Re: relativity of simultaneity - real or perceived?


"Curious" <anthonyroseuk-curious@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1116970756.386491.238140@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Paul Stowe wrote:
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> > http://www.tu-harburg.de/rzt/rzt/it/Ether.html
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> Einstein, 1920: "According to the general theory of relativity space
> without ether is unthinkable"
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> So what powers the drive to oppose it?

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/humanities.philosophy.objectivism/msg/84ecd60f73437954

Dirk Vdm


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