Bob Paddock wrote:
> >I have been beating at this Michelson Moreley for some time and it seems
> >that there is a crack.
>
> More like a very large hole:
>
> Some thing I saved from the KeelyNet message base in 1992:
>
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> By Erol Torun 07/20/92 from the KeelyNet BBS.
>
> "Concerning the Silvertooth experiment: The
> Michelson-Morley experiment, which did not show any
> translational motion through an aether or other medium of
> propagation, was later shown to have a fundamental flaw:
> The standing waves that are reflected back onto a mirror
> become phase locked on the mirror, and hence to its motion
> through space. Silvertooth built a standing wave experiment
> that avoids the phase locking encountered in the
> Michelson-Morley setup. It uses a configuration similar to
> the Sagnac experiment, which many years ago did detect
> motion relative to an aether. Silvertooth's addition was a
> sensor capable of measuring the spacing between standing
> wave nodes.
What standing waves? Are you by any chance saying that the wave of light might
be standing in space?
> This spacing is dependent upon the orientation of
> the apparatus relative to the Earth's motion, and this fact
> made the Earth's motion measurable. Silvertooth measured
> the 378 km/s motion of the Earth in this experiment.
> Some references are: Silvertooth, E.W., "Experimental
> Detection of the Ether", Speculations in Science and
> Technology, Vol.10, No.1, page 3 (1987) In that same
> issue beginning on page 9, is an excellent "Plain English"
> summary by H. Aspden entitled 'On the Silvertooth
> Experiment'." [We are heading toward the Constellation
> Leo.]
>
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>
> "Standing Save Sensor" by E.W. Silvertooth and
> S.F. Jacobs, Applied Optics /Vol. 22. #9/1 May 1983.
>
> "We conclude that this standing wave sensor has an effective
> thickness < [greek upside down Y]/100 and clearly capable of
> very respectable measurements. The device is rugged, easy to
> adjust, and capable of miniaturization. One would expect that
> these features, along with the unique single-beam
> configuration, would make this interferometer useful for
> some as yet unidentified application.
Thanks for the refferences.
Is the relativity a conspiracy of the dumb, then?
Regards Slavek.
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