The Michelson-Morley Experiment and the Aether Theory
This blog Post has an alternative Video version if you prefer that. The video can be accessed on YouTube. The Michelson-Morley experiment is an important physics experiment conducted in the late 19th century. It was already known in earlier times that light propagates in waves and compared it to water waves, which require a medium, namely water. Michelson and Morley thought that light must also have a medium, namely the aether,and they wanted to prove this through an experiment....