Editing Michelson–Morley experiment (section)

== References ==

=== Notes ===
{{Reflist|60em|group=note}}

=== Experiments ===
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<ref name=antonini>{{cite journal |last1=Antonini |first1=P. |last2=Okhapkin |first2=M. |last3=Göklü |first3=E. |last4=Schiller |first4=S. |title=Test of constancy of speed of light with rotating cryogenic optical resonators |journal=Physical Review A |volume=71 |issue=5 |year=2005 |page=050101 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevA.71.050101|arxiv=gr-qc/0504109|bibcode = 2005PhRvA..71e0101A |s2cid=119508308 }}</ref>

<ref name=brillet>{{cite journal |last1=Brillet |first=A. |last2=Hall |first2=J. L. |title=Improved laser test of the isotropy of space|journal=Phys. Rev. Lett. |volume=42 |pages=549–552 |year=1979 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.42.549|bibcode = 1979PhRvL..42..549B|issue=9 }}</ref>

<ref name=cedarholm>{{Cite journal |last1=Cedarholm |first=J. P. |last2=Bland |first2=G. F. |last3=Havens |first3=B. L. |last4=Townes |first4=C. H. |title=New Experimental Test of Special Relativity|journal=Physical Review Letters |volume=1 |issue=9 |pages=342–343 |year=1958 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.1.342 |bibcode = 1958PhRvL...1..342C |s2cid=26444427 }}</ref>

<ref name=cedarholm2>{{Cite journal|last1=Cedarholm |first1=J. P. |last2=Townes |first2=C. H. |title=New Experimental Test of Special Relativity |journal=Nature |volume=184 |issue=4696 |pages=1350–1351 |year=1959 |doi=10.1038/1841350a0|bibcode = 1959Natur.184.1350C |s2cid=26444427 }}</ref>

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<ref name=Eisele>{{cite journal |last1=Eisele |first=Ch. |last2=Nevsky |first2=A. Yu. |last3=Schillerv |first3=S. |title=Laboratory Test of the Isotropy of Light Propagation at the 10<sup>−17</sup> level |journal=Physical Review Letters |volume=103 |issue=9|page=090401 |year=2009 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.090401 |bibcode=2009PhRvL.103i0401E|pmid=19792767 |s2cid=33875626 |url=http://www.exphy.uni-duesseldorf.de/Publikationen/2009/Eisele%20et%20al%20Laboratory%20Test%20of%20the%20Isotropy%20of%20Light%20Propagation%20at%20the%2010-17%20Level%202009.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.exphy.uni-duesseldorf.de/Publikationen/2009/Eisele%20et%20al%20Laboratory%20Test%20of%20the%20Isotropy%20of%20Light%20Propagation%20at%20the%2010-17%20Level%202009.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live}}</ref>

<ref name=essen>{{Cite journal|last=Essen |first=L. |title=A New Æther-Drift Experiment |journal=Nature |volume=175 |issue=4462 |pages=793–794 |year=1955 |doi=10.1038/175793a0|bibcode = 1955Natur.175..793E |s2cid=4188883 }}</ref>

<ref name=Herrmann1>{{cite journal |last1=Herrmann |first=S. |last2=Senger |first2=A. |last3=Kovalchuk |first3=E. |last4=Müller |first4=H. |last5=Peters |first5=A. |title=Test of the Isotropy of the Speed of Light Using a Continuously Rotating Optical Resonator |journal=Phys. Rev. Lett. |volume=95 |issue=15 |year=2005 |page=150401 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.150401 |arxiv=physics/0508097 |bibcode=2005PhRvL..95o0401H |pmid=16241700 |s2cid=15113821 }}</ref>

<ref name=Herrmann2>{{cite journal |last1=Herrmann |first1=S. |last2=Senger |first2=A. |last3=Möhle |first3=K. |last4=Nagel |first4=M. |last5=Kovalchuk |first5=E. V. |last6=Peters |first6=A. |title=Rotating optical cavity experiment testing Lorentz invariance at the 10<sup>−17</sup> level|journal=Physical Review D |volume=80 |issue=100|page=105011 |year=2009 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevD.80.105011 |arxiv=1002.1284 |bibcode = 2009PhRvD..80j5011H |s2cid=118346408 }}</ref>

