Is there a "Row Zero" on the Periodic Table? A Chemist Explains.
Professor Davis takes a look at 'luminiferous ether', how its existence was disproven and where it once lived on the periodic table!
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When Nickola Tesla invented the car that ran on the Ether, what was it actually powered by?
What about rows -1 and lower? Could an antimatter periodic table be mirrored on the top, and would this have predictive power for antimatter chemistry?
The experiment showed, amongst other things, that there was no detectable movement of the earth around the sun at all, and Einstein was unable to show that it did move at all. His special theory of relativity was put together to counter the idea of a stationary earth, which was considered too controversial for supporters of Copernicus.
Great video, but one thing I’m still struggling with is: why does the fact that the speed of light is always the same mean there is no such thing as an ether? Wouldn’t it just mean that it is wrong that the ether impacts how light travels
but if a photon moves at the speed of light and they already proved that through some transparent materials they can slow down the photons to have them almost steady, it means that the speed of light it is not always constant or not? then why there cannot be an ether? Einstein was a good mathematician but Tesla was a great scientist and he believed in the eater
Great videos mate, really enjoyed your lectures on organic chemistry too!
Nice history lesson. It seems like their faith back than required it to exist despite it was at best an hypothesis. As well you can not obviously an negative number of particles. I guess the closest thing is an anti-atom as that is the inverse in the QFs such as anti-hydrogen but in practice its basically is the same thing just opposite charge. What wasn't known back than which you missed which is chemistry in practice is an subbranch of particle physics that deals with the study of atoms and likewise how they interact. The only reason I feel why it is treated as an different field than physics is because of the historical one but in practice it is the same field.
Technically, you could put a neutron in there somewhere. But then you'd need to add proton and all the mesons and ... and... Would be nice to see the whole subatomic particle zoo alongside the periodic table. The diversity in subatomics is large.
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Michaelson Morley also said that his experiment showed that the earth's movement around the sun was effectively nill.
Couldn't there be an ether that is allways still undependently to the speed of the obeserver?
I have literally fought people over the concept of an aether
I think element zero is Light.
NOT DISPROVEN