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Michelson and Morley concluded from the results of their experiment that Group of answer choices the experiment was successful in not detecting a shift in the interference pattern. the experiment was a failure since they detected a shift in the interference pattern. the experiment was a failure since there was no detectable shift in the interference pattern. the experiment was successful in detecting a shift in the interference pattern.

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The results of the experiment indicated a shift consistent with zero, and certainly less than a twentieth of the shift expected if the Earth's velocity in orbit around the sun was the same as its velocity through the ether.

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