Dragaera

The Religion Debate

chris cunningham chrislee at neo.rr.com
Sat Nov 30 18:19:46 PST 2002

From: "David Dyer-Bennet" <dd-b at dd-b.net>
> Damien Sullivan <phoenix at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
> > Einstein went the other way with the luminiferous aether: if something's
there
> > but makes absolutely no difference, we might as well ignore it.
>
> Now wait a minute; the ether was ruled out by experiment in 1887 by
> the Michelson-Morley experiment.  Einstein was 8 years old at that
> point.

there were, iirc, during einstein's time, those who posited that the earth
might drag the local ether with it, thus explaining the results of the
michelson-morley experiment with the ether intact but undetectable.

chris cunningham
np:  laurie anderson "sharkey's day"