Re: The Speed of Light and the Einstein Legacy: 1905-2005 [Cahill]

From: Franz Heymann (notfranz.heymann_at_btopenworld.com)
Date: 01/21/05 

Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 22:08:30 +0000 (UTC)

"Harry" <harald.vanlintel@epfl.ch> wrote in message
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> "robert j. kolker" <nowhere@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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> >
> >
> > Mike wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > You can have some type of ether without the presence of a
detectable
> > > relative velocity. In this case, this unobservable 'ether' is
not
> > > required in calculations for predicting the state of motion. It
> > > nevertheless entails significant ontological consequences
regarding the
> > > nature of physical reality which is of no interest to 'some
physicists'
> > > although of great interest to the rest of the society.
> >
> > Ontology that does not produce correct predictions is useless. The
> > aether hypothesis accounts for eletromagnetic wave propagation.
> > Everything predicted using Aether has been predicted without it,
so it
> > is a useless concept. It can't be detected and is not necessary to
> > predict correctly so why bother with it?
> >
> > Bob Kolker
>
>
> The branch of modern physics is only concerned with predictions but
science
> is less narrow in scope.
> Laws of modern physics relate to inertial frames.

Rubbish. GR does not.

Franz

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