Michelson and Morley thought they couldn’t measure
the flow of aether because it was dragged along by the earth
as it moved through space.
It wasn’t until Albert Einstein published his Special Theory of Relativity
that the irrelevance of the aether theory became clear.
Michelson and Morley thought they couldn’t measure the flow of aether because it was dragged along by the earth as it moved through space. It wasn’t until Albert Einstein published his Special Theory of Relativity that the irrelevance of the aether theory became clear.
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