Re: Kolker's False Claims...
From: Jon Sheehan (spam-be-gone_at_nospam.com)
Date: 01/03/05
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Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 09:31:44 GMT
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 Paul Stowe wrote:
> OK fine. Show us (I challenge anyone) where in Maxwell's work
> it/he says that the MMX should have found something.
In a letter published in the proceedings of the Royal Society in 1880
(page 108) Maxwell pointed out that no first-order effect of the
Earth's motion on the round-trip speed of light was to be expected,
because the time of the round trip would be affected only by an amount
proportional to the SQUARE of the ratio (v_earth/v_light). He doubted
whether such a small effect could be measured, but a young
experimentalist named Albert Michelson read Maxwell's letter and took
it as a challenge to develop optical interference techniques sensitive
enough to detect the effect of the Earth's motion through the ether
predicted by Maxwell. But when the experiment was performed, the
fringe shifts predicted by Maxwell were not found.
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