The Michelson-Morley Experiment
I am going to post a few links to help broaden this topic, the first will be a link to a video proving what the original experiment set out to do. I will include one to the original experiment (one that covers the findings) and I will also share a link to a "science literate" channel that denies the experiment. Fun times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjcS1kRkc6M We are currently using this to detect gravitational waves "ethereal wind".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGp3FZSi900 Claims the experiment a failure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m-T2aIKS0c This explains the experiment as was conducted.
Nothing is new, they know, they have kept the truth hidden on purpose. Why?
There are several times in the history of physics where the truth and the dogma split:
There may be others I am not remembering, or haven't heard of, but these three stand out because I have studied each to one degree or another (as a basis for this conversation, one of my undergrad degrees is in physics. I have a few graduate courses in physics and self study. I am not a physics PhD).
MM experiment:
They never showed that the ether didn't exist. They only showed that there was no apparent movement of the earth relative to a non-moving (universally stationary) grid in which light would hypothetically propagate. In truth, both quantum mechanics and general relativity are based on the other concepts of an ether (a physical medium of which the universe is constructed). Many (all?) modern theories use this concept of an "empty space" medium. They aren't allowed to call it an "ether" because dogma doesn't allow it.
Bohmian mechanics:
This is an idea that a particle exists in just one place (not spread out) and is carried through space on a physical wave (the spread out part) in the spacetime medium (ether). It is a non-local theory, but in all other ways is compliant with the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics with compatible mathematical models (within the scope of my study of it). Complaints about where it is incompatible are, to my knowledge, based only in area's in which work has not been done. All places where work has been done in this theory of QM have been fruitful. For reasons I never understood, it was basically forbidden to look too deeply into this model of QM: dogma didn't allow it.
Cold Fusion
It was the overwhelming amount of evidence for cold fusion that inspired me to get a degree in physics. I couldn't believe how much evidence there was that was not allowed to be talked about. These were really good experiments, and there were thousands of them, done underground all around the world by real physicists. No one was allowed to go public with their information. When they did go public their funding for other projects was removed. No one could get funding anywhere for this research. It was one of those physics "conspiracy theories."
All three of these puzzled me my whole life (after studying them). When I would inquire with other physicists, they would always tell me the same basic thing, "There's nothing to see there, don't waste your time." I would respond with, "But what about x, y, and z." They would respond with something like "You will never get anywhere in physics with that type of [non-ministry approved] attitude."
I always thought these things happened because of a persons propensity to hold on to ones beliefs over the difficulties of an earnest search for truth. It wasn't until recently that I came to understand the other forces in the world that have asserted and maintained control of our "truth." It hasn't just been this way for the past couple centuries, but forever. I think where we will go after the GA will be truly something to behold.
Look at what "the powers that be" did to Galileo.
When I first heard about Quantum Fields I did wonder how that was different from an Ether.
Thank you for making the MM experiment digestible and sharing the other information! never heard of Bohemian mechanics (very much explains the grove, though) and cold fusion wasn't something I had paid much attention to. I am bewildered by the past and excited for the future. Truly nothing has changed, in the way that people behave around dogma at least.
The Michelson-Morley was based on a false premise. You can't detect an ether drift anywhere near the earth, as the ether moves with the earth when in earths electric field which extends all the way to the moon.
I'm a physicist. This is making me seriously rethink the time I spend on GA.