Re: The bungle in MIchelson Morley Interferometry experiment

On Tue, 3 Jun 2025 19:58:03 +0000, Richard Hachel wrote:

Le 03/06/2025 à 15:02, bertietaylor@myyahoo.com (Bertitaylor) a écrit :
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The Earth it moves.

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No, it doesn't move, except for negligible accelerations.
This is what early physicists like Galileo understood, and what has
extended to all of modern physics.
The Earth's speed around the Sun can be considered Galilean at 30,000
meters per second.

Now that is movement.
How can the Earth move at 30km/sec and still be said to be at rest!
No wonder Arindam thinks you are a totally crazy lot, you stupid e=mcc
wallahs.
woof woof woof woof
Bertietaylor

Which corresponds, in its own frame of reference, to complete rest.
You can turn all the branches of the Minkowski-Morley apparatus as you
wish, and everything happens as if the apparatus weren't moving.
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Is it the passing train that's moving? Or me, relative to it? Galileo
said
it depends on the observer's position. For the train passenger, sitting
in
his armchair reading, it's the landscape that's moving.
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Well, in relativity, it's no different.
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I am perfectly still, and it is the Andromeda galaxy that is crossing
space, approaching mine at incredible speed.
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A resident of Andromeda will regard my words with great astonishment.
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The Michelson-Morley apparatus is systematically at rest. Today, we
could
observe shifts of a few thousandths of a millimeter in its movements,
yet
nothing is measured; the Earth does not move one bit in the ether.
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So, physically speaking, it is not moving (its acceleration towards the
sun being negligible); it is in essentially Galilean motion, and since
there is no ether, everything happens as if the apparatus were not
moving
in space. As if it were at absolute rest relative to itself, and in an
invariant manner.
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Bertietaylor

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R.H.

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