Here is a 30 min video (made in the 1980s) about the Michelson Morely experiment with some historical context. Whereas as most of his contemporaries embraced the null result, Michelson always regarded the experiment as a failure.
Episode 41: The Michelson morley Experiment (made in the 1980s) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip_jdcA8fcw His experimental apparatus was based on the assumption that motion through the aether can be instrumentally decomposed into a transverse component and a longitudinal component. However, I think this is a methodological error that results from conflating the motion of a flowing fluid with a wave propagating in a medium. In reality all parts of the apparatus moving with speed V through the aether will either send light forward with speed (C-V) or send light rearward with speed (C+V) in the frame of the apparatus. What was analysed as transverse motion was really just forward motion. (These additive and subtractive rules ensure that the speed of light wrt to the aether frame is always C.) Harry On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 4:18 PM ROGER ANDERTON <r.j.ander...@btinternet.com> wrote: > The problem with "aether" is that there are lots of different types of > aether that can be proposed; so how is it to be defined; on the simplest > level-> could take it as definition that-> a wave has a medium; and then -> > if light is a wave then it should have a medium. > > > I explain the apparent confirmations of relativity theory-> "they" are > lying; by such tactics as sin of omission. > > > > > > > > ------ Original Message ------ > From: "H LV" <hveeder...@gmail.com> > To: vortex-l@eskimo.com > Sent: Saturday, 28 Nov, 20 At 21:10 > Subject: Re: [Vo]:De Hilster on Einstein fallacy > > One of the panelists offers what could be called a weak criticism of > relativity theory. > He says all aether theories are irrelevant because they can't be proven or > disproven, so it is unfair > for relativists to assert anything about the existence or non-existence of > an aether. > > However, if the Michelson-Morely experiment had produced a fringe shift > that would have confirmed > the existence of aether. Michelson took the null result to mean there was > something wrong with his > understanding of the aether rather than as concept to be dismissed as > irrelevant or obsolete. > Any new aether will have to explain the null result and all other apparent > confirmations of relativity theory. > > Harry > > On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 11:05 AM ROGER ANDERTON < > r.j.ander...@btinternet.com> wrote: > >> fudging math is standard part of science/physics >> >> >> Einstein's work not even properly translated from German into English, >> and was probably done by his wife anyway; so all built on misunderstandings >> as per latest talk at ANPA-> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWPi5WC_IV0&feature=emb_logo >> >
