Michelson’s Interferometer: Between Ether and Gravitational Waves
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https://doi.org/10.48160/18532330me9.214Keywords:
interferometer, ether, gravitational waves, FeyerabendAbstract
In this writing, I will briefly reconstruct the history of the Michelson—Morley experiment and the gravitational waves detection. Using these two conceptual frameworks for interpreting the same experiment in two stellar moments in history of Physics, I recover some Paul Feyerabend’s statements concerning the relation between theory and experience. These statements, according to my view are plausible enlighten in this historical example. At the same time, I will include some sociological and psychological features about gravitational waves’ detection that Harry Collins extensively examined, although these kind of elements are not regularly used by the Austrian philosopher.
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