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by SilasX 4229 days ago
>Of his interferometer which he invented and used in the Michelson Morley experiments it was said that it was a remarkable instrument - provided you had Michelson to operate it. His experiments to measure the diameter of the nearest stars using an interferometer were not reproduced for 30 years.

From the perspective of the scientific method ("on the words of no one" etc), that's ... not actually a good thing.