Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!ucbvax!rimey From: rimey@ucbvax.ARPA (Ken Rimey) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: ETHER Message-ID: <8759@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Thu, 4-Jul-85 01:31:57 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8759 Posted: Thu Jul 4 01:31:57 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 05:38:13 EDT References: <339@sri-arpa.ARPA> Reply-To: rimey@ucbvax.UUCP (Ken Rimey) Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 18 >How about if we say that a mass causes a curvature in the ETHER instead >of a curvature in space? Then how bout we say that it isn't a curvature >its a change in density. ... How about we say >that it is really this ETHER 'pressure' that holds us to the planet? ... > > Eric How about we say that things fall because their natural place is on the ground. How about we say that the planets go 'round because angels blow. Your theory has zero content. A bunch of vague statements that sound intuitively plausible does not make a scientific theory. General relativity is a mathematical theory with precise numerical predictions. It is not full of arbitrary fudges. Curved space is a precise mathematical idea that you simply don't understand. The paths followed by particles are natural, not arbitrary. In curved space, there is no such thing as a straight line; a geodesic is the closest analogue. Ken