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• Michelson–Morley experiment
  ...rpendicular directions, in an attempt to detect the [[relative motion]] of matter through the stationary [[luminiferous aether]] ("aether wind"). The result ...cording to which the aether and thus light are partially dragged by moving matter. Partial aether-dragging would thwart attempts to measure any first order c
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• History of special relativity
  ...riel Stokes]], who stated in 1845 that the aether was ''fully'' dragged by matter (later this view was also shared by Hertz). In this model the aether might ...the principle of action and reaction, since the aether acts on matter, but matter cannot act on the immobile aether.<ref name="Janssen 1995, Ch. 3.1">Janssen
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• Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies
  ...galaxy. The interaction would produce a wave effect that would first draw matter into the center and then cause it to propagate outward in a ring.<ref name= ...nized gas that has been ejected from the environment around supermassive [[black holes]] in the galaxies' [[active galactic nuclei]].<ref name="nedarp151">{
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• Thomas Edison
  ...hat featured the world's first [[film studio]], the [[Edison's Black Maria|Black Maria]]. He was a [[List of prolific inventors|prolific inventor]], holding ...e they buried? How did they die?|last=Benoit|first=Tod|year=2003|publisher=Black Dog & Leventhal|isbn=978-1-57912-678-0|page=560}}</ref>
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• Isaac Newton
  | alt = Portrait of man in black with shoulder-length, wavy brown hair, a large sharp nose, and a distracted ...ich enter their Composition?"<ref name="Newton's Alchemy and His Theory of Matter"/> Newton also constructed a primitive form of a frictional [[electrostatic
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• James Clerk Maxwell
  ...}</ref> He wrote the textbook ''Theory of Heat'' (1871) and the treatise ''Matter and Motion'' (1876). Maxwell was also the first to make explicit use of [[d ...filters. In the course of his 1855 paper, Maxwell proposed that, if three black-and-white photographs of a scene were taken through [[RGB color model|red,
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