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To: ETL

The Michelson-Morley experiments.


11 posted on 02/11/2016 11:50:33 PM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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Yes, the detection device is basically the same: an interferometer

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=michelson+morley+experiment+


12 posted on 02/12/2016 12:05:52 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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...actually that connection is deeper than it may first appear, as the MME was designed to detect the “ether”, what they believed at the time to be an absolute (stationary) reference frame, a sort of space “fabric”. Of course they failed to detect it, but instead discovered (18 years! before Einstein’s first relativity theory), that light maintains the same speed regardless of the circumstances. Einstein claimed he hadn’t heard of the MME results prior to formulating his theory, despite the fact that his mentor, Hendrick Lorentz, knew full well about it, and had come up with his Lorentz Contraction and dilation formulas in an effort to explain the puzzling MME results.


14 posted on 02/12/2016 12:18:03 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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