The MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT was performed in the basement of a WESTERN RESERVE UNIV. dormitory in July 1887 by ALBERT A. MICHELSON of the Case School of Applied Science and EDWARD W. MORLEY of ...

Physicists in Germany have performed the most precise Michelson-Morley experiment to date, confirming that the speed of light is the same in all directions. The experiment, which involves rotating two ...

The Michelson-Morley experiment was the better part of a century later, and built on a proof-of-principle experiment done by Michelson alone in 1880.

The Michelson-Morley experiment was remarkable in many ways. Not only did it set the stage for Lorentz, Fitzgerald, Poincare, and finally Einstein to establish the mathematical framework that ...

The much-heralded Michelson-Morley experiment, as the 1887 event would go down in history, sought to detect the existence of this undetectable substance. Instead, it found nothing.

THE Michelson-Morley experiment looked for a shift of well-known interference-bands, about the formation of which there was no doubt or controversy. Ordinary wave theory explains the appearance of ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Michelson-Morley Experiment ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 211 No. 5 (November 1964), p. 107 doi:10.1038 ...

THE following cablegram has been received from Prof. W. B. Cartmel, of the University of Montreal: A Simple Means of Checking the Michelson-Morley Experiment’. In a letter under the above title ...