Incredible! Watching this in 2019, I say that despite GR tested out to be correct, Carver's perspective was really creative and provided a fresh perspective on the ways we can think about gravity. Another way to perhaps think of this is to describe going from Einstien's metric to a flat spacetime with variable speed of light is as some sort of a linear transformation, which perhaps due to the non-linearity of the general relativity is not quite invariant. I find the central idea really interesting and fun, that how you could take geometry out of spacetime and put it into motion. This provides perhaps great new insights into how we can take certain degrees of freedom out of a field and couple them to some other field in Quantum Fields Theories, and certainly provide new creative ways to explore suppressed (even hidden) degrees of freedom and ask questions in the unification regime.
Very nice, Thank you Dr Mead. I particularly like vid( 44m49s+) "Binary Total Radiation" , showing the pure Newtonian - Kepler Landau & Lifshitz , GR expansions that show so clearly no difference for 1st order and or no eccentricity . More useful insights as to how retarded potentials can lead to a Newtonian like behavior for solar system mechanics. Dr Mead you've really put together a wonderful compendium of information on topic.
There is also a german combatant having faith in Einsteins idea of a 'variable speed of light'. The Munich based german physicist Dr. Alexander Unzicker. Find here one of his many speeches: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-o67TNtgPPck.html
At time code t=2492 in the video is the assertion that Mead's prediction is "Opposite GR Prediction!" Then at t=3234 is the assertion that the LIGO experiment is designed in such a way that it very well could discriminate between GR and G4v's predictions. The LIGO observations are in. What happened?
Around 22 minutes in, series of four equations… It’s interesting to see something that looks an awful lot like a harmonic mean - the harmonic average of the R distances is in the formula🤔
