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    Why Edward Morley Didn’T Win the Nobel Prize in Physics
    Why Edward Morley Didn’T Win the Nobel Prize in Physics
    Why Edward Morley Didn’T Win the Nobel Prize in Physics
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    Why Edward Morley Didn’T Win the Nobel Prize in Physics

    By Les Hardison

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    At a critical point in the development of modern physical theory, two brilliant and dedicated scientists, Albert Michelson and Edward Morley, conducted experiments to measure the velocity of the ether, which was presumed to fill all of space and serve as the medium for the conduction of light.

    Their measurements suggested that the velocity was zero, relative to the earth. Either the earth was the center of the universe (as Ptolemy believed) or light was not conducted through such a medium. The velocity of light was clearly demonstrated to be independent of the observers velocity, but how could this possibly be true?

    They left it to Albert Einstein to interpret their results. He proposed a third alternative, special relativity, which is still regarded as gospel by physicists today. But surely Einsteins alternative was not the only one. Was Edward Morley robbed of his place in scientific history?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchway Publishing
    Release dateDec 15, 2014
    ISBN9781480812185
    Why Edward Morley Didn’T Win the Nobel Prize in Physics
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    Les Hardison

    Les Hardison is an eighty-five-year-old retired engineer. He graduated from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1950 with a degree in mechanical engineering. During his working years, he was a petroleum process design engineer for UOP, Inc., and later technical director of UOP Air Correction Division. During the last twenty-five years of his working career, he was president of ARI Technologies, Inc., a small air pollution control company that developed, among other things, the LO-CAT Hydrogen Sulfide Oxidation Process. He has recently been awarded a US patent for the development of a system for viewing ordinary TV programs in 3-D without special glasses or alterations to the television set or program production. He has never had any special training in physics or cosmology and recognizes that if he knew more about them, he would probably not have written either the first book, A New Light on the Expanding Universe, or this one.

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