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    The MichelsonMorley 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 MichelsonMorley 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 MichelsonMorley experiment (1887) in a configuration which would have...
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    and for the MichelsonMorley 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 MichelsonMorley 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 MichelsonMorley experiment. Moreover, the...
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    outcome of the MichelsonMorley 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 MichelsonMorley experimental procedure...
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  • evidence for the presence of such a medium was not found in the MichelsonMorley 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 MichelsonMorley experiment failed to detect the Earth's motion against the hypothesized...
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    equations invariant, but was apparently uninterested in the MichelsonMorley experiment on Earth's drift through a luminiferous aether. Conversely, Einstein...
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  • The MichelsonMorley 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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  • Michelson-Gale-Pearson experiment, science Michelson interferometer, most common configuration for optical interferometry MichelsonMorley experiment...
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  • century—until the MichelsonMorley experiment returned its famous null result. Further experiments were in general agreement with Michelson and Morley's result....
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  • apparently confirmed by the Fizeau experiment (1851), Stokes' theory was apparently confirmed by the MichelsonMorley experiment (1881, 1887). Hendrik Lorentz...
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    another major problem arose with the MichelsonMorley 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 MichelsonMorley experiment. Shankland believed that the accepted direct explanation for the MichelsonMorley experiment is provided by...
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    In interferometry experiments such as the MichelsonMorley experiment, a fringe shift is the behavior of a pattern of “fringes” when the phase relationship...
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    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 MichelsonMorley experiment (effort to detect aether that came up empty). Dr. Ellen Stokoe, former principal of Morley Elementary School...
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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 MichelsonMorley experiment in 1887. Two...
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    orient itself perpendicular to the motion. Like the earlier MichelsonMorley experiment, Trouton and Noble obtained a null result: no motion relative...
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    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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  • Thumbnail for Ives–Stilwell experiment
    Ives–Stilwell type experiments have been performed with increased precision. Together with the MichelsonMorley and Kennedy–Thorndike experiments it forms one...
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  • special theory of relativity, explaining the results of the MichelsonMorley experiment of 1887. Emission theories obey the principle of relativity by...
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  • of special relativity. To explain the negative outcome of the MichelsonMorley experiment, George FitzGerald (1889) and Hendrik Lorentz (1892) introduced...
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    1920s, at the industrial firm Zeiss Jena, he reproduced the MichelsonMorley experiment with more refined equipment and confirmed the original results...
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  • series of increasingly careful experiments were carried out in the late 1800s, including the MichelsonMorley experiment, to try to detect the motion of...
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    with: Michelson and Morley (1886) repeating the experiment of Fizeau (1851), contradicting Michelson’s interpretation of his 1881 experiment; Michelson–Morley...
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