The earth is stationary.
The Michelson-Morley experiment was the reason for Albert Einstein!!
Beginning in 1887, U.S. scientist Albert Abraham Michelson began to do experiments to try and detect the motion of the earth around the sun by using the speed of light as a barometer. This experiment was called the Michelson-Morley experiment and was famous for one thing: ALL THE RESULTS WERE NEGATIVE.
"To his utter amazement, the experiment produced a zero effect. Michelson could find no drag on the transmission of light in any direction. He detected only the slightest shift in the interference fringes. Both halves of the split single beam of light were returning at virtually the same instant.
The data were almost unbelievable. The so-called ether wind had had no effect whatever on the velocity of light whether the beam was traveling with the "wind" or across it. There was only one other possible conclusion to draw—that the earth was at rest."
2006-08-15 15:27:54 · 40 answers · asked by bibleman_the_great 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Huh? What the hell are you babbling about? If the Earth was stationary, we would not have night and day, or seasons.
2006-08-15 15:33:05 · answer #1 · answered by Master Maverick 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
This certainly proves how foolish science can be at times!
What's more important is that Michelson won a Noble Prize for this work!
It also told me there is still an "ether" controversey. I was under the impession science disgarded that concept by 1920.
The potential existance of "the ether" now makes me wonder about all these so-called "planets" being discovered around distant stars.
The same type of effect observed by Michelson-Morely could lead one to conjure up a planet when in reality it is an optical illusion caused by density in the "ether"
Science loves turning an unexplained "phenomenon" into something astounding!
Science always has to have an explaination for the result, no matter how absurd the explaination is!
Gee, that does sound like a description of Religion by an Atheist!
That makes Science and Relgion the same thing, basically.
Something that explains phenomenon in concrete terms, even if the explaination sounds absurd!
Because, however, it is SCIENCE then it becomes acceptable to be absurd.
It should be noted that 50 other experiments patterned after Michelson-Morely provided close to the same results and could draw the same conclusions. The Earth does not move. These experiments continue right up to present times and that solution is absurd. The EARTH DOESN'T MOVE. It is stationary and everything else revolves around the Earth!
The results fit the model, until you put Relativity into the picture and then Einstein says light always behaves the same no matter what speed you travel. Hence the experiment would have the same results flying off into space as it has on Earth.
It is interesting taht in 1900, around the same time as Darwin, Science confirms what the Church originally said. The Earth is the center of the universe and does not move. AND they got a Nobel Prize for this discovery!
Wow, let's hear it for science!
2006-08-15 16:21:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Suppose that a murder is committed. All the evidence points toward a single individual. Everyone who bothers thinking realizes that this person did it. There is, however, one tiny piece of evidence that doesn't point to that person. Are we supposed to ignore the overwhelming body of the evidence and let the murderer go away free? (Do you catch my metaphor? A tiny scrap of proof in the form of the Michelson-Morley experiment does not counteract the heaps and loads of proof -against- the Earth's being stationary.)
Further, I don't recall the Bible ever saying that the earth was stationary. I recall the sun moving (or God couldn't have stopped it for the Isrealite army), the earth having four corners (Revelation talks about an angel standing at each of the corners), and other silly things, but I don't think even the Bible's writers bothered to suggest that the earth was stationary.
Further still, your interpretation of the experiment is flawed. The Michelson-Morley experiment didn't disprove the earth's movement. It disproved merely the existence of a luminiferous aether (or rather, disproved the theory held at that time about what a luminiferous aether was).
You really make no sense. The cow isn't red, so it must be green! So there's no luminiferous aether. That doesn't (necessarily) mean that the earth isn't moving. Examine the rest of the evidence, and we're forced to take away that parenthetical "necessarily."
2006-08-15 16:00:15 · answer #3 · answered by hynkle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OK, so if I went back in time to 1887 with a computer and explained to this scientist that this is a machine from another planet do you think he could prove me wrong by conducting some experiments? This is 2006 buddy so until I see Jesus flying around on a thunder cloud judging the wicked I'm still an atheist.
2006-08-15 15:39:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Michelson-Morley experiment is now considered specious.
2006-08-15 15:34:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Science can not prove the Bible but science can not prove that we evolved from "soup" or that there was a big bang that formed the earth there is only theory land until there is hard evidence, like I don't know, historical account but wait no one was there so there is no proof. However, over 500 people of high standing witnessed Jesus' accension after the resurrection.
2006-08-15 15:40:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
His experiment in no way proved that the earth was at rest! It actually proved, after correction for refractive errors that the absolute velocity of the earth is 369+/-123 kilometers/s.
2006-08-15 15:42:01 · answer #7 · answered by deyarteb_2000 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All the results were negative? Negative speed? It was moving backward in time?
I think Michelson must've discovered the magic mushrooms instead . . .
2006-08-15 15:37:15 · answer #8 · answered by szydkids 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No... that's not the ONLY possible conclusion.
There are several others. Some of the others is an inability of technology at the time to detect minuscule changes. Lights velocity has proven to be constant.
Nice try. This "Science" proves nothing.
This kind of stupidity makes all CHRISTIANS look silly.
(and I am a Christian).
2006-08-15 15:35:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
lmfao, And the earth is flat, Santa Claus is real, and the moon is made of green cheese. 1887? measuring the speed of light? with what? a stopwatch? speedometer? Get real, and read a science book and not a 4000 year old fairy tale
2006-08-15 15:39:04 · answer #10 · answered by Jack of Hearts 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
His experiment's design must have been flawed. Most Christians will admit that the Earth goes around the Sun.
Check into your sources. There's a lot of evidence that supports the earth's movement as fact.
2006-08-15 15:34:52 · answer #11 · answered by zouninorusarusan 2 · 5⤊ 1⤋