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Article #15261Re: Notes on physical Absolute
From: Robert Kolker
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 22:53
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 22:53
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Mitchell Jones wrote:
> ***{No, Bob. An aether is the *alternative* to "magic stuff." You can, for
> example, say that light bends when passing the sun because space is
> curved, or you can say that it bends because there is a pool of
> gravitationally entrained aether surrounding the sun
You could say that but we know entrained aether contradicts stellar
aberration. So you would be wrong. Aether is an unnecessry hypothesis.
Physics has done without it for over 100 years.
Bob Kolker
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