The Most Famous Successful Experiment
4 min readSep 9, 2021
In a recent article titled The Most Famous Failed Experiment, we saw how Albert Michelson and Edward Morley in 1887 failed to prove the existence of ether and left scientists without a transmitting medium for light. But failure and success sometimes can co-exist. The Michelson-Morley experiment opened the path to Einstein’s relativity theory which became a cornerstone of modern physics.