An experiment 180 years ago first demonstrated a connection between light and electromagnetism – but the link is deeper than ...

In 1887, one of the most important experiments in the history of physics took place. American scientists Michelson and Morley ...

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HERE is a readable book, excellently translated, for which we have again to thank Mr. H. L. Brose. Though it is called an introduction to the theory of relativity and gravitation, it is more strictly ...