Society for the Imposition of Alternative Cosmologies

The origins of Society for the Imposition of Alternative Cosmologies (SIAC) are not so much hidden as they are not taken seriously. SIAC is widely – for given values of widely – known to have been created as a sort of allergic academic reaction to the Michelson-Morley experiment. There were a number of physicists who refused to accept at first that the luminiferous aether did not actually exist; and barely enough of them went mad during the horrors of World War I to sustain a crackpot group. Essentially, they decided that if the laws of physics did not support the concept of a substance that allowed light to propagate through it, then the laws of physics would have to be changed.

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