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Miller v. Einstein. Conclusions drawn from thousands of "etherdrift" experiments at Mt. Wilson Observatory (10,000 calculations in 1925 alone) were: 1) That, contrary to the assumptions of Dr. Albert Einstein, there is an all pervasive substance in the universe through which all matter moves; 2) That this substance, ether, has a motion imparted to it by moving matter (a motion similar to that of water following the stern of a moving ship). In the case of the earth, the ether is subject to a 95% drag, but slips away again 50%; 3) That the whole solar galaxy (group...
...variations in their weight occur exactly as, or shortly after, the sun or moon passes over them. The weight variations are infinitesimal. To detect them would require fabulously sensitive scales. But could ic be done, Science would have a check on Einstein far more clean-cut and conclusive than ether-drift experiments and eclipse observations...
...Navy officials, visiting last fortnight at Gloucester, Mass., were treated to a demonstration remarkable even in this radio age. In the laboratory of John Hays Hammond Jr., they beheld that young wizard (aged 37) transmit eight radio messages simultaneously upon a single ether wave and receive them again, all separate and distinct, using single sending and receiving instruments at both ends of his operation...
...Significance is manifold. The spectrum of radio-carrying ether vibrations is, like the light spectrum, definitely limited in extent. Commercial broadcasting in the U. S. has utilized all the higher wave lengths, which, to avoid interference between stations, must be spaced about eight metres apart. So loaded is the air that identical wavelengths have already had to be assigned to pairs of stations, the one remaining silent during the other's program. At U. S. Secretary of Commerce Hoover's radio conference, called for early next month, wave-congestion will be the principal problem discussed...
...called Nothing for it is entirely imperceptible to the senses of man. Only by inference and mental conception has man discovered that Nothing exists. Capt. See calls it "the world gas" instead of by its more familar name, ether. It is the substance that fills all the spaces among the heavenly planets, among the planets' composite molecules, among the molecules' composite atoms. To do this it must, of course, be a very tenuous and insinuating substance. Capt. See figures it is 47 billion times less dense than hydrogen, the thinnest gas known. Its particles are 4,000 times...