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@CassieSmiling he couldn't accept the "null" result of the michelson-morley experiment so he went to work to explain it away. he denied the experiment was even known to him, then later admitted he knew about it, but i had no effect. then some effect, then
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@ewinsberg @Philip_Goff It appears he read Wien’s paper describing Michelson-Morley in 1899. He said he knew about it before discovering relativity, in a 1921 lecture in Chicago. He did say conflicting things at other points though, so this is complicated.