But it was their work that provided the stimulus for Lorentz and Einstein.

--
Brian Denley
http://home.comcast.net/~b.denley/index.html

"bpnjensen" wrote in message
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Brian Denley wrote:
No there is no difference; they are both electromagnetic radiation but
with
differing wavelengths. They both move at the speed of light and they
obey
the same principles (Maxwell's equations). Radio waves are also
'photons'
and have both wave and particle behavior.

BTW, as someone else posted Michaelson and Morley (in one of the most
amazing leaps of knowlege ever taken by man) dispelled the ether myth at
the
end of the 19th century when they measued the speed of light exactly the
same whether the observer was moving towar the source or away from it.
This
measurements would have been different if there was an 'ether' for the
'waves to move through'.

Glad to see you mention this, and I agree completely. This is perhaps
the most significant argument against the ether, although, as I
mentioned earlier, quanta don't behave quite the same as normal
Newtonian physical elements, and that through which they travel might
also be independent (and move independently) of the space-time to which
we are confined. M&M did not know about the true nature quantum fabric
at that time - and we still don't have the all the pieces of *that*
puzzle.

Bruce Jensen