Re: Surprise! Dr. John Bell Liked the Ether!
From: nightbat (nightbat_at_home.ffni.com)
Date: 06/29/04
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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:45:22 -0500
nightbat wrote
Bill Sheppard wrote:
>
> Our venerable Uncle Albert liked the 'ether' too, as evidenced in his
> famous 1920 speech at the University of Leyden. See-
> www.mountainman.com.au/aether_0.html
>
> Note the last paragraph where he states that according to GR space
> without 'ether' is unthinkable. But then he stipulates quite arbitrarily
> that motion cannot be ascribed to it. In other words, it must be a rigid
> lattice incapable of flowing. Talk about legislation by fiat (!).
> That seems to be the point at which physics ran off the
> rails. Instead of allowing the ether model to evolve further to reveal
> flowing-space, it was headed for the scrap heap in favor of void-space.
> Though Uncle A still endorsed the ether as late as 1922, its demise was
> already determined and its epitah carved in its headstone.
> So the question remains, if the MM null result of 1887
> influenced him to do the famous (infamous?) flip-flop, why did he wait
> over 30 years to do it? oc
nightbat
Well oc, perhaps at the 30 year mortgage burning celebration
party he got a little high on the good spirits and determined to heck
with the centuries old aether premise, we don't need it to do the math,
we have Johnny Walker Black Label and pretty girls, what else matters?
the nightbat
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