In order to save their money-spinner, Einstein criminal cult would do
anything:

http://www.physorg.com/news111249257.html
"Physicists once thought light waves propagated in a special medium,
the "luminiferous aether." This implied that the speed of light would
depend on the reference frame of the observer, but experiments
performed at the turn of the 20th century established that light in a
vacuum always travels at the same speed, independent of the reference
frame."

Of course, experiments performed at the turn of the 20th century
established just the opposite:

http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/arch.../02/Norton.pdf
John Norton: "Einstein regarded the Michelson-Morley experiment as
evidence for the principle of relativity, whereas later writers almost
universally use it as support for the light postulate of special
relativity......THE MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT IS FULLY COMPATIBLE
WITH AN EMISSION THEORY OF LIGHT THAT CONTRADICTS THE LIGHT
POSTULATE."

The new aetherists would not question Einstein's false light postulate
but they are boldly attacking the principle of relativity - an idiocy
that could only happen in Einstein zombie world:

http://www.physorg.com/news111249257.html
"The UM group proposes, however, that an aether concept may still have
a place in physics: not representing a medium for light waves, but a
universal preferred frame of reference that is physical in nature. As
such - although the new aether retains the spirit of the old - there
are few similarities between the two. The UM researchers - Christopher
Eling, Ted Jacobson, and Coleman Miller - describe their aether as a
preferred state of rest at each point of spacetime. This preferred
state would not be the result of something known, such as a
gravitational field or cosmic background radiation, but may, they say,
arise from the structure of empty space in quantum gravity theory. The
new aether violates Lorentz symmetry, the principle stating that the
laws of physics must have the same form no matter the reference frame.
In other words, if a person drops a ball while standing in their
house, in a moving train, or in a rocket shooting through space, the
laws of physics describing the ball's motion are the same within each
frame. This concept is one of the foundations of special relativity."

Needless to say, new aetherists are closely related to old
relativists:

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/smol...n03_print.html
Lee Smolin: "A very exciting question we are now wrestling with is,
How drastically shall we be forced to modify Einstein's special theory
of relativity if the predicted effect is observed? The most severe
possibility is that the principle of relativity simply fails. The
principle of relativity basically means that velocity is relative and
there is no absolute meaning to being at rest. To contradict this
would mean that after all there is a preferred notion of rest in the
universe. This, in turn, would mean that velocity and speed are
absolute quantities. It would reverse 400 years of physics and take us
back before Galileo enunciated the principle that velocity is
relative. While the principle may have been approximately true, we
have been confronting the frightening possibility that the principle
fails when quantum gravity effects are taken into account. Recently,
people have understood that this possibility appears to be ruled out
by experiments that have already been done: that is, if the principle
of relativity fails when quantum gravity effects are taken into
account...."

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