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UNFORTUNATELY, owing to travelling delays, a modified proof of my response to an editorial inquiry (appearing in NATURE of March 21, p. 433, col. 1) did not reach the printers in time. The experiment reported as having been attempted by Prof. Michelson and Dr. Silberstein can scarcely have been conducted in water, though water-pipes were used. It may probably be conveniently regarded as a large-scale reproduction of an experiment by an Italian professor who inverted my whirling disk experiment on ether (Phil. Trans., 1893) by mounting the whole of the apparatus on a turn-table, including source of light and receiving camera, and looking for a shift of interference bands photographically. In the experiment now reported the. turn-table was apparently replaced by the earth. I suggested such an experiment on p. 151, vol. 189, of the Phil. Trans, for 1897. If, as is probable, a positive effect can ultimately be securely demonstrated, it will be for relativists to say whether their position is at all affected; or whether the loophole—that rotation is exceptional, because in rotation matter is moving oppositely on opposite sides of the axis—is acceptable.
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LODGE, O. The Reported Anti-Relativity Experiment. Nature 115, 460 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115460b0
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