Telamon wrote:

The "ether" does have its proponents. In any event there just may may be
a measurable asymmetry to the universe.

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Albert Michelson, physicist - Astounding ethereal result (1852 to 1931)

Polish American physicist born in Strelno (now Strzelno, Poland).

In 1887 Albert Michelson, funded by Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of
the telephone, developed the interferometer. Together with the American
chemist Edward Morley he used the interferometer to measure the speed of
light with great precision.

At that time, most scientists believed that light travelled as waves
through the ether, a substance that filled the universe. They also
believed that the Earth travelled through the ether. The
Michelson-Morley experiment measured the Earth's velocity through the
ether, and found it to be zero. This proved that the ether does not
exist! (By now, the ether was very different from those of Descartes and
Newton).

Eight years later, Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity explained
this surprising result, giving weight to his revolutionary theory.
Michelson's result on the speed of light was key to Einstein's theories
of Relativity.
Michelson's results showed that there wasn't an ether - as thought by
Descartes and others.
Michelson developed ideas on the motion of the Earth from those of Foucault
With Maxwell's equations, Michelson's work led to the idea of
electromagnetic waves in free space.


http://www.physics.org/evolution/phy...tion_text5.asp

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