On Aug 30, 11:39*am, Michael Coslo wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote:
On Aug 28, 3:26 pm, Art Unwin wrote:
Whoa!You are talking apples and oranges.

Of course, but apples and oranges are both particles. The old masters
were correct about the aether consisting of particles - they were just
wrong about the nature of the particles.

If someone hits you in the head with a frozen apple or a frozen orange
in the dark on a winter night, it is difficult to tell the difference.
Quantum physics has turned on the light.

You people are all barking up the wrong tree. Phlogiston theory is where
it is at. Everything since then is nothing but gobbldygook. Including
that Johnny come lately, *Aether theory.

-73 de Mike N3LI -

Mike as I understand it Aether theory started with the motion that if
two mediums meet then a electron
can pass thru both mediums OR travel between two mediums. I suppose
you can look at the Universe that way starting

and then going thru a progression of different mediums until you come
to the end or the last medium. If you put together two pieces of glass
in sandwich fashion a electron, say light, may travel thru both pieces
of glass AND/OR along the path
between the two pieces of glass.
Thus the exercise starts with Earth itself and then one determines the
next medium and so on until one reaches the outer Galaxy. Now in a
particular case scientists came across a dilemma where a path of light
existed parallel to a medium but they could not determine exactly what
the next medium was. Thus was brought forward the term Aether
as a stop gap term until the medium could be truely determined.