Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

Due to whose experiments was the ether theory of propagation for light discarded?

  1. Michelson and Morley

  2. David Livingstone

  3. Harley Davidson

  4. Micheal Jackson
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Explanation

The Michelson-Morley experiment in 1887 disproved the existence of luminiferous ether as the medium for light propagation. Their famous null result showed that the speed of light is constant in all directions, contradicting ether theory. This paved the way for Einstein's special relativity.

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