debunking aether (was: debunking Sapir Whorf)

Les Schaffer schaffer at optonline.net
Tue Dec 5 12:26:22 PST 2000


Gregory Geboski said:

I mentioned the ether theory in physics as an analogue to Sapir-Whorf,

because it was a reasonable theory with some seeming explanatory power,

employed by highly intelligent and honest scientists, that was blown out of the water by a subsequent elegant, ground-breaking theory. The difference is that, while no physicist would argue for the ether theory as if Einstein never happened

for a slightly different take on this attack on the ether see:

http://members.tripod.com/~Chernobill/einstein/ae_ether.htm

les schaffer



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