"Michelson did not conclude that the Earth travels at zero speed through the aether; he concluded, rather, that despite the care and precautions taken the device was too susceptible to extraneous facts, such as temperature and vibration, and was not suitable for measuring that speed. His exploration failed, he thought, to yield the interesting data he had hoped for. He could have sought an explanation for his 'null' outcome other than the inadequacy of his interferometer. If he had had sufficient confidence in the non-existence of the effect he tried to measure, he might have looked for a theoretical explanation. As it was, within a few years Albert Einstein had developed a theory from which it followed that the looked-for effect does not exist. Not that his theory ended the exploration. For perhaps, despite Einstein's theory, Michelson's effect does exist and it really was the inadequacies of his device which prevented him from detecting it. There have been enough surprise in the history of physics to make us cautious in ruling out the possibility of such a result (Collins and Pinch 1993: ch 2). "(Gower, p. 241).
Michelson's experiment, Lorentz's transformation and Einstein's special and general relativity theory are unnecessary since light propagating in vacuum is experimental proof Fresnel's optical ether, composed of matter, does not physically exist, and the electromagnetic ether cannot represent the formation of light wave since Maxwell theory is based on Faraday's induction effect that is not luminous, nor is induction an ionization effect.
Michelson's experiment, Lorentz's transformation and Einstein's special and general relativity theory are unnecessary since light propagating in vacuum is experimental proof Fresnel's optical ether, composed of matter, does not physically exist, and the electromagnetic ether cannot represent the formation of light wave since Maxwell theory is based on Faraday's induction effect that is not luminous, nor is induction an ionization effect.