Re: Expelled: If you don't believe in holy physics dogma ; you're fired!

"Spaceman" <spaceman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Bill Miller wrote:
>> Don & Spaceman
>>=20
>> Don's ball exercise was an excellent ANALOGY but it does not
>> represent an EXAMPLE of the issues that I raised. I will cheerfully
>> concede that the dynamics of balls clicking together represents known
>> (almost high-school level) interactions between materials whose
>> proprties are (or can be) well known..
>>=20
>> What is of interest to me is what happens when these "balls" are in
>> space and their only interaction is via gravity. In this case, we
>> have to resort to the concept of force fields.
>>=20
>> (Please! let us not re-open the silly discussion about the "reality"
>> of fields.)
>>=20
>> In my example, we have two m***** separated by a distance. We wiggle
>> one mass. MUCH later the effect is felt by the other mass. During
>> that time perid, the law of action and reaction does not hold.
>=20
> Actually it does, but like I said,
> to think Newtonian, you would have to have an aether of some sort
> "a medium of the transference of the force".

Give us the required stiffness (bulk modulus) of this=20
medium in order for the speed of interaction to be as=20
high as it is measured to be -- the speed of light. =20
Then tell us how anything material could ever move=20
through such a medium, let alone frictionlessly.  After=20
that you can explain how such a medium would not be=20
dispersive for light.