Re: Naturally, there can be no "aether"; Special Relativity Lecture by Michael Fowler

On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 18:03:57 GMT, Sam Wormley <swormley1@xxxxxxxxx> 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. 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".
>
> See: http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/lectures/spec_rel.html

BTW, such a immortal Troll... I expect Swormley to bail & just sit back
& watch what his trolling catches.

Paul Stowe
.

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