Category:
Research Papers
Sub-Category:
Mechanics / Electrodynamics
Date Published:
July 29, 2020
Keywords:
general physics, geometrical optics, light interference, Michelson-Morley experiment
Abstract:
Derivation of light paths in the Michelson interferometer is based on the hypothesis that the speed of light does not change after reflection by a mirror in motion. Light behaves like a wave and also as a particle. Thus, it is reasonable to consider the reflection of light as a mechanical phenomenon. With this hypothesis, the speed of light changes after reflection, and the negative result of the Michelson-Morley experiment is explained. The velocity of light is considered independent of the velocity of its source, which is in accordance with astronomers’ observations of the binary stars, and the experiment performed at CERN, Geneva, in 1964.
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