shmengie Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 I understand the two experiments sought different answers, but are the question really different? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 The only reason they seek different answers is because they are asking totally different questions. The Michelson-Morely experiment was looking for variations in the speed of light as the detector moved through space. LIGO is looking for gravitational waves caused by things like binary black holes / neutron stars. If the speed of light did vary with the direction of movement (i.e. Michelson-Morely had a non-zero result) then this would affect LIGO as well and would have to be taken into account in the measurements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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