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From: ptb@ukc.UUCP (P.T.Breuer)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Michelson Morley experiment
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Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 16:03:06 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  8 16:03:06 1985
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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


Occam's razor.