THREE FAMOUS PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS WITH NEGATIVE RESULTS AND THEIR IMPACT

VISHWAMITTAR

Department of Physics, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India

Three well – known experiments in the history of physics that yielded results contrary to the expected ones, namely, the Michelson – Morley experiment, production of x – rays from fluorescent substances and search for gamma-ray resonance fluorescence, together with the far - reaching effect these had on the developments in physics have been described.