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The fact that special relativity is completely consistent with an underlying preferred absolute reference frame that simply is not accessible to experiment (unl
by danbmil99 3y ago
The fact that special relativity is completely consistent with an underlying preferred absolute reference frame that simply is not accessible to experiment (unless things break down at the plank scale) seems obvious to me but I've had a lot of grief talking to people who supposedly knew more than me.
There's a YouTube channel called dialect that has a few videos on this subject
- tome 3y agoYes > The 19th century Lorentzian ether theory was ruled out by the famous Michelson-Morley experiment, which ruled out the possibility that the Earth moves through the ether. What we propose here is that the Earth (and everything else) is made of ether. No experiment so far ruled out that possibility, so such a neo-Lorentzian ether theory is a viable possibility https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.11643.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.11643.pdf
- clausecker 3y agoThat's in fact the viewpoint Lorentz took when he discovered the Lorentz transform and relativity. He showed that you can make an ether (i.e. a preferred reference frame) consistent with the observations by applying Lorentz transforms to the observations of anybody who is in a different reference frame.