<ref name=Illingworth>{{cite journal |last=Illingworth |first=K. K. |title=A Repetition of the Michelson–Morley Experiment Using Kennedy's Refinement|journal=Physical Review |volume=30 |issue=5 |year=1927 |pages=692–696 |doi=10.1103/PhysRev.30.692|bibcode = 1927PhRv...30..692I |url=https://authors.library.caltech.edu/5885/1/ILLpr27.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://authors.library.caltech.edu/5885/1/ILLpr27.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live}}</ref>

<ref name=Jaseja>{{cite journal |last1=Jaseja |first1=T. S. |last2=Javan |first2=A. |last3=Murray |first3=J. |last4=Townes |first4=C. H. |title=Test of Special Relativity or of the Isotropy of Space by Use of Infrared Masers|journal=Phys. Rev. |volume=133 |issue=5a |pages=1221–1225 |year=1964 |doi=10.1103/PhysRev.133.A1221 |bibcode = 1964PhRv..133.1221J }}</ref>

<ref name=joos>{{cite journal|last=Joos |first=G. |title=Die Jenaer Wiederholung des Michelsonversuchs |journal=Annalen der Physik |volume=399 |issue=4 |year=1930 |pages=385–407 |doi=10.1002/andp.19303990402 |bibcode = 1930AnP...399..385J }}</ref>

<ref name=Kennedy>{{cite journal|last=Kennedy |first=Roy J. |title=A Refinement of the Michelson–Morley Experiment |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=12 |issue=11 |year=1926 |pages=621–629 |doi=10.1073/pnas.12.11.621 |pmid=16577025 |bibcode = 1926PNAS...12..621K |pmc=1084733 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

<ref name=KennedyThorndike>{{cite journal |last1=Kennedy |first1=R. J. |last2=Thorndike |first2=E. M. |title=Experimental Establishment of the Relativity of Time |journal=Phys. Rev. |year=1932 |volume=42 |issue=3 |pages=400–408 |doi=10.1103/PhysRev.42.400|bibcode = 1932PhRv...42..400K }}</ref>

<ref name=michel1>{{Cite journal |last=Michelson |first=Albert A. |title=The Relative Motion of the Earth and the Luminiferous Ether|journal = American Journal of Science |volume = 22 |issue=128 |year = 1881 |pages = 120–129 |doi=10.2475/ajs.s3-22.128.120|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1450060 |bibcode=1881AmJS...22..120M |s2cid=130423116 }}</ref>

<ref name=michel1a>{{Cite journal |last1=Michelson |first1=Albert A. |last2=Morley |first2=Edward W.|title=Influence of Motion of the Medium on the Velocity of Light|journal=Am. J. Sci.|volume=31|issue=185 |year=1886|pages=377–386 |doi=10.2475/ajs.s3-31.185.377|title-link=s:Influence of Motion of the Medium on the Velocity of Light |bibcode=1886AmJS...31..377M |s2cid=131116577 }}</ref>

<ref name=michel2>{{Cite journal |last1=Michelson |first1=Albert A. |last2=Morley |first2=Edward W.|title=On the Relative Motion of the Earth and the Luminiferous Ether |journal=American Journal of Science |volume=34 |issue=203 |year=1887 |pages=333–345 |doi=10.2475/ajs.s3-34.203.333|title-link=s:On the Relative Motion of the Earth and the Luminiferous Ether |bibcode=1887AmJS...34..333M |s2cid=124333204 }}</ref>

<ref name=michel3>{{cite journal |last1=Michelson |first1=Albert A. |last2=Morley |first2=Edward W. |title=On a method of making the wave-length of sodium light the actual and practical standard of length |journal=American Journal of Science |volume=34 |issue=204 |year=1887 |pages=427–430 |doi=10.2475/ajs.s3-34.204.427 |url=http://www.ajsonline.org/content/s3-34/204/427.full.pdf+html |bibcode=1887AmJS...34..427M |s2cid=130588977 |access-date=2015-01-02 |archive-date=2017-06-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170611190714/http://www.ajsonline.org/content/s3-34/204/427.full.pdf+html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

<ref name=michel4>{{cite journal |last1=Michelson |first1=Albert A. |last2=Morley |first2=Edward W. |title=On the feasibility of establishing a light-wave as the ultimate standard of length |journal=American Journal of Science |volume=38 |issue=225 |year=1889 |pages=181–6 |doi=10.2475/ajs.s3-38.225.181 |s2cid=130479074 |url=http://www.ajsonline.org/content/s3-38/225/181.full.pdf+html |access-date=2015-01-02 |archive-date=2017-11-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171117010332/http://www.ajsonline.org/content/s3-38/225/181.full.pdf+html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

