However it can be knocked out by looking at the light from binary stars. If v depends on the velocity of the source, the time for the light to reach us when be smaller when the star is approaching than when it is receding. This will be detectable in the data, and it is not seen.
However it can be knocked out by looking at the light from binary stars. If v depends on the velocity of the source, the time for the light to reach us when be smaller when the star is approaching than when it is receding. This will be detectable in the data, and it is not seen.
“Ether drag” contradicts the “aberration” of starlight: aim your telescope upstream by 30km/s / c = 20.5 seconds of arc. You would aim straight up if “ether was dragged.”
Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction of all solids along the direction of motion with respect to the ether. Doesn’t work in detail for the Michelson interferometer experiment.