Up until Michelson Morley's experiment, everyone knew that waves were just disturbances in a medium, like waves in a liquid, sound in the atmosphere or a wave in a rope, so they figured that light must also be a disturbance in a medium that just wasn't easily as detectable.
So Michelson and Morley devised a way to detect this medium. At that point, scientists all agreed that the earth spun around and revolved around the sun, and they assumed the æther to be static. So the idea was to split a beam of light into two different directions, and then reflect it back into one beam. If there was an interference pattern as a result, they could measure it and determine how much æther wind there actually was.
The results was that there was ALMOST no interference pattern, and the conclusion was that it was within a margin of error, and the results was a null. Einstein agreed with the null results, concluded that light doesn't need a medium to travel, and the theory of relativity was born.
I believe this to be a logical fallacy. The false dichotomy fallacy to be exact. It's like getting $100 every year from grandma, and then on your 16th birthday, she sends you a $20, then going around saying she sent you absolutely nothing. Instead of exploring other possibilities, history was rewritten, everyone bought it, and new physics is based on a logical fallacy.
Pseudoscience: noun; a collection of beliefs or practices mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific method.
Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
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