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4 Stellar aberration doesn't contradict ether drag
Ed 01.12.31 ------------------------------------------------
Abstract
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As we know the Michelson-Morley experiment proves that there is no
ethereal
wind on the ground. It is thought at present that the existence of the
stellar aberration necessitates existence of ethereal wind on the
ground
if the ether is to exist. Comparison of these two experiments results
in
believing that the ether does not exist. We prove that if the ether
exists
the stellar aberration can occur with the ether drag and then does not
necessitate existence of the ethereal wind.

A new model in the form of undiscovered tiny particles is presented for
the
ether. With accepting this model and by using the results of the
Michelson-Morley and Michelson-Gale experiments a model consisting of
an
ethereal stack stuck with the earth in its motion in the space is
presented
such that the earth can rotate axially inside this stack freely.
We shall also see why atomic clocks are slow when are in (fast) motion.

I. Introduction
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As we know for familiarizing the mind of a student with the relativity,
usually initially some experiments are cited that it is claimed that
the classical physics is not able to justify them, thereafter on the
basis of these failures of the classical physics the theory of
relativity is formulated and explained. The most important experiments
of this kind cited in the beginning of almost every elementary text
about the relativity are failure of the Michelson-Morley experiment
and attraction of the stars light by the sun when passing beside it.

Since the failure of the Michelson-Morley experiment was the first
experiment that seemed to be a confirmation for the relativity,
especially historically, it is still cited as the first evidence
to confirm the relativity in the elementary textbooks. The object of
this article is to prove that the failure of the Michelson-Morley
experiment cannot be a confirmation for the relativity.

In the present elementary books of the relativity it is explained
that before appearance of the relativity the hypothesis of the
existence of ether as a fine substance pervading the space and serving
as the medium for the transmission of electromagnetic waves had been
postulated as a certain principle for many years; also it was supposed
that the earth in its revolution around the sun bored through the fixed
ether and then there must be an ethereal wind on the surface of the
earth. Necessarily, speed of such a wind differed in different
directions, then on the basis of this fact, the Michelson-Morley
experiment was designed for detecting this ethereal wind. But this
experiment did not detect such a wind expected due to the revolution
of the earth around the sun.

To justify this failure according to the hypothesis of the existence
of ether, it was claimed that in fact the earth dragged the ether
along with itself and then there was no ethereal wind to be detected
by the Michelson-Morley experiment. In rejecting the ether drag
opinion,
most of the authors of the modern physics and relativity books
introduce the stellar aberration as a chief reason, while they are
in a glaring error demonstration of which is the object of this
article.
We only want to prove that the existence of the stellar aberration
cannot really reject the opinion of the ether drag by the earth, cause
of which can be thought (by the student) eg as the gravitational
attraction of the earth on the much tiny particles making the ether.

In the 13th article of the book, in fact I have investigated this
probability that the space is full of some undiscovered much tiny
electrostatic and magnetostatic dipoles. There, it has been explained
that how an electromagnetic wave can propagate through these tiny
particles when orientation of electrostatic dioles causes orientation
of magnetostatic dipoles which in turn will cause orientation of some
further electrostatic dipoles and so on. This is not the subject
of this article, but is indicative of this fact that if we suppose that
the spase is full of some much tiny particles acting as a vehicle
for propagating the electromagnetic wave through the space, this
supposition will be supported by some strong reasoning presented
elsewhere. Let's call these particles as "ether", but keeping in
mind its new form.

II. How the stellar aberration can be deduced
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The reasoning leading to the rejection of the existence of ether is
as in the following: We suppose that the ether exists. The Michelson-
Morley experiment shows nonexistence of the expected ethereal wind
on the ground, and existence of the stellar aberration (which is shown
by the angle alpha obtained from the relation tanalpha=v/c in which
v is the orbital speed of the earth surface) necessitates existence
of the expected ethereal wind on the ground. Since these two
experiments
contradict each other, we conclude that the initial supposition,
ie the supposition of the existence of ether, has been wrong.

You have posted the same tripe before. Since aether drag theories exist
that are experimentally equivalent to SR so no experiment can rule out
either an aether or aether drag theories so your whole basis is a straw
man - see
http://www.answers.com/topic/aether-drag-hypothesis

Rest snipped.

Bill