Good comment, thanks. I don’t think the premise of the article hinged on the presence of the ether, but I don’t know much.
John Dale Dunn MD JD Consultant Emergency Services/Peer Review Civilian Faculty, Emergency Medicine Residency Carl R. Darnall Army Med Center Fort Hood, Texas Medical Officer, Sheriff Bobby Grubbs Brown County, Texas 325 784 6697 (h) 642 5073 (c)
The American Thinker article claims that “The existence of the luminiferous ether was never disproven”. However Mickelson and Morley conducted a series of careful experiments in 1887 that failed to detect the presence of an ether. Those experiments have generally been credited with casting significant doubt on the theory and which led to the Theory of Relativity.
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Good comment, thanks. I don’t think the premise of the article hinged on the presence of the ether, but I don’t know much.
John Dale Dunn MD JD Consultant Emergency Services/Peer Review Civilian Faculty, Emergency Medicine Residency Carl R. Darnall Army Med Center Fort Hood, Texas Medical Officer, Sheriff Bobby Grubbs Brown County, Texas 325 784 6697 (h) 642 5073 (c)
The American Thinker article claims that “The existence of the luminiferous ether was never disproven”. However Mickelson and Morley conducted a series of careful experiments in 1887 that failed to detect the presence of an ether. Those experiments have generally been credited with casting significant doubt on the theory and which led to the Theory of Relativity.