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As the 19th century came to a close, physicists were feeling pretty satisfied with the state of their science. The great edifice of physical theory seemed near complete. A few minor experiments remained to verify everything, but little did those physicists
know that one of those experiments would bring the entire structure crashing down, paving the way for the physics revolutions of the 20th century. In 1894, the eminent physicist Albert Abraham Michelson described the state of his science like this.
It seems probable that most of the grand underlying principles have been firmly established, and that further advances are to be sought chiefly in the rigorous application of these principles to all the phenomena which come under our notice. Michelson had lived this principle.
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