Androcles wrote:

"Jesse Mazer" wrote in message
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Androcles wrote:



You saying it doesn't make it so, and since I know you of old as
another
big-headed know-it-all, more interested in trolling than recognizing
simple
solutions, I saw fit to simply deny your assertions.

I will now give the proof.
I place two identical evacuated tubes at right angles, with mirrors
and with
sources and detectors of light.
When the light reaches a detector, it turns off the source.
When NO light reaches the detector, it turns the source on.
The path length can be any reasonable one.
I connect the outputs of the detectors to an up/down counter, one for
up
and the other for down. I calibrate the tube lengths until there is no
count.
I now have MMX, electronic version and air free.
I rotate the apparatus 90 degrees and what happens? NO count happens.
Acording to SR, and there being velocity as the Earth moves and
rotates
x' = (x-vt)/ sqrt(1-v^2/c^2)
y' = y.
So, x' does not equal y'.
The speed of flight in both tubes is c (invariant),
and the tubes are of different lengths.
Therefore a count will occur, the x (up) count exceeding the count of
the
(y) down counter.



Are you saying SR predicts the time light takes to travel down each
tube will depend on how the tubes are oriented, or on the velocity of
the tubes in your reference frame?


No.


OK, then I'm having trouble following your description of the
experiment--could you please tell me what the variables x, y, x' and y'
in your equations above represent physically?

Jesse