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Article #933Re: As an ex-physicist, I feel challenged
From: kastin
Date: Thu, 28 May 1987 21:48
Date: Thu, 28 May 1987 21:48
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Minor, rather unrelated, flame: In article <1224@cullvax.UUCP> drw@cullvax.UUCP (Dale Worley) writes: >Newtonian mechanics was shown to be inadequate by the Michelson-Morely >experiment (leading to relativity), and by the "ultraviolet The Michelson-Morley-Miller experiments did not "lead to relativity" per se. I have a quote from Einstein lying around somewhere to the effect that he started working on relativity before he ever heard of Michelson; Einstein saw the aether-drift experiments merely as a confirmation of his theory. The best book I've read on this subject is Lloyd Swenson Jr., _The Ethereal Aether_. I highly recommend it. /^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\ |Jonathan Kastin (kastin@husc4.UUCP) My only consolation isn't that | |Canaday F-12/ Harvard University it's not as bad as if it weren't: | |Cambridge, MA 02138-4993 It's that it's not as bad as it is. | \............................................................................./
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ucbvax!husc6!husc4!kastin From: kastin@husc4.UUCP Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech,sci.physics Subject: Re: As an ex-physicist, I feel challenged Message-ID: <2119@husc6.UUCP> Date: Thu, 28-May-87 17:48:43 EDT Article-I.D.: husc6.2119 Posted: Thu May 28 17:48:43 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 30-May-87 04:57:22 EDT References: <1224@cullvax.UUCP> Sender: news@husc6.UUCP Reply-To: kastin@husc4.UUCP (jonathan kastin) Organization: Harvard Univ. Science Center Lines: 19