On Friday, January 11, 2013 12:02:57 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at Roger Clough <rcl...@verizon.net <javascript:>>wrote: > > > So either there's no ether, or light has a fixed velocity. >> > > No, light has a fixed velocity with or without the aether, it's a > experimental result not a theory. So either the luminiferous aether does > not exist or it does but doesn't do anything of interest, in which case > physicists have better things to do with their time than investigate it > further. > > John K Clark > > My understanding is that light has the same velocity as 'change' or 'news' does, which is always 'the maximum possible rate in spacetime'. Light is not literally present in a vacuum, but manifests only in the sensory-motor qualities of matter. Its velocity is virtual.
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