-atomic universe would not be the frightening pre-Big-Bang world we are usually presented with, i.e. a universe subjected to unheard-of conditions of density and heat. This earlier universe would still be living inside us, in the atoms that constitutes us, and under the conditions of temperature and pressure that are usually those of the atoms that constitutes us. We will attempt to describe this pre-atomic universe, and to guess how it might have functioned to have generated, through its inevitable evolution, the universe of atoms and radiation.
Category: Classical Physics

[2] viXra:2608.0056 [pdf] submitted on 2026-08-14 11:16:29

The Limits of Geometric Idealization in Michelson—Morley-Type Models: Wavefronts and Extended Reflectors

Authors: Claudio Piantanida
Comments: 35 Pages.

In standard treatments of the Michelson—Morley experiment, the round-trip time is calculated along a central path that identifies reflection with the geometric center of the mirror. This choice is adopted without proof: the reflector is treated as point-like, or the central ray is selected on symmetry grounds, without verifying that the reduction preserves the property being calculated.This article provides that verification. By parameterizing the reflecting surface with a continuous coordinate, the total round-trip time is calculated as a function of the reflection point. In the geometric time-of-flight model with point-like source and receiver, the physically relevant path is the one that minimizes the total time. In general, the corresponding minimum point coincides neither with the geometric center of the reflector nor with the first point reached by the incident wavefront.The main result is that, although the minimum-time reflection point is displaced from the geometric center by an amount of order O(β^2 )L, the round-trip time evaluated along the central path differs from the minimum time only at order O(β^4 ), with β=vu2044c, whereas the anisotropy predicted by Galilean kinematics already appears at order O(β^2 ).As a corollary, not all geometrically plausible reductions have the same status. The first-contact construction—which identifies the relevant reflection point with the first point reached by the incident wavefront during the outward propagation alone—produces an error already at order O(β^2 ) and cancels the entire angular dependence. Two geometrically analogous reductions of the same system therefore have opposite methodological status, and the difference can be diagnosed from the perturbative structure of the error.The immediate motivation for this work comes from an acoustic analogue proposed by Norbert Feist. In that context, the author had previously adopted the first-contact construction as an explanation of an experimentally reported isotropic result. The present article shows that this construction was incorrect and identifies the error: minimizing the outward propagation time alone is not equivalent to minimizing the total round-trip time.
Category: Classical Physics

[1] viXra:2608.0035 [pdf] submitted on 2026-08-09 00:42:56

Some Applications of Friction Physics to Dynamics of Dance

Authors: Yijia An, Preet Sharma
Comments: 10 Pages. (Note by viXra Admin: Please submit article written with AI assistance to ai.viXra.org)

This study is about applying the fundamentals of physics using the concepts of friction to understand and describe dance shoes and dance floor interaction. We have used sliding friction, skidding friction and rotational friction to describe our model independent study. Since we are performing a general and model independent study so we have taken the dancer to be of a uniform cylindrical shape. The various frictions used are time dependent.
Category: Classical Physics