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1 day ago · By debunking the existence of the luminiferous ether, Michelson and Morley shattered entrenched beliefs and catalyzed a paradigm shift in our understanding o...
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14 hours ago · If light were to travel through aether, and since Earth was moving around the sun, there should be a difference in the speed of light at perpendicular directions on the surface of the Earth. Albert Michelson and Edward Morley devised a clever experiment to detect this speed difference using an interferometer. By sending light down two ...
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2 days ago · Beginning in the 1880s several experiments were performed to try to detect this motion, the most famous of which is the experiment performed by Albert A. Michelson and Edward W. Morley in 1887. [151] [152] The detected motion was found to always be nil (within observational error).
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3 days ago · On Friday, April 19th, sixteen undergraduate biology majors presented research as part of the annual Michelson Morley Competition in Biological Sciences.The competition honors the collaborative research initiated in 1885 between Albert A. Michelson, a Case physicist, and Edward W. Morley, a Western Reserve Chemist, which culminated in the Michelson-Morley experiment of 1887.
In the late 19th century there was the aether theory. It was reasoned that if the earth was traveling thought aether then the speed of light would depend on the direction it was traveling. The Michelson Morley experiment was done and it was concluded that light goes the same speed no matter the direction. This experiment debunked the aether theory.
4 days ago · 1887 – The Michelson–Morley experiment, intended to measure the relative motion of Earth through the (assumed) stationary luminiferous aether, got no results. This put an end to the centuries-old idea of the aether, dating back to Aristotle, and with it all the contemporary aether theories.
3 days ago · The Virgo interferometer is a large Michelson interferometer designed to detect the gravitational waves predicted by general relativity. It is located in Santo Stefano a Macerata, near the city of Pisa, Italy. The instrument's two arms are three kilometres long, housing its mirrors and instrumentation inside an ultra-high vacuum.
