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The 25 pages that link to Michelson–Morley experiment, each with the reason it gives.

• Special relativityRelated: Its null result sharpened the puzzle of light propagation that preceded the theory.

• Speed of lightRelated: Its null result challenged ether theories and informed the path toward relativity.

• Lorentz transformationRelated: Its null result formed part of the historical setting for abandoning preferred-frame explanations.

• InterferometryRelated: It showed how precise fringe comparisons could test a fundamental physical hypothesis.

• Hendrik LorentzRelated: Its null result challenged aether models and prompted explanations including Lorentz contraction.

• Corpuscular theory of lightRelated: It helped overturn the classical medium-based framework that eventually replaced Newtonian corpuscles.

• Principle of relativityRelated: Its null result challenged ether-based accounts and shaped the context for special relativity.

• Ad hoc hypothesisRelated: The null result prompted revisions to ether theories, illustrating how anomalies can challenge supporting assumptions.

• Aether theoriesRelated: Its null result is often treated as decisive evidence against simple stationary-aether models.

• Léon FoucaultRelated: Its rotating optical apparatus developed a tradition of precision measurement associated with Foucault’s work.

• History of special relativityRelated: Its null result became the best-known experimental challenge to simple ether-drift predictions.

• Theory of relativityRelated: Its null result sharpened the problem of reconciling light with motion.

• Modern physicsRelated: Its null result helped undermine the aether hypothesis preceding special relativity.

• Edward W. MorleyRelated: Morley’s best-known collaboration used interference fringes to test Earth’s motion through ether.

• Foucault's measurements of the speed of lightRelated: Its interferometric precision grew from the tradition of terrestrial optical measurements that Foucault advanced.

• RelativityRelated: Its null result challenged the ether hypothesis preceding special relativity.