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Michelson-Morley experiment en · PROPN

Etymology

Named after American physicists Albert A. Michelson and Edward W. Morley, who performed the experiment.

Meanings

  1. (historical) An attempt in 1887 to detect the existence of the luminiferous aether by comparing the speed of light in perpendicular directions.

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