The Michelson-Morley Experiment and the Dimensions of Moving Bodies

Abstract

As doubts have sometimes been expressed concerning the interpretation of Prof. Michelson’s celebrated experiment, some remarks on the subject will perhaps not be out of place here. I shall try to show, by what seems to me an unimpeachable mode of reasoning, that, if we adopt Fresnel’s theory of a stationary aether, supposing also that a material system can have a uniform translation with constant velocity v without changing its dimensions, we must surely expect the result that was predicted by Maxwell.

Nature, 106, 793, 1921