TITLE:
The Light Timing Calculations of the Interferometer in the Quest to Detect Light Speed Anisotropy and a Case Study of the Michelson-Morley and Miller Mt Wilson Experiments
AUTHORS:
Declan Traill
KEYWORDS:
Interferometer, Luminiferous, Aether, Michelson, Morley, Miller, Wilson, Light, Interference, Fringe, Timing, Isotropic, Anisotropic, Preferred, Reference, Frame, NASA, Doppler, Anomaly, Cahill, Computer, Model, Gas, Mode, Vacuum
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics,
Vol.10 No.3,
March
17,
2022
ABSTRACT: This paper formulates the light timing calculations for each interferometer arm; one that is parallel to the direction of motion of the interferometer through space and the other that is perpendicular. The calculations are done for a vacuum-mode interferometer and then for a gas-mode interferometer. The calculations show that no light timing difference is detectable in a vacuum-mode interferometer, but once an optical medium is present in the light path down the arms of the interferometer, this is no longer the case and a timing difference is detectable. Further to this, the timing equations obtained from the analysis are used to model the historical experiments of Michelson-Morley and Miller (Mt Wilson) and predictions are made by the model that accurately match the actual recorded results from those experiments. Thus, this timing analysis confirms that there is a light speed anisotropy in a reference frame that is moving through space, indicating the presence of a preferred Aether reference frame through which the Earth is moving.