Re: Naturally, there can be no "aether"; Special Relativity Lecture by Michael Fowler
- From: Traveler <traveler@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 15:22:32 -0400
Sam "ass kisser" Wormley wrote:
>Naturally, there can be no "aether"; Special Relativity Lecture by Michael Fowler
> http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/lectures/spec_rel.html
>
> You Really Can't Tell You're Moving!
>
> "Just as Galileo had asserted that observing gnats, fish and dripping
> bottles, throwing things and generally jumping around would not help
> you to find out if you were in a room at rest or moving at a steady
> velocity, Einstein added that no kind of observation at all, even
> measuring the speed of light across your room to any accuracy you
> like, would help find out if your room was "really at rest". This
> implies, of course, that the concept of being "at rest" is
> meaningless.
It implies no such thing, moron. It only implies that one cannot
measure one's absolute motion, that is all. Truth is, it is the notion
that only relative motion exists that is complete devoid of meaning.
In fact, it is stupid. Why? Because, in a system where every
motion/position is relative to every other motion/position, one ends
up with having every motion relative to itself. IOW, a
self-referential system. There are more equally valid reasons but this
one is sufficient. It should be a crime to teach young people that
only relative motion/position exists. It should be punishable by
flogging. Truth is, only the absolute exists. The relative is abstract
and non-existent. Get a clue.
> If Einstein is right, there is no natural rest-frame in
> the universe. Naturally, there can be no "aether", no thin
> transparent jelly filling space and vibrating with light waves,
> because if there were, it would provide the natural rest frame, and
> affect the speed of light as measured in other moving inertial frames
> as discussed above".
This is about as dumb as it gets. Wormleys gets an A for ass kissing.
It won't be the last.
Louis Savain
Why Software Is Bad and What We Can Do to Fix It:
http://www.rebelscience.org/Cosas/Reliability.htm
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