[TheForge] Michelson's and Morley's experiment

[Andy Vida]

Mark Williams wrote:
> 
> I had not heard of scientists redoing the M&M experiment. It's hard to
> believe that someone wants to prove that aether exists. The M&M experiment
> was done more than once. The final, definitive one had the whole
> experimental apparatus floating on a pool of Hg. One does the M&M experiment
> in some intermediate physics' labs although not floating on Hg.

	Question is whether the MM experiment is valid.  Does it
	really test what it is designed to test for?  It seems
	intuitively obvious that it does; Newtonian mechanics seemed
	intuitively obvious in its universal truth until relativity
	did it in, so who knows...

	Aether is a universal, omnipresent framework with some interesting
	properties.  What I'm wondering is whether anyone ever considered
	the framework as being gravitational in nature?  Gravity's a very
	interesting little bean.  If/when that one is figured out, a lot
	of doors are  going to open up more or less instantly.  that is
	something I'd like to live long enough to witness.