<ref name=michel5>{{cite journal|last1=Michelson |first1=A. A. |last2=Pease |first2=F. G. |last3=Pearson |first3=F.|title=Results of repetition of the Michelson–Morley experiment |journal=Journal of the Optical Society of America |volume=18 |issue=3 |year=1929 |page=181 |bibcode = 1929JOSA...18..181M|doi=10.1364/josa.18.000181}}</ref>

<ref name=mill>{{cite journal|last=Miller |first=Dayton C.|title=Ether-Drift Experiments at Mount Wilson |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=11 |issue=6 |year=1925 |pages=306–314 |doi=10.1073/pnas.11.6.306|pmid=16587007|bibcode = 1925PNAS...11..306M |pmc=1085994 |doi-access=free}}</ref>

<ref name=morley1>{{cite journal |first1=Edward W. |last1=Morley |first2=Dayton C. |last2=Miller |name-list-style=amp |title=Extract from a Letter dated Cleveland, Ohio, August 5th, 1904, to Lord Kelvin from Profs. Edward W. Morley and Dayton C. Miller |journal=Philosophical Magazine |series=6 |volume=8 |issue=48 |year=1904 |pages=753–754 |doi=10.1080/14786440409463248|title-link=s:Letter to Lord Kelvin }}</ref>

<ref name=morley2>{{cite journal |first1=Edward W. |last1=Morley  |first2=Dayton C. |last2=Miller |name-list-style=amp |title=Report of an experiment to detect the Fitzgerald–Lorentz Effect |journal=Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences |volume=XLI |issue=12 |year=1905 |pages=321–8 |doi=10.2307/20022071|title-link=s:Detect the Fitzgerald-Lorentz Effect |jstor=20022071 }}</ref>

<ref name=Muller2003>{{cite journal|last1=Müller |first1=H. |last2=Herrmann |first2=S. |last3=Braxmaier |first3=C. |last4=Schiller |first4=S. |last5=Peters |first5=A. |title=Modern Michelson–Morley experiment using cryogenic optical resonators |journal=Phys. Rev. Lett. |volume=91 |issue=2 |page=020401 |year=2003 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.020401 |arxiv=physics/0305117 |bibcode=2003PhRvL..91b0401M|pmid=12906465|s2cid=15770750 }}</ref>

<ref name=Muller2007>{{cite journal |last1=Müller |first=H. |last2=Stanwix |first2=Paul L. |last3=Tobar |first3=M. E. |last4=Ivanov |first4=E. |last5=Wolf |first5=P. |last6=Herrmann |first6=S. |last7=Senger |first7=A. |last8=Kovalchuk |first8=E. |last9=Peters |first9=A. |title=Relativity tests by complementary rotating Michelson–Morley experiments|journal=Phys. Rev. Lett. |volume=99 |issue=5 |page=050401 |year=2007 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.050401 |arxiv=0706.2031 |bibcode=2007PhRvL..99e0401M |pmid=17930733 |s2cid=33003084 }}</ref>

<ref name=Nagel>{{cite journal |last1=Nagel |first1=M. |last2=Parker |first2=S. |last3=Kovalchuk |first3=E. |last4=Stanwix |first4=P. |last5=Hartnett |first5=J. V. |last6=Ivanov |first6=E. |last7=Peters |first7=A. |last8=Tobar |first8=M. |title=Direct terrestrial test of Lorentz symmetry in electrodynamics to 10<sup>−18</sup>|journal=Nature Communications |volume=6 |page=8174 |year=2015 |doi=10.1038/ncomms9174 |pmid=26323989 |pmc=4569797 |arxiv=1412.6954|bibcode=2015NatCo...6.8174N }}</ref>

<ref name=piccard1>{{cite journal|last1=Piccard |first1=A. |last2=Stahel |first2=E. |title=L'expérience de Michelson, réalisée en ballon libre|journal=Comptes Rendus |volume=183 |issue=7 |year=1926 |pages=420–421 |url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k3136h/f420}}</ref>

<ref name=piccard2>{{cite journal |last1=Piccard |first=A. |last2=Stahel |first2=E. |title=Nouveaux résultats obtenus par l'expérience de Michelson |journal=Comptes Rendus |volume=184 |year=1927 |page=152 |url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k3137t/f152}}</ref>

