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On 2002-02-07 12:07, GrapesOfWrath wrote:
Some vacuum. He studied graduate physics under some of the great ones. Still, what we're talking about here was fairly speculative.
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I always find it amusing that crackpots like Joe Newmann and CNN always portray Einstein as simple patent clerk with no formal education. As you point out, at ETH he studied under some of the great ones, but in the biographies I've read, I never got the feeling he was truly mentored by them as they never mentioned who is doctoral advisor was. But absence of proof is not proof of absence.
And yes, it speculative. But that's why its fun. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
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He'd read Mach, though, and though he always claimed to not have read about the MM experiment, he seems to have been familiar with works that derived from it.
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If he was not aware of MM, the in his intro to "On the electrodynamics of ..." which experiment(s) is refering to? To refresh your memory...
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Examples of this sort, together with the unsuccessful attempts to discover any motion of the earth relatively to the ``light medium,'' suggest that the phenomena of electrodynamics as well as of mechanics possess no properties corresponding to the idea of absolute rest.
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