Sometimes new discoveries allow us to shed light onto our previous misconceptions about… light. For 10 points each:
[10m] Attempts to “save” this substance included the Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction hypothesis. Its existence was disproved by the Michelson-Morley experiment.
ANSWER: luminiferous aether
[10h] The Michelson-Morley experiment seemed to confirm this scientist’s theory of aether dragging, but it was eventually disproved. This Scotsman names a set of parameters describing the polarization of light.
ANSWER: George Gabriel Stokes
[10e] This scientist analyzed light reflection and other light phenomena in his book Opticks. His other publications include Principia Mathematica.
ANSWER: Isaac Newton
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