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THE brief messages in the daily press with regard to Prof. D. C. Miller's experiment have aroused much interest and bewilderment; it is therefore of great value to have Dr. Silberstein's authoritative account in NATURE for May 23. Comment on the experiments themselves would be out of place until the details are published; but it may not be premature to point out that the surprising hypothesis of ether-drift, by which it is proposed to account for the results, is disproved in advance by the daily measurements at astronomical observatories. These measurements constitute a test for differential ether-drift much more delicate than the Michelson-Morley experiment.
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EDDINGTON, A. Ether-drift and the Relativity Theory. Nature 115, 870 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115870a0
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