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Saturday, March 29, 2014

Why failed science matters

The Michelson-Morley Experiment — a 19th-century attempt to prove that electromagnetic waves traveled through a "luminiferous aether", the same way that waves travel through water — failed. But that failure is one of the most important moments in early modern physics. In fact, it earned Albert Michelson a Nobel Prize. 

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