The original classic interpretation of the MMX performed by Michaelson and Morley, assumed incorrectly that the interference pattern occurred at the telescope/observer with respect to two parallel waves that shift back and forth every 90 degrees thorough 360 degrees of rotation. (However, parallel-only with respect to time in the equations of the MMX—not in reality only mathematically.)
But this author believes the interference pattern initially occurs at the half-silvered mirror from two waves traveling in actual physical opposition to one another, after their refection from the peripheral mirrors.
The mathematical outcome of the classical Michaelson-Morley interpretation versus this alternative assumption by the author are different. They are not the same, so the consequence is different. Thus, the null result regarding the classical interpretation presum
ed by Michaelson and Morley is then in erratum. Read more about this topic at https://bit.ly/3Au59HC.
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