Re: What, precisely, is an Aether Theory?


"bz" <bz+sp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Xns96967676E619DWQAHBGMXSZHVspammote@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> "TomGee" <lvlus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:1121579089.835161.70540
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> > Thanks, bz, for that quote. First time I've heard it.
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> I, too, was amazed to read what Einstein thought about the "ether."
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> In his 1905 SR paper, he clearly shows, and says that it is unnecessary.

He isn't *quite* that adamant. . The phrasing
is couched in terms to insulate his theory as much as possible from
Maxwell's assumptions... prefering to *factual* aspects of Maxwell's
theory. (He knows something he isn't writing ? ) >o:)

<< Thus all facts of experience which support the electromagnetic
theory also support the theory of relativity. >>

<< The experimental arguments in favour of the Maxwell-Lorentz
theory, which are at the same time arguments in favour of the theory
of relativity, are too numerous to be set forth here. In reality they
limit the theoretical possibilities to such an extent, that no other
theory than that of Maxwell and Lorentz has been able to hold its
own when tested by experience. >>
http://www.bartleby.com/173/16.html

Sue...

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