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Important Clarification: Most of the “mess” in status quo physics has
resulted from making wrong assumptions and then building on those as
if they are solid truths. A big part of the mess regards light being
a wave that requires a luminiferous ether in order to be propagated.
The off-the-line-of-sight interference fringes observed in double-slit
experiments implied that light has a wavelike quality (sic). If a
boat’s velocity can be influenced by the motion of the water, it was
wrongly assumed that light velocity would be influenced by the sure-to-
be-there ether flow caused by the Earth orbiting the Sun. J. C.
Maxwell was way over his head when he supposed A. A. Michelson’s new
interferometer design should be able to detect the velocity changes in
the light (sic). If Maxwell had had a brain, he would have realized—
without any experiments needing to be done—that the ether could not
possibly drag light, because the ether, which was assumed to be
everywhere, would keep dragging (slowing) light until the light from
the Sun and the stars could not reach us, and there would be no life
at all in the UNIVERSE! Notice how simple LOGIC, such as the latter,
can start to build a true picture of how the Universe functions,
without there needing to be any experiments run, nor equations
written. My New Science is based on finding the most basic truths,
then using those to deduce other truths until the entire puzzle of the
Universe has been fitted together.
Another part of the “mess” in status quo physics was due to supposed
scientists not realizing that light is composed of trains of identical
photons. Since observation, combined with logic, shows that light in
air travels in straight lines, a logical thinker like me quickly
realized that light in transit to a mirror, such as is the M-M
experiment, will not be influenced by the apparatus itself, which
continues to move with the motion of the Earth. I knew from having
shot rifles that one must “lead” a moving target in order to hit it.
Since light in transit to a mirror will certainly miss the point of
aim if the mirror is moving, it will miss the mirror more so, the
faster the mirror is moving.
All of the laughable algebraic analyses by others are pasted together
going on the erroneous assumption that ether drag is the only factor
causing the tiny number of fringe shifts observed in some iterations
of the M-M experiment. Since I knew, by logic, that ether drag was
non existent, I performed simple middle-school-level algebraic
calculations of the TIME of travel of each of the two light courses.
The logical theorem I used disregarded Einstein’s ridiculous notion
that ‘c’ is the universal maximum velocity of light. Such theorem is:
“The resultant velocity of light is V = ‘c’ plus or minus the velocity
of the source. If a pitcher throws a baseball at 90 mph, a ball
thrown by that same pitcher from the bow of a boat traveling 15 mph,
will be traveling 105 mph. Understand? If the above theorem is
correct, the times of travel of both light courses around M-M from
the light source to the target must not change. Taking into account
how far off center each photon (not ‘wave or ray’) will hit, to 9
decimal places the times of travel, regardless of the apparatus’s
orientation relative to the velocity vector NEVER CHANGE! I knew such
information before I designed my X, Y and Z interferometer. And I
realized, for certain, that the small number of fringe shifts observed
in some iterations of the M-M experiment had to have a logical cause.
And that cause was not having all of the mirrors be precisely
orthogonal.
In doing my detailed analyses of how photons travel around M-M, I
realized that both pairs of photons will oscillate, in unison, off
center of the target depending on what the orientation of the
instrument is relative to the Earth’s velocity vector. There are no
fringe shifts, only the oscillation of the fringe bulls eye. I
quickly realized that there are only TWO orientations in 360 degrees
of instrument rotation in which the fringe bulls eye will be centered
on the target! That is a hugely important realization, because it
means that force-centering of the fringe bulls eye will cause the
mirrors to be off of orthogonal. And THAT will account for the few,
far less than expected fringe shifts in M-M!
In Michelson’s mile long interferometer in Clearing, IL, the induced
number of fringe shifts due to force-centering the image on the target
was much greater. However, those fringe shifts had varied in number,
because of Earth’s daily rotation which placed the apparatus at
different angles relative to Earth’s velocity vector. The number of
fringe shifts were less at those times of day in which the apparatus
was close to the proper datum alignment for the bulls eye, and greater
at times 12 hours earlier or later. A. A. Michelson—realizing that
the shifts were varying, predictably—deliberately selected times of
day for making his observations so that he could PAINT a sine or
cosine curve that would have validated his results. If Michelson, or
anyone, had done simple algebra, he or they would have realized that
no single-plane, truly orthogonal interferometer will ever show fringe
shifts regardless of the velocity and regardless of the orientation of
the apparatus relative to the velocity vector!!!!! It early 2001, it
only took me one hour of analysis in my local library, where I found a
schematic drawing of M-M in an encyclopedia, to realize that the times
of travel of pairs of “racing” photons in both light courses would
always reach the target in identical times!
The ‘Important Clarification’ which I prefaced this with, was my
intent of removing “thermal expansion” as the reason for the varying
number of shifts that Michelson observed. I knew that there were
alignment difficulties, because Michelson mentioned those. He was an
outstanding technician, who must have been miffed that he could not
keep the bulls eye centered on the target. He simply did not
understand the cause of the oscillations. Nor did he realize that the
small number of fringe shifts were due to having his mirrors be off of
orthogonal. This long addendum was for correcting my “temperature”
error. But because it has necessitated my explaining in detail the
REAL cause of the observed fringes, that temperature error has helped
to get out my New Science message! — NoEinstein —