Re: michelson morley experiment


"dda1" <rangeravenger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Tom Roberts wrote:



"easy", no. But it has been done, for all known aether theories except
those that happen to be experimentally indistinguishable from SR. By
literally hundreds of different experiments [see the FAQ for
references].


Tom,

There is no aether theory that is "experimentally indistiguishable"
from SR. The closest one is GGT (see the 1988 Gagnon paper on your own
website) and the Gagnon paper shows a way of separating GGT from SR.
CM Will has a 1992 paper that explains very well that it takes
additional ad-hoc assumptions in order to make modern aether theories
"indistinguishable" from SR. So why propapgate this myth? Just because
John Baez wrote this on his website?

Ddda1, I assume that you don't know that Einstein had his own peculiar ether
theory. Apart of that, why do *you* propagate the myth that Lorentz,
Langevin etc. were mistaken when they taught SRT? What calculation errors
did they make? Over the years we've seen many such claims that were all
debunked. The only such claim that sofar hasn't been debunked is by Bilge,
simply because he didn't (couldn't?) back it up with a concrete, real-world
example by which we could put his claim to the test.

Harald


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