Re: incompetent debunkers (Re: origins of polio

In article <hbtk35-lbi.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, D. C. Sessions <dcs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
: In message <fk7nhi$s10$4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Richard Schultz wrote:
:> In misc.health.alternative D. C. Sessions <dcs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

:> : Was the Michaelson-Morley experiment a demonstration of their
:> : incompetence?

:> In the sense that Michelson apparently never understood the significance
:> of the result, yes.

: They looked for ether and failed to find it.

I may very well be misremembering what I learned about the Michelson-Morley
experiment, but I seem to recall that Michelson never really understood
that his experiment disproved the existence of the ether, which is why
he kept refining it (and won a well-deserved Nobel prize for his advances
in measurement technology).

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Richard Schultz schultr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University
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"Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell bad."
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