Encyclopaedia Britannica entry on the Michelson interferometer, the instrument that splits and recombines a beam of light and that was used in the Michelson-Morley experiment.
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PublisherEncyclopaedia Britannica
URLhttps://www.britannica.com/technology/Michelson-interferometer
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Michelson Interferometer (Britannica)
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