As a modification to this experiment, two massive lead blocks were added in the Hammar experiment, and Dayton Miller's results from repeating this experiment were found anomalous.
As a modification to this experiment, two massive lead blocks were added in the Hammar experiment, and Dayton Miller's results from repeating this experiment were found anomalous. Its results were confirmed by another experiment in which parallel plate capacitors failed to orient themselves perpendicularly to the direction of motion. FitzGerald and Lorentz proposed that length contraction could explain its results, which showed the lack of any interference fringes, indicating that the speed of light was constant. For 10 points, identify this experiment which provided evidence against the theory of a luminiferous aether, conducted by two American physicists.
As a modification to this experiment, two massive lead blocks were added in the Hammar experiment, and Dayton Miller's results from repeating this experiment were found anomalous.
{Michelson}-{Morley} experiment