Extended Michelson-Morley Interferometer experiment. English version

Dear interested Viewers!
In the meantime, I have built with better equipment two new interferometers. The measured value is now smaller, roughly between 1.5 and 2.0 fringe shifts, but I could not get him to zero. You see, 11.5 shifts is no value chiselled in stone. The zero points are at all three interferometers at the same position, beamsplitter horizontal to the earth's surface. The daytime shifts about 0.5 fringes shifts have remained. I have no own homepage, and due to time constraints, I do not participate in public discussions. But there are a few websites on which images are visible from the new equipment. Here are two addresses:

http://worldnpa.ning.com/profiles/blogs/grusenick-repetition-of

http://blog.hasslberger.com/2009/09/extended_michelsonmorley_inter.html#more

With kindest regards
Martin Grusenick

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• michelson
• morley
• experiment
• interferometer
• relativity
• einstein
• albert
• interference

[FMMAROTO]

Very Nice, man! Congratulations.

About the second experiment; Perhaps the arm of your interferometer is elastic and is deforming. You should repeat your experiment using different arm materials.

[jburnum]

Sagnac Effect. Can be done with with ring lasers and used for highly sensitive gyroscopes.

[kurtilein3]

... third

If its not temperature, it could be the density of the air, the local speed of light through air is dependent on air density, and that can also change in a daily cycle. I think temperature is the most likely explanation, but if you rule that out, you need to take a look at air pressure. For a quick experiment to see approximately how big that effect could be, just blow some hydrogen/helium (or a very heavy gas instead of a light one) through one of the beams and watch the pattern.

[kurtilein3]

... second response to the video description:

Another way to see if temperature or some other effect is responsible for the shift, or if its really aether, would be to wait half a year inbetween experiments. Then earth is moving in the opposite direction, and if aether exists, the daytime-effect should be reversed after half a year and get back to normal after a full year.

But i think you did design the MOST COMPLEX thermometer i have ever seen, thats my best guess.

[kurtilein3]

A response to the updated video description:

The shift in the horizontal setup is with certainty beyond reasonable doubt induced by gravity. So its Gravity bending your equipment, your newer designs appear to be much more sturdy / solid, more rigidly constructed.

The effect induced by the time of day could be due to changes in temperature, as temperature affects hardness of materials. Try a constant-temperature environment, or measure the temperature and see if it fits the other data.

[kurtilein3]

@misaupointnet

Your observation is correct. Gravity bends the apparatus in experiment 2, and induces an error that invalidates the whole experiment 2 when it comes to the existence or non-existence of aether. The guy in the video is missing the obvious, and is arriving at wrong conclusions, based on the implicit assumption that the materials he used are of infinite hardness. The experiment only disproves his wrong implied assumption that the materials he used are of infinite hardness.

[kurtilein3]

You are totally wrong with your conclusions about experiment 2. It only shows that the materials you used do not have infinite hardness, and are deformed by gravity in the nanometer scale, just as any good experimentalist would expect.

The way to do it vertically is to have the apparatus perfectly static, and use the fact that earth rotates (through existent or nonexistent aether). Have it static and watch for 24 hours. Your mistake causes a gravity-induced error and invalidates experiment 2.

[misaupointnet]

Very good, i always thing that we can have an effect whith vertical arms .. When you change at the end the position of the interferometer , what do you want to show ? That it is not a question of deforming the arms because gravity . ?

[chenalos]

@jburnum

But why would the effect be seen only on the vertical plane and not the horizontal?