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To: GourmetDan
Umm, for a second time...

Do you think that there is an ether? Michelson-Gale-Pearson doesn't indicate this....

Unless you are proposing a little pocket of ether that stays still around the earth so that Michelson-Gale can detect motion but follows the earth around the sun so the Michelson-Morley cannot?

No, though this was proposed, too. AFAIR, Lorentz invented his transformations due to the thought of moving bodies being somewhat compressed by the ether...

I prefer to think of ether as a kind of phlogiston...

357 posted on 03/16/2007 3:17:05 PM PDT by si tacuissem (sapere aude!)
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To: si tacuissem

Um, for a second time.

Look at Michelson-Gale, don't look at Michelson-Gale-Pearson. That's a different experiment.

Michelson-Gale does indicate an ether.

Michelson-Gale-Pearson was another attempt at a Michelson-Morley experiment and again returned a null result for the motion of the earth around the sun.


369 posted on 03/17/2007 6:46:35 PM PDT by GourmetDan
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