Michelson Morley Experiment Re-examined
The Michelson-Morley experiment, compared the longitudinal and transverse cases of reflected light, expecting to detect an ether wind (Figure 1). Figure 1. Michelson-Morley apparatus They explain: “Let sa … be a ray of light which is partly reflected in ab, and partly transmitted in ac, being returned by the mirrors b and c, along ba […]