The Ether Dispute- Revisiting Einstein's Theory That Space Is a Physical Substan.pdf

Revisiting Einstein’s theory that

space is a physical substance

The Ether

Dispute

“Space without ether

is unthinkable.”

Einstein

Richard J. Wilson J.D .

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Wilson, Richard J.

The Ether Dispute: Revisiting Einstein’s

theory that space is a physical substance

First Edition

Invitation To Participate

This is an interactive e-book, and easy to re-

edit. You are invited to participate. As you read, if

you think of something to add or subtract, e-mail

me at theether@cox.net , and I will try to include

your ideas or criticisms in the next edition and give

credit where credit is due.

Table of Contents

Introduction:

The Ether Dispute 5

Part I: The Physical Behaviors of Space 15

Atmosphere 16, Distortion 19, Energy 21

Vibrations 22, Barrier 22, Connection 24

Interchangeability 24, Helter-Skelter 26

Noise 26, Continuum 27

Experiences of Space Explorers 29

Sensations 29, Typography 31,

Tides and Currents 32, Winds 33

Waves 33, Whirlpools 34

The Sad Silence of Space Explorers 34

Part II: Reopening Establishment Forums 36

The Medieval Madness of The Cold War 37

Hoyle’s Universe Ends With Big Bang 42

The Baconian Solution 44

British Formally Adopt The Solution 46

Americans Adapt Solution To Politics 49

Part III: The Summing Up 51

Three Steps To Resume Progress

“By far the greatest hindrance and aberration

of the human understanding proceeds from the

dullness, in competency and deceptions of the

senses; in that things which strike the sense

outweigh things which do not immediately strike it,

though they be more important. Hence it is that

speculation commonly ceases where sight ceases;

insomuch that of things invisible there is little or no

observation.”

Francis Bacon: Novum Organum 1620

Introduction

Newton

“That one body may act upon another at a

distance through a vacuum (of space) without the

mediation of anything else, by and through which

their action and force may be conveyed from one

to another, is to me so great an absurdity that, I

believe, no man who has in philosophic matters a

competent faculty for thinking could ever fall into

it.”

Isaac Newton: Notebooks

The Ether Dispute

here is a serious dispute by very intelligent

people over the physical nature of space.

The dispute arises because of what

Francis Bacon calls in the Novum Organum the

“dullness, incompetence, and deceptions of our

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