> - If you hold the end of a string, and wave it up and down, what size makes for
> a better 'wave'? It's similar to radio waves, with antenna=string.

Aha. It's The luminiferous aether!
Warning Will Robinson!
Here theyre bee Dragones.

It's like the string but without anything like the string.

Gargoyle 'Michaelson Morley"
Here lmgtfy :-)
(benign as he has no knowledge of MM yet :-) ).

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_experiment

        http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/lectures/michelson.html

Wow - with flashlets even

       http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/more_stuff/flashlets/mmexpt6.htm

Ultimately all roads will lead to James Clark Maxwell.
But for now it's done with mirrors.

             http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/Michelson-MorleyExperiment.html

And Algol and Persus andno ghost stars

              http://www.whfreeman.com/modphysics/PDF/1-1c.pdf

So, no string, apparently.
YMMV.


                 Russell
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