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On Nov 13, 8:39 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 13 Nov, 15:15, "N:dlzc D:aol T:com \(dlzc\)" <dl...@cox.net> wrote:
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> > Dear Pentcho Valev:
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> > "Pentcho Valev" <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > >http://ias.umn.edu/pdf/TimeandRelativity-Pooley.pdf
> > > p. 11: "Problem for Lorentz's theory: no sign of ether
> > > drift (= motion of ether with respect to earth). Many
> > > failed attempts to detect ether drift, one of the most
> > > famous ones by Americans Albert A. Michelson
> > > (1852-1931) and Edward W. Morley (1838-1923).
> > > Explanation: compensating effect: length of
> > > interferometer arm changes as it rotates: parallel to
> > > ether drift it is shorter than perpendicular to the ether
> > > drift.  Contraction (deformation) hypothesis: an
> > > object moving with a velocity v through the ether
> > > contracts by a factor (1-v^2 c^2)^(1/2) in the
> > > direction of motion."
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> > > Another explanation that essentially could have
> > > been advanced by FitzGerald, Lorentz etc. if they
> > > had been less prejudiced in favour of the ether theory:
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> > >http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001743/02/Norton.pdf
> > > John Norton: "Einstein regarded the Michelson-Morley
> > > experiment as evidence for the principle of relativity,
> > > whereas later writers almost universally use it as
> > > support for the light postulate of special relativity......
> > >THE MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT IS FULLY
> > > COMPATIBLE WITH AN EMISSION THEORY OF
> > > LIGHT THAT CONTRADICTS THE LIGHT POSTULATE."
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> > You forgot:
> > - the aether was dragged by the Earth, and so consequently the
> > motion of light was conformed to the motion of the Earth.
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> Zombie know, zombie say, zombie kill heretic, zombie become professor.
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> Pentcho Valev

I wasn't aware that you were a professor.  A professor of what,
exactly?