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MAY I first correct a slip in my last letter ? In contrasting the actual and imagined results of the Michelson–Morley experiment, I absentmindedly interchanged them. I should have written, “It is a logical impossibility that the experiment should give other than a null result in the conditions described; but …”

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EDDINGTON, A. [Letter to Editors]. Nature 148, 341–342 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148341b0

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