Episode 41: The Michelson morley Experiment - The Mechanical Universe 

WOW! This must be one of the BEST descriptions of the Michelson-Morley experiment and one of the MOST HONEST exposition of the actual history of what happened.

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thanks man for uploading such a great vid.

The visualization at 10:24 helped explain something that I couldn't find an answer to anywhere else on the internet, an absolutely amazing video as a whole as well!

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In a 1921 lecture, Einstein acknowledged that he was, in fact, aware of the Michelson-Morley experiment when he developed SR.

best f lecture ever! a story, a logical stepwise thought process and a twist at the end

Since Albert Michelson came from Virginia City, Nevada, he was featured in an episode of the TV show Bonanza as a young man with a penchant for making a nuisance of himself with his physics experiments. The Cartwrights took him under their wing to help him succeed in school and get recognized for being a gifted student.

the animations were so helpful, along with the asmr voice of course

Michelson-Morley did NOT prove that there was no Ether. The null result was explained by Fitzgerald and Lorentz as being due to the contraction of one of the measuring rods. Einstein stated that this correctly explained the failure to detect an Ether. The current quantum field theory is that all of space is filled with fluid-like substances called fields, and that all of what are termed particles are simply waves, or disturbances, of these fields. This seems to take us full circle back to the Ether theory.

In order to challenge this null result - what about performing the experiment in orbit around earth?

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This video is a nice little gem. And Goodstein's delivery is very nice. In the end, the two things he says, i.e., restoring the principle of relativity and believing that c is constant for all observers, are so simple and yet so amazing. In fact, I am wondering if it really just boils down to only 1 thing, i.e., principle of relativity, because unless c was a constant, you would be violating relativity by figuring out your speed/state of motion, via measurement of the speed of light.

Did Michelson and Morley account for the time it takes for light to reflect? Or is that process truly instantaneous?

How do we know that our results we get today aren't a result of another type of uniform interference?

Page 8:04 “the Aether is a mobile fluid w/o viscosity alt all ,,,” It is important to realize that Aether has no mechanical viscosity, but electrical viscosity known as impedance is = (u0/e0)^0.5. That “Aether is mobile” is a hint that it travels with matter it attached to and not blown through matter like a ghost wind. Unfortunately MMX apparatus was engineered assuming that Aether is some sort of wind that can blown through atoms without any attachment or drag.

With the James Webb Telescope, we now know that space is actually filled with something. Lots and lots of universes. Also antimatter! Very interesting stuff. Great videos. I'm learning a lot.

Page 18:30 the MMX successfully that Aether attached and dragged along with the apparatus at equal speed in all directions.

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i find it impossible that Einstein was not aware of the Michaelson Morely experiment. That is just not possible. It may not have been in any way central to his thinking but Im sure he was aware of it.

Following page 11:00 The light medium attached and move with the apparatus and earth at a common velocity ….

can someone explain the basics of the Lorentz transformations please? I just need the very basics

How dark and bright light is form after the light hit a screen bcz light it self is a bright one but how can u get black spot at center of screen even though light hits on same point on screen

The other thing we know about light is that it varies based upon the direction of travel of the Earth with respect to 3 different reference frames. With the new radio telescopes we can detect the speed of the Earth through the solar system, through the galaxy, and through the Universe, based upon anisotropy of light. The difference between using the radio telescopes to detect this speed and using the MMX to detect it is that there are two opposing waves in the arms of the interferometer, requiring the use of the Superposition of Waves Principle equation, or averaging, as in Steven B. Bryant's work.. His video "Relativity Fails to Explain a Key Experiment." So MMX is not detecting the Earth's rotation through the ether medium surrounding the Earth, but is detecting the ether medium dragged by the Sun, when the Earth orbits around the Sun. Check out Reg Cahill ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-T07j1PVe16s.html NASA has known the speed of the Earth in these different reference frames for decades. This is in direct violation of the Postulates of Einstein's version of relativity.

Page 17:00 The mathematics and observation in MMX result is correct and the Aether concept is wrong. Aether attached with the apparatus and drag along with it and the earth at equal velocity.

Nice series. Now to grab popcorn and dive into comments by crackpots without any education explaining how it 'acchktually' is.

