Abstract
As previously said, Michelson and Morley’s 1887 experiment is a differential arrangement of the type of setup used, since 1893, for comparing a solid length standard and an optical standing wavelength standard, to be discussed in the next section.
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de Beauregard, O.C. (1987). Todays NEC Plus Ultra of Metrology and Chronometry: ‘Equivalence’ of Space and Time. In: Time, The Physical Magnitude. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 99. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3811-3_5
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