8.2 The Michelson Morley Experiment

Описание: HOW WAS THE AETHER SHOWN TO BE NONEXISTENT? The stationary aether--the medium through which light was thought to travel in space--was every bit as important to nineteenth century scientists as the stationary earth was to the Aristotelians before Copernicus. Discarding the aether theory was not small step. The video describes how two American scientists, Michelson and Morley, performed their experiment to detect the aether and the implications of their result.

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