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THERE was no intention in the letter to which Sir Joseph Larmor refers (NATURE, October 29, p. 226) of suggesting that the principle of relativity and the fundamental relations of electro-dynamics were at variance with respect to this matter. Certainly I have always taken them to be completely at one. But it has been raised in several quarters as an objection to both points of view that the extremely careful experiment of Michelson and Morley was not in complete agreement with theory. They found the convection coefficient for water to be 0.434,±0.02, while theory (taking account of dispersion according to Lorentz's formula) gives 0.451, which is very near the limit of possible error.
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CUNNINGHAM, E. Fizeau's Experiment and the Principle of Relativity. Nature 94, 281 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/094281b0
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