--- On Sat, 1/2/10, archytas <[email protected]> wrote:
> Einstein, Albert, et al, The
> Principle of Relativity (New York: Dover
> Publications) page 40 in my motheaten edition - on the
> reference you
> demand. Are we to take it you have taken up reading?
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G:
I don't have this book. Could you, pls, quote the few lines about
points A and B? I'm really interested.
==================
Neil:
> One experiment, amongst many on these 'dilettante' lines
> was this:
> (J. G, Small and R. E. Phelps) - a 'new'
> version of the Michelson-Morley experiment (1970s). Instead
> of
> comparing
> round-trip speeds, as the original experiment did,
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G:
There were no "round-trips" in MM experiment. It was supposed to
prove the Aether wind by sending, reflecting and comparing two
beams, one parallel and one perpendicular to the earth surface,
thus to the alleged wind. The experiment failed giving the C
identical in both directions (within experimental error) thus
killing the Aether hypothesis and providing first solid support
to the SR. All improved versions of the experiment failed to
prove the Aether and confirmed the invariance of C.
Many new and fantastic things happen in science. Why bother about
obstinate trials to revive the Aether, or entangled acausality
allegedly demonstrated by Aspect, whose technologically impressing
experiment is totally meaningless.
Cheers
Georges.
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