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The Michelson-Morley experiments involved a set of optical observations to detect the ether in the 1890s.
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in the Michelson-Morley experiment,
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The ether, you know, they say was disproved in the 1890s with the Michelson-Morley experiment.
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So that is an important, and then I would also say about the Michelson-Morley experiment, you know, the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
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In the Michelson-Morley experiment, uh, the ether is probably being dragged by the instrument itself that might account for the results, uh, of, uh, no, uh, observable, um, uh, ether movement.
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But I think of it as a failure to detect the ether, the Michelson-Morley experiments. Is that right? To think—
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