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Old 07-February-2009, 11:38 PM
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Originally Posted by forrest noble View Post
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The next sentence/ statement that I made, in retrospect, I believe was too strong of a blanket statement.

"If this experiment shows the predicted difference it would nullify Special Relativity in favor of Lorentz transforms, it would nullify General Relativity because it would generally confirm a different theory of gravity and its equations which I have developed, as well as bringing in to question the Big Bang Theory which has as its mathematical basis the equations of General Relativity."

I would amend it in the following way:

"If this experiment shows the predicted difference in the speed of light, it would nullify Special Relativity in favor of Lorentz transforms since it would strongly suggest the existence of an aether. I believe it would nullify the predictions of General Relativity relating to the speed and motions of stars, galaxies, and the formulations concerning the universe as a whole. The results from this experiment, after confirmation, would generally support a different theory of gravity, as well as bringing in to question the Big Bang Theory which has as its mathematical basis the equations of General Relativity."

The rest of the assertions of this paragraph would stand as is.

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The general class of test that this proposed experiment belongs to is called, I think, tests of Lorentz invariance, or tests designed to detect and/or measure Lorentz violation.

I would like to ask what literature searches you undertook, to ascertain what experiments have been conducted, since Michelson's famous one, to test Lorentz violations, particularly the kind your 'pushing theory of gravity' predicts (crudely, anisotropy in the speed of light)?

What experiments did you find, from your literature search?