[talanum1 (OP)]

Because the Earth's particles are made of space. The Earth moving "through" space is thus equivalent to spaces superimposing on space at shifted positions in space as the Earth moves.

[Kryptid]

Now how about some evidence?

[talanum1 (OP)]

The failure of the Mickelson-Morely experiment is evidence.

[Bored chemist]

The failure of the Mickelson-Morely experiment is evidence.

Presumably, that's different from this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_experiment
which shows that the ether simply isn't there.

[Kryptid]

The failure of the Mickelson-Morely experiment is evidence.

It's evidence for the lack of an aether.

[talanum1 (OP)]

Presumably, that's different from this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_experiment
which shows that the ether simply isn't there.

It's the same.

The null result is consistent with my model that Earth does not go "through" space but superimposes on new points of space as it moves.

[Bored chemist]

Presumably, that's different from this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_experiment
which shows that the ether simply isn't there.

It's the same.

The null result is consistent with my model that Earth does not go "through" space but superimposes on new points of space as it moves.

The null result is consistent with invisible pixies messing about with the mirrors, but it doesn't prove that they exist, does it?

[talanum1 (OP)]

The null result is consistent with invisible pixies messing about with the mirrors, but it doesn't prove that they exist, does it?

No, but it rules out that Earth is made of anything that displaces space.

[Bored chemist]

No, but it rules out that Earth is made of anything that displaces space.

Had anyone claimed that it was?

Anyway, it just takes us back to here

Now how about some evidence?

[talanum1 (OP)]

Had anyone claimed that it was?

The picture at Michelson-Moreley suggested it.

As for evidence: there are just two possibilities:

1) It displaces space, or

2) It superimposes on space.

so since 1) is ruled out 2) must be true.

Unless you can come up with another option.

[Bored chemist]

Unless you can come up with another option.

There is no ether.

[talanum1 (OP)]

There is no ether.

There must be space, otherwise, there would be no words like: "position", "at" or "point".

[Bored chemist]

There is no ether.

There must be space, otherwise, there would be no words like: "position", "at" or "point".

The point about the ether is that it's not space. That's why they invented the word.

Are you trying to argue about something without bothering to find out what it is?

[talanum1 (OP)]

I should have called it: "Why is there no space-wind?"

The Michelson-Morley experiment also excludes space-wind.

[Bored chemist]

Why would you expect any sort of "space wind"?
If you are in a space ship and you put a propellor on the front, do you expect the nothing that you are travelling through to turn it?

[talanum1 (OP)]

Why would you expect any sort of "space wind"?
If you are in a space ship and you put a propellor on the front, do you expect the nothing that you are travelling through to turn it?

Space is not nothing. It has proven properties: the electric permittivity and magnetic permeability of free space. These two is not = 0 or ∞.

It must probably have another property to do with gravity.

[Bored chemist]

Space is not nothing. It has proven properties: the electric permittivity and magnetic permeability of free space.

Which make a difference to photons,but not to you.

Space is nothing, that nothing has a permittivity, an impedance etc .
So what?
It's still nothing  material so there's no matter to which you can transfer momentum so it can't exert a force.

[talanum1 (OP)]

It's still nothing  material so there's no matter to which you can transfer momentum so it can't exert a force.

Curved space can exert a force, but none such that you would feel a wind in empty space.

[Bored chemist]

It's still nothing  material so there's no matter to which you can transfer momentum so it can't exert a force.

Curved space can exert a force, but none such that you would feel a wind in empty space.

Well, yes- that's why there's no wind.