[TheForge] Michelson's and Morley's experiment

[Bruce Freeman]

Negative propositions can be proved.  The supposition that they cannot
be proved is simply not true.
Bruce
NJ

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Daniel Kretchmar wrote:
> 
>      If we are going to be specific, Michelson's and Morley's
experiment proved
> that they could not detect the aether.

    This is a critical point.  In fact, they didn't even prove
    that much.  They proved that their particular experiment
    could not detect it.  Could others?  That will only be known
    for certain when one succeeds.  Negative propositions are
    inherently unprovable, at least as far as anyone knows.