In the past few centuries, scientists have conducted countless experiments that have revolutionized our understanding of the universe. Very few have been as impactful as the Michelson-Morley experiment, which attempted to find evidence of the luminiferous aether, and found nothing. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

First, a little context. In the 19th Century, physicists revolutionized our understanding of light, in several other incredibly impactful experiments. In 1801, Thomas Young took a light and shone it through a double-slit onto a screen behind it. At the time, the corpuscular idea of light, proposed by Isaac Newton, was the prevailing hypothesis about what light is, suggesting that light was a massless particle d

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