Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site mnetor.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!mnetor!fred From: fred@mnetor.UUCP (Fred Williams) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: Michelson Morley experiment Message-ID: <1134@mnetor.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 12:08:35 EDT Article-I.D.: mnetor.1134 Posted: Wed Jul 3 12:08:35 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 15:34:22 EDT References: <337@sri-arpa.ARPA> Reply-To: fred@mnetor.UUCP (Fred Williams) Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada Lines: 23 Summary: In article <337@sri-arpa.ARPA> infinity%udel-cc-vax2.delaware@udel-louie.ARPA writes: >From: ALBERS> > In class, my physics instructor went over the Michelson >Morley experiment in which they attempted to prove the existance of >the 'ETHER'. The instructor said that Michelson and Morley had come >to the conclusion that if there were a ETHER that it could not be >detected by any known means. My question is, why has the scientific >community acted as if the experiment proved that the ETHER did not exist? > > Eric There is an old tradition that can be expressed as; "If you can't tell, it don't matter" In other words, Why assume an ETHER when an experiment has proven that it cannot be detected by speed of light measurements. There is no experiment that I know of which can detect a luminiferous ether. Hence lets keep things simple... It doesn't exist! Furthermore there is no need for it to exist! Cheers, Fred Williams