Relativity

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 14, 30 December 1925, Page 5

Relativity

Einstein Theory AttackedSECOND POSTULATE ANNULLED. 'AMERICAN PHYSICIST’S BLOW. (By Cable -Press Association—Copyright.] (Received 30. 9.30 a.m.) • New York, Dec. 29. At Kansas City, Missouri, Dr. Dayton Miller, president of the American Physics Society, read a paper before the convention of the American Asso ciation for the Advancement of Science, which, in the opinion of scientists. struck a blow at the foundations of the Einstein theory of relativity. Dr. Miler has been working on top of Mount Wilson, California, to detect the motion of the earth and the solar system through the ether of space. Einstein claimed that it was impossible to detect such motion, and based hi s relativity theory largely upon this fact, but Dr. Miller said: “I succeeded in measuring the motion of the earth and the solar system in the ether of space. My ■work 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. He claimed that the speed of the solar system was ten times as great as be previously thought. The sun moves through space at a speed of 120 miles per second, carrying the earth and other planets at a similar rate, while the direction is close to the star Vega. Dr. Miller made 100,000 observations before declaring the results.—(A. and N.Z.)