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

"Spaceman" <spaceman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Greg Neill wrote:
>> Give us the required stiffness (bulk modulus) of this
>> medium in order for the speed of interaction to be as
>> high as it is measured to be -- the speed of light.
>> Then tell us how anything material could ever move
>> through such a medium, let alone frictionlessly.  After
>> that you can explain how such a medium would not be
>> dispersive for light.
>=20
> Hmm?
> It would seem that it all would match a photons everything.
> so it must just be full of photons or even smaller stuff.

If that were true then gravity could be ****elded by the
simple expedient of interposing a blind (shades of=20
cavorite!), and planets would slow in their orbits due to
frictional effects (a photon bath provides a form of=20
friction to bodies moving in it).

> Of course, you would only have to find a true "mass"
> and size of  such photons or even smaller stuff to finish
> the aether theory correctly.

Oh is that all?  Suppose you take a stab at specifying the
material properties of the bulk aether then, being=20
careful that they correspond to the physical requirements.
I'm not saying specify the particles it's made of (you can
if you want though) but rather the measurable bulk=20
qualities of the aether.

> But of course,
> such is beyond what a rubber ruler person could even think of
> being so brainwashed about a 0 mass photon to begin with.

Forget Relativity in this case.  The aether was a failure
of classical physics (which you would know if you had
read any science history). =20

There are no consistent set of properties that can be
assigned to an aether that will not be self contradictory
or empirically impossible.