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The Michelson – Morley experiment was used to disprove that light propagated through a luminiferous aether.
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The Michelson – Morley experiment compared the time for light to reflect from mirrors in two orthogonal directions.
This too was shown to be incorrect by the Michelson – Gale – Pearson experiment, which detected the Sagnac effect due to Earth's rotation ( s. Aether drag hypothesis )
Box plot of the Michelson – Morley experiment, showing several summary statistics.
The resultant theory copes with experiment better than classical mechanics, e. g. in the Michelson – Morley experiment that supports postulate 2, but also has many surprising consequences.
A diagram of the Michelson – Morley experiment
These are the Michelson – Morley experiment, the Kennedy – Thorndike experiment, and the Ives – Stilwell experiment.
The Michelson – Morley experiment was designed to detect second order effects of the " aether wind " – the motion of the aether relative to the earth.
The interpretation of the null result of the Michelson – Morley experiment is that the round-trip travel time for light is isotropic ( independent of direction ), but the result alone is not enough to discount the theory of the aether or validate the predictions of special relativity.
While the Michelson – Morley experiment showed that the velocity of light is isotropic, it said nothing about how the magnitude of the velocity changed ( if at all ) in different inertial frames.
* May 9 – Albert Abraham Michelson, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1852 )
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* December 19 – Albert Abraham Michelson, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1931 )
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Imaging Michelson spectrometers are a possibility, but in general have been supplanted by imaging Fabry – Pérot instruments which are easier to construct.
* 1887 – Albert Michelson and Edward Morley in their experiment do not detect the ether drift
* 1913 – Albert Michelson measures tides in the solid body of the Earth
The Michelson – Morley experiment was performed in 1887 by Albert Michelson and Edward Morley at what is now Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
In 1886, Michelson and Morley successfully confirmed Fresnel's drag coefficient – this result was also considered as a confirmation of the stationary aether concept.
On the other hand, the much more precise Michelson – Morley experiment ( 1887 ) apparently confirmed complete aether dragging and refuted the stationary aether.
Michelson and Morley
Some months later, FitzGerald published his conjecture in Science to explain the baffling outcome of the 1887 ether-wind experiment of Michelson and Morley.
In 1885, Michelson began a collaboration with Edward Morley, spending considerable time and money to confirm with higher accuracy Fizeau's 1851 experiment on Fresnel's drag coefficient, to improve on Michelson's 1881 experiment, and to establish the wavelength of light as a standard of length.
At this time Michelson was professor of physics at the Case School of Applied Science, and Morley was professor of chemistry at Western Reserve University, which shared a campus with the Case School on the eastern edge of Cleveland.
Morley ascribed this breakdown to the intense work of Michelson during the preparation of the experiments.
Michelson and Morley created an improved version of the Michelson experiment with more than enough accuracy to detect this hypothetical effect.
Michelson and Morley and other early experimentalists using interferometric techniques in an attempt to measure the properties of the luminiferous aether, used monochromatic light only for initially setting up their equipment, always switching to white light for the actual measurements.
( Afterward, Michelson and Morley ceased their aether drift measurements and started to use their newly developed technique to establish the wavelength of light as a standard of length.
The Fizeau experiment and its 1886 repetition by Michelson and Morley apparently confirmed the stationary aether with partial aether dragging, and refuted complete aether dragging.
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The Michelson spectrograph is similar to the instrument used in the Michelson-Morley experiment.
Albert Abraham Michelson ( December 19, 1852 – May 9, 1931 ) was an American physicist known for his work on the measurement of the speed of light and especially for the Michelson-Morley experiment.
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He was awarded a bronze medal by the Royal Photographic Society in 1934, the Howard N. Potts Medal from the Franklin Institute in 1941, the Albert A. Michelson Medal from the same Franklin Institute in 1969, and the National Medal of Science in 1973.
In 1893, the standard metre was first measured with an interferometer by Albert A. Michelson, the inventor of the device and an advocate of using some particular wavelength of light as a standard of length.
The Michelson or Fourier transform spectrograph was popular for infra-red applications at a time when infra-red astronomy only had single pixel detectors.
The device he designed, later known as a Michelson interferometer, sent yellow light from a sodium flame ( for alignment ), or white light ( for the actual observations ), through a half-silvered mirror that was used to split it into two beams travelling at right angles to one another.
Michelson did not observe the expected 0. 04 fringe shift ; the greatest average deviation that he measured ( in the northwest direction ) was only 0. 018 fringes, while most of his measurements were much less.
Michelson did not observe the expected 0. 04 fringe shift ; the maximum possible shift was at most only about 0. 02 fringes.
Michelson was born in Strzelno, Provinz Posen in the Kingdom of Prussia ( now Poland ) into a Jewish family.
He spent his high school years in San Francisco in the home of his aunt, Henriette Levy ( née Michelson ), who was the mother of author Harriet Lane Levy.
Michelson was fascinated with the sciences, and the problem of measuring the speed of light in particular.
In 1889 Michelson became a professor at Clark University at Worcester, Massachusetts and in 1892 was appointed professor and the first head of the department of physics at the newly organized University of Chicago.
Michelson died with only 36 of the 233 measurement series completed and the experiment was subsequently beset by geological instability and condensation problems before the result of 299, 774 ± 11 km / s, consistent with the prevailing electro-optic values, was published posthumously in 1935.
Bonanza was set in and around Virginia City, Nevada, where Michelson lived with his parents prior to leaving for the Naval Academy.
Michelson was portrayed by Jon Stutzman.
Michelson was a member of the Royal Society, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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