Gyroscopes and the rotation of the Earth problem. From Michelson Morley in 1887, until today. Same results.
Gyros don't support the claim that the Earth rotates. 'Science' cannot explain how we can use gyroscopes in planes, submarines, boats and even cars.
“If you haven't given much thought to the implications of twentieth-century science, you may be chagrined...to realize that because of the concept of relative motion, no one can prove that the Earth moves.” Kitty Ferguson, Measuring the Universe, 1999, p. 106, 107
“We might hope therefore that the Einstein theory, which is well suited to such problems, would throw more light on the matter. But instead of adding further support to the heliocentric picture of the planetary motions, the Einstein theory goes in the opposite direction, giving increased respectability to the geocentric picture ” Sir Fred Hoyle, Nicolaus Copernicus: An Essay on His Life and Work, p. 87
Gyros
There is a simple technology I have used for years that disproves, or calls into question, the Earth’s purported rotation. I have taught this to students and had them conduct experiments which call into disrepute everything they have been taught in ‘science’. It is called the gyroscope.
The gyroscope joins the roughly 300.000 experiments which fail to find a motion of this planet. Current scientific principles and beliefs cannot explain this. Yet it is an experiment everyone can do at home with a U$150 instrument. It is never taught and rarely shown in schools. The online media and ‘science’ media will tell you that a laser gyroscope ‘proves’ the rotation of the Earth. The opposite is true.
And no, no one believes in a flat earth, nor in Chewbacca, ET and Yoda. And no, I don’t have a PhD in ‘gyroscopology’ but neither did its many inventors. If you buy one, you need to buy the free-swinging gyroscope, not the motorised version. If you use the free-swinging version, you will see what I mean as described below. The Earth might well rotate but the proof is thin.
What is a gyro?
A gyroscope is a device that uses the principle of ‘angular momentum’ to maintain its orientation and axis direction, even when subjected to external forces. They are used in transport, navigation and smart phones. There are 3 main components: a spinning wheel or rotor, an axis around which the wheel spins (or gimbal), and a mechanism that keeps the axle perpendicular to gravity (known as precession).
What is ‘angular momentum’?
Akin to riding a bicycle, it is the calculation of a rotating object using its inertia times angular velocity
‘Momentum’ such as a moving bicycle, is the product of its mass and the velocity of the bicycle
Any object moving with mass possesses ‘momentum’
‘Angular momentum’ is only concerned with rotating or spinning objects
(Description and formulae examples here)
The rotor in a gyroscope spins at high speeds, generating ‘angular momentum’. As long as it keeps spinning fast enough, it will resist any force trying to move it out of its original position. This means that even if there is an external force acting on one part of the gyroscope (such as turbulence or movement), its resistance will keep it stable. Angular momentum is the reason given for the Earth’s rotation and why it keeps rotating. Such an explanation has nothing to say about what started that rotation, or why it might rotate at a constant speed.
Earth’s Motion vs Rotation?
In 1887 Michelson-Morley conducted a complicated light-interferometer experiment and failed to detect the requisite 30 km/sec motion of the Earth. They recorded ~0.3-5 km / second. It was not a null result. Hundreds of follow up experiments confirmed the result including the Michelson-Gale effort of 1925.
Embedded in their experiments was a gyroscope. The scopes used today are ‘ring-laser’ gyros (RLG) and these are based on what Michelson-Morley used in 1887. The perimeter of the gyro ring was 1.9 kms. It was huge.
The principle of an RLG is based on the ‘Sagnac effect’ which proves the variance of light speed. Light speed is inconstant if bodies are in motion. In interferometer experiments the Earth is used as the 'rotating platform'. You measure light speed against that rotation.
In the ‘science media’ you will read that these experiments ‘proved’ the Earth’s rotation. They do no such thing.
“As early as 1925, Michelson, Gale and Pearson demonstrated that it was possible to measure the rotation of the Earth using a Sagnac interferometer. Their device had a rectangular form of dimensions 2000×1100 feet and was made from evacuated sewer pipes near Clearing. This remarkable technological achievement (for the time) yielded a detectable 1/4 fringe phase difference due to earth rotation thereby demonstrating a measurement of an absolute rotation rate from within a rotating reference frame.”
