Re: An Explanation of Dayton Miller’s Anomalous “Ether Drift” Result


Sergey Karavashkin wrote:
Tom Roberts писал(а):
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An upper limit on “absolute
motion” of 6 km/sec is derived from his raw data, fully consistent with
similar experimental results and the prediction of Special Relativity.
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Dear Tom, I’m so pleased to see that you already confirm Miller’s
result not zero but 6 km/s – even higher than Vavilov estimated. His
estimation was about 3 km/s (true, after Michelson’s data), i.e. 10
times less than expected.

But you are wrong, of course, that SRT predicts it. Unfortunately, in
the space-time contraction, according to the Fitzgerald hypothesis
which Lorentz and Einstein used in their interpretations, the result
must be strongly zero. Predicting some, even little, speed with respect
to aether, relativists have to admit the motion with respect to some
absolute reference frame which is strongly rejected by Relativity.
Though I much disagree with your manner to analyse, but if even with
all your manipulations with data you had to admit the same value of
speed as Miller claimed, this in the best way evidences Miller’s
results stable. There cannot be any other conclusion, so great thanks
from aetherists to you, Tom. Such insistent supporter of Relativity
could not please me better.

Sergey

No idiot, SR predicts a non-zero result. Very small but non zero. The
only instance when the result would be zero is if the arms of the
interferometer were perfectly equal and if the Earth didn't have a
variable speed. A correct application of relativity shows a result that
depends on (L1-L2)*(v/c)^2 where L1-L2 is the (very small) difference
in the length of the two arms of the interferometer. But a cretin like
you wouldn't know that.

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