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Expert: - 7/9/2010


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Matter needs space, but space does not need matter.  Space needs Time, but time does not need space.  Ether needs time, but time does not need either.  Time can exist on its own, it is an independent variable.  There are things in the Universe that depend and don't depend on each other.  I am comfortable with an un-unified theory of the universe, it is what it is.  First there was time, then there was ether, then a ripple (or standing wave) in the time ether medium, then bang, space and matter.  Each layer is nothing more than a container for the other.  If we take out the matter, there is still space.  If we take out matter and space, there is still time and ether, if we take out ether, there is still time.  Or, time/ether is one in the same and do depend on each other, still requires more thought.  By the way Albert forgot one thing,  E = Mc Squared over 1, so what is 1?

Answer
Update from well over a century ago at the university I attended for my undergraduate education:  Michelson and Morley disproved the existence of an ether in 1887.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson-Morley_experiment

So this post contains a lot of crazy and unsupported statements but no really valid question.  You asked what 1 is, which Einstein never included in E=mc^2.  One means singular, a whole unit (as in one pen or one car), we all have an intuitive understanding of what 1 is.  Mathematically 1 is the identity element for multiplication in the group of nonzero rational numbers, if you know what the formal definition of a mathematical group is.  When you multiply any number by 1, you get the same number, you may use that as a definition of 1.  Take a higher level math class on abstract algebra if these things interest you, it'll teach you a lot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_(mathematics)#Definition

Steve Nelson

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Fusion, solar flares, cosmic rays, radiation in space, and stellar physics questions. Generally, nuclear-related astrophysics, but I can usually point you in the right direction if it's not nuclear-related or if it's nuclear but not astrophysics.

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Currently a physics professor at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. Doctoral dissertation was on a reaction in CNO-cycle fusion, worked in gamma-ray astronomy in the space science division of the naval research laboratory in the high-energy space environment branch.

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Physics professor at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin.

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Ph.D. in physics, research was on nuclear fusion reactions important in stellar fusion.

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