Mermin doesn't start too promisingly... My complete answer to the late 19th century question “what is electrodynamics trying to tell us” would simply be this:
*Fields in empty space have physical reality; the medium that supports them does not. * Having thus removed the mystery from electrodynamics, let me immediately do the same for quantum mechanics: *Correlations have physical reality; that which they correlate does not. * In my opinion this isn't "doing the same thing". "Doing the same thing" would involve electrodynamics telling us that space doesn't exist. The aether turned out to be superfluous, but fields still have space to propagate in. Having correlations between non-existent things is a whole bigger step into the abstract. Still, onwards... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
