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Subject: Re:  Michelson Morley experiment
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Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 01:11:21 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 15 01:11:21 1985
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From:  Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) 

The field of a bar magnet is due primarily to aligned nuclear spins
(actually, there are lots of magnetic "domains" each with aligned
nuclei), not electron spins, if I recall my solid state courses
correctly (it's been a long time).  This doesn't affect your
ether proposal in any significant way, though.

The real problem with your ether proposal is that it is not
sufficiently quantitative and precise for anyone to reliably
test.  Until such time as it is in good enough shape to be
compared against experiment and established physical theory,
don't expect much excitement on the part of working physicists.