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People were trying to measure the speed of the Earth relatively to the aether (the Michelson-Morley experiment).
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Michelson tends to be remembered for his part in the Michelson-Morley experiment that debunked the commonly held idea that light waves traveled across a "luminiferous ether."
Our Constant Companions Brian Clegg 2011
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The Michelson-Morley experiment of 1887 was a bit before my time.
Assessing Causality 2008
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Michelson-Morley showed that light waves weren't waves in an "aether" (or "ether") as some had postulated: they supposed that there was an ether underlying space, and that the earth was travelling through it at a non-trivial velocity.
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Remember the famous Michelson-Morley experiment that disproved the ether theory of light?
Assessing Causality 2008
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Remember the famous Michelson-Morley experiment that disproved the ether theory of light?
Assessing Causality 2008
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Although there was strong support for the ether at the time, it was really quite a relief when the triple whammy of Maxwell, Michelson-Morley and Einstein doomed it to non-existence.
Archive 2010-03-01 Brian Clegg 2010
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The Michelson-Morley experiment of 1887 was a bit before my time.
Assessing Causality 2008
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Although there was strong support for the ether at the time, it was really quite a relief when the triple whammy of Maxwell, Michelson-Morley and Einstein doomed it to non-existence.
I'd really rather dark matter didn't exist Brian Clegg 2010
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Michelson-Morley (and the subsequent confirmaiton thereof) was the death-blow.
Assessing Causality 2008
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