Read on a bit past the mention of luminiferous ether. What happened after the negative results of the Michelson Morley experiment? (This is sometimes called the most important failed experiment in history. It was very clever and easy to understand if you want to look it up on the internet.)

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The prompt asks about what happened after the negative results of the Michelson–Morley experiment, a historically pivotal moment in physics.
Option 1: 'Newtownian physics was completely abandoned.' This is inaccurate because Newtonian physics was challenged and extended, but not wholly abandoned; classical mechanics remained valid in many regimes and was later integrated with relativity and quantum theory rather than discarded entirely.
Option 2: 'The calculus was invented to explain the failure.' This is a misattribution; calculus predates the Michelson–Morley experiment by centuries and was not invented in response to this result; the experiment influenced theories of space and time, not the invention of calculus.
Option 3: 'The Cubs didn't win the World Series till 2016.' This statement is irrelevant to physics experiments and a factual sports claim, not related to the scientific debate about ether, making it inappropriate and incorrect in the context.
Option 4: 'The concept of luminiferous ether was gradually discarded.' This is the historically accurate outcome: the null result challenged the idea of a stationary luminiferous ether, leading to the development of special relativity and the eventual abandonment of the ether concept in mainstream physics.
Option 5: 'Scientists began to look for the moliferous ether.' The term 'moliferous ether' is not a recognized scientific concept and represents a false lead; the shift after the experiment was away from ether theories, not toward a new version of them.
In summary, the only option that accurately reflects the historical consequence is that the concept of luminiferous ether was gradually discarded, while the other statements either misstate the historical trajectory, introduce irrelevant or incorrect notions, or use non-existent terms.

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