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Subject: Re: As an ex-physicist, I feel challenged
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Date: Thu, 28-May-87 17:48:43 EDT
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Minor, rather unrelated, flame:

In article <1224@cullvax.UUCP> drw@cullvax.UUCP (Dale Worley) writes:
>Newtonian mechanics was shown to be inadequate by the Michelson-Morely
>experiment (leading to relativity), and by the "ultraviolet

The Michelson-Morley-Miller experiments did not "lead to relativity" per se.
I have a quote from Einstein lying around somewhere to the effect that
he started working on relativity before he ever heard of Michelson; Einstein
saw the aether-drift experiments merely as a confirmation of his theory.
The best book I've read on this subject is Lloyd Swenson Jr., 
_The Ethereal Aether_. I highly recommend it.


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