Abstract:The Michelson-Morley experiment (MME) is still important to physics, and not just to the history of physics. The hypothesis of contraction of bodies in the direction of their motion arose as an ad hoc hypothesis about the “contraction” of the Michelson’s interferometer arm in the direction of its motion. Even today this experiment is the “strongest argument” of this hypothesis, and of time dilation too. This work will present the explanation of the MME through five methods. The first method can be called the t… Show more
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