Word: etherealizing
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...were back in five seconds. They were three SSS's and three CCC's sent out by radio telegraph, racing around the World in relays. Really their time was poor-most of it being taken by the frail humans who relayed them on their way. The actual ether time for a signal to go around the World would be something less than one seventh* of a second...
William J. Ziedlik, a radiothusiast of East Grand Forks, Minn., picked from the ether a radio message. It had come 2,000 miles from the Schooner Bowdoin in which Capt. Donald B. MacMillan was exploring the Arctic within 650 miles of the North Pole. Said the message...
Radio listeners, being human, want the best of everything. But they don't always get it. The nightly ether-music is too often indirect advertising. Prudent musicians object to the broadcasting of their programs; people won't buy seats in stuffy concert halls if they can stay at home and listen to the same thing. For these and allied reasons, the Chicago Civic Opera will not broadcast its performances this Winter...
...slightest variation in the velocity of the beams through the longer and the shorter legs of the rectangle. If no difference in the time of the rival beams is perceived it will be apparent that light is not affected by the earth's rotation; in other words, that the ether rotates with the earth...
...this point that the actual bearing of the experiment on the Einstein theory of relativity enters, for, according to that theory, one beam should travel around the circuit in slightly less time than the other. Generally speaking, proof that the ether rotates with the earth will be considered as contradicting the Einstein theory...