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ahokayesterday at 6:39 PM2 repliesview on HN

Einstein wanted to measure how fast Earth moves through ether as his research thesis.


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stevenwooyesterday at 7:42 PM

For those unaware - the most famous experiment to measure this(both high school and university physics classes have drilled this into my brain): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_exper... a long history of experiments failing to find evidence of an ether https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_special_relativity

ameliusyesterday at 7:39 PM

It's different when you invalidate your own research.