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| Feb 11, 2017 at 20:30 | comment | added | Quantum spaghettification | Also on the subject on the influence of the Michelson and Morley experiment is: arxiv.org/abs/0908.1545 | |
| Feb 11, 2017 at 17:28 | comment | added | Gallifreyan | Einstein claims he didn't know | |
| Feb 11, 2017 at 17:05 | comment | added | Meni Rosenfeld | @led23head: Even if Einstein was unaware of the experiment, I think it's safe to say that the experiment helped other physicists be more open to accepting Einstein's work. | |
| Feb 11, 2017 at 10:33 | comment | added | user140606 | You might read Einstein's Mistakes (Ohanian), which is a nice review of his work, and what he was aware off , or not, during his working career. It's a real encouragement (for me at least) to read about the many revisions of GR and Einstein's various interpretations of what his own work actually physically represented. | |
| Feb 11, 2017 at 10:22 | comment | added | LedHead | @lemon Thanks for that clarification. As an engineer who works with mostly classical EM, I might have overextended myself a bit in my knowledge of the history of physics. Nevertheless, it was a cool experiment and result :) | |
| Feb 11, 2017 at 10:03 | comment | added | lemon | According to the GR book by Hobson et al it's unknown whether Einstein was aware of/motivated by the results of Michelson-Morley. But it's true that he didn't cite it in his 1905 paper, and so it's suspected that his motivation was to take Maxwell's equations at their word (they give a frame-invariant light speed). | |
| Feb 11, 2017 at 9:57 | comment | added | LedHead | @Valter I did not know that Einstein was not aware in 1905 of the Michelson-Morley experiment from 1887. Do you have a reference on that? | |
| Feb 11, 2017 at 9:51 | comment | added | Valter Moretti | I agree, however, concerning Michelson-Morley experiment, Einstein did not mention that experiment in his famous 1905 paper on SR. Apparently he did not know that crucial experimental result. He only based his construction on the theoretical hypothesis that Maxwell's equations have the same form in every inertial reference frame, i.e., the inclusion of electromagnetism into the relativity principle. | |
| Feb 11, 2017 at 9:05 | history | answered | LedHead | CC BY-SA 3.0 |