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I don't think many people today would be able to propose the Michelson Morley experiment and then actually do it. It was truly heoric (and Michelson was a geni
by dekhn 2y ago
I don't think many people today would be able to propose the Michelson Morley experiment and then actually do it. It was truly heoric (and Michelson was a genius).
We did this oil/water experiment in freshman physics or chemistry lab. It was rushed, everybody just did the minimum, the teachers barely explained any of it, and then we moved on.
- _dark_matter_ 2y agoI agree. The Michelson Morley experiment reminds me of some difficult algorithms: simple only in hindsight, and implementation is _hard_ to do correctly.
- buescher 2y agoPeople still win Nobel prizes (LIGO, for example) using interferometers. It’s arguably the single greatest invention in experimental physics.