<ref name=piccard3>{{cite journal |last1=Piccard  |first=A. |last2=Stahel |first2=E. |title=L'absence du vent d'éther au Rigi|journal=Comptes Rendus |volume=184 |year=1927 |pages=1198–1200 |url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k31384/f1198}}</ref>

<ref name=shamir>{{cite journal|last1=Shamir |first=J. |last2=Fox |first2=R. |title= A new experimental test of special relativity|journal=Il Nuovo Cimento B|volume=62 |issue=2 |pages=258–264 |year=1969 |doi=10.1007/BF02710136 |bibcode = 1969NCimB..62..258S |s2cid=119046454 }}</ref>

<ref name=stanwix>{{cite journal|last1=Stanwix |first=P. L. |last2=Tobar |first2=M. E. |last3=Wolf |first3=P. |last4=Susli |first4=M. |last5=Locke |first5=C. R. |last6=Ivanov |first6=E. N. |last7=Winterflood |first7=J. |last8=Kann |first8=van F. |title=Test of Lorentz Invariance in Electrodynamics Using Rotating Cryogenic Sapphire Microwave Oscillators|journal=Physical Review Letters|volume=95 |issue=4 |year=2005 |page=040404 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.040404|arxiv=hep-ph/0506074 |bibcode=2005PhRvL..95d0404S |pmid=16090785 |s2cid=14255475 }}</ref>

<ref name=stanwix2>{{cite journal |last1=Stanwix |first=P. L. |last2=Tobar |first2=M. E. |last3=Wolf |first3=P. |last4=Locke |first4=C. R. |last5=Ivanov |first5=E. N. |title=Improved test of Lorentz invariance in electrodynamics using rotating cryogenic sapphire oscillators|journal=Physical Review D |volume=74 |issue=8 |year=2006 |page=081101 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevD.74.081101 |arxiv=gr-qc/0609072 |bibcode=2006PhRvD..74h1101S |s2cid=3222284 }}</ref>

<ref name=Tomaschek>{{cite journal|last=Tomaschek |first=R. |title=Über das Verhalten des Lichtes außerirdischer Lichtquellen|journal=Annalen der Physik |volume=378 |issue=1 |year=1924 |pages=105–126 |doi=10.1002/andp.19243780107|url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k153753/f115|bibcode = 1924AnP...378..105T }}</ref>

<ref name=trimmer>{{cite journal |last1=Trimmer |first=William S. |last2=Baierlein |first2=Ralph F. |last3=Faller |first3=James E. |last4=Hill |first4=Henry A. |title=Experimental Search for Anisotropy in the Speed of Light|journal=Physical Review D|volume=8 |issue=10 |pages=3321–3326 |year=1973 |doi= 10.1103/PhysRevD.8.3321|bibcode = 1973PhRvD...8.3321T }}</ref>

<ref name=trimmer2>{{cite journal|last1=Trimmer |first=William S. |last2=Baierlein |first2=Ralph F. |last3=Faller |first3=James E. |last4=Hill |first4=Henry A. |title=Erratum: Experimental search for anisotropy in the speed of light|journal=Physical Review D|volume=9|issue=8|pages=2489|year=1974|doi= 10.1103/PhysRevD.9.2489.2|bibcode = 1974PhRvD...9R2489T |doi-access=free }}</ref>

<ref name=wolf1>{{cite journal |last=Wolf |title=Tests of Lorentz Invariance using a Microwave Resonator |journal=Physical Review Letters |volume=90 |issue=6 |year=2003 |page=060402 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.060402 |arxiv=gr-qc/0210049 |bibcode=2003PhRvL..90f0402W |pmid=12633279 |display-authors=etal|url=https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2440/101285/3/hdl_101285.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2440/101285/3/hdl_101285.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|hdl=2440/101285 |s2cid=18267310 }}</ref>

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<ref name=Miller1933>{{cite journal|last=Miller |first=Dayton C.|title=The Ether-Drift Experiment and the Determination of the Absolute Motion of the Earth|journal=Reviews of Modern Physics|volume=5|issue=3|year=1933|pages=203–242|doi=10.1103/RevModPhys.5.203|bibcode=1933RvMP....5..203M|s2cid=4119615 }}</ref>

