The Earth-Centered Non-Rotating Inertial Frame and the Michelson-Morley Experiment

摘要

The objective of this article is to postulate that the Earth's gravitation field/Earth-centered non-rotating inertial frame/inflow of space is the local preferred frame for the speed of light on Earth's surface, and that the speed of light within this frame is c. The original Michelson-Morley experiment (MMX) hypothesized an ether wind equivalent to the Earth's rotational velocity around the Sun, but not the Earth's rotating spin velocity. As a result, the original MMX was either not sensitive enough to identify this spin velocity, or else it was inherently incapable of detecting the ether wind.