164. Neil deGrasse Tyson — Cosmic Queries: StarTalk’s Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going
The Michael Shermer Show
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Is There an Ether?
There was never an experiment to show it was there. O so i want to make that distinction. It's a very important one that isn't always embraced when people have this conversation, right? We were measuring stellar spectra before we had a clue what spectra meant,. But we knew it was something there to take pictures of and to measure the size of the spectral features. And and we had good data, even though we didn't know what it was we were documenting. The difference is we we, we presumed there was an ether. There was never an experiments to show it wasthere. An experiment was timately conceived to demonstrate we don't need aneither dark matter dark energy or
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