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

[Ralph E Douglass]

John Husvar wrote:
> 
> DillonCo wrote:
> >>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.
> 
> I've asked similar questions myself and fortunately have a friendly
> Physicist or two of whom I _can_ ask them.
> 
> As I understand it, A) There's no mathematical or philosophical need to
> postulate a medium to explain the propagation of light or of other
> particles or forces. (Occam's Razor)
> 
> B) No ether has been detected or measured and thus can't be used to
> explain anything else. (What can't be detected or measured is of no use
> for _scientific_ explication.)
> 
Ok, first and formost I must say I an NOT an engineer nor a Physisist (
nor do I play one on TV)
But just because something is currently not seen nor measured is not
proof of its non-existance.
ASSUMING light is a wave, and since all other waves are propagated thru
a medium, it would seem light then too needs a medium. Perhaps our
technology is just not there yet. Like many of the sub-atomic particles
that were first postulated due to theory, THEN found at a later date
once science and technology was capable of doing so?


Now I will go back to stuff I know... like sleeping and eating...<g>

Ralph
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