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

From: Robert J. Kolker (robert_kolker_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/22/04


Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 14:35:15 GMT


Dale Trynor wrote:

>
> You should listen to the other posters here, somethings amiss and
> physics will always be like magic till this sort of thing is actually
> understood.

Physics is NOTHING like magic. The theories produce quantiative
predictions which are supported by real honest to god experiments, no
gedankens. Have any of the mainline theories been falsified by
experiment. Until that happens, gedank me no gedankens.

The theories do not have to match our naive common sense. They only have
to predict correctly.

Bob Kolker



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