RELATIVITY

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 156, 30 December 1925, Page 6

RELATIVITY

BLOW AT THE EINSTEIN THEORY

BY AN AMERICAN SCIENTIST

THE SPEED OF THE SOLAR

SYSTEM.

fCNITtt MIIM *S«OCIATIOM—COPMmST.)

(iUsrRILUH.NiW ZIUUND C*BL« 19SOCIATJOK.) (Received 30th December, 8 a.ni.) NEW YORK, 29th December.

At Kansas City, Missouri, Dr. Day ton Miller, president of the Ameri* can Physical Society, read a paper before a convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science which in the opnion of scientists struck a blow at the foundations of the Einstein theory of relativity. Dr. Miller has been working on the top oi Mount Wilson, to detect the motion of the Earth and solar system through the ether of space. Einstein claimed that it was impossible to detect such motion, and based his relativity theory largely upon that fact, but Dr. Miller said the eye had succeeded in . measuring the motion of the Earth and solar system in the ether of space. "My work,'? statedDr. Miller, "annuls the second postulate of the, Einstein theory.

Dr. Miller also declared that he had succeeded in measuring the direction and size of this motion. Be claimed that the speed of the solar system was ten tithes as great as had been previously thought. "The stin," he says, "moves through space at a speed of 120 miles, per second, 1 carrying the Earth and the other planets at a similar rate, while tho direction is close to the star Vega. Dr. Miller made 100,000 observations before declaring the result.