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Re:Gravity's Most Extreme Effects Can Now Be Tested In A Lab... by CamperBob2 on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @01:24PM (#10582969)
I wouldn't say that. The Michelson-Morley experiment demonstrated that if there was a luminiferous ether, it had no measurable inertia. That pretty much falsified the ether as anything that we'd recognize as "real."
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Re:Gravity's Most Extreme Effects Can Now Be Tested In A Lab... by Ono-Sendai on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @01:35PM (#10583043)
I've never read about the ether needing to have inertia.

Also, a modern version of the ether is pretty well accepted - quantum fields that occupy all of space. Particles etc.. are disturbances in this field. Ether is something of a tainted term these days so quantum fields are not referred to as ether.

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Re:Gravity's Most Extreme Effects Can Now Be Tested In A Lab... by chc on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @05:34PM (#10584502)
Quantum field theory doesn't seem very much like the luminiferous ether. This seems like finding a new species of grasshopper that lives on a mountain, and saying, "Ah-ha, I've found Zeus! Zeus is a thing that lives on a mountain and has never been seen before, so this must be Zeus!"
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