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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/123456789/8819| Title: | The Michelson and Morley 1887 Experiment and the Discovery of Absolute Motion |
| Keywords: | General Relativity Reference Frames |
| Issue Date: | 1-Jun-2013 |
| Publisher: | HEXIS (Arizona, USA) |
| Description: | Physics textbooks assert that in the famous interferometer 1887 experiment to detect absolute motion Michelson and Morley saw no rotation-induced fringe shifts - the signature of absolute motion; it was a null experiment. However this is incorrect. Their published data revealed to them the expected fringe shifts, but that data gave a speed of some 8 km/s using a Newtonian theory for the calibration of the interferometer, and so was rejected by them solely because it was less than the 30 km/s orbital speed of the Earth. A 2002 post relativistic-effects analysis for the operation of the device however gives a different calibration leading to a speed > 300 km/s. So this experiment detected both absolute motion and the breakdown of Newtonian physics. So far another six experiments have confirmed this first detection of absolute motion in 1887. |
| URI: | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/8819 |
| Other Identifiers: | http://www.ptep-online.com/index_files/2005/PP-03-04.PDF http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=openurl&genre=article&issn=15555534&date=2005&volume=3&issue=&spage=25 |
| Appears in Collections: | Physics and Astronomy |
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