"Dirk Van de moortel" wrote
in message ...
Nice read:
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/1162

"There's nothing quite like Einstein and his theories of
relativity to bring out the doubters, the cranks and the
outright crackpots. Do they have a point? Was Einstein
a fake?"

The article mentions this newsgroup and a few well
known names.

Anyone any idea about the name of that "giant hulk of
a guy who really put the fear of physical harm into some
of the folks over there"? I'm sure he's present in this
newsgroup...

Enjoy reading,
Dirk Vdm


Hi Dirk,

Thanks for this interesting link. In it, there are discussions towards the
bottom. In a post from David Thomson, there was a link that let to another
link http://www.16pi2.com. This link describes the Aether Physics Model
(APM).
On the APM page was another link to an "electron binding energy equation"
http://www.16pi2.com/files/Electron_...y_equation.pdf. In this PDF
document, they give a prediction of -13.606 eV for ground state hydrogen's
binding energy. I should point out, this disagrees with what the well
established observed experimental Rydbeg constant for hydrogen says ground
state hydrogen's binding energy is from unbiased spectroscopic data, which
is more like -13.5982842 eV. It would appear then, that this APM model does
not fair well when compared to the observed. There is only way I know of, to
make a relativistic model agree with the observed R_H, which looks somewhat
related to the APM, but it certainly does not rely on an aether concept.

Steve Bell