Re: Interesting alternative interpretation of Michelson-Morley

On Jun 28, 3:46 pm, cafei...@xxxxxxx wrote:
Seehttp://www.glafreniere.com/sa_Michelson.htm

Craig


From the website:


Quote[LaFreniere]
"The Michelson transformation.
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One should be aware that, prior to the Lorentz transformation,
Michelson discovered a mechanical property of waves while they are
evolving inside a moving frame of reference. This is the Michelson
transformation, which involves a contraction on both transverse y and
z axis, but also a more severe one along the motion x axis. Moreover
such a transformation does not produce any time effect:

x ' = (x - v t) / g^2

y ' = y / g
z ' = z / g
t ' = t

End_Quote[LaFreniere]


Hmmm,

Michelson never wrote such an idiocy, LaFreniere is making it all up.
Lorentz gave an explanation for the null result based on the Lorentz-
FitzGerald contraction. LaFreniere is a loon.




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