Michelson / Morley Experiment

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     Even today some `text-book' physicists claim that the Michelson / Morley Experiment
     "proved" something or other. It could not prove anything at that time.             


     The experiment tried to find out if "electro-magnetic" (and maybe nuclear) forces were
     enabled by an ether (aether) permeating the Universe. They compared speed-of-travel of
     light-beams to decide this.

       mirror C
        ______     
 
           |

         b | 
           
           |        

            /         |
LIGHT -a - /  -  c  - |mirror E
          /           | 
          | |

         x| |y
         -----
         |   | 
       comparator 

      So a light-beam was sent to a "splitter" / which let 1/2 beam pass thru to mirror E
      while 1/2 beam reflected left to mirror C. [Both mirrors were equal distance]

      The return beams (x & y) should be in-phase and produce a "zero-beat" output at
      COMPARATOR. If either beam was "faster" (earlier) or "slower" (later) than the other
      then an "output", actually an `interference pattern', would show at COMPARATOR 

      The apparatus was then turned so that line "a - E" was aligned with Equator and
      experiment was switched "ON"

    [ The thinking was: the Earth turns East about 1000 mph (at Equator) so if there is an
      "aether / ether" enabling emr (light), then the light-beam "c" would be slower (because
      traveling "upstream") than beam "b" ]

      background at http://www.perceptions.couk.com/uef/twoslit.txt 

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      Flaws of "theory" behind the Michelson / Morley Experiment:-

      By conventional theory 

      Athough light-beam "c" _would_ theoretically be a tiny bit slower (but not measurably,
      even by today's `science'), a "relativity" effect would shrink the distance "a - E" by
      exactly the same proportion. Result = ZERO 

      [ Lorentz, (and Fitzgerald independently) realized this. Perhaps it led him to develop his
      own `Relativity' theorem. ]  

      --

      No-one suspected the huge radial `speed' of the UEF field which gives the effects of 
      an `ether'.

      Emr - electromagnetic effects (like nuclear "forces") are secondary effects of UEF;
      and therefore its presence is non-observable by present science - highly sensitive
      measurements which are needed aren't yet feasible.

      An experiment that can disprove "Principle of Galilean Relativity" (which claims
      `if you're in a closed spaceship you can't tell, by any on-board experiment, if you're
      moving or not') - is one measuring a _direct_ effect.

      The _directly observable_ effect of UEF is an `inertial' effect.  Sensitivity to
      effect is increased for masses with greater angular momentum - so a gyroscope or a
      pendulum (or the Earth itself) always "knows" its position w.r.t. nearby masses and
      to the "fixed stars"

      And that inertial `information' is transmitted instantaneously - directly.

      If it were not, the Earth would've been flung off into space billions of years ago.

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      I.e.
      first order: inertial effect - "instantaneous" & "non-local"

       - careful, a gravitational "field" might seem to belong here
      but it is a `shadow' in the inertial effect.

      second order: electromagnetic ( ~ as "independently constant: c") "limited"

      see also
      http://www.perceptions.couk.com/uef/mass.html &      
      http://www.metaresearch.org/cosmology/speed_of_gravity.asp 
 
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