Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 5/3/83; site ukc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!mcvax!ukc!ptb From: ptb@ukc.UUCP (P.T.Breuer) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: Michelson Morley experiment Message-ID: <5281@ukc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 16:03:06 EDT Article-I.D.: ukc.5281 Posted: Mon Jul 8 16:03:06 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 04:15:47 EDT References: <337@sri-arpa.ARPA> Reply-To: ptb@ukc.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) Organization: Computing Laboratory, U of Kent at Canterbury, UK Lines: 14 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.