Last week over in Twitter-land, Philip Ball asked an interesting question: I’ve written a fair bit about historical science, and read more than I’ve written, so this question stuck with me, and seems ...

Physicists regard this work as a crucial step in our journey toward an understanding of the very nature of space and time itself Had the results of this measurement been different, Einstein's theory ...

Two changes improved the apparatus over the one used at Potsdam [in 1886]. Morley suggested floating the heavy sand stone slab bearing the optical parts on mer cury. The stone, about 5 feet square, ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 12, No. 11 (Nov. 15, 1926), pp. 621-629 (9 pages) ...

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 which ...

Physicist Albert A. Michelson received the 1907 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing an interferometer, which incorporates a translucent mirror to divide a beam of light waves, route them through ...

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IN a note regarding my theory of variable stars, published in NATURE of October 11, p. 550, it is suggested that some difficulties would probably arise on t;he ground of the Michelson-Morley ...

The clue we provided Monday. Almost all who answered this week’s Guess Where question knew that the photo was of the fountain on Case Quad, but few named it. The Michelson-Morley Fountain was ...