RELATIVITY ATTACKED.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16921, 30 December 1925, Page 7

RELATIVITY ATTACKED.

BLOW STRUCK AT EINSTEIN THEORY. DR. DAYTON MILLER'S ASSERTION !F:oc. Tel. Copy right.--United I'iess Assn.l iAustralian and IN.Z. Cable Association. 1 [Received December 30, 11 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 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 the solar system through the ether of space. Dr. E.nstein claimed it was impossible to detect such motion, an<l based) his relativity theory largely upon the fact, but pr. Miller said • "I succeeot-t? in measuring the motion of the earth and the solar system, in the ether of space. My. work annuls the second postulate of the Enstein theory." Dr. Miller also declared that he had succeeded in measuring the direction and size of this motion. Tie claimed that the speed of the solar system was ten times as great as he previously thought. The sun moves through space at a speed of 120 miles per second, carrying the earth and other planets at a. similar vale. "bile the direction is close to the star Veen. Dr. Miller made ICO.OOO observations before declaring the result.