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what goes up must come down..
The development of the theory of electricity along the path
opened up by Maxwell and Lorentz gave the development of our
ideas concerning the ether quite a peculiar and unexpected turn. For
Maxwell himself the ether indeed still had properties which were
purely mechanical, although of a much more complicated kind than
the mechanical properties of tangible solid bodies. But neither
Maxwell nor his followers succeeded in elaborating a mechanical
model for the ether which might furnish a satisfactory mechanical
interpretation of Maxwell’s laws of the electro-magnetic field. The
laws were clear and simple, the mechanical interpretations clumsy
and contradictory. Almost imperceptibly the theoretical physicists
adapted themselves to a situation which, from the standpoint of their
mechanical programme, was very depressing. They were particularly
influenced by the electro-dynamical investigations of Heinrich
Hertz. For whereas they previously had required of a conclusive
theory that it should content itself with the fundamental concepts
which belong exclusively to mechanics (e.g. densities, velocities,
deformations, stresses) they gradually accustomed themselves to
admitting electric and magnetic force as fundamental concepts side
by side with those of mechanics, without requiring a mechanical
interpretation for them. Thus the purely mechanical view of nature
was gradually abandoned. But this change led to a fundamental
dualism which in the long-run was insupportable. A way of escape
was now sought in the reverse direction, by reducing the principles
of mechanics to those of electricity, and this especially as confidence
in the strict validity of the equations of Newton’s mechanics was
shaken by the experiments with β-rays and rapid kathode rays.
I may have said this before, but had spiral notebooks been invented a few decades prior, a mechanical view of nature may have been more nurtured.
http://www.whoinvented.org/who-invented-spiral-notebook/
http://www.ibiblio.org/ebooks/Einstein/Sidelights/Einstein_Sidelights.pdf
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From my point of view - somebody once said, that i'm "man of few words" (hehe) - the whole "science" is based on assumptions and some unexplainable theories...
That was my only point...