Re: Michelson-Morley: Much ado about nil




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Has anyone read this paper?

http://www.ptep-online.com/index_files/2006/PP-06-10.PDF

It claims that the Michelson-Morley experiment doesn't really prove
that there is no absolute continuum. Any comments about it? It seems to
me to be very surprising. His argument is not very complicated; I'd
like to hear the opinions of the experts on this.

Thank you,
Craig

Without having seen that particular paper: this is well known, both in the
literature and also in this newsgroup. See for example some old comments by
Tom Roberts:
http://google.com/group/sci.physics.relativity/msg/f46b785e80425dd7
http://google.com/group/sci.physics.relativity/msg/dc860f85451a0e54
http://google.com/group/sci.physics.relativity/msg/a6f110865893d962

Harald


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