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Volume 15: Pages 61-74, 2002

Verification of Photon Inertia by a Laser Light Photon Radiation Experiment

Joś Paulo Hansen

Instituto de Engenharia

The Michelson‐Morley experiment and those like it have detected no results on the absolute velocity of inertial systems like Earth‐Sun. The null results of these experiments have been explained by the space‐time variable of Einstein's relativity theory, whic/h maintains that the velocity of light and other electromagnetic radiation is constant (c                           3 × 10¹⁰ cm/s) in vacuum, measured by an observer in a reference system for any velocity (v_s) of the emitting source of the radiation. That is, this radiation would be emitted with a velocity c independent of the velocity (v_s) of the emitting source. Contrary to Einstein's relativity theory, this implies that the final velocity (c′) of this radiation depends on the inertial velocity (v_s) of the emitting source, with respect to space or the cosmic background radiation, and then the final velocity (c′) of the light radiation or any other electromagnetic radiation would be given by c′ = (c + v_s), in the direction of the emitting source, with respect to either space or the cosmic background radiation. That is, c′ would be variable according to the source velocity (v_s), according to the Ritz emission theory. From 1951 to 1987 works involving redshifts, temperatures of the cosmic background radiation, and standing phase shifts of light presented a velocity v   350 × 10⁵ cm/s for the Earth‐Sun system motion toward the constellation Leo, with respect to either space or the cosmic background radiation. The present laser light photon radiation experiment, applied to this motion toward the constellation Leo and transverse to this motion, based on new aspects of the quantum theory, has shown notable evidence that the velocity c′ of this laser light photon radiation has the component of the source inertial velocity v of this Earth‐Sun motion, explaining the Michelson‐Morley experiment and those like it. Also, the present paper explains the velocity (c_γ) of the γ photon radiation emitted by particles at high velocity (v_π0   c_γ). The result of the present experiment is consistent with the prediction of a constant velocity (c′) of light and any other electromagnetic radiation, but only in the direction of motion of the emitting source of the radiation. And there is not a constant velocity (c) of this radiation with respect to the observer in a reference system, contrary to Einstein's relativity, which admits a constant velocity (c) of this radiation in all reference systems and in each direction of this radiation in space. But there is a constant velocity (c′ = c_r + v_s) of this radiation with respect to space or the cosmic background radiation, because the inertial velocity (c_r) with respect to its emitting source varies according to the inertial velocity (v_s) of the emitting source of this photon radiation, which is also contrary to the Ritz emission theory. For other directions of the photon radiation with respect to the direction of motion of the emitting source, the present experiment proves that the photon radiation does not have a constant velocity (c), but is affected by the inertial velocity (v_s) of the emitting source of the radiation.

Keywords: Michelson‐Morley experiment, Fitzgerald‐Lorentz contraction, Einstein's space‐time variable, elementary quantum impulse, elementary photon, photon inertia

Received: June 8, 2000; Published online: December 15, 2008