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“I have come to believe that the motion of the Earth cannot be detected by any optical experiment.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3a95cc0490c6abbdc4b7a1e4f82bafc208febec7f74bbd1b4c381236e4839e57
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