Re: Michelson-Morley: Much ado about nil


cafei...@xxxxxxx wrote:
Barry wrote:
jamesaha...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
[snip]
Looking at alternative viewpoints is not only very bad science, it can
be mighty confusing.

That's a good point. Not only this, but alternative viewpoints can lead
to anarchy! If there is no standard official scientific truth, then how
will we know what to think?

Pardon my sniping in at the middle, but there's something slightly
wrong with your sentiment.

Alternative viewpoints are good as a rule... PROVIDED that the
alternative viewpoint holder has done his homework understanding the
standard viewpoint. (Not the case here)

Scientific truth is not a matter of authority or consensus but of
empirical confirmation. That is is power. Even a child can point out
the emperior has no cloths no matter the credentials or plurality of
the authorities declaring otherwise. I would put Einstein in the
category of such a child when everyone was trying to explain away the
M-M results in terms of aether's effects on clocks and rulers.

To the kooks trying to deny Einstein's SR I would point out that it was
Galileo who proposed space-time relativity. He just didn't quite get
the right relativity group. The M-M experiment demonstrated this and
Einstein corrected Galilean realtivity. (It seems so obvious . . .
once the correction is pointed out.)

Regards,
James Baugh

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