Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site umd5.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!cvl!umd5!zben From: zben@umd5.UUCP Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Well, maybe there IS ether (sort of) Message-ID: <659@umd5.UUCP> Date: Sun, 14-Jul-85 05:56:01 EDT Article-I.D.: umd5.659 Posted: Sun Jul 14 05:56:01 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 08:33:35 EDT Reply-To: zben@umd5.UUCP (Ben Cranston) Organization: U of Md, CSC, College Park, Md Lines: 7 For those following the recent unification of quantum electrodynamics and the weak nuclear force, does the Higgs field/False Vacuum theory amount to an ether (after all, it is everywhere, and higher energy than true vacuum)? It would just be an ether that has no inertia (inertial mass) so that experiments like the Michaelson-Morley would not be able to detect it... -- Ben Cranston ...{seismo!umcp-cs,ihnp4!rlgvax}!cvl!umd5!zben zben@umd2.ARPA