Michelson Morley experiment disproved Aether Drag and proved Aether is Universally Still
Michelson Morley experiment was specifically designed in the context of an aether drag theory. The only reason they expected the speed of light to change in different directions is because they were basing the experiment on Fresnel’s aether drag experiment which they allegedly confirmed, and they believed that this drag would induce an ‘aether wind’ as the earth moves in the aether, which would change the speed of light in different directions. Without this aether drag non-sense, no aether wind should be expected in an universally still aether, and no change in the speed of light should be detected. So the null result simply showed that this aether drag theory is false, and that there is no aether wind, because the aether is UNIVERSALLY STILL, just like Maxwell said it was. ‘Maxwell's equations required that all electromagnetic waves in vacuum propagate at a fixed speed, c . As this can only occur in one reference frame in Newtonian physics (see Galilean relativity ), the aether...