0.4 expected · < 0.02 seen

LITThe luminiferous aether, the supposed medium of light, would make Earth's 30 km/s orbital motion an "aether wind". Michelson and Morley (1887, Cleveland) used 11 m folded arms and λ ≈ 500 nm and expected a fringe shift of about 0.4 on rotating the apparatus. They saw less than about 1/20 of that: a null result. Lorentz contraction, then special relativity (1905), explained it. Aether was also the classical fifth element (quintessence); cross-link to Leeluu Fifth Element v41 and Experimentum Crucis.

COMPUTEDRotate the interferometer. Switch between the aether model (fringes shift) and reality (contraction, no shift).

model: aether

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