1, Underdetermination in relativity - The experiments that are said to be explainable by Einstein special relativity (SR) is said to be explainable by Lorentz ether theory (LET). (empirical evidence that can be explained by different theories is called underdetermination)
- This then leads to false claims by physicists - they will start saying there is no ether, no preferred frame etc.
- But those claims are just under the context of how SR interprets experiments.
- In LET those same experiments are interpreted as having ether, preferred frame etc.
- Thus those physicists who don’t add proviso to those claims that are meant in the context of SR are not stating things properly.
- Also when they claim there is no ether, no preferred frame etc that is not what the experiments show. i.e. are making claims beyond what the experiments show