Re: Aether is the empty space in which the Universe sits

From: Bilge (dubious_at_radioactivex.lebesque-al.net)
Date: 07/23/04 

Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 09:44:51 -0000

 Esa Riihonen:
>
>Terve!
>
>On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 00:40:39 +0000, stephe wrote:
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>> In sci.physics.relativity greywolf42 <mingstb@marssim-ss.com> wrote:
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>[snip]
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>> : No. Aetherons are corpuscular. The aetherons comprise the medium.
>> (Just : like sound propagates through the gas.) Gas particles don't
>> exist in a : vacuum. Hence, they don't propagate in a vacuum. Nor does
>> sound.
>>
>> That does not make any sense. Are you claiming that a gas particle
>> cannot move through empty space unless that space is already occupied by
>> other gas particles? How do particles ever "collide" if they are
>> unable to move through the empty space between them? Do your aetherons
>> have this same restriction that they can only move if there are already
>> other aetherons there?
>
>But of course! There are smaller particles we can call Phanterons (for
>their ghostly nature). Problem solved -right? Well perhaps not - the same
>problem seems to emerge again? So there obviously must be another set of
>even smaller corpuscular particles, lets call them Elementary Phanterons
>or Elephanterons, for short. But wait - the problem still persists!
>
>After some pondering I really see it now. There is a hierarchy of ever
>smaller and smaller Elephanterons (I'm too tired to invent new names), and
>so:
>
>It's Elephanterons all the way down!
 
  Perhaps the ``shovelons'' would be a good description, given the
medium in which the particles operate. Then, without hesitation,
one can assert that it's bull*** all they way down and a quantum
theory at that.