John Smith wrote:
On 6/2/2011 9:25 AM, D. Peter Maus wrote:

Space does not bend.



Einstein disagreed.



Really?


Really Really - and it was proved by Walter Sydney Adams in 1925
and in the Pound-Rebka experiment of 1959.


So then he didn't acknowledge that the "gravitational ether" existed?


Well hardly since there is no such thing.

He didn't acknowledge that space is bent like a mattress by a bowling
ball, and subject to the forces of gravity?


No that is 3 dimensional thinking. spacetime is distorted by a sufficiently
large mass. Gravity is an effect of that distortion not the cause.
The behaviour we ascribe to the force of gravity is actually the result
of inertial motion within the four dimensional curved geometry of spacetime.

You are claiming lines of space (ether) penetrate through the earth as
perfectly straight lines?


Thats just silly

Let's see the sources which cause you to reach that/those
conclusion(s?)
Regards,
JS

You could start with his 1911 paper

"On the Influence of Gravitation on the Propagation of Light".

Keith