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... luminiferous ether--were displaced. They weren't; the luminiferous ether theory was finally retired and Einstein concluded that light goes lightspeed, all the time, in every reference frame. The legs of the M-M interferometer were subject to the Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction: if a leg of the thing was aligned with Earth's motion around the sun it was moving at 2% of the speed of light, and it ...

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