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IN recent issues of NATURE and the Philosophical Magazine, Profs. Larmor and Fitzgerald and Lord Kelvin have expressed themselves as if satisfied that the negative result of the celebrated Michelson and Morley experiment as to a relative motion of earth and ether is genuinely decisive, and as if the only present escape from the dilemma between this experiment and the bulk of the evidence which necessitates a relative motion of earth and ether is to be found in a possible change of the dimensions of bodies caused by changes in their motion through ether.
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SUTHERLAND, W. Relative Motion of the Earth and the Ether. Nature 63, 205 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/063205a0
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