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I have decided that at some point in the near future, I am going to write a book trying to reconcile the science of subatomic physics with that of the infinite expanses of the universe. Ha! Good luck with that. Been recently reading a biography of Einstein [Walter Isaacson] and have already read The Quantum World by Kenneth Ford; Einstein's Universe by Nigel Calder, Hawking's book on Black Holes, and The Infinite Universe by Brian Greene. Man, I have too much time on my hands, but figure, what the hell, it's worth a shot.
When I first woke up to Q, and then slowly started learning how to uncover the behind the scenes happening in all areas - one thing that grabbed my attention was "Is there a real scientific truth that was being obscured by the Quantum Mechanics?"
Along the way I learnt that no one has ever actually proven that the speed of light is constant regardless of the reference frame. I also learnt that this was very necessary to get rid of the notion of Ether.
I then started wondering whether the early obsession with the dual nature of light that seemed to get all the scientists charged up to that extent, was really anything spectacular?
Think about ripples in water. They are clearly waves that show interference patterns. However if you fill a bottle with water and spray it, it definitely behaves like particle. So is water a wave or a particle? Such an absurd question.
Perhaps its the same with light as well? What if there was a medium - Ether - then its concievable that, much like water, it would exhibit both wave and particle nature and thats what we were seeing with the light experiments?
So the question for you is - how crazy is the notion that the modern quantum mechanics was created to distract us from the idea of Ether?
Not a crazy notion at all. Thanks for replying, yours is an interesting post to say the least.