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IN NATURE of July 4, Mr. E. Cunningham discusses my statement of an objection to identifying the magnetic vector with translational velocity of the æther. Mr. Cunningham says:—“If it were definitely stated that the magnetic force in the free æther was proportional to the velocity of the æther relative to the observer the objection would be valid”; and certainly any theory which embodied such a doctrine would stand self-condemned. My argument, however, was not directed against this obviously untenable view.
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BURTON, C. The Æther and Absolute Motion. Nature 76, 270 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/076270a0
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