Re: The Physical Ether!


Traveler wrote:
> In article <1113509774.166523.217470@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> "Gerald L. O'Barr" <globarr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > The ether is a mechanical system. It consists of
> >only free moving particles moving in a simple 3-D
> >space. The only interactions are collisions, which
> >sometimes occur among themselves, but most often with
> >the sub-atomic particles of matter that makes up our
> >reality (the sub-atomic particles that make up our 92
> >elements, etc.) These interactions comply with all
> >the conservation laws of mass, momentum, and energy.
> >Therefore, there is an equal partitioning of energy
> >associated with these ether particles.
>
> [cut]
>
> All aetherists fail to come to grips with the principal reason for
the
> aether. It is there to facilitate motion. Without the aether, there
is
> no motion, period. Why? Simply because one of the greatest lacunae in
> modern physics is the lack of an explanation for motion: why do
> particles move. Most physicists accept on faith that particles move
> for no reason at al, as if by magic. This is what I call "chicken
> feather voodoo physics." The truth is that nothing can move without
an
> interaction. Leave the magic to voodooist.
>
> One more thing. According to my research, the aether is an immense
> **four-dimensional** expanse composed of photons arrnaged in a highly
> ordered lattice. Yes, even photons need interactions to move. These
> photons exist at every point in the lattice. Their energies range
from
> probably Planck energy to very high energies.
>
> Louis Savain
>

"Move" relative to what? I can set a particle in "motion" relative to
an inertial frame by applying to it an unballanced external force, or I
can set it in "motion" by accelerating the reference frame itself.

Motion is relative.

Patrick

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