From a work titled The Sagnac and Michelson-Gale-Pearson Experiments(Archive) by Dr. Paulo N. Correa, on p. 5 he states that the results from the MGP experiment were inconsistent and the conclusion was based on statistics:
“The outcome of the MGP experiment was ambiguous, though maybe no more ambiguous than the small persistent positive shift observed in MM experiments. Composed of 269 separate tests with readings that varied from -0.04 to +0.55 of a fringe, and a mean at +0.26 fringes, the MGP experiment could be interpreted to yield a positive result of ≈ 0.3 km/s - therefore near the speed of the earth's rotation, but the result was of borderline significance. It could be said that the experiment was inconclusive because it adduced neither proof that there was a shift in the phase of the light beams, nor that there wasn't one.”
However, the original intent of these experiments was to prove Copernican-heliocentricity and the Earth’s movement around the Sun, not rotation! This is never taught.
Show the movement
The goal of the Michelson–Morley experiment of 1887 was to compare the speed of light in perpendicular horizontal directions at various times of the day. This would yield data to prove or disprove the relative motion of matter through the stationary ‘luminiferous aether’. This would be accomplished by using the Earth's motion around the Sun to create interference bands of light for the study. Morley wrote to his father that the purpose of the experiment was “to see if light travels with the same velocity in all directions”, if it does then the Earth is not moving.
The shocking result of the 1887 investigation is that light did travel with the same velocity in the various horizontal directions tested (diagram above). The Earth did not move around the Sun at all, in contradiction to all expectations and the accepted astronomical model. Michelson and Morley found that a light beam discharged horizontally in the direction of the Earth’s assumed motion showed virtually no difference in speed from a light beam discharged north to south or south to north. In other words, the experiment failed to detect the Earth moving in or against space.
This is where Einstotle and friends enter the frame. One of Einstotle's many hagiographers, physicist Ronald W. Clark described the shock:
“The problem which now faced science was considerable. For there seemed to be only three alternatives. The first was that the Earth was standing still, which meant scuttling the whole Copernican theory and was unthinkable.”
Relativity was concocted to explain away the failure of these experiments and bury the results. The ~0.3 km/second result is far below the purported sprint through space of 30 km/sec. So, they invoked ‘rotation’. The Earth is supposed to rotate at 1000 miles or 1600 km / hour, or roughly 0.4 km per second. In direct opposition to the stated objective of these experiments the ‘science’ now uses gyroscope-light interferometer to prove ‘rotation’! It does no such thing.
When you go through the test results you will notice that there is almost no change to light's velocity in one test, and a large variation in another test. It is all over the place and remains true today (examples below). This is unexplained. Does the Earth stop and start? Or is the rotating motion different depending on the time of day? We also notice that the 1925 Michelson-Gale-Pearson re-enactment was so inconsistent, that they applied a magic algorithm to get the desired results. All of these failed experiments are based on gyroscopes.
Gyros and motion
Newton’s first law of motion states that a body in motion wants to stay in motion in the same direction it’s going. It is important to understand that a gyroscope only resists angular motion; that is, a leaning or tipping motion that changes the angle of the axis. It does not resist a linear motion.
Simple gyroscopes consist of an axis and a rotor. The rotor is a disc that spins around the axis in much the same way as a bicycle wheel spins around its axle. If you imagine a point on the outer edge of the rotor spinning at a high speed, and watch it spin for just a nanosecond, you will see that point moves a very small distance. It might be going fast and carry a lot of momentum, but it would only travel a tiny fraction of an inch in such a short period of time.
It should also be noted that a gyroscope's resistance to angular motion is not at all affected by gravity. If gravity were to become weaker, cease, or change directions the orientation of a freely spinning gyroscope would not be affected.
Rotation?
In our current understanding of the world, gyroscopes should be virtually useless for navigation, yet they are used everywhere. Airplanes, boats, submarines and even cars can use gyroscopes. Why? Consider the following:
· In a 24-hour day we should get 15 degrees of rotation per hour
· This means a ’15-degree tilt' every single hour
· What good is a gyroscope-driven ‘attitude indicator’, which means that the gyro is stationary while the Earth moves under it, or 'tilting' 15 degrees every hour?
· What good is a gyroscopic compass when every six hours we are doing a 90-degree turn?
I am piloting a plane which is at rest at the North Pole on a fictitious runway. I have my gyroscopic compass turned on which is pointed at my location at the geographic North Pole. The axis will continue to point in this same direction regardless of how the aircraft turns and manoeuvres. I am awaiting my flight instructions and have been still for more than 1 hour. According to ‘the science’ I must be in motion.
