Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ecsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: Michelson Morley experiment Message-ID: <1547@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 13:24:17 EDT Article-I.D.: ecsvax.1547 Posted: Mon Jul 1 13:24:17 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 05:33:38 EDT References: <337@sri-arpa.ARPA> Organization: Duke U Comp Ctr Lines: 19 This mention of the Micherlson-Morley experiment reminds me of something in the latest (1985 summer) issue of The Skeptical Inquirer. Seems there is a group of fundamentalist creationists (meaning even more fundamentalist than your run-of-the-mill creationists) called the Tychonian Society who adhere to geocentrism. (They note that there are hundreds of Bible verses that imply a geocentric universe and nothing to suggest heliocentrism.) From the name I assume they believe in Tycho's "compromise" system with all the planets orbiting the Sun but the Sun orbiting the Earth. No doubt Tycho's ideas were suppressed by highly placed secular humanists... Well, it seems this group thinks the reason M&M failed to find an ether drift is that the Earth is stationary in the ether. So they want to repeat the experiment - aboard the space shuttle. Stay tuned. -- D Gary Grady Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC 27706 (919) 684-3695 USENET: {seismo,decvax,ihnp4,akgua,etc.}!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary