Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.

 Thomas Jefferson

[Notes on Virginia (Query VI)]

Here are some common myths which are prevalent in the physics literature.

Myth #1 The Michelson-Morely experiment, and others like it, disproved the existence of an aether.

    Wrong! This experiment, and others like it, simply demonstrate an inability to detect absolute motion (or motion relative to an aether). The result is consistent with a theory of matter consisting of waves propagating in a medium with physical properties. Read the book The Wave Basis of Special Relativity for a detailed explanation. Although absolute motion may be impossible to determine, there is at least one measurable prediction of aether theory: spin angular momentum. The existence of spin angular momentum in elementary particles is a confirmed prediction of the model of the vacuum as an elastic solid. It has long been acknowledged that perturbations of an elastic medium have two types of momentum: that of the medium itself and that carried by waves through the medium. There must also be two types of angular momentum, and it has been shown that the total angular momentum in an elastic solid is described by the same spin and orbital angular momentum operators as in relativistic quantum mechanics. Operators for linear momentum and energy are also equivalent to their quantum mechanical counterparts. See “Spin Angular Momentum and the Dirac Equation” (EJTP 12, No. 33 (2015) 43–60).

Myth #2 Physical space has been proven to be non-Euclidean.

    Wrong! Experimental confirmation of General Relativity indicates that 'measurement space' is non-Euclidean. However, this result may be attributed to changes in the speed of light in a gravitational field, implying that all wave measurements are distorted compared with physical space. As Henri Poincaré once noted, “It is only the relation of the magnitude to the instrument that we measure, and if this relation is altered, we have no means of knowing whether it is the magnitude or the instrument that has changed.”(Science et Méthode 1897)

Myth #3 Maximal parity violation (non-existence of certain mirror-image processes) has been proven in experiments involving beta decay.

    Wrong! No one  has yet performed (or ever will) an experiment in which physical space is pulled inside out and inverted. What has been demonstrated is that certain physical processes occur with one type of handedness (e.g. left-handed) but not the other. That is interesting (and worth a Nobel Prize for Lee, Yang, and Wu) but it is not maximal parity violation unless the mirror image process cannot occur in nature. In the case of beta decay the mirror-image process can occur if mirror-imaging also exchanges matter and anti-matter. The conventional mathematical implementation of the parity operation does not exchange matter and anti-matter, which is why physicists generally believe in maximal parity violation. However, an alternative interpretation of the existing data is that the conventional parity operation is incorrect, and that spatial inversion exchanges matter and antimatter.

Myth #4 There is no classical interpretation for wave functions with spin 1/2.

    Wrong! Solutions of the one-dimensional wave equation consist of a superposition of forward and backward waves. In three dimensions these independent waves are separated by a 180 degree rotation. Hence they have spin of one-half and require complex spinors (or bispinors) in order to be described by a first-order differential equation in three dimensions. It is also possible to represent ordinary scalars and vectors as bilinear products of spinors, but these do not have spin 1/2 because the states which are 180 degrees apart are not linearly independent. Rotational waves in an elastic solid have the same physical operators and correlations between wave functions as found in quantum mechanics.

Myth #5 Quantum correlations cannot be obtained by classical processes.

    Wrong! “Particles” guided by “pilot waves” have been produced in the laboratory using silicone oil droplets bouncing on a vibrating fluid surface. These pilot waves have produced quantum statistics in myriad experiments, including single-particle diffraction and interference, wave-like probability distributions, tunneling, quantized orbits, and orbital level splitting. See e.g. John W. M. Bush, “Pilot-wave hydrodynamics," Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech. 47, 269-292 (2015).