[TheForge] Michelson's and Morley's experiment

Wed Feb 18 16:10:00 2004

More accurately explained....

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> From: Andy Vida <[email protected]>
> Date: 2004/02/18 Wed PM 01:34:30 EST
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Michelson's and Morley's experiment
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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. 
> 
> > (Its amazing where you finally get to use information from taking a course
> > in "The History of Twentieth Century Physics". I have yet to use it in my
> > classroom where I teach middle school science :)
> 
> 	Holy crap!  You're either a very brave soul, nuts, or some
> 	kind of mega masochist... or perhaps a subtle combination 
> 	of all three...
> 
> 	I taught a year in middle school.  The sixth graders were
> 	still very docile and listened... the seventh graders were
> 	absolutely off the wall insane.  Eight graders were better,
> 	but not by that much.  Of course, this was a borderline
> 	ghetto school in Brooklyn.
> 
> 	I would say my year in a middle school shaved as many
> 	years off me as the other two in high schools, maybe a
> 	bit more.  It was my last in the NYC public school system,
> 	thanks be to the gods.
> 
> 	No wonder you're a blacksmith.  At the ends of those days
> 	I needed something to beat on, too.  Many times I wanted 
> 	it to be a student, but that wasn't doable, so hot iron
> 	sufficed well enough. :)
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