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From: csc@watmath.UUCP (Computer Sci Club)
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Subject: Re: ETHER FILE
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Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 11:42:51 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 15 11:42:51 1985
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  >	   Now lets introduce a laser beam into the middle of the
  >	   tube, perpendicular to the tube, which is split in the middle
  >	   of the tube to follow along each axis of the tube.  Then place
  >	   outside of each end of the tube a array of mirrors so that the
  >	   beam from each end is recombined with each other and put through
  >	   the tube again.  If indeed the coil is pumping ether and if
  >	   ether is the substance light travels in then when the light
  >	   travels with the flow of ether through the tube it should 
  >	   decrease in frequency while when it travels against the flow
  >	   of ether it should increase in frequency.  This should be 
  >	   easily checked.

Hey I just had an idea.  Why bother with the ether pump.  The earth has
an orbital velocity (one which changes direction).  So the earth must
be moving relative to the ether. (at least during some seasons).  So
there must be an ether flow relative to the earth.  Could we measure
that?  Hmmm... Let's see in a moving fluid a round trip going with
the fluid then against it will take longer that the round trip
going ninety degrees to the fluid flow at all times.  So the round trip
time for a beam of light must depend on the direction we shine the beam.
Hmmm... second order effect, pretty damn small.  Hey, if I recombine the
beams afterward they will form an interference pattern, and if I then
turn the whole apparatus around, the shift relative to the motion of the
ether will shift the interference pattern.  Yes, Hmmm... yes small but
definitely measurable if I take a bit of care.

IM GOING TO DO IT.  THE HUGHES EXPERIMENT!   YES I'LL BE FAMOUS!!
HUGHES MEASURES THE ABSOLUTE VELOCITY OF THE EARTH!!!!

Whats that?  ... It's been done?!?! ... Michelson-Morley ... turn of the century
... no ether eh ... shit ...  oh well back to obscurity.

Those who do not study physics are condemned to repeat it!

                                             William Hughes