/sci/ - Science & Math

Why is it asserted that the Michelson-Morley experiment has proven the non-existence of the aether?
It was a null result, and somehow that proves a negative? Isn't this just an appeal to ignorance?

Could it not be so that such an aether may be dynamic, but also be confined locally to the terrestrial sphere, and so impossible to detect with such a set-up? The result would be null so long as the aether at ground level was at rest relative to the Earth's rotation.
Could this same explanation of an aether that adheres gravitationally to the terrestrial sphere also suffice to describe the curved path of light travelling near such heavenly bodies?

Couldn't the fluid pressure of such a medium also suffice to provide for the phenomena of gravitation?

Would not this aether also suffice to account for the alleged dark matter in the universe?

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It's a philosophy of science which is derived from the metaphysics model that gives rise to the ethics model called Marxism. That metaphysics model which is most elegantly and fittingly called determinism. One might even say that Dialectical Marxism is a pseudonym for metaphysical materialism, or better yet just determinism. The line of reasoning on which determinism may be located, is that same line of reasoning on which marxism may be located.

In studying human behavior and cognition, it is discovered by the serious student that only two factors coalesce to result in every single behavior of every single organism. Those factors are environment and genetics. If you believe in that other metaphysical model, the one where there is some aspect of behavior which can be attributed to free will or the soul, you honestly have no place on this board, and are scientifically illiterate.
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