This amazing machine has baffled the scientific community by its extraordinary ability to track the galactic nucleus anywhere, even underground and from indoors!  Unlike conventional telescopes, it needs not to see the sky, nor does it utilize any clocking mechanism.

Galactic Wind Compass


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    A single laser, via beam splitter, produces interference fringes which are then detected by a photo transistor, which then turns a bicycle wheel in the opposite directed to the earth's rotation, upon which the laser assembly is mounted.
    The wheel is adjusted to rotate slightly faster than the earth, causing the assembly to get ahead.  When this happens, the fringe count decreases, stalling the bicycle wheel and laser assembly affixed, thus allowing the earth to catch up, repeating the process again and again, like a thoughtless machine, which it is, making it all that more fun and better!

A great school science fair project turning in sidereal time without any clockwork mechanism and an educational tool demonstrating the presence of galactic wind.

    Unlike gyroscopic mechanisms, like those used in navigation, the Galactic Wind Compass is non inertial
    Here's how it works.
    Ether wind passing through the laboratory at about 600 miles per second--as it is drawn towards the galactic center-- is detected as a movement of fringes on a photo transistor placed at the location of interference patterns of a right angle interferometer.
    The photocell's output is amplified to open and close a standard 12 volt automotive relay.  Capacitors are placed in the circuit to serve as a Schottky trigger.
    This smoothed out signal then drives another relay, turning on a motor circuit.  The motor turns at a very slow 5 RPM, and has a cam, which briefly closes on each revolution;  serving as what would be equivalent to a TTL divider circuit.
    I thought about doing all this with logic chips, but everyone loves the sights and sounds of clicking relays and LEDs.  Besides, I just didn't want to have to deal with regulated 5 volts;  12 volts being so wonderfully automotive.  And as it stand, it would make a great conversation piece for Richard Branson's space headquarters foyer at Virgin Galactic, Mojave.
    I also thought that if I went the way of computer logic, a lot of diehard relativists might think that something sneaky might be going.
    Anyway, this cam signal activates another relay serving as a "one shot" in the event the cam stops in the ON position, which would not be good at all.
    This signal is then delivered to a motor driving a bicycle wheel, that is remotely stationed on the south wall of the lab, so as the earth spins eastward, the bicycle wheel is driven clockwise to the west, in the attempt to hold it steady to the celestial sphere.
    The motor driving the rim of the bicycle wheel is another 5 RPM motor.  It is a 12 volt automotive windshield wiper motor attainable in any junkyard, along with the relays.  The motor is non synchronous, and does not provide any sidereal clocking mechanism, making the apparatus even more convincing to the post classical physicist of a century gone by.
    Scientific American take note, this would make a good contribution to you Amateur Astronomer section.
    All of this is achieved by counting laser fringes.  Here's how that works.
    The laser right angle interferometer is situated on the rim and spokes of the bicycle wheel, turning slowly with the wheel.  Circuits are led into the wheel hub via a rotary connector handling three circuits:  (1)  laser 3 volt power, (2) 12 volt photo transistor collector output, and (3) common ground to both.
    When the interferometer is turned such that both right angle laser beams (derived by using a cube beam splitter) are at equal angles (45o) to the galactic center, there is very little drifting of the interference fringes, thus the wheel may not turn at all, in which case it, if ahead of the galactic center, the center will move into alignment to one of the beam legs.  (Illustration below and left.)
    When this happens, photons from the laser will take longer to travel down and back this leg (Y), relative to the photons traveling at right angles to the ether wind, increasing the fringe drift and driving the motor (at its fixed 5 RPM speed) more frequently, so that it continually paces itself to the earth's rotation.
    Why does this happen?
    Photons travel in both speed and direction relative to the ether, so that if photons are traveling against and with the motion of the ether, they will always take longer to make a round trip than if the ether were at rest.
    In the illustration to the left, leg Y is in line with the galactic center and leg X is crosswind, so-to-speak.  Photons traveling along X, both directions, will experience no appreciable variation in transit time;  in this sense X becomes a standard reference, not a null rest standard though, since the ether is streaming by at a very high rate of speed towards the galactic center.
    The ether wind compass does not know if any of this is happening, only that there is a more rapid fringe change in time, turning the photo transistor on and off as the light and dark interference fringes move past its face, measuring about one tenth a millimeter square.
    The interference fringes are the result of a common or coherent light source reemerging after being recombined through the beam splitter.
    I find the green laser light easier to see and thus to work with, though most photo transistors op for the red and infra red.  If your lacking response power with the collector output, rather than going berserk looking for a better match, you might want to use a green enhanced beam splitter cube from Edmund Optical, to compensate for this frequency mismatch.

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    The scientific implication  of this device, clearly shows that the the very old theory of relativity, is fundamentally invalid, despite having pragmatic uses.
    The religious implications are, since the ether consists mostly of invisible surfaces, as form, rather than structures, they cannot be made, fabricated, constructed nor created by any stretch of the imagination, hence, no god can create a Universe depending on ether as the correct explanation as incorporated in the study of Natural Science, as it ought to be.
    After checking this out, you might accept my credibility, and like to become involved with two other machines that create work without fuel expenditures.

References:
Albert Einstein
Michelson-Morley Experiment
The Aberration of Starlight without the necessity of Relativistic Consideration
LUMINIFEROUS ETHER
Luminiferous Ether by Joel Webb
HOW RELATIVITY WORKS