Because the idea of the ether they were after (i.e. were trying to
confirm) was completely mechanicistic. They never expected light would
"sink" or "shorten" into the direction of movement. That is,
*longitudinally*.
Corolarium 1: The Universe is not mechanicistic. Light, at least,
completely evades a mere mechanicistic representation. If the Universe
were mechanicistic, it would be a dead, and dark, one.
Corolarium 2: That "sink" or "shortening" must imply something.
Conservation of energy, remember?
Now, one hundred years after, give or take a couple of decades: Are we
ready to really understand this? Or we'll continue to play shell games
and dumb?
On 09/18/2012 12:40 AM, francis wrote:
I don't have an issue with the M&M experiment disproving any etheric
bias in a "SPATIAL" direction but think Lorentzian contraction and
time dilation are evidence of an etheric river of virtual particles
intersecting our 3d plane from a perpendicular dimension at a velocity
we as chalkboard figures can only experience as C, In our 3D plane we
can only remotely observe the effect of dilation by comparing objects
in vastly different inertial frames. My posit is that VP don't pop
into and out of existence so much as they grow into the present from
the future and then shrink into the past and are responsible for the
normally unexploitable force that moves gas randomly in all
directions. Casimir plates by their geometry aggregate and segregate
these forces from below the plank scale up into the nano scale while
restricting gas motion to 2d such that the perpendicular forces the VP
exert on the gas are no longer divided equally between 3 spatial axii
and therefore is no longer random motion... becoming exploitable to
generate heat or if driven in reverse to exert force on the ether for
propulsion.
Fran
