Re: An Analysis of the Resolution of the Michelson-Morley Experiment

From: mountain man (hobbit_at_southern_seaweed.com.op)
Date: 02/01/05 

Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 06:03:56 GMT

"Uncle Al" <UncleAl0@hate.spam.net> wrote in message
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> mountain man wrote:
>>
>> "Tom Roberts" <tjroberts@lucent.com> wrote in message
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>> > mountain man wrote:
>> >> "Tom Roberts" <tjroberts@lucent.com> wrote:
>> >>>So why does the presence of a solid not do the same?
>> >>>How about liquids?
>> >>>Or glasses?
>> >>>Or plasma (e.g. inside a He-Ne laser)?
>> >>>Why does type of material matter so much more than its refractive
>> >>>index?
>> >>
>> >> See the summary/explanation below.
>> >
>> > You didn't address this. To me, this is a critical issue of
>> > believability
>> > of Cahill's theory -- why are solids excluded? (etc.) I know of no
>> > other
>> > theory in which type of material matters for optical properties, index
>> > of
>> > refraction tells it all. And at least one of his articles simply
>> > dismisses
>> > experiments using solid media without giving a reason.
>> >
>> > So why does the presence of a solid not do the same? And how about
>> > liquids, glasses, and plasma?
>>
>> [Cahill]:
>>
>> "The insight here is that transparent solids don't behave like gases.
>> The explanation appears to be that the Lorentz contraction in the
>> direction of motion affects, via the elasticity of the solid, the
>> refractive index in the orthogonal direction.
>>
>> In other words solids are much more complex than gases,
>> which display no such effect."
>
> Non-linear optical effects in media have nothing whatsoever to do with
> Lorentz invariance. Breaking the speed of light in media is child's
> play - Cerenkov radiation. Doesn't mean squat vs. breaking lightspeed
> in vacuum.

It is an attempted explanation for what appears
to be observed in experiment. ie: null results in
vacuum and solid state devices, but positive results
in gas-mode interferometer devices.

> Brown, you are an ignorant ineducable idiot.

One day you will learn you know nothing.
Have a nice day Crackpot Patrolman Schwartz. 

-- 
Pete Brown
Falls Creek
OZ
www.mountainman.com.au

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