the first bit is that if you have a testing device, and intend to place it in different conditions,, you first need to establish a baseline that is not effected by the changing conditions. The M&M device was testing something that they could not have a base line for. there is no static condition with which to compare their machine with.
Next, the beam goes out then back along the same path. How can you tell if there is a "headwind" if you go in two directions? If I swim upstream against a current, my normal swim speed of 6 is reduced to 3 by the 3 current, but then I turn around and swim back, my speed is now 9, so the total time is now exactly the same as if there was no current at all. This is exactly what the M&M interferometer is doing. Testing nothing.
may as well spin around a room with a torch, and declare that light hits all 4 walls at the same time, so that means time, space and distance must shrink!
Oct 08, 2018 @ 17:08:01
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