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"