[geocentrism] Re: Michelson Interferometer
- From: "Jack Lewis" <jack.lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 12:45:46 +0100
Dear Philip,
Be careful that you are not throwing out the baby with the bathwater! The link
I gave you is a critique of a report that badly misrepresented The Dayton
Miller interferometer experiments. I detected no weirdo biases in his critique,
so if I were you I would print it out and read it - it makes 21 pages.
Jack
----- Original Message -----
From: philip madsen
To: geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 12:03 AM
Subject: [geocentrism] Re: Michelson Interferometer
Jack, this link was my first find that seemed to give some information.
However as this site was run by James DeMeo, Ph.D. of the Orgone Biophysical
Research Lab based on the research of the late Dr. Wilhelm Reich I was forced
to completely distrust it, after I discovered what orgone was, and the work of
Reich upon what it was based.
In essence Reich was an associate of Freud but a deviate from Freud in that
he really had some perverted ideas of sex that were even too much for Freud to
handle. Read his life and research here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich Could make a movie with it.
"Orgone" is some sort of "aether" principle based upon sex and gets its name
from orgasm. DeMeo, Ph.D . based his work on the developement of Reich's cloud
buster machine, a cannon like prop, which in a very strange way channels this
sex drive from orgone , a thought machine? to make drought breaking rain..
So you can see why I have looked elsewhere.. Miller must be important,
because the enemies of science, main stream science, have all but erased his
memory and destroyed his work records , we being left with scraps preserved
privately by the likes of Maurice Allaise..
Thanks for the effort though.
Philip.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jack Lewis
To: geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 8:12 AM
Subject: [geocentrism] Re: Michelson Interferometer
Dear Philip,
Check out this website which will give you a great deal of information,
photos and diagrams about the accuracy of interferometer experiments.
www.orgonelab.org/miller.htm
Jack
----- Original Message -----
From: philip madsen
To: geocentrism list
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2007 9:46 PM
Subject: [geocentrism] Michelson Interferometer
Interferometer
Well I did not exactly know what it did, maybe some others were not clear
so I posted it here.. Actually in this set up (which they do not explain too
well using terms like interference which is really a matter of in or out of
phase waves,) and really , "distructive interference" is simply out of phase
waves.
One more piece of the puzzle I need. Perhaps Neville or Robert, please,
What is the mechanism used, whereby one would expect an "aether medium",
to affect the phase of the light beam by its movement lets say from left to
right in this illustration. It might help as well to please tell us how thes
mirrors could be placed with such precision in space within the resolution of
such a short wavelengths such as is the light spectrum, to be able to measure
even parts of such wavelengths.
Thanks,
And whilst we are of the experimental mind, could we not use Radar over a
greater distance (than the interferometer) for better resolution? Philip.
Michelson Interferometer
Main article: Michelson interferometer
A Michelson interferometer.
A very common example of an interferometer is the Michelson (or
Michelson-Morley) type. Here the basic building blocks are a monochromatic
source (emitting light or matter waves), a detector, two mirrors and one
semitransparent mirror (often called beam splitter). These are put together as
shown in the figure.
There are two paths from the (light) source to the detector. One reflects
off the semi-transparent mirror, goes to the top mirror and then reflects back,
goes through the semi-transparent mirror, to the detector. The other one goes
through the semi-transparent mirror, to the mirror on the right, reflects back
to the semi-transparent mirror, then reflects from the semi-transparent mirror
into the detector.
If these two paths differ by a whole number (including 0) of wavelengths,
there is constructive interference and a strong signal at the detector. If they
differ by a whole number and a half wavelengths (e.g., 0.5, 1.5, 2.5 ...) there
is destructive interference and a weak signal. This might appear at first sight
to violate conservation of energy. However energy is conserved, because there
is a re-distribution of energy at the detector in which the energy at the
destructive sites are re-distributed to the constructive sites. The effect of
the interference is to alter the share of the reflected light which heads for
the detector and the remainder which heads back in the direction of the source.
The interferometer setup shown to the right was used in the famous
Michelson-Morley experiment that provided evidence for special relativity. In
Michelson's day, the interference pattern was obtained by using a gas discharge
lamp, a filter, and a thin slot or pinhole. In one version of the
Michelson-Morley experiment, they even ran the interferometer off starlight.
Starlight is temporally incoherent light, but since for small instruments it
can be considered as a point source of light it is spatially coherent and will
produce an interference pattern. The Michelson interferometer finds use not
only in these experiments but also for other purposes, e.g., in astronomical
interferometers (see astronomical section below) and gravitational wave
detectors.
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