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code words for eather
The existence of luminiferous aether is a [[counterexamples to relativity|counterexample to relativity]] as it is sometimes described, as it is sometimes said that Einstein abolished the aether.
The existence of luminiferous aether is a [[counterexamples to relativity|counterexample to relativity]] as it is sometimes described, as it is sometimes said that Einstein abolished the aether.
A.N. Whitehead states 5 reasons that had provided for long time the support for acceptance of aether hypothesis:<ref name="Enquiry">{{cite book
A.N. Whitehead states 5 reasons that had provided for long the support for acceptance of aether hypothesis:<ref name="Enquiry">{{cite book
|author=A. N. Whitehead
|author=A. N. Whitehead
|title=An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge
|title=An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge
#The possibility to perceive static "ether sea" which homogeneously penetrates all space of cosmos as absolute frame of reference towards which the Newton's laws of motion are referenced. Ether acquires this special character in Lorentz's and Larmore's theory however such extrapolation is discouraged by Whitehead as it is rooted in solely speculative entity lacking any experimental evidence.
#The possibility to perceive static "ether sea" which homogeneously penetrates all space of cosmos as absolute frame of reference towards which the Newton's laws of motion are referenced. Ether acquires this special character in Lorentz's and Larmore's theory however such extrapolation is discouraged by Whitehead as it is rooted in solely speculative entity lacking any experimental evidence.
==Politically incorrect term==
[[YEC]] creationist R.Humphreys states that in contemporary mainstream science the term ether have become politically incorrect and although there are many various paradoxes in physics that could be addressed by de-facto aether hypothesis, the materialistic scientists are verbally "beating-around-the-bush" and use many code words such as various combinations of: “spacetime,” “continuum,” “manifold,” “quantum vacuum,” “[[vacuum|the Vacuum]],” “substratum,” “Dirac sea,” “plenum,” and “medium,”—all just to avoid using the word “ether”.<ref>{{cite web
|title=God’s mighty expanse
|author=Russell Humphreys
|publisher=Creation Ministries International
|url=http://creation.com/gods-mighty-expanse
|quote=Strangely, academic materialists have tried to ignore the physics clues that space is a material, probably for religious and philosophical reasons. They even ignored Einstein’s 1920 recantation (see second item above) of his 1905 denial of the 19th-century idea of an “ether” (or “aether”) meant to propagate light waves. The academics have made the word “ether” politically incorrect.
Now that it looks as if the ether idea merely needed a bit more sophistication, physicists use many code words for it, such as various combinations of: “spacetime,” “continuum,” “manifold,” “quantum vacuum,” “the Vacuum,” “substratum,” “Dirac sea,” “plenum,” and “medium,”—all to avoid using the word “ether.” This verbal beating-around-the-bush amuses me. It prevents academics from explaining relativity and quantum mechanics in simple, visualizable terms that solve the various paradoxes. I suspect the academic experts on relativity and quantum theories prefer to keep them arcane and perplexing (to other academics as well), because the mystery makes them the high priests of a secular religion for which the public needs interpreters.
|accessdate=2012-10-08}}</ref>
==References==
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