Physics and Our Universe: How It All Works

Physics and Our Universe: How It All Works

Earth, Ether, Light (1x45)


: 30, 2011

Review the famous Michelson-Morley experiment, which was designed to detect the motion of Earth relative to a conjectured "ether wind" that supposedly pervaded all of space. The failure to detect any such motion revealed a deep-seated contradiction at the heart of physics.

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