Michelson-Morley experiment
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The American Physical Society calls the Michelson-Morley experiment “what might be regarded as the most famous failed experiment to date.”
From Scientific American ● Jul. 27, 2023
The Michelson-Morley experiment demonstrated that the speed of light in a vacuum is independent of the motion of the Earth about the Sun.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
Based mostly on his analysis that the laws of electricity and magnetism would not allow another speed for light, and only slightly aware of the Michelson-Morley experiment, Einstein detailed his second postulate of special relativity.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
He invented the interferometre by which in the Michelson-Morley experiment of 1887 he split a ray of light in two and raced the fractions against each other.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is no need to introduce the idea of an ether, whose presence anyway cannot be detected, as the Michelson-Morley experiment showed.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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