Re: What is LET?
- From: Joe Fischer <efischer@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 21:21:02 -0500
"dej4" <clujdej@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Joe Fischer wrote:
>> But,
>>
>> http://www.westga.edu/~chem/courses/xids/lectures/20thCent/tsld002.htm
>
>Seems to support my point, Trouton-Rankine and the follow-ups by Chase
>, Tomashek, etc. finished off LET. For good.
Actually, LET never got off the ground, ether theory
was accepted for years, without any good science, the
1904 paper was a valiant but futile attempt to add science
to a bad idea.
Tom is too kind, as usual, LET would not work unless
the reference frame stays in the same place relative to
the imaginary aether, just as SR will not work in the presence
of gravity (without some compromise for useful experimental
results).
A lot of the revival of the ghost of aether is a result
of thinking people wanting a causal mechanism for gravity
and other phenomena. I appreciate there motives, but
they are betting on a crippled horse.
SR and LET are both in the same grave, GR replaces
and supersedes them. It is important to understand the
history and chronology of physics developments, but that
doesn't mean everything was correct along the way.
Many things written by Einstein along the way have
changed, and many of them he was the one who changed
them. It would be great to make a mistake if it means
being correct later on. But there is nothing in LET or
any aether theory worth supporting in view of the fact
that GR works so well.
The only way LET would differ from SR is a few extra
words and a concept impossible to verify.
May they rest in peace.
Joe Fischer
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