Lie #2 – Michelson-Morley and Aether
The second installment of the greatest lies in physics is; “the Michelson-Morley experiment disproved the existence of aether.” This experiment is often credited as the reason for denying the existence of aether or in modern terms denying the existence of vacuum fluctuations, even though Einstein with Hopf inadvertently proved in 1910 that the experiment would […]
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Of all the lies told by physicists none has been so damaging as the lie “there is no aether.” Since the beginning of scientific endeavor scientists had always assumed that there was aether in space, a medium for the transmission of light and forces. Unfortunately ill-conceived experiments such as the one by Michelson and Morley […]
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