Physics and Our Universe: How It All Works Season 1 Episode 45 Earth, Ether, Light
- TV-PG
- September 30, 2011
- 30 min
Review the famous Michelson-Morley experiment, which was designed to detect the motion of Earth relative to a conjectured ether wind that supposedly pervaded all of space. The failure to detect any such motion revealed a deep-seated contradiction at the heart of physics.