c/alan-watts
The largest collection of talks by Alan Watts — the British-American philosopher who made Eastern wisdom accessible through witty and profound teachings.
…if this experiment is negative then we'll accept the evidence. And one of the classic experiments of this nature is the Michelson Morley experiment which disproved the existence of the ether as at any rate in the form that people had conceived ether and…
…whatever it is that lies between the earth and the moon and the earth and the sun, is considered, especially since the Michelson Morley experiment which proved there was no ether, is considered to be just nothing at all. But to suggest how very powerful…
…way crossed by floating bodies, by various kinds of electrical vibrations, light waves, cosmic rays, etc. But since the Michelson Morley experiment, which seemed to prove conclusively that there wasn't any such thing as ether, some kind of attenuated fluid…
…a while and you notice something see there's some whoosh going on, but out there space, that's nothing at all. We can't. The Michelson Morley experiment showed there isn't even ether in it, and so we say that is nothing. But all that is saying is that…
…be something in the emptiness to support this transmission. And so we invented aether. But as you will all know, the Michelson Morley experiment showed that there is no aether, that you have to think about the propagation of light and about the properties…