THE EINSTEIN THEORY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19214, 31 December 1925, Page 9

THE EINSTEIN THEORY.

DISPUTED BY SCIENTIST. SOLAR SYSTEM'S MOVEMENT. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) NEW. YORK, Dec. 29. A message from Kansas City, Missouri, states that Dr. Dayton Miller, president of the American Physical Society, has read a paper before the convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which, in the opinion of the scientists, strikes a blow at the foundations of Professor Einstein's theory of relativity. Dr. Miller has been working at the top of Mount Wilson, in California, in order to detect the motion of the earth and the solar system through the ether of space. Professor Einstein claimed that it is impossible to detect such a motion, and he based his theory of relativity largely upon this fact. It is now stated by Dr. Miller:—"l succeeded in measuring the motion of the earth and of the solar system in the ether of space. My work annuls the second postulate of the Einstein theory." Dr. Miller also declared that ho had succeeded in measuring the direction and size of this motion. He claimed that the speed of the solar system is ten times as great as was previously believed. The sun moves through spaco at a speed of L2Q miles per second, carrying the earth and other planets at a similar rate, while the direction is close to the star Vega. It was mentioned by Dr. Miller that he made 100,000 observations before deciding to declare the result,