EINSTEIN CONTRADICTED

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 10684, 30 December 1925, Page 5

EINSTEIN CONTRADICTED

MOTION OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM. CLAIM TO MEASUREMENT. (Per Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, December 29. At Kansas City (Missouri), Dr. Dayton Miller (president of the American Physical Society) read a paper before the Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science which, in the opinion of scientists, struck a blow at the foundations of the Einstein theory of relativity. Dr. Miller has been working at the top of Mount Wilson(California) to detect the motion of the earth and solar system through the ether of space. Einstein claimed that it was impossible to do tect such motion, and based his relativity theory largely upon this fact. Dr. Miller said: “I succeeded in measuring the motion of the earth and solar system in the ether of space. My work annuls the second postulate of Einstein’s theory.” Dr. Miller also declared that he had succeeded in measuring the direction and size of this motion. He claimed that the speed of the solar system was ten times as great as he had previously thought. The sun moved through space at a speed of 120 miles a second, carrying the earth and other planets at a similar rate, w r hile the direction is close to the star Vega. Dr. Milelr made 100,000 observations before declaring the result.