The Ethereal Aether : : A History of the Michelson-Morley-Miller Aether-drift Experiments, 1880-1930 / / Loyd S. Swenson.
The Ethereal Aether is a historical narrative of one of the great experiments in modern physical science. The fame of the 1887 Michelson-Morley aether-drift test on the relative motion of the earth and the luminiferous aether derives largely from the role it is popularly supposed to have played in t...
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Swenson, Loyd S., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Ethereal Aether : A History of the Michelson-Morley-Miller Aether-drift Experiments, 1880-1930 / Loyd S. Swenson. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2013] ©1972 1 online resource (396 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- Preface -- Foreword -- 1. Perspectives on the Aether -- 2. Dramatis Personae of Aether Drift -- 3. Michelson and Interferometry, 1880-1883 -- 4. The Classic Experiments, 1884-1890 -- 5. Contradictions and Contractions, 1890-1900 -- 6. Transformations of the Aether, circa 1900 -- 7. Morley-Miller Experiments, 1900-1905 -- 8. The Rise of Relativity, 1905-1910 -- 9. The Fall of the Aether, 1910-1920 -- 10. Miller Challenges Michelson, 1920-1925 -- 11. Michelson Reaffirms the Null, 1925-1930 -- 12. Aether Experiments and Physical Theory -- Appendix A: "The Relative Motion of the Earth and the Luminiferous Ether'' -- Appendix B: ' Influence of Motion of the Medium on the Velocity of Light," -- Appendix C: "On the Relative Motion of the Earth and the Luminiferous Ether," -- Note on Sources -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The Ethereal Aether is a historical narrative of one of the great experiments in modern physical science. The fame of the 1887 Michelson-Morley aether-drift test on the relative motion of the earth and the luminiferous aether derives largely from the role it is popularly supposed to have played in the origins, and later in the justification, of Albert Einstein’s first theory of relativity; its importance is its own. As a case history of the intermittent performance of an experiment in physical optics from 1880 to 1930 and of the men whose work it was, this study describes chronologically the conception, experimental design, first trials, repetitions, influence on physical theory, and eventual climax of the optical experiment. Michelson, Morley, and their colleague Miller were the prime actors in this half-century drama of confrontation between experimental and theoretical physics. The issue concerned the relative motion of “Spaceship Earth” and the Universe, as measured against the background of a luminiferous medium supposedly filling all interstellar space. At stake, it seemed, were the phenomena of astronomical aberration, the wave theory of light, and the Newtonian concepts of absolute space and time. James Clerk Maxwell’s suggestion for a test of his electromagnetic theory was translated by Michelson into an experimental design in 1881, redesigned and reaffirmed as a null result with Morley in 1887, thereafter modified and partially repeated by Morley and Miller, finally completed in 1926 by Miller alone, then by Michelson’s team again in the late 1920s. Meanwhile Helmholtz, Kelvin, Rayleigh, FitzGerald, Lodge, Larmor, Lorentz, and Poincaré—most of the great names in theoretical physics at the turn of the twentieth century—had wrestled with the anomaly presented by Michelson’s experiment. As the relativity and quantum theories matured, wave-particle duality was accepted by a new generation of physicists. The aether-drift tests disproved the old and verified the new theories of light and electromagnetism. By 1930 they seemed to explain Einstein, relativity, and space-time. But in historical fact, the aether died only with its believers. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) Ether (Space) History. Optics History. Relativity (Physics) History. SCIENCE / General. bisacsh Holton, Gerald, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Michelson, Albert A., contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Morley, Edward W., contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000 9783110745351 https://doi.org/10.7560/720008 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292758353 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292758353/original |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- Preface -- Foreword -- 1. Perspectives on the Aether -- 2. Dramatis Personae of Aether Drift -- 3. Michelson and Interferometry, 1880-1883 -- 4. The Classic Experiments, 1884-1890 -- 5. Contradictions and Contractions, 1890-1900 -- 6. Transformations of the Aether, circa 1900 -- 7. Morley-Miller Experiments, 1900-1905 -- 8. The Rise of Relativity, 1905-1910 -- 9. The Fall of the Aether, 1910-1920 -- 10. Miller Challenges Michelson, 1920-1925 -- 11. Michelson Reaffirms the Null, 1925-1930 -- 12. Aether Experiments and Physical Theory -- Appendix A: "The Relative Motion of the Earth and the Luminiferous Ether'' -- Appendix B: ' Influence of Motion of the Medium on the Velocity of Light," -- Appendix C: "On the Relative Motion of the Earth and the Luminiferous Ether," -- Note on Sources -- Bibliography -- Index |
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