Dear All, As I was clearing out my deleted e-mails when I came across this one from a friend. If anyone wants to check out this subject I have left in the relevant URL's Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: "Malcolm Bowden" <mb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [CL-UK] Speed of Light down to 6 miles a second > Dear Marc, > The interferometer seems to be the actual experiment, so look this up on the websites. > The reference is - > Comptes Rendus 1913 v 157 p 708-710 and 1410 - 1413 > "Sur la Preuve de la realite de l'ether lumineaux par l'experience de l'interferographe tournant" > > I briefly refer to it in on my website <mbowden.info> and more fully in my "True Science agrees with the Bible" when I am > dealing with Relativity. > > He put a light source on a rotating table, split the beam and sent them around it going in opposite directions, recombined > them on a photographic plate to record any fringe movements. When the table rotated, the fringe movements were in accordance > with the speed of rotation of the table. This showed that in a completely closed system, the aether acted as a permanent > frame of reference through which the light had to move. > > I have also had correspondence with another linker who has said that Einstein said that the aether could be overcome in his > theory by a specific means. Others may have concluded that the theory requires NO aether. > I have always thought that this was one of his basic assumptions in his theory as it is repeated so frequently. > The real reason he produced his theory was to overcome the geocentric explanation for the Michelson Morley experiment. Hence > all > the twisting and turning that has taken place ever since. > Do let me know what you think. > Malcolm.