Re: Evidence of the Existence of the Aether

From: Uncle Al (UncleAl0_at_hate.spam.net)
Date: 08/27/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 21:10:09 -0500

Marcel LeBel wrote:
>
> François Guillet wrote:
> > "Sam Wormley" <swormley1@mchsi.com> a écrit dans le message de
> > news:412E017C.345EB98F@mchsi.com...
> >
> >>Riaperuq wrote:
> >>
> >>>Evidence of the Existence of the Aether
> >>>
> >>
> >> There isn't any!
> >>
> >>Luminiferous Ether
> >> http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/Ether.html
> >> http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/RelWWW/wrong.html#aether
> >> http://www.google.com/search?q=aether+site%3Awww.aip.org+update
> >>
> >>Special Relativity
> >> http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/SpecialRelativity.html
> >> http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/experiments.html
> >
> >
> > "Empty space, other than occupying a volume, has at least two observable
> > properties, its dielectric constant and its permeability."
> >
> > Could you tell us where these properties come from ?
> >
> > FG
> >
> >
> Excellent point! I always wondered how could "emptiness" have any
> properties!

Heisenberg Uncertainty. Every allowed EM mode has a half-photon
uncertainty. Casimir effect, electron anomalous g-factor, Lamb
shift, Rabi vacuum oscillations... It is screamingly obvious,
theory plus verifying empirical experiment. To 14 significant
figures in some cases.
  

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