Light in the existence

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You quoted "This led to the development of special relativity and the abandonment of the aether hypothesis."

Presumably, you therefore agreed with this statement. Yes, it is generally accepted as a true statement. However, you may agree with me that the experiment proved something about light rather than the absence of an aether. My point is that space itself is not nothing, and this is also accepted as a true statement and proven.
Whether or not to suggest a theoretical Aether equates to space is a debate hardly worth having. We can debate it though, could be fun.
 

Catastrophe

"Science begets knowledge, opinion ignorance.
I believe that, by now, regular participants will know of my fundamental trust in General Semantics, very often represented by "The Map is not the Territory", meaning that we should not confuse 'manufactured grunts' with any identity of 'underlying reality' (my words). Perhaps a little exaggerated? :)

What you quoted ('from me') was, in fact, from an AI summary.

It seems that the AI may have been confused by my deliberate question:
light as a stationary aether
the problem word, perhaps, being "as"?

Thus, I do not own the quote.

Cat :)

Just to make sure that "we should not confuse 'manufactured grunts' with any identity of 'underlying reality" is not misunderstood, I mean that our 'language' is a taught correspondence between what originated as early protohuman grunts and intended shared meaning.
 
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