We suspect there are three kinds of people in the world. People who have access to a Michelson Interferometer and are glad, those who don’t have one and don’t know what one is, and a very small number ...

Optical interference is not only a fundamental phenomenon that has enabled new theories of light to be derived, but it has also been used in interferometry for the measurement of small displacements, ...

In 1887, Albert Michelson built an experiment that he hoped would lead to the detection of luminiferous ether. At the time, physicists believed that the ether permeated the universe and served as the ...

MOST existing methods of calibrating vibration pick-ups employ some form of extrapolation, that is, the pick-up is calibrated at low frequencies, where the amplitude can be made large, and the result ...

In 1887, an exquisitely designed measurement of the earth's motion through the aether results in the most brilliant failure in scientific history. Ch Frame Code Title 1 A Opening Sequence 2 02605 G ...