I have always considered mass to be an aether sink. This experiment needs to be performed on the space station.
Terry On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > An unfolding story- and elegant and convincing demo (of something) : > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T0d7o8X2-E > > Rotatable Michelson-Morley Interferometer experiment. > > Possible implications: > > 1) An optical gravitometer? > > 2) the mirrors and/or the beamsplitter experience a torque > > 3) Michelson-Morley got it wrong to a large extent, and there is an > aether drift that becomes most apparent when amplified by the strongest > local field, which effectively overwhelms the contribution of larger > non-local fields ? > > 4) A 4th dimension interface is measureable perpendicular to gravity > vector? > > 5) When you make incorrect initial assumptions, nothing you do > thereafter is valid > > 6) ?????? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson-Morley > > Why would the "luminiferous aether" operate this way? > > M-M and subsequent research based everything on assumptions which may not be > valid – i.e. the way aether would operate relative to the solar mass and to > a lesser extent the galactic center of mass. The earth’s field, although > weak in comparison to the Suns, is relatively strong so that the vertical > alignment shifts all of the prior assumptions into a different focus, so to > speak. > > … but hey, someone back then did have the foresight (or luck) to call it > “luminiferous” which might point to a photonic connection which has been > minimized in the past?