Trout and Rankine performed a version of this experiment using a Wheatstone bridge to measure changes in resistance in a rotated circuit. This experiment was also modified by Kennedy and Thorndike, to test the length contraction hypothesis proposed by Lorentz and Fitzgerald. The original experimenters used a sodium lamp to produce a continuous beam of monochromatic light which was shot at a (*) beam splitter consisting of a half-silvered mirror. The entire apparatus of this experiment was able t
Trout and Rankine performed a version of this experiment using a Wheatstone bridge to measure changes in resistance in a rotated circuit. This experiment was also modified by Kennedy and Thorndike, to test the length contraction hypothesis proposed by Lorentz and Fitzgerald. The original experimenters used a sodium lamp to produce a continuous beam of monochromatic light which was shot at a (*) beam splitter consisting of a half-silvered mirror. The entire apparatus of this experiment was able to be rotated relative to a hypothetical stationary reference medium, as it was constructed on a stone slab floating atop a pool of mercury. For 10 points, name this 1887 experiment with a null result which used an interferometer to disprove the concept of a luminiferous ether.
Trout and Rankine performed a version of this experiment using a Wheatstone bridge to measure changes in resistance in a rotated circuit.
{Michelson}-{Morley} experiment