A POSTULATIONAL FORMULATION OF THE MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT

In this paper the Michelson-Morley experiment is analyzed from the poi nt of view of three postulates on the propagation of light: Postulate I (Einstein, 1905), Postulate II (Ritz, 1908), and Postulate III (Moon and Spencer, 1956). In a reference system that is stationary with res pect to the laboratory, all three postulates predict the experimentall y determined null effect. This paper investigates the predictions base d on each postulate in coordinate systems moving at a constant velocit y with respect to the laboratory and in coordinate systems that are un iformly accelerated in a straight line.