From: "Eugene Shubert" Newsgroups: sci.physics,de.sci.physik,fr.sci.physique,fj.sci.physics References: <6583e4ad.0410202221.4cef5d4a@posting.google.com> <4177cb90@sys13.hou.wt.net> <2tq0haF22go9aU3@uni-berlin.de> Subject: Re: paradox in quantum mechanics Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:47:42 -0500 Lines: 32 Organization: http://www.everythingimportant.org X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.173.67.212 Message-ID: <4177ea7a@sys13.hou.wt.net> X-Trace: sys13.hou.wt.net 1098377850 207.173.67.212 (21 Oct 2004 11:57:30 -0500) Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.heimat.gr.jp!taurus!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!colt.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!lnewsoutpeer00.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!lnewsinpeer00.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!bnewsoutpeer00.bru.ops.eu.uu.net!bnewsinpeer00.bru.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!ash.uu.net!sys13.hou.wt.net Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.sci.physics:1050 "robert j. kolker" wrote in message news:2tq0haF22go9aU3@uni-berlin.de... > Eugene Shubert wrote: >> References please. I'm certain that Newton thought of light as a >> particle. > > He ultimately did. But he toyed around with aetheric theories along > the same line as Descartes but ultimately rejected them because they > did not fit the facts. Newton took Descartes very seriously and > spent several years showing Descartes apporach was unfruitful. > > Bob Kolker The statement I was challenging said thus: > "Though invisible, Newton and other early scientists regarded space > as an almost physical medium, a substance that allowed, for example, > light to propagate from one place to another. Space was to light as > water was to a wave." Newton may have "toyed around with aetheric theories" and investigated these theories with respect but I'd like to see an explicit reference where Newton says that he believed or "regarded space as an almost physical medium, a substance that allowed, for example, light to propagate from one place to another." Eugene Shubert http://www.everythingimportant.org/relativity/special.pdf