Re: A Faulty Medical Model: The Germ Theory

On Dec 9, 1:56 pm, "D. C. Sessions" <d...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In message <f5eafd12-b36c-4d72-aff0-2b00a0484...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, CitizenJimseracwrote:





"Return to Ether: When Theory and Reality Collide. - Review - book
review
Skeptical Inquirer, March, 2000 by Kendrick Frazier

Return to Ether: When Theory and Reality Collide. Sid Deutsch. Scitech
Publishing Inc., 89 Dean Road, Mendham, NJ 07945. 1999. ISBN
1-891121-10-3. 169 pp. Hardcover. $24.95. Nineteenth-century physics
"created" the ether to explain how electromagnetic waves are
transmitted. But with the arrival of the twentieth century and quantum
mechanics, the ether was abandoned, even though quantum mechanics has
never been able to explain certain weird effects that occur at the
atomic and subatomic levels.

Here a distinguished scientist, engineer, and educator restores the
all-pervading ether to explain the quantum weirdness of the behavior
of single, isolated photons and electrons. Through a series of
reasonable "conjectures," he argues how and why it is necessary to
resuscitate the ether to get a scientific explanation of how weird
"quantum" effects come about."

fromhttp://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2843/is_2_24/ai_60302624

Though I do not subscribe to this theory, a rationale can be found for
it, cf above book written by a scientist.

Well, QED does a better job of quantitatively explaining
*and* predicting just about everything at the physical-matter
and light level than any other theory around for anything.

Which sets a pretty high bar. If we don't pitch QED completely, then
"ether" would have to have effects more subtle than the "individual
electrons at continental distances" precision of QED, and I doubt
that the "conjectures" go into that kind of falsifiable detail.

If we _are_ to toss QED out altogether, those "conjectures" would
have to do not just as good a job of explaining known phenomena
(such as semiconductors) as QED, but also have predictive power
beyond what we have now. Again, that's going to take more than
just "conjectures."

From the book ad you linked, it certainly doesn't look like there's
nearly that much "there" there. Actually, from the ad it doesn't
even look like the author has even read Feynman's popularizations.

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I am inclined to agree.

However.... there is that one itty bitty little problem of the
entangled electrons which, once magnetically confined to seperate
bottles without disturbing the entanglement, are seperated to some
large physical distance. The moment the entanglement is broken on one
electron, usually by a change of spin, the spin of the other entangled
electron which could be hundreds (or theoretically millions) of miles
away changes instantaneously.

Somehow, the change to one of the entangled electrons
was immediately "communicated" to the other electron. There is NO
known scientific explanation for this and therefore the possibilityof
an "ether" remains one possible explanation,
however unlikely.

Citizen Jimserac
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