Dayton Miller's attempt to recreate this experiment was unsuccessful, possibly because he did not control for temperature gradients.
Dayton Miller's attempt to recreate this experiment was unsuccessful, possibly because he did not control for temperature gradients. It was carried out in the basement of a stone building on top of a stone apparatus, using a pool of mercury to reduce vibration. A variation performed later by Kennedy and Thorndike required time dilation in addition to the length contraction used to explain this experiment whose results were further verified by the Ives-Stilwell experiment. It was performed in 1887 at Western Reserve University, and its results led to the development of Lorentz transformations. The people who carried it out did not correctly interpret its negative result. Name this experiment which attempted to use an interferometer to find the luminiferous ether.
Dayton Miller's attempt to recreate this experiment was unsuccessful, possibly because he did not control for temperature gradients.
Michelson-Morley experiment