LET - Lorentz Ether Theory - Double Slit Experiment through the aether

[Grayman]

Doesn't the double slit experiment provide significant evidence of the aether?

http://aetherwavetheory.blogspot.com/2008/12/awt-and-double-slit-experiment.html


Also, why do most scientists reject the idea of the LET?

 

[Grayman]

No one cares? No one knows? No thoughts or ideas?

eh, I am debating just adding things in here myself but I don't think anyone will read it.

Better off at a science forum I guess.

 

[Sinny91]

I'm already a proponent of the Aether.

Post, I'll read.

 

[Fukyo]

Maybe if you had explained what the Aether and LET are you'd catch people's interest and get more replies.

 

[Turnevies]

I didn't go to the details about this one. But for every serious theory in science, there is a number of others that explain the same phenomena, ranging from just alternative to plain crackpot.

Ultimately, what is considered the 'true' theory as a working hypothesis is the one that passes Occam's razor. It seems that this LET theory has to invoke existance of this aether and is hence less simple than the more widespread theory without the need for this additional concept of aether.

Actually, the whole discussion on the existance of this aether could only be made scientific by performing an experiment where the outcome predicted by the LET theory differs from the one predicted by common theory. If such experiment is not possible, the difference between the theories is only in the realm of philosophy or even semantics.

 

[Ex-User (9086)]

Turnevies offers a solid explanation. Without reducing myself to rephrasing wikipedia too much, special relativity incorporates Lorentz's work and does it without relying on unnecessary or unfalsifiable elements.

 

[Grayman]

the difference between the theories is only in the realm of philosophy or even semantics.

I am assuming (how can nothing(Space) exist and have properties when nothing by it's own definition cannot exist.



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It mostly seems as if SR isn't a theory as it does not explain the how but just mathematically defines what is occurring. It seems to be more of a law of gravity, light and acceleration than a theory.

LET provides a more mechanical approach in explaining the how instead of just explaining the what.

But maybe I am missing something with SR.

 

[Grayman]

I found the exact experiment that made the shift.

http://physics.about.com/od/quantumphysics/a/photoelectric.htm

I have some reading to do.


I am assuming but I having put it all together yet, that LET was dropped because it was a purely mechanical wave theory.

There have been some aether displacement theories on the internet that take into account that it is both a particle and a wave but I don't see any official theories that utilize the aether displacement concept.