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Michelson
won the 1907 Nobel Prize in physics, the first for an American, for
inventing the Interferometer and using it to prove the speed of light
does not depend on its direction of travel.
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#2
Einstein
showed Michelson's result is due to Length Contraction - objects appear
shorter along their direction of motion, depending on their speed as
shown here.
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Image #3
Einstein
showed Michelson's result is due to Length Contraction - objects appear
shorter along their direction of motion, depending on their speed as
shown here.
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Image #4
Analysis of light travel
time right & left
on the horizontal arm.
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#5
Einstein
in LA
traffic - can he squeeze between the trucks at high speed?
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Image #6
Analysis shows clearance
does not change with
speed.
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#7
Regardless
of
how fast we move through Space, we all move through Spacetime at the
speed of light.
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