[Physics] Sagnac experiment interpretation

[Doug Marett]

Hi Olivier,

    Yes, early on I entertained the idea that some for of gravitational
frame dragging might occur, but in more recent times I have abandoned that
idea and believe more in a Lorentz ether (a single preferred frame of
reference for light).
The conspiracy of light is the change in the rate of clocks and lengths
that occurs with motion that "conspire" to prevent us from detecting an
anisotropic light speed in any direction, but this is not due to
gravitational causes.

Doug

On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 3:37 AM, O. Serret <o.serret at free.fr> wrote:

> Hi Doug,
>
> Thank you for your explanations.
>
> About Michelson-Morley experiment,
> you make the hypothesis of a “Gravitational Frame Dragging Theory” or of a
> “Conspiracy of Light”,
> i.e. a change in the properties of light (by gravity) in order that light
> would become roughly isotropic on celerity.
>
> Is my understanding of your hypothesis correct ?
>
> Best regards
>
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