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



Traveler wrote:

The aether has not a damn thing to do with motion. And it does not
matter whether or not absolute motion can be measured.

How can something that can not be measured or observed be granted any ontological meaning at all?

What matters is
whether one can use logic to deduce its existence. 

Show your work.

If it exists, it
matters to comprehension.

To yours, apparently. If you require the superfluous to remain comfortable, you are far from alone.

If you don't understand this, *** you. 

I understand it; it's not even wrong.

Anticipating a response rich in obscenity and repressed sexual desires.


Bob
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"Things should be described as simply as possible, but no simpler."

                                             A. Einstein
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