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Old 16-July-2007, 02:43 PM
czeslaw czeslaw is offline
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Originally Posted by Farsight View Post
jedaisoul: there's a great deal of confusion about aether. Personally I think the flaws are interpretational, with people saying "Einstein meant this" instead of actually reading what he said. For example, in the original GR translation there's not one mention of curved spacetime.
A curved spacetime is an open question for me. There has to be a background causing a time dilation. If gravity is mediated by gravitons there have to be a field made of gravitons as a background for any other particles.