A Refinement of the Michelson-Morley Experiment.

摘要: The investigation which is the subject of this paper was undertaken to test conclusions recently drawn by Professor D. C. Miller from his repetition Michelson-Morley experiment. interprets his observations as indicating a motion sun through ether with velocity not less, than 200 kilometers per second in direction about right ascension 262 degrees, declination 65 degrees. He supposes that contraction apparatus direction occurs, which, however, departs that given formula Lorentz and Fitzgerald an amount corresponding to about 10 kilometers per second. That is, average shift interference pattern, an arm his interferometer turned 90 degrees direction perpendicular or parallel inferred drift, such as would be expected if were and no occurred. In Science, April 30, 1926, he seems have abandoned idea magnitude the indicated depends on altitude above sea level at the observations are made. Such results his, modifying they the fundamental physical concepts, require fullest experimental confirmation.