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{{Infobox paper
| title = Phase and Frequency Shift in a Michelson Interferometer
| url = [http://www.naturalphilosophy.org/pdf/abstracts/abstracts_6815.pdf Link to paper]
| author = [[Wolfgang Engelhardt]]
| keywords = [[OCIS: Fundamental tests]], [[Instruments]], [[apparatus]], [[and components common to the sciences]], [[Interferometry]], [[Phase measurement]]
| published = 2011
| journal = [[None]]
| num_pages = 9
}}

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==Abstract==

Traditionally the outcome of Michelson's interference experiment has been interpreted as evidence against the existence of a luminiferous medium called ?ether?. Einstein, however, emphasized in 1920 that an ether must exist in spite of Michelson's null result. In this paper it is shown that a medium theory ? be it for light or for sound ? actually predicts the observed null result. Michelson expected a gradual fringe shift when his apparatus was turned in the ?ether wind?. Such a phase change would, however, require a temporary frequency change in one of the interferometer arms. Since wind does not alter the frequency in the interferometer, a phase shift cannot occur either.

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