| has gloss | eng: The aether drag hypothesis was an early attempt to explain the way experiments such as Arago's experiment showed that the speed of light is constant. The aether drag hypothesis has been considered for some time to be incorrect by much of mainstream science. According to the aether drag hypothesis light propagates in a medium, the aether, that remains attached to things as they move. If this is the case then, no matter how fast the earth moves around the sun or rotates on its axis, light on the surface of the earth would travel at a constant velocity, which is as observed. |
