The aether is real. Michelson-Morley is wrong for a variety of reasons, pertinently by the fact that one can conceive of an aether that is lyotropic in nature - such a nature to make the single-facet Michelson-Morley experiment look silly.

But, there are other reasons that MM is false. For a treatise on this, have a look at a book written by Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch. This book was published in 1993, by Cambridge University Press. It is called “The Golem - What You Should Know about Sc…