A reconsideration of current faulty Michelson-Morley experiment explanations
Date: Saturday, July 30, 2005 @ 08:23:30 UTC
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We all know the famous Michelson-Morley experiment, which is currently attributed as the cornerstone for Einstein’s foundation of his relativity theory. All textbooks in Physics until now have quoted this experiment in a happy but hasty way of explanation, then to deny Aether existence. To detect the fault of current explanations, I sincerely request you to open the textbooks that explain Michelson-Morley experiment and carefully look at the experiment equipment diagram with a careful imaging of what really happens in such experiment.
ALL TEXT BOOKS HAVE COMPUTED THE LENGTHS OF LIGHT PATHS AS IF THE LIGHT BEAMS WERE TRAVELLING IN IDEALLY PERPENDICULAR PATHS IN MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT EQUIPMENT. THIS IS NOT CORRECT.
Just remember that our Earth is moving with a high speed in space, the Michelson- Morley equipment also move with the same speed in space. This is the fact Michelson and Morley have based on to devise their equipment to check the existence of Aether.
By this motion of the equipment, any light beams that are perpendicular to the course path of Earth’s motion (and at the same time, equipment’s) will be lost somewhere in the space far behind the equipment and will not be reaching the receptor end to cause interference.
To compensate for the motion of the equipment, only light beams that are slightly slanting, with an angle alpha away from the perpendicular line to the path of Earth’s motion, will be able to reach the receptor end. Also by this slanting angle alpha, the center reflector-splitter mirror in Michelson-Morley experiment equipment is not ideally 45 degrees slanting to the path of Earth’s motion
Michelson and Morley have probably, unconsciously and without notice, tilted the centerpiece mirror away from the ideal 45-degree position.
By all of these, the lengths of the two light paths are equal and will not cause interference at all.
Perhaps we can stop using Michelson-Morley experiment to deny Aether existence and have to think out another experiment to check whether Aether exists or not.
What really lead Einstein’s mind to his extra ordinary theory is quite strange enough.
Sincerely yours, an Aether and ZPE supporter,
Aether quest.
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