Re: Moonbeams Shine on Einstein, Galileo and Newton

From: Dirk Van de moortel (dirkvandemoortel_at_ThankS-NO-SperM.hotmail.com)
Date: 03/09/05 

Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 12:33:51 GMT

<xxein@bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:1110330196.451499.91530@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
>
> Dirk Van de moortel wrote:
> > <xxein@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
> news:1110261186.253202.116880@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...

[snip]

> > I think we will never reach completeness of physical understanding.
> > I also think that, even in (the possibly hypothetical) case an 'ether'
> > would stubbornly continue to have exactly all the right properties
> > to remain undetected (or by definition perhaps even undetectable),
> > there will always be people who cannot live without it. In short, I
> > think that religion and belief in the supernatural will never die out.

[snip]

>
> xxein: "I think we will never reach completeness of physical
> understanding." That much, I can agree with. The "In short..."
> implies to me that you are connecting an ether to "...religion and
> belief in the supernatural..." as something inferior to believing that
> the one-way speed of light is c to all moving observers.

The sentence with "In short..." was short for:

"I think we will never reach completeness of physical understanding.
I also think that, even in (the possibly hypothetical) case an 'ether'
would stubbornly continue to have exactly all the right properties
to remain undetected (or by definition perhaps even undetectable),
there will always be people who cannot live without it."

Now I told you 5 times.

>
> To remove any confusion that I might have as to what you really mean -
> just answer two questions with a simple yes or no.
>
> Is it possible that some sort of "ether" exists as a substrate?
>
> Is it possible that the one-way speed of light is an isotropic c to all
> (moving) observers?

You should know my answers to these questions. I gave
you a big hint, so as an exercise, you tell me what you think
I would answer.
Hint: use the big hint I have given you five times now. If you
make a mistake in guessing my answers, I'll give you another
instance of the same hint.

Dirk Vdm

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