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From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Michelson Morley experiment
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Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 13:24:17 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  1 13:24:17 1985
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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
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