April, 2008 PROGRESS IN PHYSICS <strong>Vol</strong>ume 2tially in the r-direction, experiences a shift to the z-direction(the direction <strong>of</strong> the motion <strong>of</strong> the Earth relative to the weakintergalactic field), the distribution <strong>of</strong> photons <strong>of</strong> the Earth’smicrowave field has an anisotropy to the z-direction.After taking all the factors into account, the third equation<strong>of</strong> the system (70), 2 cwhich is the equation <strong>of</strong> motion <strong>of</strong> a singlephoton in the z-direction, takes the simple formrvz + ! ct + + ! 2 (r + vt) = 0 (72)which, due to the weightlessnessconditionc GMr= ! 2 r 2 andthe condition r = ct, isz + 2GM v 1 +c 2 t= 0 : 2c(73)Integration <strong>of</strong> this equation gives_z = 2GM v 1 + = _z 0 + z 0 : (74)cr<strong>The</strong> first term <strong>of</strong> the solution (74) manifests that fact thatsuch a photon, initially launched in the r-direction (radial direction)in the gravitational field <strong>of</strong> the Earth, is carried intothe z-direction by the rotation <strong>of</strong> the space <strong>of</strong> the Earth. <strong>The</strong>second term, z0 , manifests the carriage <strong>of</strong> the photon intothe z-direction due to the motion <strong>of</strong> the Earth in this directionthrough the weak intergalactic field.As a result we obtain the carriage <strong>of</strong> the three-dimensionalvector <strong>of</strong> the observable velocity <strong>of</strong> light from the initiallyr-direction to the z-direction, due to the common motion <strong>of</strong>the space <strong>of</strong> the Earth in the point <strong>of</strong> observation: _z0=_z0 v c : (75)Such a carriage <strong>of</strong> a photon radiated from the Earth’s surface,being applied to a microwave background generated byoceanic water, reveals the anisotropy associated with the dipolecomponent <strong>of</strong> the microwave background.As seen from the obtained formula (75), such a carriage <strong>of</strong>a photon into the z-direction, doesn’t depend on the path travelledby such a photon in the radial direction r from the Earth.In other word, the anisotropy associated with the dipole component<strong>of</strong> the Earth microwave background shouldn’t be dependenton altitude from the surface <strong>of</strong> the Earth: the anisotropy<strong>of</strong> the Earth microwave background should be the sameif measured on board a U2 aeroplane (25 km), at the orbit <strong>of</strong>the COBE satellite (900 km), and at the 2nd Langrange point(the WMAP satellite and PLANCK satellite, 1.5 million kmfrom the Earth).AcknowledgementWe are very grateful to Pierre-Marie Robitaille for consultationsand valuable comments.Submitted on January 04, 2008 / Accepted on January 07, 2008First published online on January 07, 2008 / Corrected on February 11, 2008References1. 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