Please answer! 1) If in the research activity, which M&M engaged in those years, light has been propagating in the air of our troposphere, why do physicists perform all analyzes with the value of c = 299792458 (which is the speed of light in a vacuum or space) and not the value of v = 299702547 m/s (which is the speed of light at the place of the experiment) ??? 2) Was it vacuum interferometry or not ??? 3) Have you forgotten that the earth has atmosphere ??? 4) Astronomical aberration or light aberration is a phenomenon associated with the propagation of light in space. Right? So I ask: is this phenomenon inserted or not in the mechanics (equations) currently in use? 5) Why, even today, in the presentations on this subject, we still talk about the orbital velocity of the earth ~ 30 km / s, if there is already a history (published of course!) About the total velocity of the centers of mass of the Earth. solar system (368 km/s +/- 2 km/s) and the local group of galaxies (727 km / s), as measured in 1996 at: arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/9609034.pdf THE CMB DIPOLE - THE MOST RECENT MEASUREMENT AND A SOME HISTORY - Charles H. Lineweaver, 1996. 6) Why not discuss the "Pole Light Scheme" or "Ceiling Light Scheme", which schemes were improperly named "Einstein Train Scheme"? Well, anyone with very little resources and knowledge can realize that the light spreading in our troposphere rigorously exhibits that behavior! That is, its direction of propagation is being dragged through the Earth's atmosphere, and therefore nothing, absolutely nothing that is done will result in measuring our velocity in space if light is propagating in the air. That is, the light is referenced in the compressing air mass (10 mca = ~ 1 atm); rather, in the characteristics of magnetic permeability and electrical permittivity. Moreover, the light goes from one mirror to the other and returns, in both arms of that interferometer, always at the same speed, and therefore there is no difference in optical paths. Thus, clearly, the expected result for that experiment is NULL.

I seem to have read somewhere that the results of the experiment were not null but just not what was expected if the earth was moving at 33 m per sec around the sun. If that is the case then we can read the results as no eather detected or no motion of the earth detected. Why is this not pointed out?

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No, aether has no drag. Super fluid helium is also frictionless. Super fluid helium exists and there are youtube videos about it.

And today we have virtual particles!

You're standing in a 8'x8'x8' room made of 100% reflective mirrors, from which light cannot escape. There is a 100 watt light bulb on the ceiling, hanging about a foot below it. The light has a half sphere metal shade with the base hanging square with the floor. You turn on the light.... What we all observe: - light reaches every corner of the room and fills all space in between them. - it is brighter in some areas and darker in others, but that distribution does not change.(to the observable eye) unless the light source changes, say, a flicker; but even then, the dist. stays relative, and all areas fluctuate equally. - nor does the intensity of light increase with time of the light being on - shadows are always oriented to the same direction, to the light source - we know the walls don't glow briefly when the light source is removed, neither do we observe light emanating from the room if we are on the outside of it. - when the light is turned off, the room goes dark again This raises many questions, but the 2 most obvious to me are: 1. Where does the light go? 2. When the light is on, why doesn't the room get brighter with the passage of time? The experiment also means that light reflects off all objects and materials equally well. ... So why did we use 100% reflective mirrors to run the experiment?? Remember, light is supposedly traveled billions of light years across space without dissipating or fracturing, or deflecting, or losing intensity or speed. And energy cannot be destroyed. peace

Maybe string theory is the aether of our time

calgary.rasc.ca/algol_minima.htm When the earth is traveling away from Algol the eclipses come further apart in time. When the earth is traveling towards Algol the eclipses come closer together in time. So what is causing the eclipses to come further apart in time and closer together in time? 1. The speed of light is constant and the eclipses are sometimes spaced farther apart or closer together. 2. The eclipses are spaced an equal distance from each other and the light is slowing down and speeding up relative to the earth as it moves past the earth.