<ref name=AIMiller>{{Cite book |last=Miller |first=A.I. |year=1981 |title=Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity. Emergence (1905) and early interpretation (1905–1911) |location=Reading |publisher=Addison–Wesley |isbn=978-0-201-04679-3 |page=[https://archive.org/details/alberteinsteinss0000mill/page/24 24] |url=https://archive.org/details/alberteinsteinss0000mill/page/24 }}</ref>

<ref name=norton>{{Cite journal|last=Norton |first=John D.|year=2004|journal=Archive for History of Exact Sciences|title= Einstein's Investigations of Galilean Covariant Electrodynamics prior to 1905|pages= 45–105|volume=59|issue=1|url=http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001743/|doi=10.1007/s00407-004-0085-6|bibcode=2004AHES...59...45N|s2cid=17459755}}</ref>

<ref name=poincare05>{{Citation |last=Poincaré |first=Henri |year=1905 |title=On the Dynamics of the Electron |journal=Comptes Rendus |volume=140 |pages=1504–1508|title-link=s:On the Dynamics of the Electron (June) }} (Wikisource translation)</ref>

<ref name=Polanyi>[[Michael Polanyi]], ''Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy'', {{ISBN|0-226-67288-3}}, footnote page&nbsp;10–11:  Einstein reports, via Dr N Balzas in response to Polanyi's query, that "The Michelson–Morley experiment had no role in the foundation of the theory." and "..the theory of relativity was not founded to explain its outcome at all."[https://books.google.com/books?id=0Rtu8kCpvz4C&pg=PT19]</ref>

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<ref name=shankland>{{cite journal |last1=Shankland |first1=Robert S. |year=1955 |title=New Analysis of the Interferometer Observations of Dayton C. Miller |journal=Reviews of Modern Physics |volume=27 |issue=2 |pages=167–178 |doi=10.1103/RevModPhys.27.167|bibcode = 1955RvMP...27..167S |display-authors=1 |last2=McCuskey |first2=S. |last3=Leone |first3=F. |last4=Kuerti |first4=G. }}</ref>

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<ref name=stachel>{{Citation |last=Stachel |first=John |author-link=John Stachel |year=1982
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<ref name=staley>{{Citation|last=Staley |first=Richard |year=2009 |title=Einstein's generation. The origins of the relativity revolution|chapter=Albert Michelson, the Velocity of Light, and the Ether Drift|location=Chicago|publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-77057-4}}</ref>

<ref name=Swenson1>{{Cite journal | last=Swenson |first=Loyd S. |year=1970 |title=The Michelson–Morley–Miller Experiments before and after 1905 |journal=Journal for the History of Astronomy |volume=1 |issue=2 |doi=10.1177/002182867000100108  |pages=56–78 |bibcode = 1970JHA.....1...56S|s2cid=125905904 }}</ref>

<ref name=Swenson2>{{cite book |last=Swenson |first=Loyd S. Jr. |title=The Ethereal Aether: A History of the Michelson-Morley-Miller Aether-drift Experiments, 1880–1930 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kQTUAAAAQBAJ |year=2013 |publisher=University of Texas Press |isbn=978-0-292-75836-0  |orig-year=1972}}</ref>

<ref name=teller>{{Citation |last1=Teller |first1=Edward |author-link=Edward Teller |first2=Wendy |last2=Teller |first3=Wilson |last3=Talley|title=Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics|year=2002|publisher=Basic books|isbn=978-0786752379|pages=10–11|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QClyAWecl60C&pg=PA10}}</ref>

<ref name=Thirring>{{Cite journal |last=Thirring |first=Hans |year=1926 |journal=Nature |title=Prof. Miller's Ether Drift Experiments|pages= 81–82 |volume=118 |issue=2959 |doi=10.1038/118081c0|bibcode = 1926Natur.118...81T |s2cid=4087475 }}</ref>

<ref name=Whittaker>{{Cite book |last=Whittaker |first=Edmund Taylor|author-link=E. T. Whittaker |year=1910 |title=[[A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity]]|edition=1.|place=Dublin|publisher=Longman, Green and Co.}}</ref>

<ref name=schum94>{{cite journal |last=Schumacher |first=Reinhard A. |title=Special Relativity and the Michelson-Morley Interferometer|journal=American Journal of Physics |year=1994 |volume=62 |issue=7 |pages=609–612 |doi=10.1119/1.17535|bibcode = 1994AmJPh..62..609S }}</ref>

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