· On a rotating Earth the gyroscopic compass should show the aircraft in a constant left turn at a rate of 15 degrees per hour
· After 6 hours the plane must have turned 90 degrees
· The gyroscope on my dashboard, shows no such movement, it has not moved at all
There is a serious discrepancy here, between basic Newtonian physics on motion (centrifugal forces, where an outward force will cause motion to continue in a straight line), and the Copernican belief in a rotating Earth. So, who is right? Is Newton right and Copernicus wrong, or the opposite? Their ‘laws’ are mutually exclusive. Airplane gyroscope compasses indicate that Copernicus is wrong.
I am now in a submarine. My steel-can possesses no windows, no GPS, no method to use the stars or other navigational aids. Submarines rely on 'inertial navigation’ systems. These systems are based on gyroscopes. The gyroscopes are resistant to angular motion. I use the gyroscope to map out my navigation against a map and coordinate grid. I move my boat underwater. The Earth is spinning eastwards at 1000 miles per hour. I go west 100 miles and then south 50 miles. I plot out my movements on the grid. The gyroscope is what I use to navigate, and it is accurate. How is this possible if the Earth is rotating?
Bottom Line
In my own test using a modern gyroscope I have never been able to pick up any angular motion of the Earth. My gyro can spin at ~12,000 rpm, making it 60 times more ridged, and accurate than those used by Michelson-Morley in 1887. I can stand up a simple gyro on my table (no gimbal for eg), where there is no force or friction and it never leans. How can that be true if the Earth rotates?
Every gyroscope presents an insurmountable problem with the belief that the Earth rotates.
This issue is not in any textbook and not a single PhD (Painter_house_Decorator) will give a lecture about it. It is an inconvenient fact ‘the science’ has buried. The Earth might well rotate, but mechanical evidence is missing. (The only supplied evidence is that of U2 planes measuring the velocity of the Earth’s movement against the Cosmic Background Radiation, many problems with this exist and it would also invalidate the Special Theory of Relativity, a large conundrum for ‘the science’).
In other posts we discussed the underlying philosophical imperatives which animate and distort ‘the science’. Copernican theology is suffused with philosophy, not mechanical facts. It simply ‘demands’ that the Earth must move.
Here is a thought experiment. If gyros had existed in 1543, would the rotating Earth theory have been accepted as a ‘fact’ over some 300 hundred years? Probably not. If gyros had existed in the 16th century, Copernican theology would most likely have been dismissed. ‘Relativity’ would not exist. Imagine that.
All hail.
A good explanation of a working gyro - go to minute 2 Gyroscopes and the Earth (ignore the flat earth viewpoint)
How a gyro works in a car 1:07 here (you can see that the gyro should not work at all, if the Earth’s rotation was 15 degrees every hour).
(Nb: Unfortuntely the flat earthers seem very interested in the gyros and on any website discussing this topic, any criticism of gyros or the Earth’s rotation and lack of evidence is linked to flat earthers.)
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NB on Foucault the Fraud
Foucault was a mid-19th century university drop out whose ‘pendulum’, in effect a gyroscope, ‘proved’ the Earth’s rotation. This is a false, albeit often-state claim by ‘the science’. See here.
NB on RLGs
A ) 2020 paper A Multi-Component Ring Laser for Geodesy and Geophysics (Archive) the text states that with the Ring Laser Gyroscope, the Earth's rotation is derived from noise, such as earthquakes and natural phenomena. The measurements prove nothing.
“The G-ring observations of Earth’s rotation are superimposed by local rotational ground motions from a variety of sources. The unprecedented high-resolution (single-component) ground rotational observations of the G31 ring of local, regional, and teleseismic earthquakes (Igel et al., 2005; Cochard et al., 2006; Igel et al., 2007) triggered research into the potential of using additional rotation components for seismological research questions”.
B ) Even if we remove noise signals there is no rotational proof. At the Geodetic Observatory in Wettzell (Bavaria, Germany), the rotation-rate of the Earth appears to shift between and positive values and negative values and trends to below zero over time as measured in ‘radians’. A radian is an angular unit of measurement, like degrees. Why would this trend to negative if the Earth rotates? https://ia600702.us.archive.org/22/items/arxiv-1007.1861/1007.1861.pdf
I’m open-minded enough to believe that the gyroscope video you linked shows no drift over 15 minutes. However other videos have shown there is a drift:
https://youtu.be/SrGgxAK9Z5A
Why is that?
Do the ring laser gyroscopes have the equivalent of a ‘fixed gimbal’ which cause’s precession (or a light frequency difference in the ring laser gyroscope), leading to the drift which is perceived to be due to earth rotation?
I was not aware of this - thanks for the post.