以寻找以太为目的的迈克尔逊-莫雷实验,结果却以失败告终,其原因只可能有两个:要么是实验本身的问题,设计上有缺陷导致失败;要么是要寻找的以太根本就不存在,纯属子虚乌有.但是根据当时的情况,这两个原因似乎都不可能成立.首先是实验的设计极其精妙,无懈可击,开尔文评价它“以高度的细致严谨从而确保结果值得信赖”.也就是说,如果确实如人们想象中那样以太是客观存在的,迈克尔逊就绝对有把握把它检测出来.而如果说以太根本就不存在,这好像更加不可思议,因为以太当时在人们的心目中,已经成为牛顿物理学与麦克斯韦电磁学的基础,没有了以太,让牛顿、麦克斯韦这些科学上的圣人们情何以堪? In search of the purpose-built Michelson-Morey experiment, the result ended in failure for only two possible reasons: either the problem of the experiment itself, the design flaws leading to failure, or the ether to be found simply not There are no real reasons for this, but neither one seems possible under the circumstances, and the first is that the design of the experiment is extremely subtle and impeccable, and Kelvin rates it as “highly precise and rigorous to ensure that the results are trustworthy.” In other words, Michelson is absolutely certain to detect it if it really does exist as one imagines it, and if it does not exist at all, it seems incredible because Ether was in the minds of people , Has become the basis of Newtonian physics and Maxwell’s Electromagnetism, without Ether, so Newton, Maxwell these science saints are so embarrassed?