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The Most Famous Experiment In The History Of

Science!
I remember how, in the summer of 2020, I was excitingly reading a book
about theoretical physics when I came across a very interesting title; “The Most
Famous Experiment In The History Of Science!”.
It certainly grabbed my attention. This experiment introduced a problem that so
many brilliant minds had been debating. But Einstein came along and solved it!
Let me explain:
It started off with newton, when he had hypothesized that light was
fundamentally made of small particles, or corpuscles, as he called. But then, the
double slit experiment debunked his idea, for light seemed to behave like waves,
not particles.
This view that light was fundamentally a wave had been doing very well
among the scientific community, until Michelson and Morley raised skepticism
with their experiment. See, waves travel through mediums; water waves travel
through water, sound waves travel through the medium of air.
“And so does light!” Scientists had argued before they tested this hypothesis. If
light was a wave, what is exactly waving? There must have been a medium
through which we can be enlightened. Scientists called this theoretical medium the
“Aether”.
But science is empirical. That is, before any idea is accepted as true, it must be
tested experimentally.
For this reason, two scientists, Michelson and Morley, had been trying to
design an experiment to test if the aether actually existed. That was before they
learned the Aether was no less mystical than Santa! According to the experiment,
the Aether, strangely enough, did not exist.
I was surprised. As I was trying to make sense of the result, I read that Einstein
had solved this problem. And his insights led to the discovery of his greatest two
theories; the special and general theories of relativity. Einstein’s genius is a
motivation, and its the reason why I was, and still am learning about physics till
today.
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