PHYSICS SEMINAR
Rod Armour
Mercer University
Physics Department
W 2/21/2001 and W 3/7/2001
Willet Science Center 109
"The Return of the
Aether!"
Abstract: If matter is a wave, what is waving? Is
there a medium whose vibrations compose the matter wave? We will discuss this
problem, and draw an analogy for such a medium with the infamous light-medium
of the 19th century – the "aether". Could a new and different light
medium and the medium of matter be one and the same? Surprisingly, modern
physics points towards the answer "yes"!