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I add some aether info as follows. (1) Google Demjanov's twin media (air & carbondisulphide) MMX done in Obninsk on 22 June 1970 which showed an aetherwind of 140 km/s min & 480 km/s max during a day (this was the horizontal projection of the background aetherwind which is approx 500 km/s south to north blowing approx 15 deg off Earth's spin-axis). This genius 1st order MMX was 1000 times as sensitive & accurate as the oldendays 2nd order MMXs. (2) The MMXs were never null. (3) The correct calibration needed to allow for length contraction caused by the aetherwind. (4) The correct calibration needed to allow for the Fresnel Drag of light by the air. Prof Reg Cahill explains. (5) All MMX's suffer a linear ever-growing fringe-shift that gets larger with each rotation. All MMXs that employ vertical fringes will detect this signal. This includes laser MMXs. Horizontal fringes do not suffer from this effect. Because at least one mirror has to be turned a little (horizontally) to give the desired fringes then this results in a difference in a beam's horizontal radius from the axis of rotation. Mirrors approaching the axis in effect eat waves/fringes, & mirrors going away from the axis in effect vomit waves/fringes, the eating equaling the vomiting, but in Michelson's & Miller's MMXs the non-symmetry of the beams resulted in non-equal eating/vomiting, resulting in a signal that was periodic in a full turn. The desired sought-for MMX signal (fringe shift) being periodic in a half turn. University MMXs will detect this signal if the MMX is rotated lots of times, because this signal is ever-growing, 100 rotations will give 100 times the signal that is gotten from 1 rotation. Stopping or slowing the rotation has no effect on this signal, ie it doesnt reduce this signal, the size of the signal depends only on the number of rotations, it is ever-growing. Michelson & Miller deducted this signal from their raw readings, to do so they assumed that it was linear, which it is, or, it should be, but their MMX was top-heavy & suffered from a changing lean (it floated in a mercury filled trough), plus their MMX had a sloppy pin (ie axis of rotation), hence their LEGFS was not always very linear (but that is another interesting story in its own right). (6) Secondly the Michelson Morley MMX, & the Morley Miller MMXs, suffered a spurious signal that was periodic in a full turn. This was because their mirrors were at two levels, hence some of their light beams had to angle up & later down. This then introduced a spurious signal (fringe shift) due to angle contraction of the mirrors in their apparatus, which changed the effective lengths of the angled beams. I call such angle contraction Esclangon angle contraction, as Esclangon is i think the first person to bring it to the attention of science (but he didn't mention that it must also happen in an MMX). EAC is due to Lorentzian Length Contraction of solids (which should be called FitzGerald LC as FitzGerald was the first to predict it) which is due to any change in the aetherwind blowing throo a solid (which changes the size/shape of solids)(because solids are held together by electric forces)(these forces being affected by the wind).

Ether flows into mass. See Robert Distinti for details.

I have predıcted with my theory and my formula 6.3 tımes greater speed of light which is measured as if apparently inside of M87 black hole. I SUGGEST HAVING A LOOK AT THE FIRST PART OF MY THEORY AND MY FIRST FORMULA WHICH DETERMINES A LINEAR VELOCITY OF...6.3 TIMES GREATER THAN THE SPEED OF LIGHT, ETC. AND I TOLD WHERE OUR MEASURED CONSTANTS ARE ROOTED IN, we need to change the concept of matter that makes us imprisoned by all kinds of impressions and especially by accepting the vacuum illusion which it has been sitting comfortably in it

Now repeat the Michelson-Morley interferometer experiment, this time accelerate the contraption somehow. Interference now?

The wrong question was asked. Whats to be determined is whether the beams of light, after being seperated, and that each have a different path distance , will converge at the same time or not. If same convergent time occurs, then, it can be concluded theres presence of Aether. As light will be propagated as waves, the doppler effect will occur to account for the same time of convergence inspite of difference in light path distance due to the rotation of Earth. If theres a difference in convergent time, then light has propagated through empitness , as the longer light path will take longer time. Then light is moving like a particle or packet of energy. The doppler phenomenon rules that light speed remains same regardless of the motion of the light source towards the recieving position. What is distorted is frequency and wave lengths. The Mechelson Morley experiment did determine theres aether.

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Ether is space that takes anything time to move thru. Non ether is nothing, not even time. Therefore, it does not exist. How to prove that i do not know. I am remembering the kids story Neverending Story and the Steven King story Lasalear(sp) where the monsters left nothing in their path. Maybe deep in a black hole would be the answer where even all matter and time "disappears".

The "null" believe is not true. The results was one third of what was expected.

Grt scientist ever....unfortunately underrated...

Finally 0 interpretation errors

if they only new they needed a gause meter..... we are bathed in emf daily.

9:53 - 11:39 15:15 - 16:32

The interferometer didn’t fail to detect the æther, rather it failed to detect the motion of the earth relative to said æther.

Great video I'm surprised with those flatearth dummies saying it's a lie. Maybe it's failure in knowledge, or maybe ethical failure.

Floated in a pool of mercury!

17:11 - maybe it's just that simple - the earth is not moving. Huh.

The experiment finally worked...for gravity waves.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ip_jdcA8fcw.html Hey, caltech good steins or stones, tell us what law of physics forces the upper shiny dot to go not vertically, as school books tell and as Michelson knew in 1881, but forgot in 1887?

If there is no aether then what is dark matter.

1913 Effect Fringe Shift 1887 Failed

The aether flows over the flat motionless firmamentally contained earth. Drop the heliocentric moving globe model, pick up the aether.

