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Identification of Michelson's Errors in his 1881/87 Experiments
and their re-analysis
Abstract

The Michelson-Morley experiment was an attempt to detect the
existence of the luminiferous aether, a supposed medium permeating space
that was thought to be the carrier of light waves. This research paper fouses
in pointing out all those errors committed by Michelson which were peformed
in his experiments during 1881/87. In his experiment performed named
result of the two swimmers contest, he committed error which represented
contest between two Swimmers (SW) which remained unfaithfull towards
any physical model and showed the evidence of negative result. The reason
Michelson and Morley did not found any significant difference between speed
of light in the direction of movement through the presumed aether, and the
speed at right angles because they assumed that the transverse path of
SW2 is an isosceles triangle, and thus calculated the wrong result, t2<t1.

Ioan Has
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