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On 13 Nov, 15:15, "N:dlzc D:aol T:com \(dlzc\)" <dl...@cox.net> wrote:
> Dear Pentcho Valev:
>
> "Pentcho Valev" <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >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."
>
> > Another explanation that essentially could have
> > been advanced by FitzGerald, Lorentz etc. if they
> > had been less prejudiced in favour of the ether theory:
>
> >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."
>
> 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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Pentcho Valev