S, ROUND 1  4  be inconsistent with the aberration of starlight.
S, ROUND 1  4  be inconsistent with the aberration of starlight. The Kennedy-Thorndike experiment discredited the drag version of this hypothesis, as well as a proposal made by an Irish physicist and the mentor of Zeeman in an attempt to explain the null result of an 1887 experiment that made use of a half-silvered mirror. The proposal was a contraction due to motion relative to the hypothesized medium, and the 1887 experiment was conducted by Michelson and Morley. For ten points, name this hypothesized medium for transmission of light waves.
S, ROUND 1  4  be inconsistent with the aberration of starlight.
Luminiferous ether or aether  accept ether drift until “name this hypothesized medium” has been read