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What do you mean?

You seem to think I’ve said something very technical, while I’ve merely pointed out a well-known effect of Lorentz invariance and interferometry: you can’t detect an “aether” signal coincident with the detector, because the detector is distorted synchronously.

Michelson-Morley was never going to work because it relied on the assumption matter wasn’t subject to aether wind — which turned out to be wrong, as matter is subject to relativistic effects and fields unify. You needed that independence to generate the differential the interferometry amplified.

By contrast, LIGO measures an effect far removed and not co-moving with the detector. So it works.