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ABOUT THE MANY ATTEMPTS TO MEASURE EARTH'S ORBITAL SPEED
and how they support Earth's velocity of 1.6km/h - as of the TYCHOS model
Dear friends, let me start this short "essay" by quoting a few lines from the
Epilogue of my TYCHOS book :
"Countless experiments were being feverishly carried out, one more intricate than the other, yet all of them shared the same objective: to scientifically verify and establish beyond reasonable doubt that Earth was hurtling around space at the staggering, hypersonic speed of 107.000+ km/h as contended by the Copernican, heliocentric theory. It was a most extraordinary claim yet, one that had to be scientifically verified. Failure was not an option for its illustrious proponents.
Yet today, the most infamous experiment of them all — the Michelson-Morley interferometer study — is billed as the “greatest failed scientific experiment of all time”. Mind you, it really doesn’t deserve to be singled out for having fallen short of proving Copernicus right; it is a matter of historical record that the totality of numerous other similar experiments — embarrassingly enough — utterly and completely failed to prove Earth’s purported, hypersonic orbital motion around the Sun. Despite designs to prove heliocentrism, experimental data continued to tell us what we refused to hear."
That's right: it is a HARD FACT that
none of the countless experiments carried out to verify Earth's supposed orbital speed of 107.226 km/h (or ca. 30Km/s - or about
90X the SPEED OF SOUND!) has been able to verify this most extraordinary claim. I personally have a problem with that - but maybe it's just me?
As most will know, it was Albert Einstein who - once more - was called upon to come to the rescue of the crumbling heliocentric theory - and to "save the appearances". On this occasion, Einstein simply decreed that
"the ether does not exist!" - and that -
"the speed of light is constant independently of the observer" - and that -
"therefore the orbital speed of Earth is undetectable and immeasurable." (not exactly his words - but allow me to simplify things a little, in the interest of brevity).
Allow me now to fast-forward to a most fascinating French paper authored in 2007 by Pierre Fuerxer, titled:
"Les expériences optiques et la relativité."
Pierre Fuerxer is the current 'caretaker' of the French website dedicated to the great physicist-cum-economist (and anti-globalist)
Maurice Allais (1911-2010). Aside from his 1988 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Allais is famed for having falsified Einstein's theory of relativity - in a manner that can hardly be disproved. He did so by performing a profound examination of the vast body of work of
Dayton Miller, the man who not only perfected Michelson's interferometer (the ingenuous apparatus used to try and measure Earth's orbital speed) - but also performed the most extensive, rigorous and longlasting interferometry experiments of all times. In short, what Maurice Allais determined was that Dayton Miller's findings could not be dismissed (as they ultimately WERE!) as "insignificant" - due to their overall / statistical coherence (the nature of which can only be grasped if you spend some time reading the most rational and level-headed writings of Maurice Allais).
To be sure, Einstein himself was
extremely worried about Dayton Miller's findings - and is quoted as saying that...
“If Dr. Miller’s results should be confirmed, then the special relativity theory, and with it the general theory in its present form, fails. Experiment is the supreme judge. Only the equivalence of inertia and weight remain, which would lead to an essentially different theory.” (Albert Einstein)

Dr. DAYTON C. MILLER

Source:
http://www.fondationmauriceallais.org/t ... s/?lang=en
Now, as I have highlighted in the above screenshot, Dayton Miller was seeing
"diurnal variations in the speed of light of an amplitude of about 8km/h".
Well, this
"8km/h" variation of the speed of light immediately caught my attention. Could his calculations possibly be "off" by one decimal? According to the TYCHOS model (and as I have previously mentioned), it is to be expected that acute and well-equipped earthly observers / astronomers (who all travel at 1.6km/h across space) will detect a
+ or- 0.8km/h "velocity variation coefficient".
This was expounded and illustrated in a graphic that I made a few months ago (showing why our Moon does in fact exhibit this +/- 0.8km/h "velocity variation"):
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Now, as I reached the end of the above-mentioned 2007 paper by Pierre Fuerxer (
"Les expériences optiques et la relativité." ), here's what I learned (to my delight) :
"Tous les interféromètres de Michelson dont le schéma optique est celui de l’interféromètre initial ont donné des résultats comparables."
In other (English) words,
most of all of the Michelson-type experiments using the optical scheme of his original interferometer have yielded comparable results.
The results of MOST of the various Michelson-type experiments performed over the years have showed a
speed-of-light variation of around 8X10-10, whereas two other particularly accurate experiments (by Roy Kennedy and Esclangon) had this value at a marginally smaller 7X10-10. All in all, they all pretty much agreed with each other. This flies straight in the face of the "widely-accepted" notion that the many interferometer experiments yielded "null" results!
To clarify, 8X10-10 (in 'scientific annotation') simply means 0.0000000008 (of the speed of light)
And 7X10-10 (in 'scientific annotation') simply means 0.0000000007 (of the speed of light)
For the sake of the following calculus, let me just use the figure of 0.00000000075 (which is the mean/ average between 0.0000000008 and 0.0000000007). OK?
So here we go:
Speed of light: 299,792.5 km/s
299,792.5 km/s X 0.00000000075 = 0.000224844 km/s
Now, we want to convert km/s to km/h, (there are 3600 seconds in one hour), so :
0.000224844 X 3600 = 0.809439 km/h (much like my 0.8 km/h "velocity variation coefficient" as illustrated in my above Moon graphic)
And of course, 0.809439 km/h X 2 =
1.6188 km/h
I rest my case, ladies & gents. Earth moves at about 1.6km/h - and most of all interferometer experiments have already (unwittingly) proved it !
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If you think about it, it all makes perfect sense: since Earth only moves at 1.6km/h (covering only 7018km every six months and 14,036km annually), we can now understand just why it has been so incredibly difficult to detect its relative orbital speed - as well as any stellar parallaxes. As it is, almost ALL astronomy debates and vivid controversies over the last few centuries have been revolving around some MINUSCULE / MICROSCOPIC variations and / or minor "inequalities"... It's time for us earthlings to stop arguing about petty matters. We all need to get up to speed (pun intended) about the wonderful slowness and tranquil spatial motion of our lovely planet - and to start enjoying it... As I see it, there would be no life on Earth without this blissful slowness - would you agree?
As I like to say, the TYCHOS is here to stay.