MILLER v. EINSTEIN

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 553, 30 December 1925, Page 5

MILLER v. EINSTEIN

THE THEORY AND THE FACT A NOTH Eft BOMB Oft SCIENCE. By Telegraph—Pfese Assn-p Copyright (Aust. arid N.Z. Cable). (Received’ Dec. 29, 9.30 avm.) 'New York, Dee. 29. At Kansas City, ‘ .in Misosuri, Dr. Dayton Miller, President' of the American Physics Society, read a paper before the convention of the American Association, for the Advanceriierit of Science which., in the opinion, of scientists, struck a blow at the foundations of the Einstein. Theory or relativity. Dr Miller had been ! working at the; top of Mount "Wilson; lii Caniloriay to detect tlie motion of the earth and the solar system through the other of space. Prof. Einstein claimed that it was impossible to detect such \ a iriotion, arid based his relativity theory largely, upon that fact. : But Dr. Miller said: “1 succeeded in measuring the motion of the eat tit and solar System 'in the ether of space. 'My work annuls ’ the second postulate of the Einstein Theory.” , Dr. ‘ Miller also, deblared. that he had succeeded v m measuring the direction arid size of this morion, .' He claimed that the speed of the solar system was ten times as'great as "he had previously thought. The sun moves through space at a great speed of 120 nriilesi per second, carrying the earth, and the other planets\ab a similar rate, while direction is close to the 'star Vega. ( Dr. Mi Her., made 100,000 observations before declaring the. result.