The same old Einsteinology krapp, re the MMX result being null. It was null in the broad sense re the original expectation of there being a 30 kmps aetherwind due to Earth orbiting throo a supposedly fixed aether (Michelson finding only say 5 kmps)(Munera says 6 kmps after correcting for Michelson's averaging errors)(Cahill says over 300 kmps if properly calibrated to include Lorentz contraction). But i enjoyed listening to Michelson's voice, the only good bit of the video. He believed in aether to the end. Demjanov uzing a twin media (air & carbon disulphide) found a horizontal component of aetherwind at Obninsk with a min of 140 kmps & a max of 480 kmps during a sidereal day (22 June 1970). Demjanov's MMX was approx 1000 times as sensitive & accurate as Michelson's 1887 air-MMX.

An Explanation by Observation is Disproof Methodology by default, WYSIWYG e-Pi-i universal pulse-evolution holography, a Unitary-duality Resonance in/of QM-TIME Singularity-point Completeness equivalent to a hologram of Fusion-Fission Function real-time relative-timing sum-of-all-histories frozen phase-locked coherence-cohesion Actuality. If we had invested our own lives in a particular Explanation+/-, that was made certain by actual Physics example, a Sciencing categorization approach compels the Agnostic neutrality of seeing the fact until another example denies the Observation, but it doesn't happen when the mechanism is applicable all-ways all-at-once here-now-forever.

Page 7:08 “the Aether must be very stiff and incompressible ,,,” Is that another mechanical biased concept for ignorance?

This experiment proves that light travels at exactly THE SAME speed in all directions regardless of the fact the earth is rotating at 1500 mph, the earth is orbiting the sun at 45,000 mph, and the sun is orbiting the galaxy at 500,000 mph. So this Michelson Morley experiment does not disprove the aether, this experiment disproves Special Relativity.

why did they have to invent the idea of "either" as a medium for light to propagate? Was it not already established and known at that time that light is an electromagnetic wave and that electric and magnetic fields are the medium of light wave as it propagates?

Sagnac Effect proves relativity of Einstein is wrong . If you rotate the interferometer then there is slight change in the pattern of fringes .

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The experiment was flawed from its conception and never could possibly give any data of value. I can prove it easily too. The way they were thinking about their math was all wrong. They viewed this Aether nonsense was some fluid the light traveled through, and calculated like it was putting drag in the light. That's why they calculated the perpendicular path to be along a triangular path. I get it, you think of a swimmer swimming across a river with the current coming from the side. The swimmer is going to be moved sideways each part of the trip. Also, they viewed the light moving with or against the current as being slowed or being sped up, when this isn't how it would have actually worked. Think about sound emanating from a moving train. The sound wave doesn't get dragged along with the train, it just moves out from the spot the train was when it made the sound. Where the train went after making the sound no longer matters to the sound wave. It has its starting point and for as long as it exists and isn't impeded by something or reflected, it will constantly be going out from that point in space. Light, I believe is like this, and his experiment could never possibly detect it. The problem is, the light is moving from a set point at a constant speed. Nothing it affecting it speed in the experiment at all. The experiment is moving relative to the photon's emission point. Let's say, the experiment is moving to the away from the emission source. So, in their eyes, the Aether would be moving towards the emission source. As the photons head out, the splitter mirror is moving away from them. They hit it and part of them keep going forward and the others are reflected perpendicular to the equipment movement. Now, the reflection happens so quickly relative to the motion of the splitter mirror, the perpendicular traveling photons got straight up. To them, they've been reflected on a 90 degree angle, so they head straight towards the mirror, which is slowly moving to the right, perpendicular to their motion, so it has no affect on their journey. The light going forward is losing ground as the moving mirror it's chasing is creating more distance between them. Still, it hits it and returns to the splitter. Now, the splitter is moving towards it, shortening the distance between them by the same amount the light lost chasing the mirror behind it. (Effectively, it's round trip is Xnew=((x+d)+(x-d))/2 or Xnew=x). That trip did nothing at all and would reflect a motion no matter how different the time one direction took over the other. The perpendicular photon is reflected straight back and while it journeys to the detector, it is also shifting sideways, but is is having zero effect on the distance the photon has to travel to meet it. Since the straight and back light erased any effects of motion on itself by the time it reached the splitter mirror, it is perfectly in sync with the perpendicular light and they both travel together in sync now and for always to the detector. Note, light travels at about a foot a nanosecond, roughly. We all know the perpendicular light shifted sideways from where the two beams split, so the beams aren't in total alignment. Still I calculater it out, and that means it would shift sideways by about 0.000183mm per foot the perpendicular light would have traveled. Still, since the mirrors were moving, all that would happen would be it would shift sideways a super minuscule amount. It would have zero effect on its travel time at all, because the mirrors are moving sideways from its perspective. At best, if you made the lights path many thousands of feet, you could manage to possibly me so off the mark it missed the mirror or the detector. Still, it would be in sync with the other been. Of course, with that kind of setup, the Earth's rotation would likely bend the mirrors path from being straight and it would skew the angles ome and you would end up with faulty results anyways. While the experiment was seriously flawed and gave a false negative, it also gives us the answer how to fix it. If the Earth's velocity cannot affect the speed of light, like a train cannot affect the constant speed of sound, that measuring each direction of the path heading into or against Earth's ultimate direction of travel will show different results. Those differening times can easily be used to then calculate Earth's ultimate velocity. The secret is to never use a mirror. Sending anything traveling along at a constant speed relative to another constant speed will never show a result if you have it turn around and go the opposite direction. It will always end up averaging the route journey and erase any Delta value. The light beams should be measured only from source directly to detector. It would be best to have two opposing beams running Iin parallel, both fired at the same time. The detectors can then compare the differences and then see if there is really a change in the timing.

