<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div id="yiv1408275103"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 14pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div><span id="yiv1408275103yui_3_2_0_17_131679734773089">I wrote:</span></div><div><span id="yiv1408275103yui_3_2_0_17_131679734773099"></span> </div><div><span id="yiv1408275103yui_3_2_0_17_1316797347730102">> I support an aether based relativity. The Lorentz-<span id="misspell-0"><span id="misspell-0">Poincaré</span></span><br>> idea of what would compose an aether is not the kind of<br>> aether I would support but the basics are there for<br>> expanding and changing the theory for a different kind<br>> of aether theory. I have discussed this type of aether<br>> elsewhere - primarily on physics_frontier on YahooGroups.<br>> This
aether is composed of vast numbers of particles much<br>> much smaller than the smallest known subatomic particles. <br>> They travel much much faster than the speed of light. There<br>> is also a sea of very low energy photons in this background.
</span></div><div><span id="yiv1408275103yui_3_2_0_17_1316797347730112"></span> </div><div id="yiv1408275103yui_3_2_0_17_1316797347730144"><span id="yiv1408275103yui_3_2_0_17_1316797347730115">Dan <span id="misspell-2"><span id="misspell-2">Ust</span></span> wrote:<br><br>> Is you view that this must be particle-based to banish fields </span></div><div><span id="yiv1408275103yui_3_2_0_17_1316797347730124">> from physics? Or why do you believe there are really tiny </span></div><div><span id="yiv1408275103yui_3_2_0_17_1316797347730129">> particles? Is this akin to Ancient Greek <span id="misspell-3"><span id="misspell-3">atomism</span></span>? (Not trying </span></div><div><span id="yiv1408275103yui_3_2_0_17_1316797347730134">> to be sarcastic, but wondering if this is all based on some of </span></div><div><span id="yiv1408275103yui_3_2_0_17_1316797347730139">> local contact being the fundamental way things interact in
</span></div><div id="yiv1408275103yui_3_2_0_17_1316797347730155"><span id="yiv1408275103yui_3_2_0_17_1316797347730151">> your view.)</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>It is my view that all fields are composed of particles and some</span></div><div><span>kind of local contact. Every attempt to get </span><span>away from particle </span></div><div><span>based fields has eventually run into dead ends, the requirement</span></div><div><span>for endless epicycles, or stagnation where different portions of</span></div><div><span>physics cannot be reconciled.</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Dennis May</span><br>
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