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To: one_less who wrote (82399)	2/15/2010 5:47:02 PM
From: Solon	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 82486

Nice quotes. Beautiful language--poetic and wonderful. Both Einstein and Born rejected the existence of "ether". Can you and I thus agree that (in consideration of the overwhelming agreement of scientists in the irrelevancy of the old theory of ether) it is in fact presumptuous (to say the least) to predicate an argument which relies in any way on this fictitious substance? "In the late 19th century, "luminiferous aether" (or "ether"), meaning light-bearing aether, was the term used to describe a medium for the propagation of light.[1] The word aether stems via Latin from the Greek a????, from a root meaning to kindle, burn, or shine. It signifies the substance which was thought in ancient times to contain the manipulative forces beyond control.[citation needed] Later theories including special relativity were formulated without the concept of aether. Today the idea of aether, what Albert Michelson called "one of the grandest generalizations of modern science", is regarded as a superseded scientific theory." en.wikipedia.org

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