Lie #4 – Photons are Fundamental
The fourth entry in this greatest lies in physics series is “Photons are fundamental particles.” There is a contradiction in teaching that begins with the most basic description of a photon. Photons are consistently referred to as fundamental particles while at the same time it is said they are known to produce electric and magnetic […]
Continue Reading...Lie #3 – Wave-Particle Duality
Indoctrination into the concept of wave-particle duality is started in the earliest physics classes. Students are taught the dogma that a particle is not just a particle as it also behaves as a wave, and sometimes it is easier to treat it as a particle and sometimes it works out better to treat it as […]
Continue Reading...Lie #2 – Michelson-Morley and Aether
The second installment of the greatest lies in physics is; “the Michelson-Morley experiment disproved the existence of aether.” This experiment is often credited as the reason for denying the existence of aether or in modern terms denying the existence of vacuum fluctuations, even though Einstein with Hopf inadvertently proved in 1910 that the experiment would […]
Continue Reading...Lie #1 – There is no Aether
Of all the lies told by physicists none has been so damaging as the lie “there is no aether.” Since the beginning of scientific endeavor scientists had always assumed that there was aether in space, a medium for the transmission of light and forces. Unfortunately ill-conceived experiments such as the one by Michelson and Morley […]
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