Faked by misconceptions of Aether.

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Assumes earth is a globe. Assumes earth spins. Aether wins

It sounds like the ether was just time and space

Both Michelson and Morley assumed that the speed of light is not altered upon reflection by a moving mirror. This critical error produced a small variation in the distance traveled by the light between mirrors in the rest frame of ether. sites.google.com/view/physics-news/home/speed-of-light

The earth is stationary.

This did not disprove aether. It disproved the current idea at the time that the aether is somehow affected by particulate matter. Einstein's blunder was based on the fact that he abandoned the aether altogether because of pressure from his professor and peers. But to correct the problem, he had to reintroduce a medium he dubbed "the new ether". Quantum field Theory is the QM version of the aether, but has significant deficits because many of its findings indicate a fluid substance unaffected by gravity. (If it facilitates a force, then it can't be affected by that force, which is where its absolute viscocity comes in. It acts like metal moves electrons just as Maxwell diagrammed in his definition of the aether in a volume of the British Encyclopedia.)

Let's not confuse lack of aether drift with lack of aether.

I think what we call aether could be space time it can combine to form the unified theory that einstein failed to explain

10:24 - You cant feel the motion of the earth spin coz its too big, but then a small beam of light with its fastest speed known to mankind moving perpendicular to earths motion travels lesser due to that? What a load of horse shit?

Very poorly done. The main difference between water and light waves not mentioned. In classic water waves the water particles oscillate up and down but do not travel longitudinally, only the up and down oscillation does. So a medium is necessary which is the same as the oscillating particle, namely water. Ditto for waves in a rope. The medium is the rope. Thus the medium is ALWAYS the same as the oscillating, non travelling particle. In marked contrast the photon does travel longitudinally so it does not require a medium to oscillate up and down and if there were a medium it would be made up of non travelling light itself which is patently ridiculous. Also does the photon oscillate up and down (transversely) physically while also physically travelling longitudinally, or is the transverse wave a wave of probability with the wavelength proportional to the photons energy? Probably the latter. But alas none of this was discussed. What a shame!

He proved the earth is not in motion.

i still dont get how this proves that the earth is the center of the universe. LOL some of you will know what im talking about. lol

Ether does exist and I can prove it mathematically.. I can explain the result of the experiment too with ether..

Michelson was correct. His instrument was not dependable. If he had turned the plane so that it was perpendicular to the earth's surface, he would have detected a large change in the fringe shift.

This video is not telling the truth! The original protocol for that michelson-moorley-experiment in 1887 documents a result of around 10 km/sec ... ... which is much below the expected value around 30 km/sec ... but explains why Michelson never gave up doing further experiments ...

Sorry but... the ether (aether) does exist.

I get that this is a physics video and all, but are we just gonna ignore that the 1800s were politically tranquil? Not full of anti-immigration propaganda and that "settling" the western frontier was pretty deadly and destructive to Native Americans? No? Okay then

His experiment was very successful…in proving that the earth is stationary and not flying through a vacuum of space 🙄

Galileo was wrong, the church was right.

no, I can't stand this

Speed of light is enormous implies ether density is negligible not it's stiffness is very high..y u jerks interpret it in a wrong way..

If you really look into unbiased opinion beforehand Wikipedia says both theory's are correct now how on Earth are both correct hahaha it cannot be relatively obviously is exactly what it is called a theory just like if I said my theory is green is purple you would say ahhh no it isn't that would mean I'd be like relative in fact Einstein couldn't get around this so falsely made up relative okie dokie ok then moving forward let's truly consider and appreciate and honor the Father of creation yes the Lord of host is he!!!!!

lmao...only a jester would present this experiment as one that was designed to test for an aether...they were trying to proving earth was flying through space and failed...... obviously. lmao

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This experiment is wrong... So wrong