danda wrote: ↑Wed Nov 27, 2024 6:34 amI'm not sure what you are saying NO to. I don't believe your following statements contradict anything I said.
Feel free to quote the specific statement of mine you are disagreeing with and explain why.
Here below is your wordage re the posting from mariuslvasile from yesterday (i added the numbers) & my comments (disagreements & explanations) that i offer today.
(1) I agree with you on this point.
(2) Anyone who believes that light is simply a wave in a medium, fundamentally no different from a sound wave in air or water, must I think concur.
..........(My comment) I say that a photon is a (i) quasi-particle with a pseudo-wave. A photon is not a (ii) wave. A photon is not a (iii) particle.
(3) Before commenting in any more depth, I will need to find time to review the MM and miller experiments again, and the interferometer design. (4) I thought your observation was taken into account in the theory and experimental design. (5) But if not.... that's troubling indeed.
..........(My comment) I don’t fully agree. If a photon is a wave then the oldendays MMXs would have worked ok. So too if a photon is a quasi-particle. But oldendays MMXs would probly not have worked if a photon is a particle.
(6) Let's think about waves for a second. (7) If one is moving in air or water, one can detect the doppler effect, (8) ie that wave frequency is shorter in one direction than the other. (9) So the motion of the observer must be taken into account. (10) That doesn't mean that the wave speed is altered in the medium by the observer's motion through the medium. (11) It only means that the moving observer measures a difference based on their own movement though the medium. (12) My hazy memory is that the interferometer is designed to measure this difference.
..........(My comment) I think that i agree. I think that MMM thort that Earth possibly fully dragged aether (full drag), or partially dragged aether (part drag), or that aether did not suffer any kind of drag (zero drag). Re part drag, this might involve full drag re Earth's velocity (full V drag), or zero drag (zero V drag), or partial drag (part V drag). And it might involve full drag re Earth's spin (full S drag), or zero drag (zero S drag), or partial drag (part S drag). So, there must have been many possible combinations early on. Anyhow, there is no need to worry, aether suffers zero drag of any kind (with one little exception that i will not go into today).
(13) anyway, I'm glad to chat with someone thinking about these things. It's important.
..........(My comment) There is no need to think much, & thinking is not very important, koz, all of this MMX stuff has been solved, by V V Demjanov (lots of papers in English), & by Prof Reg Cahill (lots of papers).