The Michelson–Morley experiment was an attempt to measure the motion of the Earth relative to the luminiferous aether, a supposed medium permeating space...
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work on measuring the speed of light and especially for the Michelson–Morley experiment. In 1907, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, becoming the...
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experiments and became well known for its use by Michelson and Edward Morley in the famous Michelson–Morley experiment (1887) in a configuration which would have...
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and for the Michelson–Morley experiment. Morley was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Anna Clarissa Treat and the Reverend Sardis Brewster Morley. Both parents...
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The Michelson–Gale–Pearson experiment (1925) is a modified version of the Michelson–Morley experiment and the Sagnac-Interferometer. It measured the Sagnac...
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copes with experiment better than classical mechanics. For instance, postulate 2 explains the results of the Michelson–Morley experiment. Moreover, the...
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outcome of the Michelson–Morley experiment (1887) suggested that the aether did not exist, a finding that was confirmed in subsequent experiments through the...
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Kennedy–Thorndike experiment, first conducted in 1932 by Roy J. Kennedy and Edward M. Thorndike, is a modified form of the Michelson–Morley experimental procedure...
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evidence for the presence of such a medium was not found in the Michelson–Morley experiment, and this result has been interpreted to mean that no luminiferous...
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appeared to be incompatible with Newtonian mechanics, and the Michelson–Morley experiment failed to detect the Earth's motion against the hypothesized...
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equations invariant, but was apparently uninterested in the Michelson–Morley experiment on Earth's drift through a luminiferous aether. Conversely, Einstein...
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The Michelson–Morley Award is a science award that originated from the Michelson Award that was established in 1963 by the Case Institute of Technology...
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century—until the Michelson–Morley experiment returned its famous null result. Further experiments were in general agreement with Michelson and Morley's result....
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Michelson-Gale-Pearson experiment, science Michelson interferometer, most common configuration for optical interferometry Michelson–Morley experiment...
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Aether drag hypothesis (redirect from Hamar experiment)
apparently confirmed by the Fizeau experiment (1851), Stokes' theory was apparently confirmed by the Michelson–Morley experiment (1881, 1887). Hendrik Lorentz...
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another major problem arose with the Michelson–Morley experiment (1887). Mascart's claims that optical experiments of refraction and reflection would be...
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waves; the invention of the MRI; isolation of the poliovirus; the Michelson-Morley experiment, which disproved the existence of "luminiferous aether" and confirmed...
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relativity from the Michelson–Morley experiment. Shankland believed that the accepted direct explanation for the Michelson–Morley experiment is provided by...
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In interferometry experiments such as the Michelson–Morley experiment, a fringe shift is the behavior of a pattern of “fringes” when the phase relationship...
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Ives–Stilwell type experiments have been performed with increased precision. Together with the Michelson–Morley and Kennedy–Thorndike experiments it forms one...
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Tests of special relativity (category Physics experiments)
Albert A. Michelson conducted the first experiment of this kind in 1881, followed by the more sophisticated Michelson–Morley experiment in 1887. Two...
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Franz Meyer (section Joos experiment 1930)
astronomy workshop. The experiment, with a much higher level of accuracy than the previous results of the Michelson-Morley experiment, is today considered...
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famous for the Michelson–Morley experiment (effort to detect aether that came up empty). Dr. Ellen Stokoe, former principal of Morley Elementary School...
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orient itself perpendicular to the motion. Like the earlier Michelson–Morley experiment, Trouton and Noble obtained a null result: no motion relative...
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1920s, at the industrial firm Zeiss Jena, he reproduced the Michelson–Morley experiment with more refined equipment and confirmed the original results...
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special theory of relativity, explaining the results of the Michelson–Morley experiment of 1887. Emission theories obey the principle of relativity by...
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Interferometry (section Michelson-Morley)
one of the most important experiments of the late 19th century was the famous "failed experiment" of Michelson and Morley which provided evidence for...
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series of increasingly careful experiments were carried out in the late 1800s, including the Michelson–Morley experiment, to try to detect the motion of...
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Sagnac effect (redirect from Sagnac experiment)
carefully prepared Michelson–Morley experiment which was set up to prove an aether wind caused by earth drag, the Sagnac experiment could not prove this...
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Following on with the basic apparatus as the earlier Michelson–Morley experiment, Miller and Morley published another null result in 1904. These experimental...
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