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AS doubts have sometimes been expressed concerning the interpretation of Prof. Michelson's celebrated experiment, some remarks on the subject will perhaps not be out of place here. I shall try to show, by what seems to me an unimpeachable mode of reasoning, that, if we adopt Fresnel's theory of a stationary aether, supposing also that a material system can have a uniform translation with constant velocity ν without changing its dimensions, we must surely expect the result that was predicted by Maxwell.
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LORENTZ, H. The Michelson-Morley Experiment and the Dimensions of Moving Bodies. Nature 106, 793–795 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/106793a0
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