Tensor,
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I hope Nereid doesn't mind me jumping in here, but a test for Lorentz invariance, here on Earth, would detect a violation. Since, in your model, the Earth is not stationary WRT the aether. A test taken over several months, as the Earth moved through it's orbit, with the apparatus having a fixed orientation to Earth, would detect a difference in the measurement of the SOL, as the apparatus changes it's orientation WRT space. If you correct this by saying that the aether moves along with the Earth, then you run into the problems of aether drag, such as stellar aberration, violations of Snell's law and the fact that there would be different amounts of aether drag for different frequencies of light.
And, just for your reference, this test happens to fit the bill. Notice that one arm of the test was fixed east-west and the other arm was perpendicular, straight up. With constraints on a violation at 10-13 for velocity independent terms and 10-9 for velocity dependent terms.
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Obviously this thread is impossibly long so very few or any would have read it all. Previously I have asserted that regardless of the linear motion of the earth, the aether would follow it for reasons that I've discussed on numerous previous postings. The aether field variance, and accordingly the cause of gravity, would be a resultant low-pressure area surrounding the earth caused by the earth's EM radiation which accordingly are outward moving pressure waves.
As the earth moves around the sun this low pressure area follows it. As the earth rotates on its axis however such a variance would exist. Michelson and Morly found this variance and reported it in their findings and attributed it to the earths rotation rather than to the existence of an aether. This experiment, which I have discussed, would be conducted in a North South orientation to generally eliminate this factor. The earth's surface is rotating at about a thousand miles per hour relative to the sun. The effect that I am testing for is a difference of 21.8 miles per hour, a much smaller effect than the rotation of the earth.
After transforming mathematically or mentally relative to the aether frame, I assert that the speed of light here on earth would always be constant in all directions, just an infinitesimal non-linear vector at the earth's surface due to a very small angle of non-linear vortex current at the earth's surface due to the earth's rotation. Einstein would call it frame dragging. It is possible, according to my theory, that different frequencies of light could be dragged at different angles relative to the earth's surface but this I believe would be unrelated to my experiment since I would be conducting the experiment North-South and using a laser of uniform frequency.
I've heard of the experiment on frame dragging that you were discussing but I'm not familiar with the details that you discussed. It wouldn't work for my experiment because they're shooting east-west. But maybe a variation of it could find what I'm looking for. I will seriously try to find the detailed info on their equipment and see if it's compatible with my needs and if a similar type experiment could be conducted using the same equipment for my purposes.
Thanks for the info Tensor.
respectfully, forrest