Speculations on dark matter as a luminiferous medium

TL;DR

This paper explores the hypothesis that dark matter could act as a luminiferous medium affecting light's behavior, potentially explaining conflicting experimental results on Earth's motion detection.

Contribution

It proposes a novel idea that dark matter may serve as a transparent medium influencing light experiments, offering an alternative perspective on dark matter's properties.

Findings

Laboratory and astronomical observations suggest the existence of a transparent, earth-bound medium.

Dark matter could be a candidate for this medium, impacting light-based measurements.

Some optical experiments detect Earth's motion, others do not, possibly due to this medium.

Abstract

Assuming the features commonly ascribed to dark matter, we discuss our glimpse of the possibility that dark matter as a light transmitting medium played a role that accounts for the discordant inferences about the dynamical behaviour of light, in which some optical experiments cannot detect the earth's motion in space, while others definitely can. In a converse way, the mentioned laboratory and astronomical observations provide an accessible experimental proof for the existence of a transparent, non-baryonic earth-bound medium which does not occupy the whole of universal space, dark matter being a possible candidate medium.