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

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

Michelson and Morley called, they want their interferometer back.

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.

Of course, as morley pointed out in a separate reply, this seems like it may only be limited to art and memorabilia, which tend not to have a set value.

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.

>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.

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.

One of the main objections to the pilot-wave theory of QM is that it brings us back to the idea of a "luminiferous aether" that was famously disproved by the null result of the Michaelson-Morley experiment.

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.