In 1887, Albert Michelson built an experiment that he hoped would lead to the detection of luminiferous ether. At the time, physicists believed that the ether permeated the universe and served as the ...

We suspect there are three kinds of people in the world. People who have access to a Michelson Interferometer and are glad, those who don’t have one and don’t know what one is, and a very small number ...

MOST existing methods of calibrating vibration pick-ups employ some form of extrapolation, that is, the pick-up is calibrated at low frequencies, where the amplitude can be made large, and the result ...

A couple weeks ago I was reminded of how historic people and events are embedded in our popular culture, often turning up in unexpected places. The story involves the popular 1960s-'70s television ...