"New paper: Our understanding of gravity is totally wrong"

[kevin]

This is difficult to grasp.....unless You are capable of not adhering to your indoctrination.
http://www.gravitycontrol.org/forum/ind ... topic=17.0
Kevin

[upriver]

This is difficult to grasp.....unless You are capable of not adhering to your indoctrination.
http://www.gravitycontrol.org/forum/ind ... topic=17.0
Kevin

They are describing Kinetic energy....

[webolife]

Assuming that the aether does not exist leaves no other alternative but to imagine different colors and flavors of pixie dust, each of which is supposed to propagate / communicate / regulate a particular effect, like charge, mass, gravity, etc.

Aren't the various formulations of aether [as particles, wave energy, ropes, chains, strings...] just examples of different colored pixie dust?

[LunarSabbathTruth]

Assuming that the aether does not exist leaves no other alternative but to imagine different colors and flavors of pixie dust, each of which is supposed to propagate / communicate / regulate a particular effect, like charge, mass, gravity, etc.

Aren't the various formulations of aether [as particles, wave energy, ropes, chains, strings...] just examples of different colored pixie dust?

Pixie dust is particles. Particle physicists (Quantum Mechanics) require different particles for different phenomenon.

There are, of course, many different interpretations of the Aether, or explanations of its makeup. However, that is not the same as saying there are actually different Aethers. It is just saying that different people have a different understanding of what the one true Aether actually is.

So, the difference is that, while particle physics requires by definition a unique particle for each unique effect, Aether physics says that there is just one Aether.

Note that there is some so-called Aether physics that is not really Aether physics, but is just particle physics with a pseudo-Aether thrown in as a fudge-factor.

- joe