[TheForge] YAK relativity- WAY OT, or not...

[DillonCo]

> Heres one that will really mess with your noggin...
>
> http://www.mountainman.com.au/aether.html

Ah yes, the [a]ether theories.  I personally believe them and am baffeled by
modern science saying that there is no ether.  (For those unfamilar,
basically: air is to sound as light is to ether.)  The _only_ reason why
science shuns this idea is because someone proved that light couldn't be
traveling through a medium because its speed never changed even if the
source was moving, unlike sound and all other medium based waves.  Then
Einstein showed that the speed of light (in a vaccum) is constant.  Although
this makes the anti-ether proof meaningless, people still hold that belief.
The existence of the ether is proved very simply (but unscientificly).  If
the ether exists, that's what space is.  If it doesn't, then what is space?
If it's nothing (as it would have to be), how could the universe have a
border / be expanding?  There must be some difference between space and not
space, but without the ether, there isn't.