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From: cjh@petsd.UUCP (Chris Henrich)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Michelson Morley experiment (actually, Ether)
Message-ID: <578@petsd.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 19:45:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: petsd.578
Posted: Thu Jul 11 19:45:09 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 11:23:51 EDT
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Summary: It's not crazy, just old-fashioned

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In article <374@sri-arpa.ARPA> mikes@AMES-NAS.ARPA writes:
>  Dear Eric 
>...
> WHAT DO YOUR ( UGLY ) IMAGES OF compressed ether provide (to others) ??
	The answer is, simply: a way of seeing one kind of
physics (electricity and magnetism) in terms of another kind
of physics (fluid flow).  Analogies of this sort are helpful
when they illuminate one or both kinds.  In the nineteenth
century, many physicists, including Maxwell, tried out
different kinds of mechanical analogies for electromagnetism.
For details, see E. T. Whittaker, A History of Theories of the
Aether and Electricity.  
	I agree that Eric should get more specific and precise
mathematical content into his analogy.  Whittaker will show
him how it's done.
Regards,
Chris

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