Re: Michelson-Morley
- From: "rotchm@xxxxxxxxx" <rotchm@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 31 Mar 2007 08:29:18 -0700
Does a classical analysis of the Michelson-Morley Experiment
suffice to explain its outcome?
Yes. But there were a few 'classical' models. depends which one you
are referring to.
The "classical" LET, the Lorentz Ether model predicts a null result of
the MMX.
Some other simpler versions of LET have the same prediction.
From what I can tell the experiment set out to measure
the absolute velocity v, of the Earth relative to the aether,
but in order to do so, the classical analysis requires
knowing what the speed of light is relative to the aether.
Suffices to know (assume) that the speed of light in the ether is
*constant*. If its constant then some models predicted that there
should be a fringe shift. Since there were no significant fringeshift
(or believed to be so), those models were cast away. SR and LET
remained.
.
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