What's wrong with the Speed of Light? THE MAIN LIE OF THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

The speed of light is constant. This is considered a proven fact. But is it really so? In this seditious issue, we will thoroughly understand a difficult scientific issue. Go.

The main experimental proof of Einstein's theory of relativity is considered to be the world-famous Michelson-Morley experiments on measuring the ether drift.

In their experiments, scientists studied the behavior of light. Then ether was used as a medium for the propagation of light. It was also known that the Earth revolves around the Sun at a speed of 30 kilometers per second. Hence the assumption was born that if you measure the speed of light along the course of the Earth and against its course, then you can find some difference.

The initial assumption was that the ether is absolutely motionless relative to the Sun. Those. the speed of light in one direction will be plus 30, and in the other - minus 30 km / sec.

As a result, a difference in speed was obtained that was less theoretically calculated. But this difference was, there was no talk of zero. That is, scientists received a difference in speeds of 7.5 km / s and subsequently this result was ignored. Historical attempts to measure the speed of the ether relative to the Earth have been carried out almost since the time of the Napoleonic wars and belong to Arago, Fizeau, Angstrem, Fresnel. Fizeau in 1859 and Angstrom in 1865 declared a positive result of the search for the etheric wind.

At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the relay passed to a trio of scientists: Michelson, Morley and Miller. Here is a photograph taken at the 1927 conference at the Mount Wilson Observatory.

Michelson, Morley and Miller worked at the same US university, and Miller was a 50-year professor, a close friend of Professor Morley and an associate of Michelson in his work. He used the original Michelson setup, modifying it - replacing the slab material and lengthening the light path.

According to the results of Miller's experiment, the ether wind speed was 10 kilometers per second with a probable error of ± 0.5 kilometers per second. In addition, the results of long-term measurements showed daily and annual changes.

Miller's cosmic directions were subsequently confirmed by Michelson himself, and in a conversation with Einstein, Michelson called the theory of relativity a "monster" generated by his early failed experiments.

Let's dwell on these facts in more detail. Miller carried out a gigantic measurement work: in 1925 alone, the total number of revolutions of the interferometer was 4400, and the number of individual counts exceeded 100,000.

Miller worked continuously from 1887 to 1927, that is, he spent about 40 years on measuring the speed of the "ether wind" - practically his entire active creative life, paying special attention to the purity of the experiment. And the critics of these results did not bother themselves with work.

For example, Roy Kennedy spent only… 1, 5 years on all the work, including design, manufacture of the device, its debugging, measurements, processing of results and their publication. At the same time, most of the experiments that criticize the ether are still carried out in bunkers, basements, in cryogenic or ferromagnetic armor - that is, under conditions of maximum ether screening.

After the publication of Miller's works, a conference was held at the Mount Wilson Observatory on the measurements of the "ether wind" speed. This conference was attended by Lorentz, Michelson and many other leading physicists of the time. The conference participants recognized Miller's results as worthy of attention; the proceedings of the conference were published.

But few people know that after this conference Michelson again returned to experiments to detect the "ether wind"; this work he carried out in conjunction with Peace and Pearson. According to the results of these experiments, carried out in 1929, the speed of the "ether wind" is approximately 6 km / s. In the corresponding publication, the authors of the work noted that the speed of the "ether wind" is approximately 1/50 of the speed of movement of the Earth in the Galaxy, equal to 300 km / s.

This is an important note. It says that initially Michelson tried to measure the orbital velocity of the Earth, completely losing sight of the fact that the Earth, together with the Sun, moves around the center of the Galaxy at a much higher speed; the fact that the Galaxy itself moves in space relative to other galaxies was also not taken into account.

Naturally, if all these motions are taken into account, then the relative changes in the orbital component will be insignificant. Moreover, all positive results were obtained only at a significant altitude, namely at the Mount Wilson Observatory, at an altitude of 1860 meters above sea level.

But if the so-called "world ether" partially possesses the properties of a real gas, which is why Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev placed it in his periodic system to the left of hydrogen, then these results look completely natural.