Re: C S Lewis

In article <dq96qj$5a4$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"al" <almond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> "Timberwoof" <timberwoof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:timberwoof-4D105F.17345312012006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > In article <42obsqF1kbeqoU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> > "Robert J. Kolker" <nowhere@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Deadrat wrote:>
> > > > The explanatory power of relativity and quantum mechanics, dating from
> > > > 1905, is remarkable. Perhaps the attempts at unification, starting in
> > > > the 1980s, especially string theory, may be rightly criticized as too
> > > > divorced form experimental validation (if that's what you mean by
> > > > "medieval scholasticism"), but then string theory hasn't made it into
> > > > the canon just yet. In any case, whatever the failings of today's
> > > > physics, they cannot be traced to the MMX, which was not a "failure,"
> > > > except in the sense that it failed to confirm a faulty hypothesis.
> > >
> > > Michelson and Morley expected to detect motion relative to the aether.
> > > hey were disappointed. Lorentz "saved" the aether by assuming the
> > > contraction formula first discovered by Fitzgerald. But this means that
> > > aether cannot be detected. So either it doesn't exist at all or for all
> > > practical purposes it does not exist.
> >
> > What is the difference between an ether that cannot be detected by any
> > conceivable experiment and no ether at all?
> >
> But the aether *was* detected by the greatest mind of the twentieth century.

That's not really an answer to my question.

So. Enlighten me. Who do you believe possessed that mind and how did he detect
the ether?

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