I think the diagram above is a /Michaelson? interferometer. (Correct me if i'm wrong, physics happened 20 years ago for me :-) This was the one used in the famous [Michaelson Morley experiment]? that provides evidence |
I think the diagram above is a /Michelson? interferometer. (Correct me if i'm wrong, physics happened 20 years ago for me :-) This was the one used in the famous [Michelson-Morley experiment]? that provides evidence |
Of course, in Michaelson's day, they didn't have lasers, so instead they used a gas discharge lamp, a filter, and a thin slot or pinhole to make more-or-less coherent? monochomatic? light. |
Of course, in Michelson's day, they didn't have lasers, so instead they used a gas discharge lamp, a filter, and a thin slot or pinhole to make more-or-less coherent? monochomatic? light. |
In one version of the Michaelson Morley experiment, they even ran the interferometer off starlight. |
In one version of the Michelson-Morley experiment, they even ran the interferometer off starlight. |