michelson

The designer of this machine is the Michelson of Michelson-Morley, Nobel prize 1907; his interferometer was a brilliant apparatus that disproved the aether hypothesis.

Of his interferometer which he invented and used in the Michelson Morley experiments it was said that it was a remarkable instrument - provided you had Michelson to operate it.

One such machine was constructed by Michelson to work to a higher accuracy and to involve many more terms that previous models.

>Of his interferometer which he invented and used in the Michelson Morley experiments it was said that it was a remarkable instrument - provided you had Michelson to operate it.

There's also that michelson-morley came out around the same time.

The Michelson & Morley ether experiment is a classic of its kind -- its outcome would either confirm or refute the ether as it was imagined to be.

Also would this be a return to universal models with an aether: wonder how Michelson-Morley works with "flux tubes"?

After all, without Michelson and Morley's "failure" we might not have special relativity.

When the Michelson-Morley experiment falsified the luminiferous ether, much of physics fell into limbo (without a credible "status quo"), until Einstein's relativity theory offered an alternative explanation for electromagnetic propagation.

The theory of Relativity" The most they say is just the assertion: "Maxwell's equations are Lorentz invariant" Before the Michelson-Morley experiment 'disproved' it, it was assumed that the waves propagated through the 'aether', and that c was therefore the speed relative to the aether.

Explaining the Michelson-Morley experiment required assuming a constant speed of light regardless of relative velocity, combined with old-school frame agnosticism.

Michelson and Morley tested the ether theory in their eponymous experiment, and their test failed.

You seem to want to get the situation back to the Michelson-Morley interferometer!