YourTube Extended Michelson-Morley Experiment

[pese]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebNmmBib3aI     Erweitertes Michelson-Morley Experiment 2009, Deutsche Version

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T0d7o8X2-E  You are invited to view this documentary about the extended Michelson-Morley Interferometer experiment on Youtube!

Was given today at YT from my frend Martin.
Please load it down to your harddisk  with "keepvid".
Pese

[armagdn03]

Really great stuff Pese, thank you

[Moab]

Yes Thank-you much Pese.

that opens the door to a new way to observe a scalar function. im not so sure its never been done, But this is the first i've seen a laser used like this tho. very interesting stuff. mind bending 

[wings]

great video 

now what about Einstein special relativity?

[zerotensor]

Wow, cool experiment.  I wonder if this is due to torque on the mirrors / beamsplitter from gravity.  If the optical elements were securely sandwiched between two plates instead of just one it would be more convincing.  11 fringes @ 532nm corresponds to 11*532 = 5852 nm of displacement between the two beam paths.  That is only 5.85 microns.  This displacement could easily be produced by gravitational torque, even with a very secure mount.