<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div>I wrote:</div><div> </div><div>> I would not be too concerned about any Earth shattering<br>> consequences if it were found that neutrinos were found<br>> to travel slightly faster than the speed of light - or other<br>> means of signaling faster than light were discovered.<br><br>> It would only mean that a variation of Lorentz Ether<br>> Theory would replace Special
Relativity in some<br>> circumstances. Tachyons and time travel would not be<br>> a part of such a theory. Standard LET provides the<br>> same math and numbers as Special Relativity but it<br>> can be adapted to <span id="misspell-0" class="mark">supraluminal</span> signaling - whereas<br>> Special Relativity cannot.<br><br>> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_ether_theory" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_ether_theory</a></div><div> </div><div>Dan <span id="misspell-1" class="mark">Ust</span> wrote:</div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div id="yiv1283105359"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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<div>> And what modifications would you recommend to LET? </div><div>> Is your position currently that some variant of LET is the </div><div>> case or just that LET is better than <span id="misspell-2" class="mark">STR</span>?</div><div> </div><div>I support an aether based relativity. The Lorentz-<span id="misspell-3" class="mark">Poincaré</span></div><div>idea of what would compose an aether is not the kind of</div><div>aether I would support but the basics are there for</div><div>expanding and changing the theory for a different kind</div><div>of aether theory. I have discussed this type of aether</div><div>elsewhere - primarily on physics_frontier on YahooGroups.</div><div>This aether is composed of vast numbers of particles much</div><div>much smaller than the smallest known subatomic particles. </div><div>They travel much much faster than the speed of light. There</div><div>is also a sea of very low energy
photons in this background. </div><div> </div><div><var id="yiv1283105359yui-ie-cursor"><div>Dan Ust wrote:</div></var></div>
<div>> Also, have you read Earman's _World Enough and Space-Time_?</div><div> </div><div>No.</div><div> </div><div>Dennis May</div>
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