Editing Timeline of luminiferous aether (section)

===Crisis===
: 1887 – the [[Michelson–Morley experiment]] (MMX) produces the famous null result. A small drift is seen, but it is too small to support any "fixed" aether theory, and is so small that it might be due to experimental error.
:: Many physicists dust off Stokes' work, and dragging becomes the "standard solution"
: 1887 to 1888 – [[Heinrich Hertz]] verifies the existence of electromagnetic waves.
: 1889 – [[George Francis FitzGerald|George FitzGerald]] proposes the Contraction Hypothesis, which suggests that the measurements are null due to changes in the length in the direction of travel through the aether.
: 1892 – [[Oliver Lodge]] demonstrates that aether drag is invisible around rapidly moving celestial bodies.
: 1895 – Lorentz proposes independently the Contraction Hypothesis.
: 1902 to 1904 – Morley and Morley conduct a number of MM experiments with a 100 ft interferometer, producing the null result.
: 1902 to 1904 – [[Lord Rayleigh]] and [[DeWitt Bristol Brace]] found no signs of double refraction (due to FitzGerald–Lorentz Contraction) of moving bodies in the aether.
: 1903 – the [[Trouton–Noble experiment]], based on an entirely different concept using electrical forces, also produces the null result 
: 1905 – Miller and Morley's experiment data is published. Test of the Contraction Hypothesis has negative results. Test for aether dragging effects produces null result.
: 1908 – the [[Trouton–Rankine experiment]], another experiment based on electrical effects, does not detect the FitzGerald–Lorentz Contraction.