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Einstein's Golden Moment

The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean

CHAPTER

The Fight Over the Speed of Light and the Contradiction Found by Michelson and Morley

This chapter explores the experiment conducted by Michelson and Morley in 1887, which challenged Newton's laws of motion and presented an opportunity for Albert Einstein.

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