Engels anticipated No Aether discovery in Physics chronological thread From: Charles Brown Subject: Re: [marxism-thaxis] Engels anticipates No Aether in Physics Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 22:59:55 -0400 Sent from my iPhone On Apr 30, 2015, at 10:59 AM, Charles Brown wrote: Consider Engels principle that " There is nothing but matter, and its mode of existence is motion " in relation to Newton's First Law of motion "When viewed in an inertial reference frame, an object either remains at rest or continues to move at a constant velocity, unless acted upon by an external force.[2][3] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_laws_of_motion; And subsequent developments in physics in the Michaelson-Morley experiment disproving the existence of "the ether " or Absolute Rest;and Einstein's Theory of Relativity in which there is no Absolute Rest but only Relative forms if motion and a sort of Absolute Motion in the form of Light . Engels formulation is that there is no matter at rest. Matter's only mode of existence is motion, contra the great physicist Newton, who asserts that some objects are at rest in his Law. And physics had the concept of the aether as absolute rest until it was disproven. No absolute rest is basic to Einstein's famous revolutionary theory. So, Engels anticipates the critique of Newton in physics with his "absolute " motion dialectical principle . How's that for materialism as science, non-mystical dialectics ? Sent from my iPhone Re: [marxism-thaxis] Engels anticipates No Aether in Physics, Charles Brown, 07/21/2016