2007-02-23 03:58:39 · 11 answers · asked by goring 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
He was wrong. Its not that everything that he said is true. He was a great scientist but not perfect. No one is.
Want to know something interesting? Recent studies on string theory show that both quantum physics and relativity both cannot be correct. Only one can. Because they dont agree with each other. All this theoretical physics is just that... theoretical. Its not perfect, it can only be supported by experiments, never proved.
Maybe Einstein was right, and we are wrong today. ANything is possible.
2007-02-23 04:11:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
In order to argue about the existence of something, one has to at least have some manifestation of the existence of that thing. Aether was a way of explaining some phenomenon, which was later explained by something that did away with the need fro an aether. Until someone comes with a phenomenon that needs an aether to be explained, science will go on assuming that something, including aether, does not exist until proven otherwise.
2007-02-23 04:05:38 · answer #2 · answered by Vincent G 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because it simply doesn't exist. It was thought that light needed a medium to propagate through. Everything else does, for example sound cannot propagate through a vacuum; their has to be matter for their to be sound. The aether was the medium that light propagated through. The Michelson-Morely experiment attempted to prove the existence of the aether, but oddly enough it proved that the aether did not exist.
Einstein was actually wrong about a lot of things, but it's still OK to give him credit because a lot of his ideas were outside of the box thinking.
2007-02-23 04:15:50 · answer #3 · answered by Pfo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
at the starting up, what posessed absolutely everyone to imagine time would not exist, because it really is empirically shown at each successive second? Contemplation of concepts which aren't to any extent further basically unlikely yet shown impossibilities does little to boost the thoughts in sensible instructions, so hence is a waste of... look ahead to it.... TIME. And speaking of sensible instructions, it really is what time is - no longer some thing that strikes or flows previous, yet a route in which commute takes position. All issues which could exist in a way which may have any influence on the universe, exist in time. the time period for it really is observed as "period". The thoughts is a phenomenon uniquely touching on to time, in that it really is a procedure truly than a discrete merchandise. Any particular second in time is almost a image. If one second did not follow a special, causing the persevered period of both products besides as propelling such methods and events ahead, there will be no thoughts, no merchandise interaction, no transformations. without time, there will be no universe, and no minds to take into consideration why they don't exist..
2016-12-04 20:30:16 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Einstein DID NOT defend the aether theory. Your initial assumption is wrong.
The absence of an aether was proven by the Michelson - Morley experiment and Einstein's theory of SPECIAL RELATIVITY provided an explanation of the negative result of the experiment.
2007-02-23 07:34:56 · answer #5 · answered by amused_from_afar 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Einstein never defended it! He'd just used Michelson-Morley interferometry results (that proved the absence of aether) as a comprobation of his own ideas.
2007-02-23 04:14:27 · answer #6 · answered by Arthur B 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Let's see, goring, you have asked the same question 19 times in the last year either here or in physics.
What? No one satisfied you, yet? You clearly have an opinion you want to share, so why don't you share it rather than asking the same question over and over and over again?
HTH
Charles
2007-02-23 04:23:05 · answer #7 · answered by Charles 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because he was wrong. Einstein was not God.
2007-02-23 04:00:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Arty B is right.
2007-02-23 07:13:53 · answer #9 · answered by stargazergurl22 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
simple he was wrong, if he said you had a purple *** yould you believe him?
2007-02-23 04:01:15 · answer #10 · answered by Flaming Pope 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