Author(s)

Jingshown Wu^1*, Hen-Wai Tsao¹, Yen-Ru Huang²

¹Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Chinese Taipei.
²Materials and Electro-Optics Research Divisions, National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology, Taoyuan.

The wave-aether model was proposed long time ago. We study Michelson interferometer experiment and find that its theoretical calculation erroneously neglected the aether drag effect. We take the drag effect into account and reanalyze the theoretical interference pattern shift. The result is null because the drag coefficient of aether is zero. Such that the wave-aether model fulfills all light propagation characteristics. We design and implement a system to measure the starlight speed by comparing to that from a local source. We observe that the arrival times are different. It implies the apparent speeds of starlights are not equal to c.

Wave-Aether Model, Michelson Interferometer, Speed of Light

Wu, J. , Tsao, H. and Huang, Y. (2019) Reviewing Michelson Interferometer Experiment and Measuring the Speed of Starlight. Journal of Modern Physics, 10, 539-547. doi: 10.4236/jmp.2019.105037.