Optics
Optics — the behaviour of light — is central to the disputes catalogued here, because the experiments that decided the fate of the aether were optical ones and their interpretation remains contested.
Topics disputed on this wiki
- The Michelson–Morley experiment and whether its result was truly null; see Dayton C Miller's later interferometry.
- The Sagnac effect and rotating-frame light propagation.
- Stellar aberration, the Fizeau experiment, and light dragging.
- The one-way versus two-way speed of light, and the conventionality of simultaneity.