Optics

Optics — the behaviour of light — is central to the disputes catalogued here, because the experiments that decided the fate of the aether were optical ones and their interpretation remains contested.

Topics disputed on this wiki

• The Michelson–Morley experiment and whether its result was truly null; see Dayton C Miller's later interferometry.
• The Sagnac effect and rotating-frame light propagation.
• Stellar aberration, the Fizeau experiment, and light dragging.
• The one-way versus two-way speed of light, and the conventionality of simultaneity.

See also

• Physics
• Philosophy of Science
• Category: Optics