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