Re: The most ridiculous science mistake in history.

Aether Regained <AetherRegaind@invalid.com> wrote:

Tom Roberts:> On 3/25/24 10:28 AM, Aether Regained wrote:

There are no observable effects of an aether? What then are the
electromagnetic and gravitational fields, if not observable effects of
an aether?

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They are modeled as fields, completely unrelated to any sort of aether.

 
As Maxwell said: fields, especially ones which are capable of exerting
physical forces, cannot exist apart from a medium or aether, just as a
mind, that displays physical effects, cannot exist apart from a physical
brain.

To which Heinrich Hertz replied: (unfortunately after Maxwell's death)
"Maxwell's theory is nothing but Maxwell's equations!"

As I keep saying: you have no hope of "regaining" an aether until you
explain how the many quantum effects in electrodynamics are explained by
an aether.
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One cannot hope to solve such long standing problems all at once. As I
said, even the giants of QM, Schrödinger and Dirac, both of whom worked
on regaining the aether made only little progress.
 
I'd like to hear from you, which quantum effects do you consider as the
most intractable from an aether point of view?

There is no aether point of view, there are no intractible effects.
Quatum field theory is fully adequate.
All 'aether effects' you may want to invent are nothing but added words.

If I may paraphrase Hertz:
Quantum field theory is nothing but the field equations,

Jan