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To: NorthMountain

The experiment was going to show the movement of the earth through physics, but it didn’t. Einstein had to invent e=mc2 to say that we can’t tell if we’re moving.


136 posted on 08/24/2023 1:34:10 PM PDT by ScoochDude
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To: ScoochDude
The experiment was going to show the movement of the earth through physics

NO. That is not correct. In fact, it's catastrophically wrong.

The experiment was to address the question of how light propagates. Specifically, do light waves propagate through a medium, similar to sound waves propagating through air, water, wood, etc? A leading theory at the time was that light propagated through a medium called the "luminiferous aether". The null result, that is that there is no difference in the speed of light regardless of the angle between Earth's direction of motion and the light's direction of motion, shows that there in fact is no "aether" and the light does not require a medium for propagation. Earth's motion was already clearly demonstrated through astronomy.

And mass-energy equivalence has nothing to do with it.

145 posted on 08/24/2023 1:47:39 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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