Maxwell was like “The speed of light is c” right from the get-go and no one listened. Everyone was all like “Speed of light must be c - (whatever the ether is doing)” until Einstein came in and said “What if it’s just c?”
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The ether machine is housed on that planet. No, I will not be taking questions at this time.
The ether definitely isn’t real according to the best scientists of 19th century Ohio.
Not Ohio but close:
I feel like spacetime is kind of an ether in a way. It’s just not made of matter.
But it has properties. It can expand. It can suddenly burst forth with matter. It seems to repel matter (dark energy). It behaves kind of like experiments done with oil droplets on pilot waves (in an abstract way). And something is transmitting “spooky action at a distance” of entangled particles across other dimensions or whatever.
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Or else none of this actually exists except as digital objects in a simulation.
The universe is obviously just a collectible NFT, this much has been obvious for a little while now.
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I feel like simulation and extra terrestrial orgin of life just push the problem back a step. Oh, so were in a simulation created by the unsimulated? Or so self replication that started elsewhere came to earth via a meteor. Just cut out the middlemen.
I’m still iffy on gravity, Newton’s fake ass action at a distance without even a particle. The firmament circles the sun because it is perfect and therefore it is in the nature of things to circle it. No need for all that modern fancy stuff over the last 300 years.
The problems faced by the simulation creators could be quite different to those posed to us by their simulation (a universe comprised of unrelated laws), namely of their origin rather than understanding the universe.
I suspect their actual/real universe might be quite logical and obey laws without exception, so to best examine human behaviour they designed this thing, that makes little sense, for us to occupy and be permanently confused by.
But as with all complex systems there are bugs, and the impossibility of perfect garbage collection on such a vast system leaves remnants of artefacts behind, hence ghosts and other phenomena.
wiki:
Morley was not a voluminous writer and published only 55 articles.
Jesus. What do they want from a guy?
Michelson? Got the Nobel.
Morley? Oh, he didn’t have much to say.
6ix people were killed by a train this afternoon.
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Man I’m fucking dying!
Really impressed at how much James looks like Raoul Duke. He’s got the voice pretty good too.
Me too. Why was there a need for a luminiferous ether but not a gravitational one?
Faraday, who is surprisingly readable, wrote about media (not necessarily “the” ether) being required for his electric and magnetic lines of force. That’s understandable. Like if I want to punch you in the face, how do I do that at a distance unless I have some medium, say a stick or something?
This fn Logitech mouse of mine is lagging and I kind of want to smash it through all the ethers.
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Wait, they didn’t share the prize?