Super Relativity - Theory
The Undiscovered Error...
Despite this finding, it appears that the experiment was compromised by a flaw which occurred in the design phase. It was assumed that the ether was stationary and that a wind would be detected as the earth passed through the ether. However, Special Relativity says that the speed of light is the same in all reference frames and the Michelson-Morley experiment proved that. So all the M&M Experiment really proved is that the speed of light is independent of the source that emits it. In other words the speed of the emitting source neither subtracts from nor adds to the speed of light. So of course, the Michelson-Morley experiment failed to detect an ether wind and the incorrect assumption was that there was no ether. Obviously an ether wind would be impossible to detect when an experiment uses objects that are moving at the maximum allowable speed and independent of the all moving reference frames relative to the ether. The motion of the reference frame in which the experiment is conducted, therefore becomes irrelevant, as trying to detect a difference in motion between two photons in any direction versus a stationary ether background will not show the existence of an ether wind.
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