The Descartes Code (Spin Orbital Rotation of Photons)–I. The Fourth-Order Effects in the Michelson Interferometer

In 1887 Michelson and Morley published their very important paper with the null result in the Michelson interferometer. Since that time there were published several hundred papers with various ad hoc hypotheses to interpret this unexpected result but none of these attempts was accepted to offer an alternative to Einstein’s 1905 theory. In order to avoid this trap with ad hoc models we have combined knowledge of Old Masters and derived a new description of the longitudinal and transverse arms of the Michelson interferometer. In this model the fourth-order effect of (v/c)4 was derived where v is the interferometer velocity in the stationary luminiferous ether and c is the light speed. This formula cannot be experimentally tested in the original Michelson interferometer with the short light path of 11 meters. There is one very good opportunity to test this model with the LIGO technology with the length of both arms 4 km and the Fabry Perot cavities where the laser beam in each arm bounces between two mirrors about 300 times before being merged with the beam from the other arm. The predicted fringe shift for the LIGO interferometer is about n ≈ 5.64 × 10−5.