michelson-morley

It was only in 1887 that the Michelson-Morley experiment showed that you can't do that with light!

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

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

I think it's still important to know about the Michelson-Morley experiment even though nobody believes in luminiferous aether any more.

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.

The Michelson-Morley Experiment had a negative outcome, a null result.

The Michelson-Morley interferometry test which laid the foundation for Relativity.

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

Right, the Michelson-Morley interferometer, like Young's double slit, is basically antenna theory and, thus, also Fourier theory.

The fascinating thing about the Michelson-Morley interferometer experiment is that they were attempting to validate the aether hypothesis, and measure the Earth's absolute velocity relative to the aether.

My favorite example is the Michelson-Morley experiment that expected to find differences in the speed of light due to the motion of the earth through the hypothetical ether.

In other words, michelson-morley experiment is bunk, no?

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

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.