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thinkfat:

--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on April 06, 2022, 02:46:18 pm ---
--- Quote ---Candle flames move up, away from Earth. That is koz the aetherwind acceleration is down, ie giving a downwards gravity.
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So if here in the UK the aetherwind is blowing down, in Australia it must be blowing up and candle flames head downwards?

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Not if the earth is flat...
HuronKing:
Hooh boy that G.O. Muller is something else... and it's rather gross to see Lenard included in their list of 'totally not anti-Semitic critics of relativity.'

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-2-pro-nazi-nobelists-attacked-einstein-s-jewish-science-excerpt1/

Methinks they doth protest too much.

PS
I'm not suggesting that all or even most critics of relativity are anti-Semitic and I've made no such suggestions in the many comments I've made so far (relativity stands just fine on its own on purely physical grounds). Most critics just plain don't understand relativity, after all, they say stupid stuff like:

--- Quote ---I don’t know what STR predicts re fast moving electrons.

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But, since G.O. Muller has now been submitted here, it's worth pointing out directly that yes - much historic criticism of relativity in Germany IS founded on anti-Semitism and the constant accusations of a global 'Einsteinist but we totally don't mean Jewish conspiracy' is worrisome.
SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: aetherist on April 06, 2022, 12:47:19 pm ---Candle flames move up, away from Earth. That is koz the aetherwind acceleration is down, ie giving a downwards gravity.

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Of course. This one is priceless.
HuronKing:
I had to dig a bit more into the 100 Authors Against Einstein and I was not disappointed.

It appears most of them were not even competent in understanding the theory and many of them just whinged about religious/philosophical objections (not scientific):
https://skepticalinquirer.org/2020/11/100-authors-against-einstein-a-look-in-the-rearview-mirror/

And this is why so much of their counter-material was rejected for publication.
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.961.1404&rep=rep1&type=pdf


--- Quote ---I can make neither head nor tail of the articles of Dr. Reuterdahl (...) the language which he uses makes no connection with my own equipment of scientific concepts, and I see no reason for supposing that it conceals any important scientific truth.
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(Dr. Edwin Kemble to Heidenreich, 29 February 1932, copy, RP 4-24)

Overall while I don't have Wazeck's full book, just the paper, it gives me a sense of her opinion and I personally think she is far too compassionate to the anti-scientific (sometimes anti-Semitic) crowd that opposed relativity. Steinmetz knew who he was dealing with - he called them cowardly hacks.
aetherist:

--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on April 06, 2022, 02:46:18 pm ---
--- Quote ---Candle flames move up, away from Earth. That is koz the aetherwind acceleration is down, ie giving a downwards gravity.
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So if here in the UK the aetherwind is blowing down, in Australia it must be blowing up and candle flames head downwards?

The alternative, that the aetherwind is blowing towards the center of the Earth regardless of where you stand, seems unlikely since then there would be significant aetherpressuretm building up until it must... what? Explode? Just disappear?
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I did say that gravity is due to the acceleration of the aetherwind. So, i wondered why u made a strawman that i said that aetherwind caused gravity. But on reading my last comment i do see that i added the throw-away line that aetherwind can have  a velocity of c+V or c-V, & that must have confused u. Teacher's mistake-1.

If the aetherwind is steady then there is no acceleration of the aetherwind & zero pressure & zero gravity. Objects retain their uniform velocity.
The aetherwind in Australia is indeed blowing down, but the acceleration of the aetherwind is towards the center of the Earth everywhere on Earth. Hence gravity is down, everywhere on Earth.  Acceleration causes an aether pressure.

The inflow streamlines that i alluded to are streamlines of aether acceleration, not streamlines of velocity or speed. The streamlines represent the acceleration field, not the velocity field. Teacher's mistake-2.
Anyhow, the streamlines converge towards the center of Earth, in 3 dimensions, hence the acceleration has a 1/RR relationship, which accords with the standard equation for gravitational attraction tween masses.

Gravity causes the candle flame to go upwards, hence we do indeed feel & see the action of the aether (crudely put), which was my answer to that question. Anything & everything to do with gravity fits, its all a feeling & seeing of the action of the aether.

Penfold asked, what interaction is there tween flame & aether, & does aether cause a deflection of the flame.
Aether does indeed cause a deflection, it causes the flame to go up.
I wonder whether there has been a flame on spacelab?
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