The Michelson interferometer is a common configuration for optical interferometry and was invented by the 19/20th-century American physicist Albert Abraham...
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there was no physical theory to replace it. The negative outcome of the Michelson–Morley experiment (1887) suggested that the aether did not exist, a finding...
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Sagnac effect (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
"L'éther lumineux démontré par l'effet du vent relatif d'éther dans un interféromètre en rotation uniforme" [The demonstration of the luminiferous aether...
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many theoretical results and empirical findings obtained by Albert A. Michelson, Hendrik Lorentz, Henri Poincaré and others. It culminated in the theory...
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theory for the special theory of relativity, explaining the results of the Michelson–Morley experiment of 1887. Emission theories obey the principle of relativity...
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