Why Does Physics Academia Stay With Special Relativity – Part 5
| Article | |
|---|---|
| Title | Why Does Physics Academia Stay With Special Relativity – Part 5 |
| Author(s) | Nick Percival |
| Published in | Beyond Mainstream |
| Date | 2019-04-17 |
| Subject area | Physics |
| Topics | special relativity, aether, sociology of science |
Read online | Read the full article |
Archived copy | Archived version |
| Retrieved | 2026-07-23 |
"Why Does Physics Academia Stay With Special Relativity – Part 5" is an article by Nick Percival published on 17 April 2019 on Beyond Mainstream, the fifth in his series on special relativity.
Where the earlier parts addressed the physics, this one addresses the institution. Percival grants that the question cannot be settled by proof in the way a physics argument can, and draws instead on his own experience and that of hundreds of others who have dealt with physics academia, together with some general features of human nature. He returns to Lorentz's aether theory and the interpretation of the Michelson-Morley experiment to show what was set aside and why.