Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 308, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 May 1925 — Page 9

‘DEADLY BLOW’ SHAKESTHEORY OF RELATIVITY Einstein’s Proposition Is Endangered by Cleveland Scientist’s Discovery. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, May B.—A dynamic little man, I>r. Dayton CMiller of Cleveland, Ohio, has come out of his laboratory after four years o£ quiet, diligent work, with a challenge to the Eintein theory - t relativity which has been pronounced a "deadly blow" at that hypothesis. Dr. Miller astounded Internationally famous scientists at the national Academy of Science meeting here with his results, which have now become the scientific talk of the hour. As he piled argument upon argument, there was frequent applause from hio audience, and a wild burst at the end. After Dr. Miller had finished his exposition, Dr. Ludwig Selbea Stein, one of the leading experts on the theory of relativity, pronounced the results reached by Dr. Miller a "deadly blow" at the Einstein theory. Briefly, Dr. Miller upset, in his experiments, the famous, MichelsonMorley theory that there is no drift or shifting, as in clouds, in the ether, upon which conclusion Einstein based his own theory of relativity. Since there is no drift in the ether, Einstein held, there can be no absolute measure of motion outside of the earth, and therefore all motion must be regarded as relative and there is no such thing as absolute motion. Dr. Miller, by his experiments, has proved that there is a drift of the ether, therefore that motion can be measured through this agency and consequently that there is such a thing as absolute motion. It being established that there is a drift in the ether, the measurement of motion of other planetary bodies and of light is reduced to a problem in mathematics. It becomes such a problem as is worked out every day, in different form, by the average school boy. The Miehelson-Morley experiment was in Cleveland in 1887. While there was a tiny fractional result it was held by these two scientists to be due to other influences and they reached the conclusion that there was no drift in the ether. Dr. Miller, making the same experiment In Cleveland time and again, secured a similar result. In 1921, he moved his experiment out to the Mount Wilson Laboratory and there he found there was a drift of the ether. For four years, he continued his experiments there, and always the result was the same. He came to the conclusion that the result in Cleveland, showing no drift, was due to its situation close to the surface of the earth. He used the same form of experiment used by the other two scientists, and holds therefore that the fractional result they got showed the proof, even under similar conditions at Cleveland, and that their deductions were wrong.

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